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produced) is a corrections officer, would- be actor and beleaguered husband. Do- mestic relations being what they are, he tells his wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies), that he’s going out to play poker rather than admit he’s taking an acting class. For her part, Joyce is the personification of matrimonial displeasure who puts all her hopes and dreams into her college-stu- dent daughter, Vivian (Dominik Garcia-Lo- rido), who has dropped out of school and is working as a stripper. One of the amaz- ing things about Raymond De Felitta’s film is just how many enormous secrets are being harbored by so few people: an
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illegitimate son, forbidden lust, illicit smoking. The acting is, in fact, superb and, given the amount of drama per frame, the best current buy for one’s
movie dollar. (PG-13, 100 minutes) Contains
vulgarity, adult content and lots of smok- ing. Area theaters.
BBBDATE NIGHT
A self-described “boring married couple” gets mistaken for blackmailers and spends 90 minutes going through contor- tions to clear their names, to mildly amusing effect. In the hands of, say, a Greg Kinnear and a Sarah Jessica Parker, the thing could be a disaster. It’s not. Not by a long shot. That’s because Steve Ca-
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rell and Tina Fey have something that no movie, no matter how predictable, can stifle. It’s called chemistry, but it’s not the romantic kind. Instead, it’s the power that each of them has to crack the other up. Aiding Carell and Fey in their efforts is a talented supporting cast that includes James Franco and Mila Kunis as the real blackmailers along with Mark Wahlberg as a black-ops consultant whose help the Fosters seek. I know: It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t have to. All it needs to do is make us laugh. (PG-13, 87 minutes)
Contains obscenity, plentiful crude humor and some gunplay. Area theaters.
— Michael O’Sullivan
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
In Thor Freudenthal’s intermittently in- spired film, Greg Heffley — the 11-year- old known to millions of young Jeff Kinney readers as a glum-faced stick figure with a cowlick — may have been transformed into a live boy played by Zachary Gordon, but his trials and tribulations remain true to the book. He’s just starting middle school as the second-smallest kid in his class. He has parents who don’t under- stand him, a teenage brother who tor- ments him and a best friend who humili- ates him. Despite all that, he has dreams of fame and fortune — or at least of se- curing a spot in the “Class Favorites” sec- tion of the yearbook. As for the rest of the
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movie, it’s a scattershot affair, too slackly paced to sustain real comic momentum. But kids who realize they’re fully ordinary — that is, pretty much all of them — will be pleased to see a world they recognize on the big screen. (PG, 92 minutes) Con-
tains rude humor and language. At Arling- ton Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse and University Mall Theatres.
BBBEXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
A celebration of pranksterism and per- haps a superb prank in its own right, this documentary captures the outlaw, mon- key-wrenching glee of the graffiti artists who became art stars at the turn of this century. It purports to be directed by Banksy, the shadowy British street artist whose stencils of rats and puckish acts of mischief have made him a huge interna- tional success. Thierry Guetta, a French- man living in Los Angeles, turns out to be the real star here, even though the film features Banksy and the equally famous Shepard Fairey. The film offers an absorb- ing glimpse of a bracingly subversive slice
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