crash/burn

Last week’s dire double-header of This Means War and Project X had critics sharpening their literary knives in preparation for this week’s headliner John Carter. Certain to prove as divisive as a very hot knife through incredibly soft butter, this Mars (ahem, I meant Barsoom) set sci-fi epic, takes top billing in what is once again a week of questionable quality. Elsewhere, Sean Bean kidney punches hookers and murders terrorists, a hirsute John Cusack tracks a serial killer, R Patz shags his way around Paris and Michael Winterbottom transports Thomas Hardy to Rajasthan.

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Tags: Bel Ami, Christina Ricci, Cleanskin, Edgar Allen Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Freida Pinto, John Carter, John Cusack, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Winterbottom, Project X, Riz Ahmed, Robert Pattinson, Sean Bean, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, The Woman in Black, This Means War, Thomas Hardy, Trishna, Uma Thurman