Critics Weigh In: What Movie to See This Weekend?

In other words, is 'The Interview' worth it or should you see 'Into the Woods' instead?
Posted Dec 26, 2014 11:33 AM CST
Critics Weigh In: What Movie to See This Weekend?
In this image released by Disney Enterprises, Inc., Meryl Streep appears in a scene from "Into the Woods."   (AP Photo/Disney Enterprises, Inc., Peter Mountain)

Trying to decide which of the many new releases you should see this weekend? A smattering of critical thoughts on the biggest of them:

  • The Interview: Now that it's available to watch, is it worth it? Well, it has a not-awful-but-also-not-great 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a similarly lukewarm score of 51 on Metacritic. Among the praise: It's "shocking and novel," "bluntly funny and ever-so-slightly sweet." But some critics warn that it "fails to live up to the hype" and is "bereft of satiric zing," with one warning, "The more desperately a comedy tries to be outrageous, the less likely it is to be outrageous—or even just funny."

Click for reviews of this month's other big movies: Unbroken, the final Hobbit film, Inherent Vice, and Wild. (More movie review stories.)

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