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Steamboat Movie Times, Feb. 10 to 16
Wildhorse Stadium Cinemas
655 Marketplace Plaza
970-870-8222
www.metrotheatres.com
“This Means War” sneak preview PG-13
7:50 p.m. Tuesday
“The Grey” R
5:10 and 8 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2:20, 5:10 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” PG
4:50 and 7:30 (3-D) p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2:10 (3-D), 4:50 and 7:30 (3-D) p.m. Saturday and Sunday
“The Woman in Black” PG-13
5:20 and 8 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2:30, 5:20 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
“The Vow” PG-13
5 and 7:40 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2:20, 5 and 7:40 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
“Chronicle” PG-13
5:30 and 7:50 p.m. Friday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
2:30, 5:20 and 7:50 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
5:30 p.m. Tuesday
“The Artist” PG-13
4:40 and 7:30 p.m. Friday and Monday through Thursday
2, 4:40 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Chief Plaza Theater
813 Lincoln Ave.
970-879-0181
www.carmike.com
“One for the Money” PG-13
12:15, 2:45, 5:25 and 8:05 p.m. Friday through Sunday
2:45, 5:25 and 8:05p.m. Monday through Thursday
“Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” 3-D, PG
11:45 a.m., 2:40, 5:30 and 8:25 p.m. Friday through Sunday
2:40, 5:30 and 8:25 p.m. Monday through Thursday
“Contraband” R
12:05, 2:35, 5:20 and 8:15 p.m. Friday through Sunday
2:35, 5:20 and 8:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday
“Safe House” R
11:55 a.m., 2:30, 5:15 and 8:15 p.m. Friday through Sunday
2:30, 5:15 and 8:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday
“This Means War” was not screened to critics by press time.
“The Artist”
Comedy, PG, 100 minutes
A brand-new silent comedy that’s a charming crowd-pleaser and that has swept up many year-end awards on its march toward the Oscars. Here is one of the most entertaining films in many a moon, a film that charms because of its story and performances and because of the sly way it plays with being silent and black-and-white. Jean Dujardin stars as a 1927 silent star who is thrown out of work with the rise of talkies but not forgotten by the little dancer (Berenice Bejo) he was kind to when he was big and she was a nobody. The film is made with warmth, wit, big laughs and unabashed melodrama. A silent movie for people who think they don’t like silent movies.
Rating: Four stars.
“The Woman in Black”
Horror, PG-13, 95 minutes
A stylish and creepy ghost story set in a crumbling mansion in the north of England that is haunted by the spirit of a woman who mourns her lost child. A young attorney (Daniel Radcliffe) journeys there to search through her moldering papers, and because he needs the work, he refuses to be frightened away by the shrieks and shadows within the decrepit walls. In his first film since the Harry Potter series ended, Radcliffe still seems schoolboyish, but the stars of the film are the production design and cacophonous sound effects. Scary, sorta. Nice to look at.
Rating: Three stars.
“The Vow”
Romance, PG-13, 104 minutes
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum play a young Chicago couple who are happily married after four years when they’re in an accident and she loses all her memories of being married to him — or even meeting him. She thinks she’s still living at home with her parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange) and engaged to Jeremy (Scott Speedman). What’s a girl to do? A well-behaved, tenderhearted date movie about impossibly nice people, but it’s too sedate and safe.
Rating: Two and a half stars.
“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”
Adventure, PG, 94 minutes
wn adventure tale, with young Josh Hutcherson and his mom’s boyfriend (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) rescuing his grandfather (Michael Caine) from a lost island in the South Pacific after teaming up with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his sultry daughter (Vanessa Hudgens). With elephants as small as dogs, lizards the size of dinosaurs, bees so big you can ride them bareback, an exploding volcano, the lost city of Atlantis, Captain Nemo’s submarine Nautilus and The Rock performing “It’s a Wonderful World” with a ukulele. It’s even in 3-D. I’m exhausted just describing it. Fun in the 1950s Disney adventure movie way.
Rating: Two and a half stars.
“Chronicle”
Action thriller, PG-13, 83 minutes
Three high school students find a hole in the middle of a gloomy, grassy field, climb down, encounter a strange, crystalline object and find themselves with such superpowers as telekinesis. But this isn’t a typical sci-fi movie; as acted by Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael B. Jordan, they have a surprising realism as their powers take on new dimensions and one of them begins to act out his inner rage. An uncommonly original and entertaining film by talents in their early and mid-20s; the directing debut of Josh Trank, with an accomplished screenplay by Max Landis.
Rating: Three and a half stars.
“The Grey”
Drama, R, 117 minutes
An unrelenting demonstration that wolves have no opinion. When they attack, it’s not personal. Stranded in the far north after a plane crash, a small group of oil company workers try to walk to safety and are tracked by a large group of ravenous wolves. Liam Neeson plays a wolf hunter who takes charge. This movie is not merely effective; the way I felt in my gut, it was all too effective.
Rating: Three and a half stars.
“Contraband”
Thriller, R, 110 minutes
Stars Mark Wahlberg in a plot involving the smuggling of a vast quantity of counterfeit $100 bills from Panama City to New Orleans. Meanwhile, his wife (Kate Beckinsale) is threatened by a crime kingpin (Giovanni Ribisi) who has the kind of snaky voice that makes you wanna smack him up alongside the head. Lots of plot elements off the spare parts shelf.
Rating: Two stars.
— Roger Ebert
“Safe House”
Thriller, R, 115 minutes
A rogue CIA operative who has been on the run for a decade forms an unlikely partnership with a frustrated rookie agent. “Safe House” is a take-no-prisoners action extravaganza that doesn’t stint on either bullets or brutal hand-to-hand combat. It also shows how much can be done with a business-as-usual CIA-thriller script when it’s bolstered by effective acting and expert direction. With Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga and Brendan Gleeson. Written by David Guggenheim. Directed by Daniel Espinosa.
Rating: Not available.
“Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”
Sci-fi, PG, 133 minutes
A 3-D version of the spacefaring adventure about Jedi knights and interplanetary intrigue. With Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman and Jake Lloyd. Written and directed by George Lucas.
Rating: Not available.
— The Los Angeles Times
“One for the Money”
Comedy, PG-13, 106 minutes
On today’s edition of “Smart Women, Stupid Choices”: Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic “comedies” pairing her with increasingly bland leading men. She may have thought she’d landed a plum (ahem) when she secured the rights to Janet Evanovich’s Jersey bounty hunter heroine Stephanie Plum. But “One for the Money,” which Heigl also produced, is a malnourished exercise in star vanity, a film built around an actress so insecure she surrounds herself with non-threatening, no-name actors who make no impression at all. Bad screenplay structure, unsnappy “snappy” dialogue, bland characters blandly played and flat, tedious direction. And there is Heigl, the center of it all, wisely choosing a character, stupidly thinking that an array of skin-tight jeans and a couple of scenes showing a lot of skin make “One for the Money” worth our money.
Rating: One star.
— Roger Moore, MCT
