NEW THIS WEEK
Disney and PIXAR’s hit Cars franchise comes to a close with
this action packed and heart warming finale. Challenged by a new, up and coming
hot-shot racer (Armie Hammer), Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) finds himself
thrust back into the racing world to reclaim his title. Helping him along the
way is Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo), a starry-eyed trainer generations newer
than McQueen, insisting that he update his racing technique. Can McQueen get
with the times before it’s too late? Probably!
We Said: “Overall I really
liked Cars 3 a ton. It has a lot of heart and deals with age, sports
and even women in athletics, especially racing very well. I think it’s a solid
release and hopefully families really enjoy it. There are some cars in here I
can’t wait to see as toys which I think is a real draw for making these movies
again and again. Maybe I’m not critical enough, but Cars 3 was totally worth
the trip.” Rating: 4 out of 5
The acclaimed new pitch-black comedy Ingrid Goes West
hilariously deconstructs the underlying darkness of our soial media obsession. After
a famly tradgey leaves her isolated and depressed, Ingrid (Aubrey Plazza) a deeply
mentally unstable young woman, spends all of her money traveling across the
country and reinventing herself in the image of an Instagram model (Elizabeth
Olsen) she’s fascinated with. Her fascination soon turns to obsession as she
sociopathically destroys the world around her in an attempt to become the social
media guru’s new best friend.
We Said: “Ingrid Goes West is a film that
you’ll think about for a while after watching it. It plays to the more
unexamined aspect of social media, but instead of pointing the blame on social
media itself, it turns its eyes and examines the people behind the screens of
their phones. Ingrid is obviously mentally unstable, lonely, and extremely
insecure, and that plays a large part in the way her character views Instagram
and defines her actions and development throughout the film.” Rating: 3.5 out of 5
One of the year’s most buzzed about new movies, Patti
Cake$ tells the story of an unlikely rapper’s journey for success in a
world she doesn’t fit into. Patricia Dombrowski (a star-making debut
performance from Danielle Macdonald) has dreamed her entire life of escaping
her small New Jersey suburb and becoming a Hip Hop legend. With the help fo her
loving grandmother and mysterious and soft spoken musician, she sets out to
follow her dream no matter what stands in her way.
We Said: “Patti Cake$ is one of the most
purely enjoyable movies about hip-hop that I've seen. Does it pander?
Absolutely. Does it stick to the 8 Mile formula like an emcee
following the boom bap and the kick snare? You darn right it does, but the rags
to rap glory story it tells is made special, if not transcendent, by the
electric lead performance by Danielle MacDonald. For many she will be a
newcomer, and certainly this will be her breakout role into even bigger things.”
Rating: 4 out of 5
