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J.J. Abrams's "reboot" of the creaky Star Trek franchise is currently rocking a 96% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and we're not dissenting. After catching a preview screening earlier this week, we've got to hand it to Abrams: the man knows how to make a solid action movie. Thrilling from the very first explosive sequence, his origins story is less concerned with fulfilling every little plot point on the Trekkie wish-list than it is with yanking audiences on a kinetic, deep space adventure. It's pure, well-crafted escapism on a level that Hollywood seems mostly incapable of delivering these days. Let's just say he had us at "Sabatoge."
Or as Christopher Orr at the New Republic puts it: "In his daft, dizzy reinvention of a moribund franchise, Abrams has found a way to be referential without being reverential, to conjure nostalgia without being constrained by it. He may play fast and loose with the world he's been bequeathed, but at least the movie he gets out of it is itself fast and loose."
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include Adoration, Rudo y Cursi, Julia, Next Day Air, Little Ashes, Outrage, Objectified, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Garden , After the Rehearsal, Some Like It Hot, and The Big Lebowski.
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just saw ST today before the super nerds. it was stunning. i like the fact that spock gets jungle fever.
Without Shatner as Kirk, it isn't Star Trek.
damn, the shows are sold out. :(, live long and prosper bitches.
I hate it when a director's Pinterian abstractions come off as forced.
I saw it last night. So good.
I just saw it at the Pavilion on Prospect Park and there the theater was still a quarter empty.
Weird for a Friday night opening of something like this.
Actually, I was kind of disappointed. This movie looks like a Long trailer for a new star trek series with the love struck Spock. Also without Shatner it isn't star trek. The movie was ok.
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/star-trek-xi/william-shatner-trailer-reaction
http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/star-trek-xi/william-shatner-trailer-reaction