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Chimpanzee

Starring: Tim Allen (Narrator)

Directed by: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

Plot: Disneynature follows Oscar, a young chimp in Africa, who gets separated from his family and must learn to survive on his own.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 75%

Critic Consensus: “Chimpanzee often anthropomorphizes its subjects, but it’s a beautifully filmed, remarkably intimate look at the lives of a family of primates”

The Lucky One

Starring: Zac Effron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Riley Thomas Stewart, Jay R. Ferguson

Directed by: Scott Hicks

Plot: Iraq war vet Logan Thibault returns home on a mission to find the woman in a picture he found that he believes saved his life when he stopped to pick it up and escaped a nearby explosion.

RT Freshness: 21%

Critic Consensus: “While it provides the requisite amount of escapist melodrama, The Lucky One ultimately relies on too many schmaltzy clichés to appeal to anyone not already familiar with the Nicholas Sparks formula”

Think Like a Man

Starring: Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Taraji P. Henson

Directed by: Tim Story

Plot: Four friends are forced to scramble when the ladies in their lives buy and put to use the advice in Steve Harvey’s “Think Like a Man” advice book.

RT Freshness: 50%

Critic Consensus: “In Think Like a Man, an otherwise standard rom-com is partially elevated by a committed — and attractive — cast, resulting in a funny take on modern romance”

 

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