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AMERICAN TEEN (PG-13) -
Nanette Burstein's documentary takes a real-life look at four Indiana high school seniors. Canal Place
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (PG-13) -
Julian Jarrold adapts Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel for the big screen. Matthew Goode stars. AMC Palace 20, Canal Place
BUGS! (NR) -
Judy Dench narrates Mike Slee's film about insects in Borneo. Entergy IMAX Theatre
THE DARK KNIGHT (PG-13) -
Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger alternately protect and imperil Gothamites in Christopher Nolan's pitch-black D.C. Comics sequel. Bale's Batman is relegated to bit-part status, but Ledger's sadistic Joker is a sight to behold. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
HANCOCK (PG-13) -
Peter Berg’s twisty superhero flick stars Will Smith in the story of an alcoholic street bum with the powers of Superman. The picture provides a steady stream of laughs without ever descending into camp. It is flawed with a lot of the nonsense attending superheroes: Why concentrate on bank robbers when the same power could be used to dispatch Osama bin Laden? But this film isn’t predictable the way those in the genre almost always are. And it offers fine performances by Smith and Jason Bateman and Charlize Theron, who play the superhero’s friends. (Barton) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 14
HENRY POOLE IS HERE (PG) -
Luke Wilson stars in an aw-shucks comedy about a Los Angeles denizen seeking refuge in the suburbs. Mark Pellington directs. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 20
HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU (NR) -
Greg MacGillivray directs a film about Louisiana’s eroding wetlands and the natural protection they provide against hurricanes. Includes performances by Tab Benoit, Amanda Shaw, Allen Toussaint, Chubby Carrier and Marva Wright. Narrated by Meryl Streep. Entergy IMAX Theatre
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (PG) -
Brandon Fraser gives Jules Verne the Mummy treatment in Eric Brevig's CGI spectacle. AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 14
MAMMA MIA! (PG-13) -
See: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2; add ABBA. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
MIRRORS (R) -
Reflections turn deadly for a security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) and his unsuspecting family in Alexandre Aja's shlocky scarefest. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (PG-13) -
Brendan Fraser returns to combat more computer-generated locusts and undead rulers from centuries past in a second consecutive listless sequel. Wrap it up, already. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (R) -
Part-time New Orleans auteur David Gordon Green directs Seth Rogen and James Franco in Judd Apatow's stoner/crime/comedy production. Several of these things are not like the others. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 2 (PG-13) -
America Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn star in Sanaa Hamri's precious sequel — Mamma Mia! minus the ABBA. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
SPACE CHIMPS (G) -
SNL's Andy Samberg provides voice work for Vanguard Animation's would-be Wall*E killer. Not happening. AMC Palace 16, Grand, Hollywood 14
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (PG) -
George Lucas mines more gold from his signature franchise. The good news about this animated, overblown TV project: No Hayden Christensen. The bad news: No Natalie Portman, either. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
STEP BROTHERS (R) -
Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly must share bunk beds after their parents marry. Talladega Nightmare or Anchor, Man — take your pick. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
Swing Vote (PG-13) -
Kevin Costner stars in Joshua Michael Stern's comedy as a New Mexico good ole boy whose ballot, delayed by a malfunctioning voting machine, will determine the next president of the United States. Costner's warm relationship with Madeline Carroll as his daughter provides the required heart. The plotting is convenient and thin, but the laughs are satisfyingly plentiful. Oddly, despite a rousing end, the picture is sneakily cynical about the difference our elections actually make. That's an unfortunate weakness. (Barton) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Hollywood 14
TROPIC THUNDER (R) -
Ben Stiller’s send-up of Hollywood megalomania, insincerity, insecurity, disloyalty, sycophancy and greed is framed in the making of a Vietnam action flick in which Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black are to star. Although Downey contributes a brilliant comic performance, the picture is only intermittently funny, its only truly hilarious moments delivered by Tom Cruise’s lewd and venomous rants as the film-within-the-film’s arrogant producer. (Barton) (Reviewed in this issue.) AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Grand, Holiday 12, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14, Prytania
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (R) -
Woody Allen directs Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johanssen, Penelope Cruz and Patricia Clarkson in a Spain-set love parallelogram that, thankfully, does not feature the neurotic filmmaker in any way. AMC Palace 20, Canal Place
WALL*E (G) -
Disney's Pixar Animation Studios unveils another winner about a wayward robot left on Earth after mass human evacuation. AMC Palace 20, Hollywood 14
WANTED (R) -
Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy star in an over-the-top action spectacle about a paper pusher who is recruited into a secret ring of assassins. Timur Bekmambetov directs. AMC Palace 20
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