Opening

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31% Machete Kills Oct 11
—— Haunt Oct 11
41% All the Boys Love Mandy Lane Oct 11
—— Romeo and Juliet Oct 11
67% Escape From Tomorrow Oct 11
—— CBGB Oct 11
—— The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete Oct 11
—— Zero Charisma Oct 11
—— Where the Devil Hides Oct 11

Top Box Office

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59% Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 $21.5M
8% Runner Runner $7.6M
80% Prisoners $5.7M
88% Rush $4.4M
83% Don Jon $4.2M
16% Baggage Claim $4.1M
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 $3.9M
63% Pulling Strings $2.5M
95% Enough Said $2.2M
53% Instructions Not Included $1.8M
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33% The Family $1.5M
73% Lee Daniels' The Butler $1.2M
—— Grace Unplugged $1.0M
78% Metallica Through the Never $0.7M
60% Riddick $0.5M
5% Battle of the Year $0.5M
75% Despicable Me 2 $0.5M
91% Blue Jasmine $0.5M

Coming Soon

78% Kill Your Darlings Oct 16
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—— Escape Plan Oct 18
35% The Fifth Estate Oct 18
97% 12 Years a Slave Oct 18
100% All Is Lost Oct 18
75% Haunter Oct 18
—— Paradise Oct 18

Pain & Gain Reviews

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Jason Best
Movie Talk

Michael Bay's lurid crime comedy Pain & Gain is as excessively pumped-up as you would imagine, a berserk, overblown action movie on steroids.

Full Review Source: Movie Talk

September 7, 2013
Jeremy Lebens
We Got This Covered

Pain & Gain is Michael Bay's best film yet, fusing his high-octane and in-your-face directing style with pitch black comedy that makes for the funniest film of 2013.

Full Review Source: We Got This Covered | Original Score: 4/5

September 2, 2013
Ed Whitfield
The Ooh Tray

Lugo and his confederates feitishized the human body, were steeped in misogyny, and had scant intelligence, emotional or otherwise. Their story is brought to the screen by Michael Bay.

Full Review Source: The Ooh Tray

August 31, 2013
Graham Young
Birmingham Mail

This is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson straining every sinew to deliver the heavy duty performance of his career.

Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail | Original Score: 3/5

August 30, 2013
Tara Brady
Irish Times

Might this be the best Michael Bay film ever? We know what you're thinking. But we mean it in a good way.

Full Review Source: Irish Times | Original Score: 3/5

August 30, 2013
Ben Rawson-Jones
Digital Spy

A movie in which women are either pouting, flesh-baring sluts or morbidly obese figures of mockery with terrible personal hygiene, where rampant homophobia is deemed funny and laddish, and where crude racial stereotyping is acceptable.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Original Score: 1/5

August 30, 2013
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

The closest Michael Bay's natural style for flash really feels like an organic extension and expression of the material's narrative and characters rather than mere surface gloss.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Original Score: 3/4

August 29, 2013
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

[Bay] tries to be funny, and it turns out to be even more brutal, loathsome and crude than his previous efforts.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK]

August 29, 2013
Henry Fitzherbert
Daily Express

The performances are first class and help make you warm to the lunkheaded trio against your better judgement.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | Original Score: 4/5

August 29, 2013

The uneasy blend of comedy and ultra-violence will turn some viewers off but, if you can stomach it, you may find yourself curiously entertained.

Full Review Source: Film4

August 29, 2013
Adam Nayman
Little White Lies

Michael Bay's muscle-bound satire is Bad Boys on 'roids. And that's not a good thing.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | Original Score: 2/5

August 29, 2013
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

Forgive me while I weep in despair. Pain and Gain is awful beyond imagining.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | Original Score: 0/5

August 29, 2013
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

There's something inspired about putting Michael Bay in charge of a brazen action-comedy about gym-pumped knuckleheads who screw up their own criminal masterplan most royally.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Original Score: 3/5

August 29, 2013
Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com

Spirited and very funny, this movie should actually be rather disturbing since it's a true story about torture and murder.

Full Review Source: Contactmusic.com | Original Score: 3/5

August 29, 2013
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

Along with comedy dismemberings, farcical GBH and the barbecuing of human hands, the movie offers the equally gruesome spectacle of a metaphor being clubbed to death.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | Original Score: 1/5

August 29, 2013
Chris Fyvie
The Skinny

A scabrous satirical swipe at not only the knuckle-headed machismo the director seems so enthralled by, but also at an America crippled by consumerism.

Full Review Source: The Skinny | Original Score: 4/5

August 28, 2013
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

Labelling a Michael Bay movie thoughtful is like calling Transformers cerebral...but this is a lot more stimulating than we've come to expect even if reverts to shoot 'em up type by the end of its pumped up running time.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | Original Score: 3/5

August 28, 2013
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

A bleak, bitter, wicked pleasure that holds up the underpinnings of modern America - self-help, Jesus, and violence - for ridicule.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher

August 27, 2013
Tom Huddleston
Time Out
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The first hour may be Bay's career high point: it's fast, freaky, gloriously tasteless and startlingly pointed in its attacks on western insecurity, shallowness and greed.

Full Review Source: Time Out | Original Score: 3/5

August 27, 2013
Stefan Pape
HeyUGuys

Ultimately, cinema is a form of entertainment and this picture does nothing but entertain.

Full Review Source: HeyUGuys | Original Score: 4/5

August 27, 2013
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