Feb. 19-25 new releases
(release dates are subject to change)
The Edge (star) (star) (star) 1/2
From writer David Mamet and director Lee Tamahori, a stunning adventure movie about two men thrown together after a wilderness plane crash (Anthony Hopkins as a financier, Alec Baldwin as a cocky photographer). (20th Century Fox) R
Mad City (star) (star) 1/2
John Travolta is a distraught laid-off guard who takes a museum tour group hostage, Dustin Hoffman a quick-witted reporter who turns the crisis into a media event. This is an overslick media-bashing thriller. (Warner) R
The Man Who Knew Too Little (star) 1/2
Hopelessly unfunny “wrong man” comedy, with Bill Murray as an amiable slobbo-boob. (Warner) PG
The Myth of Fingerprints (star) 1/2
Ambitious but shallow indie from Bart Freundlich, about an upper-middle-class family home at Thanksgiving. (Columbia TriStar) R
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (star) (star) (star) (star)
A collector’s must. A restored re-release of the beautiful, crisply compassionate adaptation –by director Robert Mulligan, producer Alan Pakula and screenwriter Horton Foote–of Harper Lee’s memory-novel of a 1932 small-town Alabama rape trial. Oscar-winner Gregory Peck is Atticus Finch, the stalwart lawyer who defends framed black family man Brock Peters. We see the story glowingly, through the eyes of Finch’s 6-year-old daughter, Scout (Mary Badham). In widescreen format, with the original trailer and interviews with the filmmakers and cast. (Universal) No MPAA rating
– A Smile Like Yours R (Paramount)
– Baywatch: White Thunder at Glacier Bay PG (Trimark)
– Dark Carnival No MPAA rating (York Pictures)
– Dead Waters No MPAA rating (York Pictures)
– Ernest in the Army PG (Monarch)
– First Time Felon R (Warner)
– Standoff R (Trimark)
– The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (star) R (Columbia TriStar)
