Movie Reviews: 'Iron Man 3,' 'The Big Wedding,' 'Pain & Gain' and More

Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com

Iron Man 3

• Release Date: May 3, 2013
• Rated: PG-13
• Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr.
• Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy
• Runtime: 130 min

"Besides rehabbing a hero who overcomes anxiety to save the world and defeat the terror-industrial complex by the simple matter of cloning his body armor, the movie proves that there’s still intelligent life on Planet Marvel. As you’re propelled out of the theater on IM3′s hydraulic lift of pleasures, you’re likely to say, “That is how it’s done.” Richard Corliss, Time.

"Given the keys to the franchise and a role in the writing, Black has massively upped the verbal sparring and kept the broad inventiveness of comic-book malleability in mind. “I’m a mechanic,” Stark says to the boy in a moment of self-doubt. That’s 100% Black, that line, a tidy code of craft, and the jitters pass." Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York.

"The villains are all wrong, the motivations are muddy, even the gadgetry is off. And the swaggering genius at the center of it all has become a preening fool." Kyle Smith, New York Post.

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The Big Wedding

• Run Time: 89mins.
• Starring: Amanda Seyfried , Robert De Niro , Diane Keaton , Katherine Heigl , Susan Sarandon
• Director: Justin Zackham
• Trailer

"There’s not a bad performance in this movie. De Niro, Keaton and Sarandon are particularly good, what a surprise. But it feels as if all the guests at “The Big Wedding” are wearing ID tags telling us their one Plot Point." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.

"There is nothing about the movie that isn’t utterly predictable. You meet a character, and it’s immediately obvious what’s going to happen to him (or her). And then it happens. Maybe it’s meant to make you feel good about your deductive reasoning skills or something. But mostly it just makes you want to see something else." Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic.

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Pain & Gain

• Run Time: 129mins.
• Starring: Mark Wahlberg , Dwayne Johnson , Anthony Mackie , Ed Harris , Rob Corddry
• Director: Michael Bay
• Trailer

"This is easily Bay’s best movie, the work of a filmmaker with a cracked sense of humor that he is able to share with the audience." Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald.

"Yes, the canon invoked for this film is that of the Three Stooges, but it’s still not as magnificently berserk as they can be. Set your expectations carefully for this one." Louis Black, Austin Chronicle.

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The Place Beyond The Pines

• Run Time: 141 mins.
• Starring: Ryan Gosling , Bradley Cooper , Eva Mendes , Rose Byrne , Ray Liotta
• Director: Derek Cianfrance
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"A riveting crime thriller, it's also a multi-generational familial saga that approaches Greek tragedy." Claudia Pulg, USA Today. Full Review

"Cool, violent, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Gosling reprises his inexorable-loner routine from “Drive.” Cianfrance and the screenwriters Ben Coccio and Darius Marder wrote thirty-seven drafts of the script, but gave him almost nothing to say. He rides, he smokes, he knocks over banks, he loves his baby, and that’s it." David Denby, The New Yorker. Full Review

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Oblivion

• Run Time: 126mins.
• Starring: Tom Cruise , Olga Kurylenko , Morgan Freeman , Andrea Riseborough , Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
• Director: Joseph Kosinski
• Trailer

"The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance against grandeur...Which brings us to Tom Cruise, the not-necessarily-good news. However engaging its end-times mysteries, Oblivion is still a Tom Cruise movie." Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice. Full Review

"A moderately clever dystopian mindbender with a gratifying human pulse, despite some questionable narrative developments along the way." Justin Chang, Variety. Full Review

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42

• Run Time: 88 mins.
• Starring: Chadwick Boseman , Harrison Ford , Christopher Meloni
• Director: Brian Helgeland
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"One of the all-time great sports movies — primarily because it's one of the all-time great sports stories." Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times.

"42 is competent, occasionally rousing and historically respectful — but it rarely rises above standard, old-fashioned biography fare. It’s a mostly unexceptional film about an exceptional man." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times.

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Scary Movie 5

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Lindsay Lohan , Ashley Tisdale , Charlie Sheen , Regina Hall , Anthony Anderson
• Director: Malcolm D. Lee
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"Somehow, it actually looks cheaper than "Paranormal Activity." It's less funny, too." Darren Franich, Entertainment Weekly. Full Review

"This latest installment of the horror movie spoof franchise is mainly notable for its Charlie Sheen/Lindsay Lohan cameos." Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter.  Full Review

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The Croods (3D)

• Run Time: 98mins.
• Starring: Nicolas Cage , Ryan Reynolds , Emma Stone , Catherine Keener , Clark Duke
• Director: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
• Trailer

"This Chris Sanders fellow knows how to craft a heart-warming animation, and if not for a few minor problems this would have had a legitimate shot at the best animated movie of 2013." Laremy Legel, Film.com

"The movie is at its most interesting and amusing when riffing on how cavemen might have reacted to new experiences and ideas, like fire and shoes. Whether the kiddies will appreciate that is unclear, but they’ll certainly like the voice work done by Emma Stone as Eep." Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times.

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Olympus Has Fallen

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Gerard Butler , Morgan Freeman , Aaron Eckhart , Angela Bassett , Melissa Leo
• Director: Antoine Fuqua
• Trailer

"While Olympus Has Fallen breaks no major new ground in the political thriller genre, Fuqua has directed a sharp, very taut adventure that keeps you engrossed from start to finish." Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times.

"Perhaps every generation gets the movie stars it deserves. “Olympus” has quite a bit to say about the current state of our country. Intentions aside, not all of it is entirely flattering." Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News.

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Any of these spark your interest? Jordan Creek Century 20 and XD in West Des Moines will be showing all these flicks. Showtimes and ticket costs can be found on the theater's website.