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how sisters love each other despite all the upsetting things that happen to them. But if the movie piles an awful lot of misfor- tune on Ramona’s head, it also never talks down to her — or to the kids Ramona’s age who, despite the studio’s attempts to appeal to tweens, are likely to make up “Beezus and Ramona’s” chief audience. (G, 104 minutes) Contains nothing objec- tionable. Area theaters.
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This National Geographic-produced docu- mentary plunges viewers into the life of a military platoon whose mission takes on a weirdly dual nature. On one hand, the sol- diers’ aim is simple and specific: to build an outpost in the Korengal Valley, Afghan- istan’s most dangerous territory. But as the film unfolds over the unit’s hitch, the larger strategic goal becomes vague, elu- sive and finally downright abstract, leav- ing viewers in the vortex of a philosophi- cal void. This is made all the more grim in knowing that the United States would pull out of Korengal just two years after the film was made, admitting that the occu-
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“Salt,” a ludicrous but somehow credible spy thriller starring Angelina Jolie, deliv- ers a swift, super-charged kick in the pants. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, who may or may not be a Russian mole in the CIA. When a defector blows her cover — or does he? — Salt takes it on the move, leading her fellow agents (played by Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor) on a breakneck chase from Washington to New York and finally down to the White House, where she blows through squads of Secret Service. With its plot involving Russian sleeper spies and assassinations, it has all the makings of a sleek, even au courant political thriller on par with such greats as “Three Days of the Condor” and “The Manchurian Candidate.” But all the preposterous demolition-derby action puts it squarely in the “Die Hard” camp: It’s popcorn pulp that collided with a far more sober and crafty grown-up movie. (PG-13, 90 minutes) Contains intense se- quences of violence and action. Area thea- ters.
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Based on a graphic novel, this hyper-ki- netic pop-culture pastiche stars Michael Cera as the title character, a 22-year-old Lothario and would-be rocker who meets the girl of his dreams, then sets out to de- feat her seven exes to gain her love. Love, actually, has little to do with it in a story populated by progressively snarkier, self- involved characters. Stripped of his doe- eyed looks and indie-nerd style, Pilgrim is actually a selfish jerk; Ramona V. Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) isn’t much warmer, looking on with a blase shrug as her suitor risks life and limb on in her be- half. The two are surrounded by a posse of equally snarly, eye-rolling hipsters. The story and characters of the film are negli- gible. But fans of the novel aren’t likely to care, reserving their most passionate in- terest for how director Edgar Wright has brought their precious antihero to the screen. (PG, 108 minutes) Contains stylized violence, sexual content, profanity and drug references. Area theaters.
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This live-action film stars Nicolas Cage as Balthazar Blake, an ancient wizard at work in modern-day New York. Though it is based loosely on Disney’s animated classic “Fantasia,” the connection is tenu- ous. This, despite a sequence in the new movie that depicts out-of-control ani- mated mops and buckets, as in the old one. The CGI upgrade, although visually impressive, lacks the charm of the hand- drawn original. It follows a geeky wizard- in-training named Dave (Jay Baruchel) and his grizzled mentor (Cage). Dave is a kind of chosen one — a powerful yet un- seasoned sorcerer known as the “Prime Merlinian” — who, prophecy foretells, will one day rise up to defeat the forces of black magic, in the person of evil sorcerer Horvath (Alfred Molina) and his sidekick, a Vegas-style magician named Drake (To- by Kebbell). (PG, 109 minutes) Contains fantasy action and violence, mildly crude language and brief bathroom humor. At Re- gal Ballston Common.
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Scrawny moptop Moose (Adam Sevani), who reprises his role from “Step Up 2: Take It to the Streets,” launches into the first dance sequence just minutes after the movie begins, with his parents drop- ping him and BFF Camille (Alyson Stoner returning as Camille from “Step Up 2”) for freshman orientation at New York Univer- sity. Moose has renounced what his dad calls “that dance thing” and declared en- gineering as his major. But before you can say graphing calculator, he follows a pair of gunmetal Nike hightops that lead him into a battle with bad boy crew the Samu- rais. And thus he falls into a fantastical world of underground dance. Sevani’s newfound dance family, a crew called the Pirates, live and train inside a vast ware- house known as the Vault, complete with
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