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 Columbus.
Here are 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.)
Frankenstein
Dr. Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 100 percent and an Audience Score of 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this vintage film is a must-see. The Village Voice's Elliott Stein said, "The most influential horror film ever made, this stark and stylish work has a weird fairytale beauty."
Interested? It's playing at Gateway Film Center (1550 N. High St.) through Tuesday, June 4. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Bride of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.
Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 100 percent and an Audience Score of 87 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this 1935 release has made a lasting impression.
"Screenwriters Hurlbut and Balderston and director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein," according to Time magazine.
Catch it on the big screen at Gateway Film Center (1550 N. High St.) through Friday, June 7. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
King Kong
A film crew discovers the "eighth wonder of the world," a giant prehistoric ape, and brings him back to New York, where he wreaks havoc.
Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 98 percent and an Audience Score of 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, this vintage film has made a lasting impression. The Hollywood Reporter said, "[Fay] Wray has never been more beautiful before the camera, nor acted as well as she does in this production," and the Los Angeles Times' Mark Chalon Smith noted, "The story, like Frankenstein and Dracula, has taken on the significance of a modern folk tale, layered with obvious moralizing and as familiar as personal history."
It's screening at Gateway Film Center (1550 N. High St.) through Saturday, June 1. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
Booksmart
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.
With a Tomatometer Score of 97 percent and an Audience Score of 75 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, "Booksmart" has gotten stellar reviews since its release on May 24. Salon's Erin Keane said, "'Booksmart' puts a fresh spin on the coming-of-age night-of comedy because it's focused on two girls, one of whom is also queer," while Chandler Levack of the Globe and Mail stated, "'Booksmart' is a love letter for any young woman who has ever stayed home on a Friday night to watch a Ken Burns documentary."
Get a piece of the action at AMC Starplex Columbus 10 (5275 Westpointe Plaza), Gateway Film Center (1550 N. High St.) and AMC Dine-in Easton Town Center 30 (275 Easton Town Center) through Wednesday, June 5. Click here for showtimes and tickets.
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