Your Weekend Preview: What To See (And What To Skip) In The Theatres

By Original-Cin Staff

Not every recent movie is already on Netflix. We have a new year and new movies in the theatres as well. Just Mercy (Rating: B-) stars Michael B. Jordan as lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, freeing wrongly convicted inmates. Jamie Foxx stars as his first client, a death-row inmate in a movie reviewer Jim Slotek is just good enough to tell its powerful story.

A scene from the likely well-meaning but pretty awful Like a Boss.

Like A Boss (Rating: C) features Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne as raunchy Mia and prissy Mel, lifelong friends whose cosmetics shop is threatened by an orange-wigged corporate shark (Salma Hayek). Another kind of monster is threatening Kristen Stewart and her crew in Underwater (Rating: C-). Reviewer Jim Slotek dove in… and recovered a vintage Captain & Tennille pun.

One great reason to get off the couch is to see the documentary Cunningham (Rating: A), Russian director Alla Kovgan’s 3D film about the influential choreographer Merce Cunningham which, says reviewer Liam Lacey, is a euphoric immersion in all things Merce.

And this just in: a doc on Colombian painter Botero, arguably the world’s most famously living artist. Interesting, visually delightful but also kind of meh (Rating: B-) says review Karen Gordon.

Have a better-than-the-January-release-schedule weekend.