6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Despite the charming stars, it’s a failure to launch.
Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) and Cole Davis (Channing Tatum) in “Fly Me to the Moon.”Credit…Dan McFadden/Sony Pictures
‘Fly Me to the Moon’
Set during the Apollo 11 mission, this rom-com directed by Greg Berlanti follows the budding romance between the mission flight coordinator, Cole Davis (Channing Tatum), and the ad executive Kelly Jones (Scarlett Johansson) tasked with raising NASA’s public image and staging a fake moon landing should the mission fail.
From our review:
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Chilling and stylish but frustrating, too.
‘Longlegs’
Maika Monroe stars as Lee Harker, a newbie F.B.I. agent with a mysterious connection to the serial killer she’s chasing (played by Nicolas Cage) in this horror thriller from Osgood Perkins.
From our review:
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Critic’s Pick
A prison drama with a breakout performance.
‘Sing Sing’
This moving drama directed by Greg Kwedar follows Divine G (Colman Domingo) and Divine Eye (Clarence Maclin, a formerly incarcerated newcomer) as they clash and come together in the Rehabilitation Through the Arts theater program at the titular maximum-security prison.
From our review:
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