Want to see a movie, but not sure what's worth your time (and money)? Take a look at this week's lineup of acclaimed movies showing on the big screen in and around Yonkers.
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.)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk uses a super collider, others from across the Spider-Verse are transported to this dimension.
With a Tomatometer Score of 97 percent and an Audience Score of 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" has been a must-watch since its release in December of 2018. The New York Times's Lawrence Ware said, ""This film manages the delicate feat of embracing its source material while also satirizing it."," while David Sims of the Atlantic noted, "The latest entry in a fully saturated genre that somehow, through sheer creative gumption, does something new."
Interested? It's playing at Showcase Cinema de Lux Ridge Hill (59 Fitzgerald St.) through Wednesday, March 6. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
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.
With a Tomatometer Score of 92 percent and an Audience Score of 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" has garnered plenty of praise since its release on Feb. 22. "The movie could easily be called "How To End Your Trilogy."," according to Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post, while New York Magazine/Vulture's David Edelstein said, "For some, it'll be a moving conclusion to an epic series. For others, it'll be one less kids' franchise to worry about."
Catch it on the big screen at Cross County Multiplex Cinemas (2 South Drive) and Showcase Cinema de Lux Ridge Hill (59 Fitzgerald St.) through Wednesday, March 6; and Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Ave.) through Thursday, March 7. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
The Hole in the Ground
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbor shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiraling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Set to be released today, Friday, March 1, "The Hole in the Ground" already has a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. "The Hole In The Ground finds a somewhat fresh angle on the possessed-kid subgenre," noted Mike D'Angelo of the AV Club, while the Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin said, "While this is more generically conventional than Jennifer Kent's breakout thriller, it still taps potently into parental anxieties and primal fears."
You can catch it at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Ave.) through Thursday, March 7. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
An American Werewolf in London
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
With a Tomatometer Score of 88 percent and an Audience Score of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1980s classic has much to recommend it, with Time Out's Tom Huddleston saying, "Not just gory but actually frightening, not just funny but clever, 'American Werewolf...' has its flaws, but these are outweighed by the film's many, mighty strengths."
Interested? It's playing at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Ave.) on Sunday, March 3, at 7 p.m. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
The Kentucky Fried Movie
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
With a Tomatometer Score of 80 percent and an Audience Score of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1977 release comes with positive recommendations. The Chicago Reader's Dave Kehr said, "It's easy to spoof cliches; it's something else again to string them together with the insight into narrative structure these boys evidence," while of Time Out said, "Great fun for an undemanding night out."
Get a piece of the action at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers (2548 Central Park Ave.) on Tuesday, March 5, at 7 p.m.. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
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