Looking to feel feelings? Don't miss this week's lineup of dramas showing on the big screen in and around Denver.
Read on for the highest rated drama films to catch in theaters, 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.)
Modern Times
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 100 percent and an Audience Score of 95 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1936 release is a critical darling. Time Magazine's said, "It is a gay, impudent and sentimental pantomimic comedy in which even the anachronisms are often as becoming as Charlie Chaplin's cane," while Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times noted, "One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences."
In the mood for popcorn? It's playing at Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake (4255 W. Colfax Ave.) on Sunday, March 10. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Hushpuppy, an intrepid 6-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack – temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
With a Tomatometer Score of 87 percent and an Audience Score of 76 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" has much to recommend it. "What is also extraordinary is that almost all the people we see are actors. So this is not a documentary, but a moving enactment by people who are themselves moved," noted Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic, while the Associated Press's Christy Lemire said, "'Beasts of the Southern Wild' is sheer poetry on screen: an explosion of joy in the midst of startling squalor and one of the most visceral, original films to come along in a while."
Catch it on the big screen at Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake (4255 W. Colfax Ave.) on Wednesday, March 13. 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 the success and excess.
With a Tomatometer Score of 61 percent and an Audience Score of 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is well worth a watch. NPR's Bob Mondello said, "As for Freddie Mercury, is this his real life? Is this just fantasy - not sure that really matters either. When (actor Rami) Malek's strutting like a peacock, this movie is a decently amusing escape from reality," and The New Yorker's Richard Brody said, "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."
In the mood for popcorn? It's playing at UA Denver Pavilions Stadium 15 & RPX (500 16th St.) through Thursday, March 14. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
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