Movie Reviews: 'Star Trek Into Darkness', 'Iron Man 3', 'The Big Wedding' and More

Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com

Star Trek Into Darkness (also in 3D)

• Run Time: 129 mins.
• Starring: Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Karl Urban , Benedict Cumberbatch , Zoe Saldana
• Director: J.J. Abrams
• Trailer

"The film is densely plotted, occasionally bordering on the convoluted, but the clarity and inventiveness of the direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating." Slant Magazine. Full Review

"Spectacular special effects, superbly crafted action sequences, plenty of humor and terrific performances render it a cut above most summer blockbusters." Claudia Puig, USA Today. Full Review

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The Great Gatsby (also in 3D)

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio , Tobey Maguire , Carey Mulligan , Isla Fisher , Joel Edgerton
• Director: Baz Luhrmann
• Trailer

"Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping evocation of Roaring ’20s New York — in 3-D, no less." Lou Lumenick, New York Post. Full Review

"The acting is really good, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby. But boy, with a running time of nearly 21/2 hours and a near-constant bombardment of visual overstimulation, it’s exhausting." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic. Full Review

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Iron Man 3

• Run Time: 130mins.
• Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr.
• Director: Shane Black
• Trailer

"Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there’s still intelligent life on Planet Marvel. As you’re propelled out of the theater on IM3′s hydraulic lift of pleasures, you’re likely to say, “That is how it’s done.” Richard Corliss, Time.

"Given the keys to the franchise and a role in the writing, Black has massively upped the verbal sparring and kept the broad inventiveness of comic-book malleability in mind. “I’m a mechanic,” Stark says to the boy in a moment of self-doubt. That’s 100% Black, that line, a tidy code of craft, and the jitters pass." Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York.

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Peeples

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Craig Robinson , David Alan Grier , Kerry Washington , S. Epatha Merkerson , Kali Hawk
• Director: Tina Gordon Chism
• Trailer

"Peeples may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from “Meet the Parents,” but its heart is suffused with French cinema." Variety. Full Review

"Director Tina Gordon Chism keeps the innocuous class-meets-crass jokes bubbling, and the actors are amiable, but Peeples often seems to want to turn these characters into benignly goofy role models. Maybe that's why the basic comic collision never explodes." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. Full Review

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Movie Reviews: 'The Great Gatsby', 'We the Peeples', 'Iron Man 3' and More

Movie reviews and movie times for theaters in Johnston and Des Moines. Let Patch help you decide what you're going to see this weekend. Movies to choose from include "Pain & Gain", "42", and "The Croods."

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• May 11, 2013

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Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com

The Great Gatsby (also in 3D)

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio , Tobey Maguire , Carey Mulligan , Isla Fisher , Joel Edgerton
• Director: Baz Luhrmann
• Trailer

"Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is the first must-see film of Hollywood’s summer season, if for no other reason than its jaw-dropping evocation of Roaring ’20s New York — in 3-D, no less." Lou Lumenick, New York Post. Full Review

"The acting is really good, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby. But boy, with a running time of nearly 21/2 hours and a near-constant bombardment of visual overstimulation, it’s exhausting." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic. Full Review

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We the Peeples

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Craig Robinson , David Alan Grier , Kerry Washington , S. Epatha Merkerson , Kali Hawk
• Director: Tina Gordon Chism
• Trailer

"Peeples may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from “Meet the Parents,” but its heart is suffused with French cinema." Variety. Full Review

"Director Tina Gordon Chism keeps the innocuous class-meets-crass jokes bubbling, and the actors are amiable, but Peeples often seems to want to turn these characters into benignly goofy role models. Maybe that's why the basic comic collision never explodes." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. Full Review

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Iron Man 3

• Run Time: 130mins.
• Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr.
• Director: Shane Black
• Trailer

"Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there’s still intelligent life on Planet Marvel. As you’re propelled out of the theater on IM3′s hydraulic lift of pleasures, you’re likely to say, “That is how it’s done.” Richard Corliss, Time.

"Given the keys to the franchise and a role in the writing, Black has massively upped the verbal sparring and kept the broad inventiveness of comic-book malleability in mind. “I’m a mechanic,” Stark says to the boy in a moment of self-doubt. That’s 100% Black, that line, a tidy code of craft, and the jitters pass." Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York.

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The Big Wedding

• Run Time: 89mins.
• Starring: Amanda Seyfried , Robert De Niro , Diane Keaton , Katherine Heigl , Susan Sarandon
• Director: Justin Zackham
• Trailer

"There’s not a bad performance in this movie. De Niro, Keaton and Sarandon are particularly good, what a surprise. But it feels as if all the guests at “The Big Wedding” are wearing ID tags telling us their one Plot Point." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.

"There is nothing about the movie that isn’t utterly predictable. You meet a character, and it’s immediately obvious what’s going to happen to him (or her). And then it happens. Maybe it’s meant to make you feel good about your deductive reasoning skills or something. But mostly it just makes you want to see something else." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic.

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Mud

• Run Time: 130mins
• Starring: Reese Witherspoon , Matthew McConaughey , Tye Sheridan , Sam Shepard
• Director: Jeff Nichols
• Trailer

"Reese Witherspoon's unglamorous, understated supporting work recalls the kinds of films she made before becoming a movie star. Other recognizable faces include Sam Shepard, Joe Don Baker, Michael Shannon, and Sarah Paulson." James Berardinelli, ReelViews. Full Review

"It’s hard to believe Nichols thinks he can get away with all this and harder still to believe he does. It’s the quality of the attention that he brings — his focus — that makes his work so engrossing." David Edelstein, New York Magazine (Vulture). Full Review

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Pain & Gain

• Run Time: 129mins.
• Starring: Mark Wahlberg , Dwayne Johnson , Anthony Mackie , Ed Harris ,Rob Corddry
• Director: Michael Bay
• Trailer

"This is easily Bay’s best movie, the work of a filmmaker with a cracked sense of humor that he is able to share with the audience." Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald.

"Yes, the canon invoked for this film is that of the Three Stooges, but it’s still not as magnificently berserk as they can be. Set your expectations carefully for this one." Louis Black, Austin Chronicle.

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42

• Run Time: 88 mins.
• Starring: Chadwick Boseman , Harrison Ford , Christopher Meloni
• Director: Brian Helgeland
• Trailer

"One of the all-time great sports movies — primarily because it's one of the all-time great sports stories." Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times.

"42 is competent, occasionally rousing and historically respectful — but it rarely rises above standard, old-fashioned biography fare. It’s a mostly unexceptional film about an exceptional man." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.

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The Croods (3D)

• Run Time: 98mins.
• Starring: Nicolas Cage , Ryan Reynolds , Emma Stone , Catherine Keener , Clark Duke
• Director: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
• Trailer

"This Chris Sanders fellow knows how to craft a heart-warming animation, and if not for a few minor problems this would have had a legitimate shot at the best animated movie of 2013." Laremy Legel, Film.com

"The movie is at its most interesting and amusing when riffing on how cavemen might have reacted to new experiences and ideas, like fire and shoes. Whether the kiddies will appreciate that is unclear, but they’ll certainly like the voice work done by Emma Stone as Eep." Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times.

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Any of these spark your interest? Galaxy 16 in Cedar Rapids has most of these and Collins Road Theatres also has several choices.