Movie information aggregated from MovieFone.com

Looking to head to some movies in the Iowa City area this weekend? Several of the new releases below should be available at Marcus Theatres in Iowa City and Coralville this weekend. Read the reviews from MovieFone and check out showtimes with the movie times widget above or click at the Google Movie Showings listing below to find

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Hansel & Gretel

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• Starring: Jeremy Renner , Gemma Arterton , Famke Janssen
• Director: Tommy Wirkola
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"Wirkola tears through Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters with such giddy abandon, it ends up being splattery fanboy fun. Preposterous, clearly, but fun." Tom Russo of The Boston Globe.

"The blend of fairy-tale sentiment and knowing irony worked exactly once, in "The Princess Bride," and fails here. But there's enough visual ingenuity - eye candy, if you will - to make this Hansel & Gretel an intermittently tasty temptation." Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine.

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Bullet to the Head

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring: Sylvester Stallone , Kang Sung , Sarah Shahi , Jason Momoa , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
• Director: Walter Hill
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"Fun in parts, and Stallone's always watchable, but it's an '80s tribute movie that coasts along on rapidly diminishing goodwill. Beige Heat, if you will." Chris Hewitt of Empire. Full Review

"The film is a hoot and goes by quickly, but there's nothing here you haven't seen before." Austin Chronicle. Full Review

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Warm Bodies

• Run Time: 97mins.
• Starring: Nicholas Hoult , Teresa Palmer , Rob Corddry , John Malkovich , Dave Franco
• Director: Jonathan Levine
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"A well-paced, nicely directed, post-apocalyptic love story with a terrific sense of humor and the, um, guts to be unabashedly romantic and unapologetically optimistic." Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review

"Playing with genre is fine, but if you're going to create new rules, you have to play by them too, but unfortunately Warm Bodies continually subverts its own internal logic and basic, believable character motivation to keep pushing the movie along." Kevin Jagernauth, The Playlist. Full Review

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Mama

• Run Time: 100min.
• Starring: Jessica Chastain , Megan Charpentier , Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
• Director: Andy Muschietti
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"Plenty of horror movies are willing to settle for making audiences jump. Mama is more ambitious by far: It makes sure viewers are emotionally committed even when they aren't clutching their armrests or covering their eyes." Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Club.

"Expertly conjured atmosphere only gets Muschietti so far, but there's enough genuine promise here that you're willing to cut this talented newcomer some slack." Keith Eulich of Time Out New York.

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Movie 43

• Run Time: N/A
• Starring:Elizabeth Banks , Emma Stone , Kristen Bell , Halle Berry , Leslie Bibb
• Director: Steven Brill, Steve Carr
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"Movie 43 is a near masterpiece of tastelessness. The anthology of 12 short, interconnected skits elevates the art form of gross-out comedy to a new height." Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post.

"About a third of the short films land a few laughs. But even the weakest material is lifted by the actors." Roger Moore of Movie Nation.

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Zero Dark Thirty

• Run Time: 157min.
• Starring: Joel Edgerton , Jessica Chastain , Edgar Ramirez , Kyle Chandler, Mark Strong
• Director(s): Kathryn Bigelow
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"Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year." The Guardian. Full Review

"Bigelow delivers an acute realization of the mission's execution that's eerily in sync with the way it played in the popular imagination. Visually, the events unfold as a mashup of shadowy movements with flashes of green night vision. It's simultaneously predictable and tense." Eric Kohn of indieWIRE. Full Review

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Parental Guidance

• Run Time: 104min.
• Starring: Billy Crystal , Bette Midler , Marisa Tomei ,Tom Everett Scott , Bailee Madison
• Director(s): Andy Fickman
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"Parental Guidance is an engaging comedy that bridges multiple generation gaps, making it that rare movie that grandparents, their kids, and their kids can enjoy." Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer.

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This is 40

• Run Time: 134min.
• Starring: Paul Rudd , Leslie Mann , Megan Fox ,Albert Brooks , Chris O'Dowd
• Director(s): Judd Apatow
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"This Is 40 isn't always hilarious, but it's ticklishly honest and droll about all the things being a parent can do to a relationship. And why it's still worth it." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly. Full Review.

"Judd Apatow's instincts have rarely been sharper, wiser or more relatable than in This Is 40, an acutely perceptive, emotionally generous laffer about the joys and frustrations of marriage and middle age." Justin Chang of Variety. Full Review.  

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Silver Linings Playbook

• Run Time: 120mins.
• Starring: Bradley Cooper , Jennifer Lawrence , Robert De Niro , Chris Tucker , Jacki Weaver
• Director: David O. Russell
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"Silver Linings is consistently entertaining, with its scrappy, well-drawn characters, offbeat humor and indefatigable positive outlook." Claudia Puig of USA Today. Full Review

"Ultimately, this is an engaging, uplifting, and life-affirming motion picture that reminds viewers that it is possible to do interesting things with a romantic comedy while still sticking to some of the conventions." James Berardinelli of ReelViews. Full Review

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Lincoln

• Run Time: 149mins.
• Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis , Sally Field , Tommy Lee Jones , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Hal Holbrook
• Director: Steven Spielberg
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"Go see this movie. Take your children, even though they may occasionally be confused or fidgety. Boredom and confusion are also part of democracy, after all. Lincoln is a rough and noble democratic masterpiece - an omen, perhaps, that movies for the people shall not perish from the earth." A.O. Scott, The New York Times. Full Review

"Lincoln is too sharply focused to deserve the pejorative "biopic" label. It's splendid enough to make me wish Spielberg would make a "prequel" to this instead of another Indiana Jones picture." David Edelstein, New York Magazine. Full Review

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Here are the Iowa City Area Showtimes via Google Movie Showtimes.

Bijou Theater

Marcus Sycamore Cinema

Marcus Coral Ridge Cinema