Movie Reviews: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby - Minnetonka Patch

Editor's Note: All reviews and information aggregated from?Moviefone?and?RottenTomatoes.

Want to catch a movie this weekend? Here is Patch's roundup of movies playing at theaters in the Minnetonka area, including?AMC Eden Prairie Mall 18,?Mann St. Louis Park Cinema?6?and?Kerasotes Showplace Icon Theatre at West End.

New this weekend:

The Great Gatsby

One sentence plot: "The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 98

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 40

Reviews:

"Frenzied and overwrought, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby is a glitz-filled folly." USA Today Full Review

"The result is less a conventional movie adaptation than a splashy, trashy opera, a wayward, lavishly theatrical celebration of the emotional and material extravagance that Fitzgerald surveyed with fascinated ambivalence." New York Times Full Review

"Where this 'Gatsby' fails, it at least does so with imaginative and verve; where it succeeds, it finds poetry." Seattle Times Full Review

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Peeples

One sentence plot: Sparks fly in the Hamptons when "regular guy" Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) crashes the preppy Peeples family reunion to ask for their precious daughter Grace's (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 82

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 43

Reviews:

"In essence, the film is a cross between Meet the Parents and an Adam Sandler idiot-in-a-china-shop comedy." Entertainment Weekly Full Review

"The performers are up to the wacko task. But one of the movie's key problems is that it only pretends to let loose, its calculated absurdity firmly tethered to the life lessons that lie in wait." Hollywood Reporter Full Review

Iron Man 3

One sentence plot: Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 99

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80

Reviews:

"But for all the clanking armies of iron knights on display to dazzle the eager kid in each of us, this summer epic rings hollow. There's no one home inside the suit." Rolling Stone Full Review

"This installment actually flirts with satire, sending its hero-in-a-can on a vengeful mission against a mad, bearded jihadist before yanking the rug out from under the neocon story line. There are some good laughs as well." Chicago Reader Full Review

"The 'Iron Man' films turned Mr. Downey into a huge star, but the role has gradually, maybe inexorably, swallowed him." New York Times Full Review

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The Place Beyond the Pines

One sentence plot: The highly anticipated new drama from director Derek Cianfrance ("Blue Valentine") powerfully explores the consequences of motorcycle rider Luke's (Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling) fateful decision to commit a crime to support his child.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 81

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80

Reviews:

"Cianfrance and his sterling cast keep it all together, vanquishing doubt and soap suds. There's a palpable sense of teamwork that brings out the best in all of these players." Toronto Star Full Review

"This is a story about legacy, the sins of the father, the restlessness in our souls. It's powerful, it's bold, it hits you hard." Philadelphia Inquirer Full Review

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Pain & Gain

One sentence plot: Based on the unbelievable true story of a group of personal trainers in 1990s Miami who, in pursuit of the American Dream, get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 96

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 50

Reviews:

"It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity." The New York Times Full Review

"A badly constructed, blood-spattered caper that comes unglued early on." USA Today Full Review

"Bay's trademark theatrical flourishes and grandiloquent effects work don't overwhelm the engrossing story or some noteworthy performances. And for Bay, that's saying a lot." Film Racket Full Review

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Oblivion

One sentence plot: On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 98

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 59

Reviews:

"When you go to a futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic barn dance starring Tom Cruise and his space guns, you expect a little zap with your thoughtful pauses." Chicago Tribune Full Review

"For all the bells and whistles?an electronic score by M83, a screen-busting Imax presentation and Cruise going full throttle?Oblivion feels arid and antiseptic, untouched by human hands." Rolling Stone Full Review

"You start wondering whether director Joseph Kosinski and screenwriters Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn have any original ideas of their own. And then you realize they don't." Seattle Times Full Review

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42

One sentence plot: "42" tells the story of two men-the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey-whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 97

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68

Reviews:

"It's a sports film nonsports fans can love; it's a family film that never preaches; it's a biopic that also takes in the world and people around its subject." New York Daily News Full Review

"'42' can feel incomplete (the bland music and the filmmaker's obsession with dates and places are problematic), yet at the same time it offers a very good place to start. Seattle Times Full Review

"There are many less flattering things you could say about a movie than that it's enjoyable in a square, uncomplicated, stirringly old-fashioned way." Entertainment Weekly Full Review

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Jurassic Park 3D

One sentence plot: The film follows two dinosaur experts?Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler Laura Dern)?as they are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an island off Costa Rica.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 83

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91

Reviews:

"The 3-D process adds not just dimension but depth - a technological extension of cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus innovations in The Grapes of Wrath and Citizen Kane. The change in perspective creates greater intensity." Time Magazine Full Review

"Jurassic Park shows us a director in transition, and the film captures his transformation in its own kind of cinematic amber." Vulture Full Review

"I'm a fan of this movie. It is thrilling, and the 3-D treatment is a nice enhancement." Boston Globe Full Review

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The Croods

One sentence plot: The Croods tells the story of the world's first family road trip: When their cave is destroyed, the Crood family must embark on a comedy adventure into strange and spectacular territory in search of a new home.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 95

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 79

Reviews:

"Despite a few too many mother-in-law jokes, "The Croods" nicely makes it clear that even before they had fire, families understood how important it was to cherish and protect each other." Chicago Sun-Times Full Review

"'The Croods' is both brisk and beautiful, and should be sufficiently entertaining for family audiences for whom few such options exist these days." The Associated Press Full Review

"The familiarity of the characters and their dynamics do make the movie feel comfy. You'll probably go into the prehistoric animated comedy thinking you know what it's going to be, and you'll be right." The Pioneer Press Full Review

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Oz the Great and Powerful

One sentence plot: When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking-that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced?he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting.

Rotten Tomatoes viewer score: 99

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 58

Reviews:

"Oz the Great and Powerful" isn't a masterpiece for the ages, but an agreeable family film that pleasantly reminds us of something greater - of a land that we heard of, once in a lullaby." Seattle Times Full Review

"The 3-D effects are plentiful - hats, lions, and baboons jump off the screen and into your lap - but the characters rarely lodge in the moviegoer's heart." Time Magazine Full Review?

"Though Oz has some of the same narrative issues and effects-heavy bloat as that highly personal fantasy film, every frame is infused with a deep-rooted, impassioned understanding of the cinema's magical power to captivate and inspire." Time Out New York Full Review

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