Admit One 6/17
Green Lantern
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Plot: Fighter jet test pilot Hal Jordan is chosen to join the Green Lantern Corps and must quickly learn to harness his newly acquired powers to fight the seemingly unstoppable Parallax.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 21%
Critic Consensus: “Noisy, overproduced, and thinly written, Green Lantern squanders an impressive budget and decades of comics mythology”
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Starring: Jim Carrey, Angela Lansbury, Carla Gugino, Clark Gregg, Madeline Carroll
Directed by: Mark Waters
Plot: Serious business man Mr. Popper unexpectedly inherits six penguins.
RT Freshness: 43%
Critic Consensus: “Blandly inoffensive and thoroughly predictable, Mr. Popper’s Penguins could have been worse — but it should have been better”