online declared) the worst movie I’ve seen this year. If I had to pick, I’d watch this again before I watched Action Point. Or Book Club. Or Phantom Thread. (Put Leslie Mann’s character from Phantom Thread into this movie and you have something I would definitely watch again.) The movie has a few bits of interesting ideas, dystopia-wise. Like a Chopped contestant with a basket of spray cheese and snack cakes, Sterling K. Brown has been given absolute garbage to work with, character- and dialogue-wise, but he does his best to create something watchable. Foster is doing what feels like late 1990s/early aughts Steve Buscemi/Paul Giamatti performance, which is weird and she probably doesn’t need to clear a space on her Oscar shelf but it is also attention-holding. Hotel Artemis isn’t good, even judging it by its probably intentional B-movie low-fi level, or worth seeking out or paying to see but, when it shows up on Netflix or Starz and you have nothing else to do or watch, there are worse entertainment options. C Rated R for violence and language throughout, some sexual references and brief drug use. Written and directed by Drew Pearce, Hotel Artemis is an hour and 33 minutes long and distributed by Global Road Entertainment.
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REDRIVERTHEATRESSUNSET CINEMA SERIES Outside New Hampshire State House, North Main Street, Concord, 224-4600, redrivertheatres. org • Black Panther (PG-13, 2018) Fri., June 22, 8:30 p.m.
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THE MUSIC HALL Historic Theater, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth; Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org • Final Portrait (R, 2017) Thurs., June 14, Sat., June 16, and Wed., June 20, 7 p.m. • The Test & The Art of Thinking (2018) Fri., June 15, and Sat., June 16, 7 p.m.; Sun., June 17, 4 p.m.; and Wed., June 20, and Thurs., June 21, 7 p.m. • Long Night’s Journey into Day (2000) Mon., June 18, 6:30 p.m.
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