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Movie rundown for the weekend through July 13: ‘Superman’ opens

OPENING

“Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story” — (Horror, R, 89 minutes). In an attempt to escape their past, Abraham van Helsing moves his two sons to the United States.

“Skillhouse” — (Horror, not rated, 99 minutes). Ten influencers are kidnapped and forced into a deadly social media game where the audience votes for the least popular contestant, who is then killed by the masked Triller Killer.

“Sorry, Baby” — (Drama, R,  105 minutes). After something bad happens to Agnes, life goes on for everyone else, but not for her.

“Superman” — (Action, PG-13, 129 minutes). In a world that views truth, justice and the human way as old-fashioned, Superman must try to integrate his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent.

ONGOING

“28 Years Later” — (Horror, R, 115 minutes). Grade: A, Katie Walsh. Almost three decades after the rage virus emerged, one of the survivors, who has been living on a small island, goes on a mission to the mainland, where he discovers horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.

“40 Acres” — (Action, R, 115 minutes). With food being scarce in the post-apocalyptic world, a family of Black Canadian farmers, who descended from American Civil War migrants, tries to protect their homestead and resources from cannibals.

“Ballerina” — (Action, R, 125 minutes). Grade: C, Katie Walsh. Eve Macarro, an assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma, seeks revenge after her father dies.

“Elio” — (Animation, PG, 99 minutes). Grade: A, Katie Walsh. A space fanatic named Elio, who is trying to figure out who he is meant to be, is beamed up to Communiverse where he forms bonds with alien lifeforms while navigating an intergalactic crisis.

“F1: The Movie” — (Drama, PG-13, 155 minutes). Grade: C, Katie Walsh. Sonny Hayes was Formula 1’s most promising driver until the 1990s, when an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he is coming out of retirement to mentor and team up with a hotshot rookie.

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

“How to Train Your Dragon” — (Adventure, PG, 120 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. During a time when an ancient threat endangers dragons and Vikings on the isle of Berk, a friendship forms between Hiccup, an inventive Viking, and a Night Fury dragon named Toothless.

“Jurassic World: Rebirth” — (Adventure, PG-13, 134 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. Five years after the events of “Jurassic World Dominion,” a team of operatives journeys to an isolated equatorial region in the hope of extracting DNA from three prehistoric creatures that will bring life-saving benefits to humankind.

“Kung Fu Panda 4” — (Animation, PG, 94 minutes). Grade: C, Katie Walsh. After becoming the spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace, Po finds out that a wicked sorceress is planning on summoning all the master villains that Po vanished to the spirit realm.

“The Life of Chuck” — (Drama, R, 110 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. A story based on Stephen King’s novella about the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.

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

“M3GAN 2.0” — (Horror, PG-13, 119 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. Gemma, M3GAN’s creator, resurrects her two years after her first rampage to defeat Amelia, the military-grade weapon that stole M3GAN’s tech.

“Materialists” — (Comedy, R, 116 minutes). Grade: B, Katie Walsh. A New York matchmaker is torn between her imperfect ex and her perfect match.

“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” — (Action, PG-13, 169 minutes). Grade: A-, Katie Walsh. 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.

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” 50th Anniversary — Drama, R, 133 minutes). When a rebellious convict is sent to a psychiatric hospital, he tries to get other patients to defy the head nurse and take more control of their lives.

“The Phoenician Scheme” — (Action, PG-13, 101 minutes). Grade: B-, Michael Phillips. After a wealthy businessman appoints his only daughter, a nun, as heir to his estate, they become the target of foreign terrorists and assassins.

“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.

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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