Movie rundown for the weekend through May 25: ‘Lilo & Stitch’ opens

OPENING

“The Last Rodeo” — (Drama, PG, 118 minutes). A retired rodeo star discovers faith, confronts his past and proves true courage lies in a family when he enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition to save his grandson.

“Lilo & Stitch” — (Comedy, PG, 108 minutes). A lonely Hawaiian girl asks a fugitive alien to help mend her broken family.

“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” — (Action, PG-13, 169 minutes). Ethan Hunt learns that our lives are the sum of our many choices when he and the IMF team must find a rogue artificial intelligence before it destroys mankind.

ONGOING

“23 – Iravai Moodu” — (Thriller, not rated, 130 minutes). Inspired by a true story, violence, justice and societal unrest are explored through the 1992 Ksunduru massacre, 1993 Chilakaluripet bus burning and 1997 Jubilee Hills bomb blasts.

“A Minecraft Movie” — (Action, PG, 101 minutes). Grade: C, Katie Walsh. Four misfits are pulled into a mysterious and bizarre cubic land.

“The Accountant 2” — (Action, R, 132 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. When an old acquaintance is killed, Wolf recruits his estranged brother to help him find the murderer.

“The Amateur” — (Action, PG-13, 123 minutes). Grade: C-, Katie Walsh. After his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a CIA cryptographer is determined to find those responsible for her death.

“The Ancestral Home (Nha Gia Tien)” — (Comedy, not rated, 117 minutes). A video creator encounters her deceased brother’s ghost when she returns to her ancestral home and to safeguard the family’s fortune and home from greedy relatives, she must discover the truth behind his death.

“Clown in a Cornfield” — (Horror, R, 96 minutes). Grade: C, Katie Walsh. After the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burns down, the town of Kettle Springs falls on hard times and a sinister clown, once a symbol of success for the town, emerges to cleanse the town of its burdens, one victim at a time.

“Fight or Flight” — (Action, R, 97 minutes). Grade: C, Katie Walsh. A mercenary must find a way to protect himself and the woman he was sent to track down from the passengers on a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco who are trying to kill them both.

“Final Destination Bloodlines” — (Horror, R, 110 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. After having a recurring nightmare, a college student returns home to get help from the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from a horrific fate.

“Friendship” — (Comedy, R, 100 minutes). Two lives are threatened to be ruined when a suburban dad falls for his new neighbor.

“Hurry Up Tomorrow” — (Thriller, R, 105 minutes). A chance encounter with a mysterious stranger leads an insomniac musician on a journey that makes him question everything he knows about himself.

“Jaar” — (Drama, not rated, 115 minutes). During Jung Bahadur Rana’s rule in Nepalese, a Jaar was a man in an extramarital affair with another man’s wife and during this era, the aggrieved husband had the authority to execute the Jaar.

“The King of Kings” — (Animation, PG, 100 minutes). The story of Jesus Christ is seen through the eyes of a child and told by Charles Dickens.

“The Kiss” — (Drama, not rated, 116 minutes). When a young man in military training as a cavalry officer meets a beautiful girl in a wheelchair and their relationship evolves, he wonders if his feelings are out of pity or true love.

“The Penguin Lessons” — (Drama, PG-13, 110 minutes). Grade: B-, Katie Walsh. While teaching in Argentina, an Englishman’s life is changed after he adopts a penguin that was rescued from an oil-slicked beach.

“Rosario” — (Horror, R, 88 minutes). During a severe snowstorm, Rosario is attacked by supernatural entities while she waits for an ambulance to pick up her grandmother’s body.

“The Ruse” — (Thriller, R, 100 minutes). After being assigned to an elderly patient who lives in a remote seaside home, an in-home caregiver starts fearing for her life.

“Shadow Force” — (Action, R, 104 minutes). After leaving Shadow Force, Kyrah and Isaac go on the run with their son because a unit of the Shadow Force wants to kill them.

“Sinners” — (Horror, R, 137 minutes). Grade: A-, Katie Walsh. When twin brothers return to their hometown to leave their troubled lives behind and start over, they find that evil is waiting to welcome them back.

“Things Like This” — (Comedy, not rated, 98 minutes). It seems like everything has aligned for two guys with the same name when they start falling in love, but fate may have a different path.

“Thunderbolts*” — (Action, PG-13, 126 minutes). Grade: B-, Katie Walsh. While on a dangerous mission, an unconventional team of antiheroes must confront their dark pasts when they get captured in a death trap.

“Unko Sweater” — (Romance, not rated, 133 minutes). Takes the audience on a journey of love and human connections.

“Until Dawn” — (Drama, R, 117 minutes). Grade: B-, Katie Walsh. A group of friends trapped in a time loop must survive until dawn to escape mysterious foes trying to kill them.

“Warfare” — (Action, R, 95 minutes minutes). Grade: A-, Adam Graham. The story of the chaos and brotherhood of war as told through the memory of a group of Navy SEALs who embarked on a dangerous mission in Ramadi, Iraq.

Editor’s note: Please contact individual movie theaters for showtimes and other movies added after this list was compiled.

Carlotta Olson, The Denver Gazette


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