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Fiona fall in love with him — all over again. If he doesn’t, he’ll evaporate come sunrise. (PG, 98 minutes) Contains slap- sticky action and bathroom humor. At Uni- versity Mall Theatres.


B1⁄2 SOUL KITCHEN


The greasy spoon for which the movie is named is located in a sketchy section of Hamburg and run by the perpetually di- sheveled Zinos Kazantsakis (Adam Bous- doukos). He has too many dilemmas to list here, but they include whether he should follow his girlfriend to Shanghai, whether he should employ his dodgy brother, how to appease the health in- spectors, how to pay the tax office, deal- ing with a real estate agent who’s itching to commandeer his property and coping with a spectacularly painful back injury. It might be easier to commiserate if Zinos didn’t make such terrible decisions. He sustains the back injury while attempting to move a dishwasher by himself, he sets a laptop ablaze in his kitchen sink and he befriends the aforementioned real estate agent. But worst of all is his sudden faith in Illias, his convicted felon and gambling addict of a brother. (R, 100 minutes) In Ger- man with English subtitles. Contains strong language and nudity. At Landmark’s E Street Cinema.


BB1⁄2 STEP UP 3D


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. At AMC Hoffman Center and AMC Magic Johnson Capital Center.


BBBTHE SWITCH


This film adaptation of a Jeffrey Euge- nides story takes viewers down a path that possesses a gratifying share of sur- prises. “The Switch” stars Jennifer Anis- ton as 40-year-old Kassie, a single wom- an who decides to conceive a child by way of a sperm donor. Her best friend, Wally (Jason Bateman),meanwhile, looks on disapprovingly, offering little by way of moral support and much by way of neu- rotic, self-involved commentary. But viewers expecting yet another film about baby-crazed women and their biological clocks will be happy to discover that “The Switch” takes Kassie’s choice in stride and instead directs most of its attention to Wally, who, after Kassie has her baby and years pass, spends most of the movie puzzling his way through feelings about intimacy, their relationship, parenthood commitment and his nascent rapport with Kassie’s son, Sebastian. (PG-13, 101 minutes) Contains mature thematic content, sexual material including dialogue, some nudity, drug use and profanity. Area thea- ters.


BBTAKERS


“Takers” assembles a group of dysfunc- tional criminals who join forces to make a big killing. It begins with one crime — a bank robbery — and builds up to another — the seizing of an armored car carrying $30 million. In between, the movie puts its cops and robbers in parallel motion toward a cataclysmic collision. Everybody has personal problems. Gang leader Gor- don Crosier (the supremely charismatic Idris Elba) has to choreograph the big score while trying to keep his sister in re- hab. He’s also trying to dismiss doubts about Ghost (rapper T.I.), a former mem- ber of the gang who served six years in prison and is now back, carrying an out- size chip on his shoulder. On the other side of the aisle, Detective Jack Welles (Matt Dillon) neglects his daughter while trying to piece together a mosaic of clues that don’t quite seem to connect. (PG-13, 107 minutes) Contains adult content, vio- lence and vulgarity. Area theaters.


BBB1⁄2 THE TILLMAN STORY — M.O.


When Pat Tillman enlisted in the Army in 2002, he gave up a lucrative contract with the NFL, an act that was celebrated at the time for its selflessness and cour- age. Two years later, as an Army Ranger, he was killed in Afghanistan in an episode initially described as a Taliban ambush; the former Arizona Cardinals player was awarded a posthumous Silver Star, and his funeral drew thousands. Weeks later, the Army revealed that Tillman’s death was “probably” the result of a fratricide. But by that time, the military and Bush administration’s narrative of Tillman’s life and death had taken on a life of its own, its mythology increasingly at odds with the truth known by his closest family and friends. Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev spins a fascinating, shattering and finally appall- ing story of his own as he deconstructs the official story and leads viewers on an absorbing search for the truth. (R, 94 min- utes) Contains profanity. At Landmark’s E Street Cinema.


BBBTOY STORY 3 — S.M.


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 parties with the thespian se- riousness of Daniel Day-Lewis. Ultimate- ly, every “Toy Story” movie is not just about the film’s plot or narrative, but the stories the characters want to be in when Andy plays with them. It’s just this deep sense of longing that will bring adult viewers to that Disney-approved point of smiling even as they weep open- ly. (G, 103 minutes) Contains some themes that may be frightening for the youngest viewers. Area theaters.


BBBTHE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE — Ylan Q. Mui


In this installment of the “Twilight” se- ries, 17-year-old heroine Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) inches ever closer to becoming a vampire and joining her for- bidden love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pat- tinson). Bella is also being pursued by Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard), who is amassing an army of “newborn” vampires to wreak vengeance on Bella and the Cul- len clan. With all the talk about the Big Change to come and Bella longing for physical intimacy with Edward and Ed- ward valiantly resisting, the cardinal “Twilight” themes of longing, chastity and protection are stronger than ever. More deeply psychological than the first two, “Eclipse” goes further not just in ad- vancing the story but also illuminating the tension that Bella embodies — between autonomy and surrender — and clarifying her desire to become a bloodless being with no human connections. (PG-13, 121 minutes) Contains intense sequences of ac- tion and violence, and sensuality. Area theaters.


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“Vampires Suck,” is a painfully unfunny “Twilight” spoof. Jason Friedberg and Aar-


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In accordance with the laws of Imax, this film has all the goods one would expect from the title, including heart- palpitation-inducing vistas at 29,000 feet, imposing walls of ice and poten- tially deadly climbs. But the documen- tary also offers something unexpected: a love triangle starring George Mallory, possibly the first man to summit Mount Everest in 1924, who found himself torn between his wife, Ruth, and an- other soul mate, the world’s tallest mountain. Mallory was last seen alive in June 1924, inching his way toward the summit before disappearing. Did he make it or didn’t he? The discovery of his body in 1999 by climber Conrad Anker offers clues that he did. The pho- to of Ruth, which he promised to leave at the peak, was nowhere to be found. But doubts remain. The documentary intertwines the tale of Mallory’s quest with Anker’s pursuit to find the truth. (PG, 93 minutes) Contains a re-creation of George Mallory’s death and graphic discus- sions of frostbite and other mountain-relat- ed ailments. At the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater — National Museum of Nat- ural History.


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