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BALPHA AND OMEGA


This film an unambitious 3-D animation about young wolves in love, isn’t so much howlingly bad as it is howlingly boring. The story concerns Kate (voice of Hayden Panettiere), a rising alpha female in a Ca- nadian wolf pack who’s destined to be paired off with Garth (Chris Carmack), the rising alpha male of a rival pack. The food source is becoming scarce, and the two packs’ elders, Winston (Danny Glov- er) and Tony (the late Dennis Hopper), have agreed to unite their kingdoms. But Humphrey (Justin Long), an omega wolf at the other end of the social hierarchy, likes Kate. He’s a goofball, and she’s a queen in the making. Then Humphrey and Kate are captured by humans, who truck them off to Idaho to repopulate a park there. While struggling to get back home with the assistance of a couple of friendly waterfowl, Humphrey and Kate get to know each other. (G, 88 minutes) Contains some gluteocentric humor, the threat of vio- lence and roundabout discussion of wolf re- production. Area theaters.


BBTHE AMERICAN


George Clooney brings his most somber, furrowed game face to the role of a hit man named Jack, who as the movie opens finds himself ambushed on an isolated, ice-covered Swedish lake. The odd gun- shot notwithstanding, the scene tran- spires in almost complete silence. It turns out that both the setting and the sound- track anticipate the chilly study in soli- tude and emptiness that proceeds to un- folds. Once Jack dispatches his would-be foes in Scandinavia, he departs for Italy, where his boss (Johan Leysen) suggests he lie low for a while in one of Abruzzo’s medieval hill towns and await further or- ders. When Jack starts to work on a high- test rifle for a gorgeous client named Mathilde (Thekla Reuten), he also begins to visit a nearby brothel, strikes up a car- nal friendship with Clara (Violante Plac- ido), a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold char- acter. (R, 103 minutes) Contains violence, sexual content and nudity. At Kentlands Stadium and Regal Ballston Common. — Ann Hornaday


BB1 ⁄2 BURIED


With “Buried,” director Rodrigo Cortés and actor Ryan Reynolds engage in the kind of extreme real-time filmmaking, setting up an experiment in limitation that, at least until the movie’s deflating fi- nal payoff, manages to tap into our deep- est anxieties. From its very first mo- ments, “Buried” lets viewers know they’re in for something different — and disturbing. With the screen in complete darkness, we initially hear only bumping, then a man panting and groaning. Finally, the flick of a lighter: It’s Paul Conroy (Reynolds), an American contractor in Iraq who has been kidnapped, buried and held for ransom, with air for only 90 min- utes. With the screen often blanking out into unsettling black and the sound of sifting sand and other unwelcome intru- sions ramping up the anxiety level, “Bur- ied” delivers the kind of immediate ex- perience too often missing in movies. (R, 95 minutes) Contains profanity and some violence. At Cinemark Egyptian and Land- mark’s E Street Cinema.


BBBCATFISH


An often jarringly intimate film about a young man’s odyssey through virtual life and love on the Internet, this documen- tary morphs into a mystery in which tech- nology plays a crucial role. The whole story is captured with a digital video cam- era, constantly filming main character Nev Schulman, a handsome 24-year-old dance photographer. Schulman’s story seems almost too good to be true. In 2007, when one of Schulman’s photo- graphs was published in a New York newspaper, he received a Facebook mes- sage from an 8-year-old girl asking per- mission to re-create the image in a paint- ing. When she sent him the picture, Schulman was impressed and began a correspondence with the prodigy, even- tually “friending” her entire family — in- cluding her attractive older sister, Megan. What begins as a movie about an unlikely intergenerational friendship becomes the


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PERFECT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.” “3DAS ITWAS MEANT TO BE SEEN!”


“” “BREATHTAKING!


Oliver Jones, PEOPLE Manny de la Rosa, NBC-TV Scott Bowles, USA TODAY — Michael O’Sullivan Francine MOVIE MAGIC!” “PURE Brokaw, FAMILY MAGAZINE GROUP


“RIVALS ‘AVATAR’ FOR PURE ARTISTRY.”


Bill Zwecker, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES


31 PG


— A.H.


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THE WASHINGTON POST • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010


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