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“A Walk in the Woods.” R. 104 min. Grade: C+. After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. Arbor, Cinemark Galleria.

“Black Mass.” Grade: B. R. 122 min. The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Slaughter, Alamo South, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar

Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Flix Brewhouse, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse and Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Violet Crown, Westgate.

“Coming Home.” Grade: A-. PG13. 109 min. Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him. Arbor.

“Everest.” Grade: B-. PG-13. 121 min. A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm. Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Slaughter, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Flix Brewhouse, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse & Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville. 3D: Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, EVO, Gateway, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Starplex.

“Grandma.” Grade: A-. R. 79 min. Elle’s granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, the two spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. Arbor, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Violet Crown.

“The Green Inferno.” R. 100 min. A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rainforest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished. Alamo Lakeline, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, City Lights, Gateway, Highland, Metropolitan, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville.

“Hell and Back.” R. Two best friends set out to rescue their pal after he’s accidentally dragged to hell. Starring: Nick Swardson, Mila Kunis, Bob Odenkirk. Gateway.

“Hotel Transylvania 2.” Grade: C+. PG. 89 min. Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel. Alamo Lakline, Alamo Slaughter, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Flix Brewhouse, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse & Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Westgate. 3D: Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, EVO, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan,

Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Westgate.

“The Intern.” Grade: B-. Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Slaughter, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Flix Brewhouse, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse & Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Westgate.

“The Keeping Room.” Grade: C+. R. 95 min. Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women — two sisters and one African-American slave — must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army. Alamo South.

“Learning to Drive.” Grade: B. R. 90 min. As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his

own. Arbor.

“The Martian.” Grade: B+. PG-13. 141 min. During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Ritz, Alamo Slaughter, Alamo South, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Flix Brewhouse, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse & Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Violet Crown, Westgate. 3D: Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Slaughter, Alamo South, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Flix Brewhouse, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse & Eatery, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Starplex, Westgate. “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.” Grade: C. PG-13. 132 min. After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Slaughter, Alamo South, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadowa, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse and Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville.

“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” Grade: C. PG-13. In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. Round Rock 8.

“Meru.” Grade: B+. R. 87 min. Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing. Arbor.

“Minions.” Grade: C+. PG. 91 min. Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world. Round Rock 8.

“Mr. Holmes.” Grade: B. PG. 104 min. An aged, retired Sherlock

Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Arbor.

“Pawn Sacrifice” Grade: B+. PG-13. 121 min. 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin. Alamo Lakeline, Arbor, Barton Creek Square, Violet Crown.

“The Perfect Guy.” PG-13. 100 min. After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true. Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, Metropolitan, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville.

“Phoenix.” Grade: B+. Pg-13. 98 min. A disfigured concentration-camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. Arbor.

“Pixels.” Grade: C+. PG-13. 105 min. When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. Round Rock 8.

“Sicario.” Grade: B+. R. 121 min. An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. Alamo Lakeline, Alamo Slaughter, Alamo South, Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, City Lights, Domain, EVO, Gateway, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Moviehouse and Eatery, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville, Westgate.

“Stonewall” Grade: C-. R. 129 min. A young man’s political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots. Violet Crown.

“Straight Outta Compton.” Grade: C+. R. 147 min. The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California in the mid1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. Lakeline Mall.

“Sleeping With Other People.” Grade: B+. R. 101 min. A good-natured womanizer and a serial cheater form a platonic relationship that helps reform them in ways, while a mutual attraction sets in. Alamo South, Arbor.

“The Visit.” Grade: C+. PG-13. 94 min. A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents. Barton Creek Square, Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, EVO, Gateway, Highland, Lakeline Mall, Metropolitan, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville.

“The Walk.” Grade: B-. PG. 123 min. In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Barton Creek Square, Bullock Museum, Gateway, Pflugerville Tinseltown.

“War Room.” PG. 120 min. A seemingly perfect family look to fix their problems with the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman. Cinemark Cedar Park, Cinemark Galleria, Cinemark Round Rock, Cinemark Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Center, City Lights, EVO, Gateway, Metropolitan, Starplex, Tinseltown Pflugerville.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

“Passport to Darkness.” A jazz band leader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo’s sin city in search of the real killer. 7 p.m. Friday. $10. AFS at the Marchesa Hall and Theater, 6226 Middle

Fiskville Road. austinfilm.org.

“Eight Hours of Fear.” A bus loaded with passengers fleeing a typhoon is hijacked by gangsters. 9:30 p.m. Friday. $10. AFS at the Marchesa Hall and Theater, 6226 Middle Fiskville Road. austinfilm. org.

“Kanto Wanderer.” A gang member falls in love and is torn between his duty and feelings. 4 p.m. Sunday. $10. AFS at the Marchesa Hall and Theater, 6226 Middle Fiskville Road. austinfilm. org.

“The Sleeping Beast Within.” When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers, he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. $10. AFS at the Marchesa Hall and Theater, 6226 Middle Fiskville Road. austinfilm. org.

“Mateo.” A teenage boy faces a dilemma about the direction his life will take when his corrupt uncle asks him to infiltrate a local Barrancabermeja theatre group to uncover its members’ political activities. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. $10. AFS at the Marchesa Hall and Theater, 6226 Middle Fiskville Road. austinfilm.org.

“Homme Less.” A documentary that explores modern American homelessness. 7:15 p.m. Thursday. $9. Violet Crown Cinema, 434 W. Second St. 512-495-9600. austin. violetcrowncinemas.com.