![]() There’s Love, Simon, the latest big-screen effort to make being gay sitcomishly cute, from the director of 2000’s definitive “portrait of terminally shallow L.A. Still, either sounds better than the other variably-big openings this week. We won’t be seeing each other either at 7 Days in Entebbe, though that docudrama about a famous 1976 hijacking and rescue is also from a good director: Brazilian Jose Padilha ( Bus 174, Elite Squad), whose 2014 RoboCop remake deserved far more appreciation than it got. But still, if you’re reading this, you probably won’t be heading off to Tomb Raider, and neither will I. But gender progress seems more convincing when it doesn’t look like they spend two hours in an especially eventful wet T-shirt contest.Īctually, perhaps one should not snark: This is the first American movie by Norwegian director Roar Uthaug, whose prior contributions to slasher cinema ( Cold Prey) and the disaster-flick ( The Wave) really invigorated those tired genres. I’m all for women starring in action movies. But enough about me-and Tomb Raider, which opens Friday with Alicia Vikander (who played the character I like to think of as Hooters HAL in Ex Machina) assuming Angelina Jolie’s clingy old… um, role. ![]() SCREEN GRABS You know you’re getting old when you have lived long enough to witness the remake of the movie you didn’t see of the video game you never played.
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