Los Angeles Times

THIS WEEKEND

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Movies opening this weekend:

Any Day for Having killing serveda man 12 with years his in prison bare hands, a resentful ex-boxer tries to get his life back on track.

Avengers: Age of Ultron When Iron Man’s plan to develop an artificial­ly intelligen­t peacekeepi­ng force backfires, he and his fellow Avengers must save the world from a megalomani­acal android.

Cas & Dylan A terminally ill 61-year-old loner reluctantl­y agrees to give a 22year-old misfit a short lift, and the two end up traveling across the country on the lam.

Chic A haute couture legend who has lost her creative mojo finds inspiratio­n in a rude Breton gardener, but he needs some persuading to stick around as her new muse.

Eastern Boys A bourgeois Parisian man solicits a handsome young Ukrainian hustler for a rendezvous at his chic apartment, only to suffer a home invasion the next day.

Far From Men In 1954 Algeria, a reclusive schoolteac­her is tasked with escorting a villager accused of murder across the Atlas Mountains to trial.

Far From the Madding Crowd In this adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel, a headstrong young woman in Victorian England attracts three suitors: a sheep farmer, a wealthy bachelor and a reckless soldier.

Gardeners of Eden A documentar­y about the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya and its efforts to stop ivory poachers in the bush and rescue orphaned

elephants.

Grey Gardens A new restoratio­n of the 1976 documentar­y about the reclusive socialites Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale, who inhabited a moldering manse in East Hampton, N.Y.

Hyena A ruthless cop undercover in the London drug world must shift loyalties and sell out allies to stay alive.

Iris A documentar­y portrait of the 93year-old New York style maven Iris Apfel.

Maya the Bee Movie A restless young bee leaves the hive in search of adventure, makes friends and tries to save the queen in this animated film based on a 1912 German children’s novel.

Misery Loves Comedy A documentar­y about the relationsh­ip between misery and comedy, featuring interviews with dozens of comedians.

Private Number A series of sinister phone calls haunts a recovering-alcoholic writer as he struggles to finish a novel.

Ride When her son drops out of college to surf and find himself in Los Angeles, a magazine editor follows him and goes through her own period of self-discovery.

Welcome to Me A woman with borderline personalit­y disorder wins the lottery, quits her medication and buys a talk show on an infomercia­l channel.

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Fox Searchligh­t ?? CAREY MULLIGAN and Michael Sheen star in “Far From the Madding Crowd,” set in Victorian England.
Alex Bailey Fox Searchligh­t CAREY MULLIGAN and Michael Sheen star in “Far From the Madding Crowd,” set in Victorian England.

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