HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT  * * * *

Starring Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro and Elenore Hendricks. Screenplay by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie. Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.

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JURASSIC WORLD  * *

Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson and Vincent D’Onofrio. Screenplay by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow. Directed by Colin Trevorrow.

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“This pleasant, spectacularly uninformative documentary celebrates a venerable television institution that already spends quite enough time celebrating itself, thank you very much. You won’t find any of the debauchery that’s become part of the program’s legend. Cocaine, recently credited by Tina Fey as the show’s original Executive Producer, doesn’t even merit a cameo.” – Movie Mezzanine, 06/12/2015

RESULTS  * * * 1 / 2

Starring Guy Pearce, Cobie Smulders, Kevin Corrigan, Giovanni Ribisi and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski.

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“It’s a Cameron Crowe movie; full of reportorial detail, foolhardy young lovers and heartsick, jingling-guitar pop songs on the obsessively curated soundtrack. It’s also weirdly ersatz and clangy. With every film, Crowe’s formula seems to come more increasingly unhinged from any recognizable reality. Now his movies seem to take place on Mars.” – Movie Mezzanine, 05/29/2015

TOMORROWLAND  * * *

Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw and Hugh Laurie. Screenplay by Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird. Directed by Brad Bird.

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MAD MAX: FURY ROAD  * * * *

Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz and Hugh Keays-Byrne. Screenplay by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris. Directed by George Miller.

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“I don’t know if you’ve been keeping up with Steven Seagal lately, but it’s fun checking in every now and again in that mean way that the Germans have a word for, because the dude got really fat. Like, he’s getting Brando heavy. Filmmakers go to great lengths to not make him move around much. This is kind of a problem when you’re an action star.” – Movie Mezzanine, 05/14/2015

“It is impossible to observe the film’s interviews with Spinney and not be taken aback by the man’s extraordinary sensitivity, and the deeply unhappy childhood that seems still very much with him today. That this vulnerability manages to come through an eight-foot-tall fluffy bird costume is testament to what a brilliant performer Caroll Spinney is.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 05/13/2015

“This middling little number feels like a rejected pilot for one of those sex-crime-fixated, baby-napping network procedurals designed to scare the crap out of senior citizens and security moms for ratings gold. But at least that kind of garbage has a pulse. The only mystery here is how so many talented people wound up working on this dreck.” – Movie Mezzanine, 05/13/2015