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Patricia Clarkson’s character, Juliette, a Canadian magazine editor, has just land- ed in Egypt, where she plans to join her husband, Mark, a U.N official. At the air- port, Juliette is met by Mark’s old friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who informs Ju- liette that her husband has been delayed in Gaza. At first Juliette tries to navigate Cairo’s chaotic and noisy streets on her own but quickly learns that she’ll need a guide. She calls on Tareq, and the two ex- plore the city and their own interior land- scapes, which undergo tiny seismic shifts the longer they spend together. As the film unfolds, with Juliette and Tareq tak- ing leisurely ambles through the city or smoking hookah pipes in its coffeehous- es, she begins to exude an unmistakable sense of longing, a feeling that Tareq — a man of courtly restraint and old-fash- ioned decorum — picks up on and re- sponds to in kind. (PG, 88 minutes) In Eng- lish and Arabic with English subtitles. Con- tains mild thematic elements and smoking. At Cinema Arts Theatre and Landmark’s Bethesda Row.


B CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE


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Plagued by cheap-looking special effects and a crummy 3-D conversion, this film leans heavily on its only real asset, the cuteness of its fuzzy stars. Kitty is a hair- less feline with the voice of Bette Midler who is bent, natch, on world domination. Opposing her are a team of super-spies: a cat with the voice of Christina Applegate, and two dogs, Butch and Diggs (Nick Nolte and James Marsden, respectively). Butch is the old pro; Diggs is the unreli- able rookie. The three are tasked with protecting a pigeon (voice of Katt Wil- liams) who has gotten hold of secret blue- prints that could endanger Kitty’s plan. Yes, there are references to “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Lethal Weapon.” Yes, there are fire hydrants. Yes, there’s a ball of yarn that’s actually a bomb. The only thing that might surprise you is the wa- terboarding joke, although the surprise is not a pleasant one. (PG, 82 minutes) Con- tains animal action and humor. Area thea- ters.


BTHE CONCERT


Andrei Filipov (Aleksei Guskov) is a down- and-out conductor who works as a janitor at the historic Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Andrei intercepts a fax inviting the com- pany to perform at the Theatre du Chate- let in Paris. He decides that he will pre- tend to be the director, accept the invita- tion, reassemble his orchestra from 30 years ago and travel to Paris the concert. Andrei’s scheme gets off the ground, driven by his ambition and hubris. Early on, viewers will suspect that there’s more on the line for Andrei than a trip to Paris. There’s that nervous look his co-conspira- tors get when he wants to play Tchaikov- sky and his odd insistence that violin vir- tuoso Anne-Marie Jacquet (Mélanie Lau- rent) play a solo. We learn that part of the mystery is a 30-year-old scandal when the Communist government forced An- drei out of his conductor’s job for harbor- ing Jews in his orchestra. (NR, 107 minutes) In Russian and French with English subti- tles. Contains much drinking. At AMC Loews Shirlington and Cinema Arts Thea- tre.


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The nasty streak that animates its protag- onist, a hollow-eyed supervillain named Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), is so deep and wide as to seem insurmountable. But the film turns into an improbably heart- warming, not to mention visually delight- ful, diversion. After another evildoer im- presses the world by stealing the Great Pyramid of Giza, Gru looks for his big comeback and hits on the idea of stealing the moon. He adopts three sweet girls from an orphanage run by a sadistic


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Southern belle (Kristen Wiig), and, along with an army of tiny yellow “minions,” be- gins to bring his plan into action. Carell’s expert timing is in full force as his charac- ter tries mightily to resist the parental tug of his three young charges. The film fea- tures some ace voice talent, including Russell Brand as Gru’s elderly henchman, Dr. Nefario, Jason Segel as Gru rival Vec- tor and Will Arnett as the president of the Bank of Evil. (PG, 95 minutes) Contains rude humor and mild action. Area theaters. — A.H.


BB1⁄2 DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS — A.H.


This comedy of humiliation, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, isn’t nearly as off- putting as it might have been. Rudd plays Tim, an ambitious young executive des- perate to impress his art-dealer girlfriend (the fetching Stephanie Szostak), who is invited by his icy boss (Bruce Greenwood) to attend one of his regular “dinners for idiots.” Each guest is supposed to bring the most pathetic idiot he can find. When Tim literally collides with Barry (Carell), the game is afoot. Buck-toothed and gog- gle-eyed, Barry makes neurotically de- tailed tableaux with stuffed dead mice. When he meets the blandly affable Tim, he becomes as creepily, bromantically in- clined as Jim Carrey in “The Cable Guy.” But the film keeps it breezy, with Barry embroiling Tim in a series of ever-more- mortifying mishaps, including a debilitat- ed back, a sundered romance, a reunion with a stalker and an IRS audit. (PG-13, 109 minutes) Contains sequences of crude and sexual content, partial nudity and profani- ty. Area theaters.


