Arts & Entertainment
Movie Reviews: Smurfs 2, 2 Guns, Hannah Arendt, Blackfish
Find movie reviews written by Patch blogger Mark Glass and other local St. Louis critics.
Before you look for movie showtimes this weekend, remember to check out these movie reviews on Patch. These reviews come from Patch blogger Mark Glass and other local St. Louis critics.
Are you a movie buff? Or maybe you just enjoy the occasional dinner and a movie date? Either way, Patch would be thrilled to have you on board as a movie blogger! All you have to do is shoot a quick email to Ryan Martin at ryan.martin@patch.com.
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- Run Time: 109 mins.
- Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Bill Paxton, James Marsden, Paula Patton
- Rated: R
Mark Glass, Patch blogger: "**½ In the latest cop/crime-buddy action comedy flick, we open with Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington casing the S & L in a dusty border town. Their plan is to swipe about $3 mil from a Mexican drug lord (Edward James Olmos) who stiffed them on their last buy. What they get..." Full Review
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- Run Time: 90 mins.
- Starring: Samantha Berg, Dave Duffus
- Rated: PG-13
Mark Glass, Patch blogger: "***½ If you want a reason never to take the family to Sea World, or any similar tourist attraction, this documentary should do the trick. Told mostly by former trainers from many of its parks, we get a number of insiders’ views of how their showcase Orcas are acquired and treated, and many sordid details about incidents..." Full Review
- Run Time: 113 mins.
- Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg
- Rated: NR
Mark Glass, Patch blogger: "***½ For a complete reversal of the summer’s usual levity, here’s a fact-based drama that challenges the viewer to keep up with the historical and intellectual pace of a screenplay. Arendt was a German jew who was lucky enough to emigrate in the early 1930s. She studied philosophy under the famous doctor Martin Heidegger, and became a respected professor and author in New York. When Adolph Eichmann was found and brought to Israel for a war-crimes trial in 1960, Arendt flew..." Full Review
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Smurfs 2
- Run Time: 105 mins.
- Starring: Christina Ricci, J.B. Smoove, Neil Patrick Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Hank Azaria
- Rated: PG
Joe Williams, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Among the many things that Europeans love that puzzle Americans are the Smurfs and Jerry Lewis. Je ne sais pas if Monsieur Lewis will make a final curtain call, but in the Paris-set sequel Smurfs 2, Hank Azaria is the next best thing to the King of Comedy. As the nutty prestidigitator..." Full Review
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