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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.

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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

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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. At Regal Ballston Common.

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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. At Regal Ball- ston Common.

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Like Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi mind-bend- er “Inception,” this delightful French ro- mantic comedy is all about planting ideas in someone else’s head. Except in this movie, the man who does it works while you’re wide awake. That would be Alex (Romain Duris), the handsome heart- breaker of the title. With his team of two assistants (Julie Ferrier and François Da- miens, playing Alex’s sister Mélanie and brother-in-law Marc), he hires himself out as a professional seducer of women around the world, making women realize that they don’t really love their partner. Alex only takes on jobs where the women are miserable but don’t know it yet. Un- fortunately, the team is broke, and Alex agrees to compromise his ethics, accept- ing the task of breaking up a happy cou- ple. In the end, this film believes in ro- mantic destiny so strongly, so convinc- ingly, it just might end up seducing you. (NR, 109 minutes) In French with English subtitles. Contains obscenity and sexy talk, comic violence and flashes of bare breasts. At Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

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 living navigating the minds of other peo- ple, sharing their dreams and stealing ideas in an elaborate psychological gam- bit known as “extraction.” Cobb has worked mostly with businesses engaged in super-complicated corporate espio- nage. But rather than steal an idea, a cli- ent named Saito (Ken Watanabe) hires Cobb to plant one in the mind of Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), the would-be heir to an energy conglomerate, in a proc- ess called “inception.” It’s a tough job, and Cobb proceeds to assemble a crack team of dream-weavers to help him pull it off, including a wily forger named Eames (Tom Hardy), a chemist named Yusuf (Di- leep Rao) and a young architect named Ariadne (Ellen Page). (PG-13, 148 minutes) Contains sequences of violence and action. Area theaters.

B1 ⁄2 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS

“Through our gizzards, the voices of the ages whisper to us, and tell us what’s right,” intones a dignified owl in the se- pulchral inflections of Hugo Weaving. How you respond to this bit of feathery hokum will determine how you’ll feel about this film, which combines very old- fashioned storytelling with an of-the-mo- ment 3-D ticket price. Does its majesty send a shiver up your spine? Or does the very idea of an animated owl delivering this line induce — pardon me — hoots of laughter? The animated film follows two owlet brothers whose destinies come into conflict. Owlnapped by a clan of evil owls, the brothers are pulled into a plot to en- slave all of owlkind. Kludd (voiced by Ryan Kwanten) eagerly signs on as a sol- dier in the Pure Ones’ army, while Soren (Jim Sturgess) escapes to seek out a leg- endary flock of warrior owls who protect owlkind from owl evil. (PG, 90 minutes) Contains scenes of scary owl action. Area theaters.

BBLET ME IN

Something is lost in the translation in “Let Me In,” the English-language adaptation of the acclaimed 2008 Swedish vampire film “Let the Right One In.” The problem isn’t a lack of respect for John Ajvide Lindqvist’s moody screenplay, based on his 2004 novel; the rendition feels off key. Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a 12- year-old loner. He strikes up a tentative friendship with Abby (Chloe Grace Mo- retz), a girl who appears to be about his age, when she moves into the apartment next door with her weary-looking father

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