The Film Yap reviews “Rampage” and more in theaters this weekend
Fill your weekend with a trip to the movie theater! What’s playing? The Film Yap’s Christopher Lloyd runs down the list:
Rampage
The 1980s video game in which players control giant monsters smashing up the city gets a big-budget screen adaptation with Dwayne Johnson doing his “flexing and smirking” thing.”
Truth or Dare
College students go to Mexico for spring break, play the titular game and then are forced to keep playing until they all die. Formulaic, flat, PG-13 horror.”
Foxtrot
An Israeli family is torn apart while dealing with the news that their son has been killed while serving his conscription service at a remote army outpost.”
Beirut
Jon Hamm plays a widower diplomat sent by a CIA agent (Rosamund Pike) to negotiate for the life of a friend who’s been captured by terrorists.”
Finding Your Feet
Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall star in this British comedy about a woman on the verge of retirement who learns her husband has been a philandering cad, and goes to live with her poor sister.”
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Low-grade animation in which a stray dog joins the U.S. Army in the days leading up to World War I, and becomes a legend.”
The Greatest Showman
Hugh Jackman leads a Broadway-style musical rendition of the (very fictionalized) life of P.T. Barnum. Stream It.”
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