In Theaters This Weekend: Reviews of ‘Flight,’ ‘The Man With the Iron Fists’ and More

Moviegoers get their first look at awards hopeful Flight this weekend.

Director Robert Zemeckis returns to action-drama with the movie, which stars Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly and John Goodman.

The Paramount Pictures film — which premiered at the closing night of the New York Film Festival — follows an airline pilot who saves a flight from crashing, but an investigation reveals that he had drugs in his system at the time.

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Meanwhile, Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu star in the action film The Man With the Iron Fists directed by hip-hop megastar RZA.

The martial-arts movie follows the hunt for a treasure of gold, where a group of warriors, assassins and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in China.

Read what The Hollywood Reporter‘s film critics have to say about all the films opening this weekend, and find out how they are expected to perform at the box office.

Flight
Denzel Washington stars in the Robert Zemeckis drama about an airline pilot who saves dozens of lives but faces prison because of drugs in his system. Read Todd McCarthy’s review here.

The Man With the Iron Fists
RZA’s directorial debut starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu feels like both a lavish vanity project and an earnest attempt to deliver a compendium of cool hand-to-hand combat set pieces. Read Todd McCarthy’s review here.

Wreck-It Ralph
Sarah Sliverman, John C. Reilly and Jane Lynch voice a lively cast of characters in this antic, animated 3D adventure. Read Justin Lowe’s review here.

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Jack and Diane
Bradley Rust Gray‘s movie starring Juno Temple and Riley Keough centered on two lesbians teenagers spending the summer in New York City. Read Frank Scheck’s review here.

This Must Be the Place
Eccentric, misguided and occasionally charming and sweet, this curiosity item is unlikely to be embraced critically or commercially. Read Todd McCarthy’s review here.

The Bay
Director Barry Levinson teams with the producers of Paranormal Activity and Insidious on a horror movie that cleverly freshens up the found-footage trend. Read David Rooney’s review here.

High Ground
Michael Brown‘s doc a group of wounded Iraq and Afghanistan vets who embark on a mountaineering trek. Read John DeFore’s review here.

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A Late Quartet
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener star as members of a renown New York string quartet experiencing a major malfunction. Read Jordan Mintzer’s review here.