Most of us are down with Guardians of the Galaxy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Get On Up, of course, and I suppose there’s nothing fatally misguided about seeing an apparently mediocre foodie film like The Hundred-Foot Journey (55% Metacritic rating). But the other six toppers are the usual late-summer crap. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (33% Metacritic rating), Into The Storm (submental, CG-driven Twister for YouTube generation), Step Up All In (47% Metacritic….who cares?), Lucy (“It’s a movie that says ‘you can take a bathroom break whenever you like’“), Hercules (another 47% wonder) and The Purge: Anarchy. This is the world we live in, the world we’ve submitted to. Except me. Tonight, at least. I’ll be catching Neil LaBute‘s Reasons To Be Pretty at the Geffen, and all the better for it.
