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Thursday, April 2, 2009
What’s opening Friday, April 3?
The first week of April brings us three new films, but the one sure to gross the most at the box office is the one I am interested in the least.
Adventureland: No, it’s not a Disney movie based on one of their theme parks, but a coming-of-age comedy from the director of Superbad. Review posts Friday.
Fast and Furious: The hot wheels (notice the lack of capitalization) return for a fourth go-round, with the original cast back, but without articles in the title. (Showing off my grammarian side there.) I’ve never been into this series, though, thinking it lived up to neither adjective in the title. I’lll admit the ads are fairly impressive - but reviews so far are not.
Sunshine Cleaning: Amy Adams stars, so this is an automatic for me. She and Emily Blunt play sisters who operate a business cleaning up crime scenes. It’s been said to be in the vein of Little Miss Sunshine - Alan Arkin pops up here too - but the movie supposedly has more bite than its lighthearted trailer suggests.
At the arthouses
Neon opens Sunshine Cleaning, which finally displaces the long-running Slumdog Millionaire. Neon also hangs on to Two Lovers and The Class.
Little Art plays Kate Winslet’s vastly underrated Revolutionary Road, and Kate Winslet’s vastly overrated The Reader. It also offers the Indian animated film Sita Sings the Blues.
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