BB1⁄2 EAT PRAY LOVE — Dan Kois


Julia Roberts portrays author Elizabeth Gilbert as she recovers from a disastrous divorce, painful rebound relationship and general spiritual ennui on a year-long trip through Italy, India and Bali. The book’s rabid fans are likely to feel well served by Ryan Murphy’s adaptation, which hews pretty faithfully to Gilbert’s memoir. And even newcomers, men included, can en- joy being swept up in the film’s lavish third chapter, where Gilbert meets a se- ductive Brazilian named Felipe (Javier Bardem) and embarks on a luscious love affair. Her supporting characters get more time in India, where Gilbert meets “Richard from Texas,” played here by Richard Jenkins as a broken man healing his scars through bravado and spiritual seeking. It’s in India that Gilbert makes peace with her ex-husband, played by Bil- ly Crudup in a thankless but accom- plished performance. (PG-13, 133 minutes) Contains brief strong profanity, some sex- ual references and male read nudity. Area theaters.


BBTHE EXPENDABLES — Rachel Saslow


This action thriller written and directed by Sylvester Stallone is designed to leave filmgoers feeling pummeled into submis- sion. Just when the film threatens to sink under its own weight, Terry Crews blows a guy’s brains out, silhouetted through a backlit doorway, and the entire groaning enterprise levitates on a ludicrous plume of pure camp. Stallone plays Barney Ross, leader of the titular gang of mercenaries with names like Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren); Crews himself plays Hale Cae- sar. Hired by a man named Mr. Church to unseat a despot in South America, Ross and the boys lay waste to everything they see: At one point Ross, after catching a seaplane, strafes and sets fire to a pier. Later, bullets, knives and bare hands fly as arms and body parts get thrown into the melee. Primarily, this movie is about


bros and the bros who love them. (R, 103 minutes) Contains strong action and bloody violence throughout, and some profanity. Area theaters.


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A recluse living in the woods outside a small Southern town during the Depres- sion, Robert Duvall’s character, Felix Bush, has the long gray beard of someone plucked straight from the pages of the Old Testament; a man of mystery and menace, he’s something of a local legend in town, where people whisper about Fe- lix’s past sins, which may or may not in- clude murder. Fed up with the gossip, Fe- lix decides to throw his own funeral, just to hear what people say about him. He enlists the help of the local undertakers, one a sober, sincere apprentice named Buddy (Lucas Black) and Buddy’s boss, a sardonic sharpie named Frank Quinn (Bill Murray). Burnished with the amber glow of nostalgia and period detail, the movie offers welcome respite from the shiny, cacophonous fare usually offered during the summer. (PG-13, 102 minutes) Contains thematic material and brief violent content. Area theaters.


BBTHE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE — A.H.


In the second in a series of films based on Stieg Larsson’s best-selling mysteries, we learn a bit more about Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), the computer hacker and avenging angel introduced in the first film. “Fire” manages to reveal more of the old hurts that drive her. Having used her high-tech skills in to help her sometime lover, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), solve an old murder, she has now fled Sweden, only to find that she has been implicated in a tri- ple homicide, in which one of the victims is her parole officer. (The others are a journalist and his girlfriend, both of whom were working with Mikael on an exposé) This pulls Lisbeth back into Mikael’s orbit. But for much of the film, the two remain apart, communicating only via e-mail while Mikael tries to clear Lisbeth’s name, and while Lisbeth tries to stay one step ahead of the law. (R, 129 minutes) Contains strong, violent imagery, sex, nudity, obscen- ity and smoking. In Swedish with English subtitles. Area theaters.


BB1⁄2 GOING THE DISTANCE — A.H.


When record-company flunky Garrett (Justin Long) meets newspaper intern Erin (Drew Barrymore) one summer in New York, there’s no expectation that the relationship will go anywhere. He’s on the rebound, having just broken up with someone that night. And she’s about to leave town to return to journalism school on the West Coast. Cue the marijuana-in- duced, millennial-generation bonding fol- lowed by a standard-issue falling-in-love montage featuring surf frolicking. Fast- forward to the airport, where they sud- denly announce that they’re crazy about each other. Neither makes enough money to visit more frequently than once every few months. So, between the occasional rutting-filled holiday weekend, they have to resort to phone sex, late-night Skype- ing and texting each other every five min- utes, much to the annoyance of Garrett’s friends. (R, 103 minutes) Contains graphic sexual humor, frequent obscenity, sensuali- ty, brief nudity and drug use. Area theaters. — M.O.


BBB1⁄2 INCEPTION


This highly anticipated science-fiction thriller by writer-director Christopher No- lan opens with a dramatic shot of huge waves breaking on a nameless shore. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) makes his


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