Check out what the critics are saying about this weeks new releases in the reviews below.
La La Land
Opens Dec. 9 in limited release.
EWs Chris Nashawaty says:
There have been a handful of lavish, big-studio musicals in recent years.
Credit: Glen Wilson; Dale Robinette
But for the most part, theyve been bloated Broadway adaptations full of sound and fury.
And some moviegoers may, no doubt, feel a little tentative about the genre.
ButLa La Landis the anti-whatever those are.
Its more intimate and personal and affecting…more magical.
My advice is to seeLa La Landand surrender to it.
It will make you feel like youre walking on air too.A
Read the full review here.
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Metacritic: 89
Office Christmas Party
Opens Dec. 9.
(Thankfully, Moana doesnt have a love interest.)
And like those films, its phantasmagorical special effects are easy on the eyes.
So why doesFantastic Beastsfeel so oddly lifeless?
Why doesnt it cast more of a spell?
First, there are the performances, which aside from Redmaynes are surprisingly flat.
And second, the thinness of the source material gives the whole film a slightly padded feeling.
Maybe this is all necessary table-setting that will lead to bigger payoffs in chapters 2 through 5.
But its all in the service of building to its final revelation and also of conveying Louises enormous loss.
& Mrs. Smithwith Angelina Jolie.
That film was snarky where this one is more square.
But Pitt and Cotillards chemistry is just as charged and combustible.
(Were a long way from the blunt-force shenanigans of HYDRA here.
)Doctor Strangeis thrilling in the way a lot of other Marvel movies are.
Its eye candy and brain candy.B+
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic: 72
