The 4 best movies screening around Mount Lebanon this week

The 4 best movies screening around Mount Lebanon this weekImage: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World/TMDb
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Published on February 22, 2019

Want to see a movie, but not sure what's worth your time (and money)? Don't miss this week's lineup of acclaimed movies showing on the big screen in and around Mount Lebanon.

Read on for the highest rated films to catch, based on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer Score, which reflects the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics.

(Movie descriptions courtesy The Movie Database; showtimes via Fandango. Movie ratings and showtimes are subject to change.)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

This family-friendly flick, slated to open today, already has a critical approval rating of 99 percent. The critical consensus notes that, "The rare trilogy capper that really works, 'How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World' brings its saga to a visually dazzling and emotionally affecting conclusion.”

It will begin playing at AMC Classic Mount Lebanon 6 (1500 Washington Road) on Thursday, Feb. 21 through Wednesday, Feb. 27. Click here for showtimes and tickets.

Isn't It Romantic

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms was all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

With a Tomatometer Score of 68 percent and an Audience Score of 59 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Isn't It Romantic" is well worth a watch.

"Unlike other movies where women bang their heads, this one's got a brain," according to Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post, while Vulture's Bilge Ebiri said, "It's the 'Inception' of rom-coms. Sort of."

Catch it on the big screen at AMC Classic Mount Lebanon 6 (1500 Washington Road) through Wednesday, Feb. 27. Click here for showtimes and tickets.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet — finding a way to keep the band together amid all the success and excess.

With a Tomatometer Score of 61 percent and an Audience Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is well worth a watch. The New Yorker's Richard Brody said, "(Rami) Malek does an impressive job of re-creating Mercury's moves onstage, but the core of the performance is Malek's intensely thoughtful, insight-rich channeling of Mercury's hurt, his alienation and isolation even at the height of his fame."

The movie is up for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards. 

Catch it on the big screen at AMC Classic Mount Lebanon 6 (1500 Washington Road) through Wednesday, Feb. 27. Click here for showtimes and tickets.

Alita: Battle Angel

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

With a Tomatometer Score of 60 percent and an Audience Score of 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Alita: Battle Angel" is well worth a watch.

Slate's Sam Adams said, "It's goofy as hell and borderline inexcusable at times, but it's also kind of glorious," and The Maine Edge's Allen Adams agreed, "'Alita: Battle Angel' is a much more sophisticated film than you might think ... The visual spectacle and action-oriented excitement alone are worth the price of admission."

It's playing at AMC Classic Mount Lebanon 6 (1500 Washington Road) through Thursday, Feb. 28. Click here for showtimes and tickets.


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