Our critics have been hard at work reviewing the latest films. Here is a look at what’s coming out this weekend (in select cities, check your local listings) and what else may be in theaters right now.

Opening: May 17, 2013

Wide (United States)

Star Trek: Into Darkness

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Wide (United Kingdom)

Fast & Furious 6

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The Great Gatsby

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Limited (United States)

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Happy Birthday: Andrew Schenker

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Published on: May 17, 2013

OFCS member Andrew Schenker celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Slant Magazine.

Happy Birthday: Matt Looker

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Published on: May 17, 2013

OFCS member Matt Looker celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: The Shiznit, Virgin Media and Little Big Picture.

Happy Birthday: Mark Leeper

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Published on: May 17, 2013

OFCS member Mark Leeper celebrates his birthday today, May 17. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Mark Leeper’s Film Reviews.

Reviews: 100 Bloody Acres (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Don Lewis @ Film Threat

Reviews: Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Anecdotes roll absorbingly from the great raconteur, with plenty of self-deprecating humor, and Kleine knits together the different fabrics of the story with considerable skill.

Reviews: Black Rock (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/17] | Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: It’s a very short experience but one that hits its beats with a sense of urgency and a feeling of helplessness.
[New - 5/16] | R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine

Reviews: The English Teacher (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A fetching dramady starring Julianne Moore as an enthusiastic and vulnerable middle-aged English teacher who turns a corner in her life and realizes she will never be the same again.
[New - 5/16] | R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine

Reviews: Epic (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

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[New - 5/16] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: The title might be slightly misleading.

Reviews: Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: High-Octane and outrageous, it’s filled with cars careening, catapulting, clattering and crashing – in massive vehicular carnage.
[New - 5/16] | Ali Gray @ TheShiznit.co.uk
[New - 5/17] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A colossal affair swollen with the hubris and arrogance of men who trail the foul dust of mayhem in their wake.
[New - 5/16] | Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Not so fast!

Reviews: Frances Ha (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: The comic misadventures of a quirky young woman who falls down seven times but gets up eight.
[New - 5/16] | Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: Frances Ha is a compassionate, complex drama about people trying to find footing in their own chaotic lives.

Reviews: Molly’s Theory of Relativity (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

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[New - 5/16] | Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Filmmaker Jeff Lipsky (Flannel Pajamas) steers his story through intriguing waves of philosophical clarity and doldrums of talky boredom.

Reviews: Nightfall (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Like classic film noir, this is a film that’s less interested in crime than in slowly peeling away family secrets.

Reviews: Pieta (2013)

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Published on: May 16, 2013

Reviews for this film from our members:

[New - 5/16] | David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: As is usual for his work, Pieta is a somatic and visceral film that’s really about the human soul. Or, at least, the soul as defined by Kim Ki-duk.

Happy Birthday: George Zervopoulos

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Published on: May 16, 2013

OFCS member George Zervopoulos celebrates his birthday today, May 16. Please help us congratulate him and wish him well.

You can visit his website: Movies Ltd..

The Grab Bag

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Published on: May 15, 2013

OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.

Best of Lists

Top 5 best George Clooney movies

Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]

Interviews

Susanne Bier on Making Audiences Comfortable By Getting Out of Her Comfort Zone With “Love Is All You Need”

Stephen Saito @ The Moveable Fest

Excerpt: The Oscar-winning director of “In a Better World” and “After the Wedding” returns in a lighter register for a romantic comedy that’s not without some weight and talks about not allowing cynicism to sneak in and why she must continue to challenge herself.

Tina Gordon Chism of “Peeples”

Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom

Xan Cassavetes on Pumping Blood Into the Vampire Passion Project “Kiss of the Damned”

Stephen Saito @ The Moveable Fest

Excerpt: Nearly a decade after making the essential film lover’s doc “Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession,” the filmmaker talks about her narrative debut that would be a great fit on its airwaves, a decadent vampire tale that brings high class style to a down and dirty horror flick.