The 3 best movies screening around Norfolk this week

The 3 best movies screening around Norfolk this weekImage: Toy Story 4/TMDb
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Published on June 28, 2019

In the market for high-caliber entertainment? Check out this week's lineup of acclaimed movies showing on the big screen in and around Norfolk.

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.)

Toy Story 4

Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.

Boasting a Tomatometer Score of 98% and an Audience Score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, "Toy Story 4" has been a must-watch since its release on June 21. The New Yorker's Anthony Lane said, "[Director Josh] Cooley's film quickens and deepens," while Matthew Rozsa of Salon noted, "The latest installment, 'Toy Story 4,' is perhaps the bleakest (and most beautiful) of them all."

It's playing at Phoenix Theatres Maingate 10 (1500 Mall Drive) through Monday, July 1; Cinemark 18 (880 N. Military Highway) through Monday, July 1; and Regal Macarthur Center & RPX (300 Monticello Ave., Suite 330) through Tuesday, July 2. Click here for showtimes and tickets.

Midsommar

A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Set to be released on Wednesday, July 3, "Midsommar" already has a Tomatometer Score of 95% and an Audience Score of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

"This is, in other words, a less perfectly crafted nightmare than [director Ari] Aster's last one. But there's a deranged integrity to its sprawl, and to the filmmaker's willingness to embrace the darkest, most unsparing aspects of human desire," according to A.A. Dowd of the AV Club. Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt said, "The skin-pricking pleasures of 'Midsommar' aren't rational, they're instinctive: a thrilling, seasick freefall into the light."

It's playing at Cinemark 18 (880 N. Military Highway) and Regal Macarthur Center & RPX (300 Monticello Ave., Suite 330) through Wednesday, July 3. Click here for showtimes and tickets.

Do the Right Thing

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

With a Tomatometer Score of 90% and an Audience Score of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, this '80s touchstone has a strong following.

"In the final analysis, the best thing one can say for [director Spike] Lee is that he takes risks, like all true artists. For unlike most of today's filmmakers, he's not afraid to really challenge a movie audience to do some serious thinking," noted Kathleen Carroll of the New York Daily News/ The Philadelphia Inquirer's Carrie Rickey said, "['Do the Right Thing' is] an exceptional film, a movie that wisely deprives you of the cozy resolutions and epiphanies so often manufactured by Hollywood. Like the film's principals, you are left feeling that you have been torched where you live."

It's playing at Cinemark 18 (880 N. Military Highway) through Monday, July 1. Click here for showtimes and tickets.


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