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Jun 9, 2017
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FilmWeek Marquee: ‘The Mummy,’ ‘It Comes at Night,’ ‘Beatriz At Dinner’ and more
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Justin Chang and Tim Cogshell review this week's most memorable releases.
Christopher Abbott, Joel Edgerton, and Chase Joliet star in "It Comes at Night."
Christopher Abbott, Joel Edgerton, and Chase Joliet star in "It Comes at Night."
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Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Justin Chang and Tim Cogshell review this week's most memorable releases.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Justin Chang and Tim Cogshell review this week's most memorable releases.

“The Mummy” (PG-13)

Justin: SKIP IT

“This is a dreadful movie. [It’s] the first time I remember asking myself, ‘What is Tom Cruise doing? What is he thinking?’”

Tim: SKIP IT

“You want to see a mummy movie? ‘Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy’ in 1955. That’s your mummy movie.”

“It Comes at Night” (R)

Tim: SEE IT

“Mood. Lots of mood. Perhaps too much mood. But [darn] good.”

Justin: SEE IT

“Really beautifully shot post-apocalyptic thriller. Terrific performances that really get under your skin while seeming to do very little.”

“Beatriz at Dinner” (R)

Justin: SEE IT

“I really enjoyed this queasily funny and suspenseful movie starring Salma Hayek in one of her best performances coming against a rotten member of the 1 percent.”

Tim: MEH

“It worried me a little bit because it imbued this ethnic person with mystical powers… and it made all the billionaires so horrible. But you know, it’s sharp anyway.”

“My Cousin Rachel” (PG-13)

Tim: MEH

“It’s better than the 1952 Olivia de Havilland-[Richard] Burton movie. It’s beautiful to look at, but just not that good.”

Justin: MEH

“It is beautiful to look at, a little bloodless. Rachel Weisz is quite good.”

“The Hero” (R)

Justin: MEH

“This is a feature-length valentine to Sam Elliot. I love Sam Elliot. I like the performance better than the movie.”

Tim: SEE IT

“Full of all kinds of tropes, absolutely true. But I tell you, it comes as close to nailing it for me as any movie does this week.”