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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

PG-13   107 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

With Shakespearean language tripping off their contemporary tongues, the actors are more than game for Joss Whedon's informal, black-and-white take on this classic comedy.

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The Bling Ring

The Bling Ring

R   88 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Sofia Coppola relates this true-life crime story about Hollywood teens who boosted things from celebrities' homes so they could walk a mile in their Louboutons.

Monsters University

Monsters University

G   110 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This sequel is a prequel about the school days of the future Monsters, Inc. employees, Sulley and Mike.

Pandora's Promise

Pandora's Promise

NR   90 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Bringing a fresh voice to an old controversy, this documentary argues that nuclear power is the true green energy.

World War Z

World War Z

PG-13   116 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This bio-disaster movie with zombies and Brad Pitt is smart and ambitious, even if it doesn't break the mold.

First-Run Movies

After Earth

PG-13   100 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Often gorgeous, sometimes fascinating, this Smith-family outing is ultimately unwieldy and unsurprising.

Before Midnight

Before Midnight

R   109 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This third European outing with Celine and Jesse is a grand accomplishment.

The Big Wedding

R   90 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.

The Croods

The Croods

PG   98 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

PG   94 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This third film in the tween series is funny without being in any way condescending to its target audience.

The East

PG-13   116 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This crypto-thriller that explores moral grounds before turning gauzy is the latest film from Sound of My Voice's Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij.

Epic

Epic

PG   102 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This imaginative 3-D animated fantasy takes place in a forest world.

Escape From Planet Earth

PG   89 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

In this 3-D animated movie, a famous astronaut from another planet becomes trapped on Earth – aka the Dark Planet. Interplanetary shenanigans ensue.

Evil Dead

R   91 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Fans of the original horror trilogy have nothing to fear from this gory new reworking.

Fast & Furious 6

PG-13   130 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

The curiously addictive fast-cars franchise is still committed to excess.

42

PG-13   128 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Jackie Robinson's story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation.

Frances Ha

Frances Ha

R   86 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

There's a tour de force performance by Greta Gerwig and no small amount of magic in this winning movie by Noah Baumbach about a generation in flux.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

PG-13   110 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This overflowing action stew is loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters.

The Great Gatsby

PG-13   141 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.

The Hangover: Part III

R   100 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

The hard-R comedy trilogy concludes with more mortal peril and questionable taste.

The Internship

PG-13   119 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Once Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson joined forces to crash weddings; in their new comedy, the duo crashes Google as older-than-average interns.

Iron Man 3

PG-13   130 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

It's more of the same, but the same is pretty good.

Jurassic Park

PG-13   127 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

It's every species for themselves in this Spielberg dinosaur blockbuster now out in 3-D.

The Kings of Summer

The Kings of Summer

R   93 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This Sundance favorite is a perfect yet offbeat summer movie about teens who ditch their families and try to live like men in a ground-level treehouse in the woods.

Kon-Tiki

PG-13   101 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Real-life adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 trip across the Pacific on a raft is re-created in this beautifully lensed film.

Love Is All You Need

Love Is All You Need

R   117 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Danish Oscar-winner Susanne Bier lightens her tone with this grown-up romantic comedy that stars Pierce Brosnan.

Man of Steel

Man of Steel

PG-13   143 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This new Superman flies without a lot of emotional baggage, which is mostly a good thing though the character could stand a bit more dramatic heft.

Midnight's Children

NR   146 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Salman Rushdie wrote the screenplay for this film, which is based on his Booker Prize-winning novel about the children who were born at the exact hour of India's independence in 1947.

Monsters, Inc.

G   92 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Re-released in 3-D.

Mud

Mud

PG-13   130 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey.

Now You See Me

PG-13   116 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This magicians' caper film has a good cast but very little else hidden up its sleeve.

Oblivion

PG-13   125 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Tom Cruise stars in this science-fiction outing that favors style over substance.

Olympus Has Fallen

R   120 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

It''s Die Hard at the White House as a lone man battles the terrorists who take the building with diabolical force.

Oz the Great and Powerful

PG   130 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Neither a besmirching nor a instant classic, this sometimes clunky prequel in which James Franco plays the Wizard when he was a mere, young huckster also has Sam Raimi's ravishing visuals.

Parental Guidance

PG   104 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

The actors deserve credit for the professionalism they bring to this family comedy stinker.

The Purge

R   85 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey star in this suspenseful horror film that's set in the near future and poses dark possibilities and even darker lighting.

Scary Movie 5

PG-13   85 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

This parodic auto-mash-up of Paranormal Activity, Black Swan, The Evil Dead, and more is even worse than you think.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness

PG-13   132 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

The Star Trek reboot may be overly familiar, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun.

Stories We Tell

Stories We Tell

PG-13   108 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth.

This Is the End

This Is the End

R   107 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

Be mindful when partying at James Franco's house: You could get stuck there for the apocalypse with Seth Rogen and Co.

Trash Dance

Trash Dance

NR   68 min.      Full Review   Showtimes

The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record.

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

NR   150 min.   Showtimes

This Bollywood film is a coming-of-age romantic comedy about friends viewed over a number of years.