Movie Reviews, Trailers: ‘Now You See Me 2,’ ‘The Conjuring 2,’ ‘Warcraft,’ and More

By Beau Behan, Film Critic:

Are you planning on going to the movies this weekend? Here are this week’s new releases:

• “Me Before You”   (Video Review)
• “The Nice Guys”   (Video Review)
• “Money Monster”  (Video Review)
• “Genius”
• “Now You See Me 2”
• “Puerto Ricans in Paris”
• “The Conjuring 2”
• “Warcraft”

And here’s what they’re all about. 

“Me Before You”

WATCH the above movie review.

PG-13, 110 min, Drama

Director: Thea Sharrack

Writer: Jojo Moyes

Stars: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin

“Me Before You” is the powerful love story between a once successful banking executive (Sam Claflin) and an effervescent young woman (Emilia Clarke). – Warner Bros. 

“The Nice Guys” 

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R, 116 min, Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Shane Black

Writers: Shane Black, Anthony Bagarozzi

Stars: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe

Down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired leg-breaker Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power. – Warner Bros. 

“Money Monster” 

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R, 98 min, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director: Jodie Foster

Writers: Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore

Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell

In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor, who has lost everything (Jack O’Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets. – Sony Pictures

 “Genius” (Limited, June 10) 

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PG-13, 104 min, Biography, Drama 

Director: Michael Grandage 

Writers: A. Scott Berg, John Logan 

Stars: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman 

“Genius” is a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world-renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger-than-life literary giant Thomas Wolfe. Based on the biography "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" by A.  Scott Berg.  – Roadside Attractions

“Now You See Me 2” (Nationwide, June 10)

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PG-13, 129 min, Action, Comedy, Thriller

Director: John M. Chu

Writer: Ed Solomon  

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan

The Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan) return for a second mind-bending adventure, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights and taking them around the globe. One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, the illusionists resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe), a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Their only hope is to perform one last unprecedented stunt to clear their names and reveal the mastermind behind it all. – Lionsgate

“Puerto Ricans in Paris” (Nationwide, June 10)

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R, 82 min, Comedy

Director: Ian Edelman

Writers: Ian Edelman, Neel Shah  

Stars: Rosario Dawson, Luis Guzman, Rosie Perez

"Puerto Ricans In Paris" is a story of friendship, loyalty and a life-changing trip to Paris. Detectives Luis Lopez and Eddie Garcia are childhood best friends, brother-in-laws, and partners in the New York Police Department Luxury Goods Recovery Unit tasked with hunting down Canal Street's infamous bootleggers. With Luis as the slick, self-styled "brains" of the operation and Eddie as the shy, quiet "muscle," they've been running through the streets of the Lower East side in search of fake Louis Vuitton for 20 years - long enough for them to be the best in the business. While their work mostly keeps them below 14th Street, a random visit from a celebrated French designer and her business partner set in motion a sequence of events that take them on a wild goose chase through the streets of Paris. – Focus World 

“The Conjuring 2” (Nationwide, June 10)

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R, 133 min, Horror 

Director: James Wan 

Writers: Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes 

Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe 

Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.– Warner Bros 

“Warcraft” (Nationwide, June 10) 

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PG-13, 123 min, Action, Adventure, Fantasy 

Director: Duncan Jones 

Writers: Duncan Jones, Charles Leavitt 

Stars: Travis Fimmell, Paula Patton, Ben Foster 

Legendary Pictures' “Warcraft,” a 3D epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based upon Blizzard Entertainment's globally-renowned universe.  – Universal Pictures 

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