THE WASHINGTON POST • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
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DANCE AND ROMANCE!” - Chet Nagle, THE DAILY CALLER
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mor, brief sensuality, gunplay, vehicular mayhem and assorted comedic violence. At Regal Ballston Common and University Mall Theatres.
BBBRAMONA AND BEEZUS
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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. At University Mall Theatres.
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“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
— M.O.
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. At Univer- sity Mall Theatres.
BBBBTHE SOCIAL NETWORK — D.K.
When a talky movie’s talk has been written by Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”), and those words have been ani- mated by the visual brio of director Da- vid Fincher, what looks on paper like a static series of dead-end conversations comes to life as a vital, engaging, even urgent parable for our age. As the dramatized story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who invented the site in 2003 as a Harvard sophomore, the film can’t be taken as the literal rec- ord of events — which involved Zucker- berg being sued by his partners and competitors. Clearly Sorkin and Fincher had higher aspirations for their film. With surgical precision, exhilarating in- sight and storytelling flair, Sorkin and Fincher bring viewers along on an infec- tiously giddy journey of discovery and invention, and also manage to infuse Zuckerberg’s story with meaning beyond his own achievements, struggles and flaws. (PG-13, 122 minutes) Contains sexual content, drug and alcohol use and profani- ty. Area theaters.
BBTAKERS — A.H.
“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 — A.H.
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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 AMC Loews Shirlington.
BBBTHE TOWN
A big, ambitious action crime thriller di- rected by Ben Affleck, this film is a smart, bold genre exercise that’s enormous fun to watch, harking back to gritty urban
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