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Trailer Watch: Which movie should you go see this weekend?

What’s a must-watch, and what’s a miss? We tell you.

THE WEEKEND IS coming up, and that means new movies for you to see.

But which is a must-watch, and are there any you should avoid?

We take a look.

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson

Warner Bros. Pictures / YouTube

What we know

Tom Hanks stars in this true story of a pilot who had to land his plane on the Hudson river. Directed by Clint Eastwood.

What the critics say

  • “Here, a few minutes open one man’s life, revealing layers of consciousness that, in turn, lay bare that life’s moral center.” - NY Times
  • “Ripped from the headlines, “Sully” offers a rare example of a movie inspired by good news — the best news, as one character points out, that New York has heard in a long time, ‘especially with an airplane in it.’”- Variety

What’s it rated?

Bleed for This

Movieclips Trailers / YouTube

What we know

Based on another true story, that of World Champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, who is seriously injured in a car crash and fears he may never walk again. Stars Miles Teller and Aaron Eckhart.

What the critics say

  • “You know the formula: the underdog hero; the “Rocky”-esque training montage; the setback on the way to victory. Bleed for This has all of that and not much more, save for a stellar performance by Aaron Eckhart as Kevin Rooney, the paunchy, balding boxing coach who once trained Mike Tyson” – Washington Post
  • “In Miles Teller’s Vinny ‘Paz’ Pazienza, it has at its core an amiable pugilist with strong echoes of Rocky Balboa, portrayed by an actor with all the physical dedication of De Niro in Raging Bull. ” – Empire

What’s it rated?

Moana

Fresh Movie Trailers / YouTube

What we know

Disney’s latest animated flick, set in the south Pacific and starring the voice talents of Dwayne Johnson and Auli’i Carvalho. Plus, music from Lin-Manuel Miranda. A young girl sets out during a time of peril to find a demi-god named Maui.

What the critics say

  • “The 16-year-old titular heroine is proportioned like an actual adolescent female, rather than a saucer-eyed, wasp-waisted Barbie. And you can scan the ocean horizon in every direction without spotting anything that remotely resembles a love interest.” – The Atlantic
  • “The movie takes care to show her charged with actual administrative responsibilities on the island beyond behaving herself and respecting her elders, and it’s touching to see her wrestle with the fact that she’s good at being an island princess; she just wants to go further.” – AV Club

What’s it rated?

Which one would you go see first?


Poll Results:

Sully (1896)
None of them (746)
Moana (742)
Bleed For This (305)

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