In the age of streaming entertainment, it can be hard to leave the couch. But movie theaters still offer a special experience for those willing to get out of the house. Want to see what's out there? Don't miss this week's lineup of acclaimed movies showing on the big screen in and around Cleveland.
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.)
Don't Look Now
Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
With a Tomatometer Score of 96 percent and an Audience Score of 77 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this '70s throwback has been a favorite of critics. The Los Angeles Times' Justin Chang said, "A devastating portrait of grief, a master class in disjunctive editing and a haunting disquisition on the use of the color red," while James Berardinelli of ReelViews noted, "[Don't Look Now] takes the viewer on a winding, unpredictable trip that starts as a meditation on grief and ends as a supernatural thriller."
In the mood for popcorn? It's playing at Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque (11610 Euclid Ave.) on Saturday, April 27. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Avengers: Endgame
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
Set to be released on today, April 26, "Avengers: Endgame" already has a Tomatometer Score of 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
"No matter how much homework you've done, what actually happens, the order in which it happens and the folks to whom it happens will still pack surprises — also tongue-in-cheekiness and quite a bit of lump-in-throatiness," according to Bob Mondello of NPR, while the Chicago Reader's Leah Pickett said, "A film that should feel overlong and overstuffed rings purposeful, weighted with existential truth even as it flashes before our eyes."
Get a piece of the action at Atlas Cinemas at Shaker Square (13116 Shaker Square) through Thursday, May 2. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Shazam!
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.
With a Tomatometer Score of 90 percent and an Audience Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Shazam!" has been getting attention since its release on April 5.
"For a long, glorious stretch, Shazam! plays like the anti-Nolan antidote it is," noted Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out, while Salon's Matthew Rozsa said, ""Shazam!" is the funniest, sweetest and most innocent movie in the DC Extended Universe — a sign that it is at last ready to compete with Marvel."
Want to see for yourself? It's playing at Atlas Cinemas at Shaker Square (13116 Shaker Square) through Thursday, May 2. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Hair
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.
With a Tomatometer Score of 89 percent and an Audience Score of 88 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1979 release has much to recommend it. The New York Daily News' Kathleen Carroll said, "Milos Forman's movie version of 'Hair' is every bit as exhilarating and exciting as the original play. What's more, Forman has managed to recreate with amazing accuracy the rebellious mood and irreverent spirit of those confusing times."
Interested? It's playing at Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque (11610 Euclid Ave.) on Sunday, April 28. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
A Bucket of Blood
Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
With a Tomatometer Score of 75 percent and an Audience Score of 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this classic is well worth your time. FanboyNation.com's Sean Mulvihill said, "It's a low budget masterwork that skewers the fad of its era while lambasting the ever-fickle art world," while Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid stated, "It was perhaps (Roger) Corman's first film to establish a really rich atmosphere, filled with nighttime shadows and a general edginess, which only grew richer on the subsequent Poe films."
Want to see for yourself? It's playing at Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque (11610 Euclid Ave.) on Sunday, April 28. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
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