Movies Released January 17, 2014

A tough cop tries to halt a budding romance between his sister and a fellow schoolteacher.

Ice Cube, Matt Alvarez, Chris Bender, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Tim Story, Will Packer, Phil Hay

PG-13 Action Adventure

45% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

49%

3.8 / 5

(65)

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

The story centers on former intelligence analyst and all-American good guy Jack Ryan.

Keira Knightley, David Koepp, Kevin Costner, David Ellison, Chris Pine, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Kenneth Branagh, Mace Neufeld

PG-13 Action Adventure

49% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

26%

3.4 / 5

(69)

The Nut Job

Surly and his rat friend Buddy, two street-wise rodents, have the solitude of their city park home upended.

Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Gadon, Stephen Lang, Peter Lepeniotis, Ria Westaway, Thom Chapman

PG Comedy Family

26% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

16%

2.9 / 5

(57)

Devil's Due

A found footage-inspired film. The plot is being kept secret but is described as female-driven, with horror elements.

Lindsay Devlin, Colin Walker, Madison Wolfe, Radio Silence, Zach Gilford, Allison Miller, Catherine Kresge, Aimee Carrero

R Thriller Horror

16% WILL SEE

2.9 / 5

11%

4 / 5

(7)

A series of brutal murders puts the lives of three men on a collision course: The father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher arrested and released due to a police blunder.

Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado

Thriller Crime

11% WILL SEE

4 / 5

75%

3 / 5

(2)

Summer In February

A love triangle set at an Edwardian artists’ colony on the Cornish coast of England in the early 20th century.

Michael Maloney, Hattie Morahan, Christopher Menaul, Dan Stevens, Emily Browning, Shaun Dingwall, Nicholas Farrell, Jonathan Smith

Drama 1 hr, 50 mins

75% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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20%

4.1 / 5

(14)

Back in the Day

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an old romance, he nearly destroys his hometown and friendships.

Morena Baccarin, Nick Swardson, Michael Rosenbaum, Harland Williams, Sarah Colonna

R Comedy 1 hr, 33 mins

20% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

26%

3.3 / 5

(6)

Like Father, Like Son

A dramedy that examines two families who discover that their six-year-old sons were switched at birth

Kore-eda Hirokazu

Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 0 mins

26% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

57%

3.6 / 5

(19)

G.B.F.

Story centers on the social warfare that erupts when two gay high school boys realize they must become GBFs to the most popular girls in school to improve their social status.

Stephen Israel, Natasha Lyonne, Rebecca Gayheart, Darren Stein, Richard Bever, Megan Mullally, Jonathan Silverman, Horatio Sanz

Comedy

57% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

46%

4.4 / 5

(9)

Jamesy Boy

The story of teenager James Burns (played by Spencer Lofranco) who goes from the suburban street gangs to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. In prison, he forms a friendship with a convicted murderer (Ving Rhames) who becomes his mentor and helps him turn his life around. In this unlikely setting, James ultimately emerges with hope and a brighter future.

Ving Rhames, Spencer Lofranco, Lane Shadgett, James Woods, Taissa Farmiga, Rosa Salazar, Michael Trotter, Trevor White

Action Adventure 1 hr, 48 mins

46% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

48%

3.8 / 5

(13)

Life of a King

The unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had – a future. He discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and reentry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of due to circumstances. From his daring introductory chess lessons to group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the Club and the teens’ first local chess competitions, this movie reveals his difficult, inspirational journey and how he changed the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.

Cuba Gooding Jr., LisaGay Hamilton, Dennis Haysbert, Jake Goldberger

PG-13

48% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

15%

3.3 / 5

(3)

Gloria

Gloria follows a woman in her late 50s as she tries to balance family obligations with those of a new romance in this insightful and uplifting comedy that shows it's never too late to take charge.

Sebastian Lelio, Paulina García

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 50 mins

15% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

45%

The Freezer

LA Only

A man is held in a walk-in freezer by criminals claiming he stole $3 million from them.

Mikael Salomon, Shane Weisfeld, Tom Doganoglu, Dylan McDermott, Peter Facinelli, Yuliya Snigir

Thriller

45% WILL SEE