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has served time in prison for heinous sex crimes, is on the verge of getting out. And Helen (Ally Sheedy) lives in Los Angeles, pursuing an improbably successful career as a television screenwriter. (NR, 98 min- utes) Contains nudity, sexuality, profanity and disturbing thematic material. At Land- mark’s E Street Cinema.


BMARMADUKE


Set in Southern California, where Marma- duke’s family has moved from Kansas, this story follows two threads. The first has to do with doggy politics: whether the pedigreed dogs at the park are better than the mutts, which apparently include Marmaduke. (There’s a reference to him being a mixed breed.) He tangles with Bosco (Kiefer Sutherland), the park’s al- pha male, while flirting with Bosco’s girl- friend, a collie named Jezebel (singer Fer- gie of the Black Eyed Peas), even as Mar- maduke ignores the scruffy mutt who really loves him (Emma Stone). Mean- while, Marmaduke’s owner (Lee Pace) must negotiate the office politics of the organic dog food company he works for, trying to please a demanding boss (Wil- liam H. Macy) without alienating his own family. In parallel developments, both man and beast will learn the importance of being true to oneself. (PG, 87 minutes) Contains potty humor, drug references and scary situations. At University Mall Thea- tres.


BB1⁄2 THE OTHER GUYS


Steve Coogan brings a squirrelly charm to the role of David Ershon, a Bernie Madoff- style bad guy whose financial chicanery is the focus of the investigation in this com-


— A.H.


vival skills to avoid being killed by the same bloodthirsty critters that first stalked Ah-nuld in the 1987 “Predator.” Black-ops agent Royce is hurtling pell- mell through the sky after being air- dropped into an unfamiliar jungle. When his parachute opens, he lands with a thud next to seven other battle-hardened war- riors, including: a Russian soldier (Oleg Taktarov); an enforcer for a Mexican drug cartel (Danny Trejo); a member of a Sierra Leone death squad (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali); a Japanese mobster (Louis Ozawa Changchien); a convicted murderer and rapist (Walton Goggins); and a token female G.I. (Alice Braga). There’s also a doctor (Topher Grace). Stylishly directed by Nimród Antal (“Control”), “Predators” is good if gory grindhouse fun. (R, 106 min- utes) Contains sexual humor, a drug refer- ence, frequent obscenity and prodigious amounts of violence, gore and alien goo. Area theaters.


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Charlie Tahan and Zac Efron play brothers whose relationship transcends death in “Charlie St. Cloud.”


— M.O.


edy about a pair of wildly mismatched cops, played by Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell. As Allen Gamble, an embarrass- ingly nebbishy police accountant, Ferrell is the geeky yin to Wahlberg’s hyper-ma- cho yang, represented by Terry Hoitz, a disgraced former hot shot who has been exiled to desk duty after an accidental shooting. Gamble is Hoitz’s punishment. And we’re the ones who reap the re- wards. The title itself presents Gamble and Hoitz as alternatives to even bigger jerks, played by Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. As supercops Danson and Highsmith, they’re what Gamble and


Hoitz aspire to become, even after the film dispenses with the flashy, high-wire duo in a gloriously ignominious — and hi- larious — end. (PG-13, 107 minutes) Con- tains pervasive crude language, sexual hu- mor, brief sensuality, gunplay, vehicular mayhem and assorted comedic violence. Area theaters.


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Adrien Brody plays the de facto leader of a bunch of terrestrial tough guys who have been transported to an alien game preserve, where they must use their sur-


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Ramona Quimby (Joey King) is nine and has a real knack for getting into trouble. She’s not trying to; it’s just that she’s brave and imaginative and sometimes things get a little out of hand and the next thing you know, she’s cracked a raw egg on her head on Picture Day. Her sister, Beezus (Selena Gomez, sharing the spot- light well), is in high school, and is there- fore exasperated by Ramona’s antics, es- pecially when the pest starts a kitchen fire just as a boy calls on the telephone. “Ramona and Beezus,” of course, is about 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.


BBBRESTREPO


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- pation had been futile. That recent his- tory hangs over the film like a pall as the 15-man platoon makes its way through Korengal’s verdant but deadly passes, dodging incoming Taliban bullets as the soldiers build the outpost they will name Restrepo, after a medic who had been killed in action. (R, 94 minutes) Contains profanity throughout, including descrip- tions of violence. At AMC Loews Shirling- ton and Landmark’s E Street Cinema.


BBBSALT


“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.


BBBSHREK FOREVER AFTER — M.O.


The Shrek we meet at the start of this film is a shell of an ogre: mean and green on the outside, but all mellow yellow in- side. In an attempt to get back some of his mojo, Shrek (voice of Mike Myers) makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) for 24 hours in his old life. In re- turn, Rumpelstiltskin gets to take a day from Shrek’s life. Rumpelstiltskin picks the day Shrek was born, meaning that, while Shrek now finds himself in a world of responsibility, it’s also a world in which all the good he’s done has had no effect. He didn’t rescue his wife, Fiona (Cameron Diaz). Rumpelstiltskin is now king and the kingdom a police state run by witches who hunt down ogres. Fiona is the leader of the ogre resistance movement. Fortu- nately, there’s an escape clause: If he and Fiona share “true love’s kiss,” Shrek gets his life back. All he has to do is make Fio- na fall in love with him — all over again. If he doesn’t, he’ll evaporate come sunrise. (PG, 98 minutes) Contains slapsticky action and bathroom humor. At University Mall Theatres.


— D.K. B1⁄2 THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE


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. Area theaters.


BB1⁄2 STEP UP 3D — A.H.


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 padded walls for practicing running flips, a room of vintage boomboxes and a graf- fiti studio. (PG-13, 107 minutes) Contains brief strong language, lots of dirty dancing and many half shirts. Area theaters.


BBBTOY STORY 3


Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and their toy- box friends return to the screen in a film set during the week before Andy goes to college. Buzz and Jessie and the gang are sent to a day-care center that winds up being, as one survivor puts it, a place of squalor and despair, “run by an evil bear who smells of strawberries.” The toys’ break-out from the day-care center winds up being the ballast of the film. Woody meets a new group of toys, including a hedgehog who approaches pretend tea


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