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don’t just bump — they thud, crack, and bludgeon your ears like a squad of line-dancing T. rexes. Subtlety, an effective but rare quality in horror movies, has vanished into the forest. The scariest thing about this movie is just waiting for something frightening to happen, and when something ridiculous happens instead, you get the weird experience of laughing yourself silly while your hair stands on end. Rated R. 89 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; DreamCatcher. (Jeff Acker)

BRIDGET JONES’ BABY

Renée Zellweger returns to play author Helen Fielding’s beloved heroine Bridget Jones once more. This time, Jones finds herself in a new pickle: She’s pregnant and uncertain who the father is. Could it be the new man she has taken a fancy to (Patrick Dempsey) or the old flame who has re-entered her life (Colin Firth)? More to the point: who does she want it to be? Rated R. 122 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Regal DeVargas; Violet Crown. (Not reviewed)

CAFÉ SOCIETY

Woody Allen’s latest teems with themes, plots, and subplots dear to his philosophy as well as the kind of easygoing storytelling rhythms and deft wisecracks that have become a trademark of his style at its best. Here we have a crazy, funny concoction of interrelated stories built around Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg), a Brooklyn kid who tries his luck in the dream factory of Hollywood in the ’30s and then returns to the real enchanted city of New York. He falls in love with a pretty secretary, Vonnie (Kristen Stewart), and gets shown the Hollywood ropes by his Uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a name-dropping super-agent. Back in the Big Apple, he goes into the nightclub business with his hoodlum brother Ben (Corey Stoll). There’s romance, betrayal, family, religion, murder, and fabulous music, and it’s all seen through the peerless lens of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. Rated PG-13. 96 minutes. Violet Crown. (Jonathan Richards)

DON’T BREATHE

When three friends break into the home of an elderly blind man (Stephen Lang), they think they’re on the way to a quick robbery and a massive, easy score. Their plans go awry when the man kills one of them and traps the others inside. From there, the chase is on, as the two remaining friends try to evade the man, who possesses both keen hearing and some dark secrets. The simple premise is engaging, and director Fede Alvarez is up to the challenge, swooping the camera around the house in such a way that viewers have a good sense of where everyone’s hiding and how immediate the danger is. Too bad we’re forced to endure a gross plot twist and numerous false endings that ruin the film’s early goodwill. Rated R. 88 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; DreamCatcher. (Robert Ker)

DON’T THINK TWICE

Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me) examines the fragile Eden of a not-so-young-anymore New York City improv troupe dedicated to making people laugh every night, without a script and without a net. When the lease on their theater is canceled and one of their number (KeeganMichael Key) makes the leap to Weekend Live (think Saturday

Night Live), jealousies and thwarted ambitions eat away at the others. There are nicely defined performances throughout and some clever moments onstage and off; and the story is a loving tribute to the rules and practice of the form, as defined in the ’50s by people like Del Close, Elaine May, and Santa Fe’s late Ted Flicker. But the strength of this touching film is in its relationships and its dreams; the inspired hysteria of great improvisational comedy never quite takes off. Rated R. 92 minutes. Regal DeVargas. (Jonathan Richards)

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

Meryl Streep crafts an odd but appealing character out of the New York socialite who in the 1930s and ’40s earned renown as the world’s worst concert singer. Directed by Stephen Frears, this highly fictionalized tale (ever so selectively “based on the inspiring true story”) also elicits a more sympathetic portrayal than you might think likely from Hugh Grant, who plays the husband who supports her unbounded aspirations and enforces unswerving devotion from those she seeks to impress. Simon Helberg, as her accompanist, helps glue the movie together; he actually plays the piano, and his reactions to the sounds emanating from “Lady Florence” exemplify stunned disbelief. Streep sings her own bits, conveying the diva’s distinctive style with élan. Rated PG-13. 110 minutes. Regal DeVargas; Violet Crown. (James M. Keller)

HELL OR HIGH WATER

Two brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) take to robbing banks while two experienced lawmen (Jeff Bridges and Gil Birmingham) doggedly pursue them. As a heist-action film, the story offers little that’s new, but Taylor Sheridan’s insightful script and David Mackenzie’s deft direction transform the story into an involving drama about the bonds of love and loyalty and the lengths to which modern-day outlaws and lawmen will go to uphold their respective codes of the West. New Mexico doubles for Texas in the film. Rated R. 102 minutes. Regal DeVargas; Violet Crown; DreamCatcher. (Robert Nott)

HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE

This movie opens with Paula Hall (Rachel House) delivering the pudgy, sullen thirteen-year-old Ricky (newcomer Julian Dennison) into the hands of his lastchance foster family, Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and her husband, the grumpy old Hec (Sam Neill), a remote bush-dwelling farm couple. Ricky runs away. He gets hopelessly lost and is found by savvy woodsman Hec. But Hec is injured, and the two have to hole up in the woods while he heals. The authorities assume kidnapping and worse, and a massive manhunt ensues. The movie follows as the two traverse the New Zealand bush. All this is in the inventive hands of Kiwi writer-director Taika Waititi. It’s the well-worn story of the gradual, grudging bonding of a curmudgeon and a kid, but told with a deep reservoir of charm and surprise. Rated PG-13. 101 minutes. Center for Contemporary Arts. (Jonathan Richards)

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

This stop-motion-animated adventure centers on a young Japanese boy named Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson), who accidentally summons an angry spirit and then must set off on a journey to stop it. Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey voice the Monkey and the Beetle, respectively, who help him on this path. Rated PG. 101 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown. (Not reviewed)

NO MANCHES FRIDA

In this comedy from Mexico, Omar Chaparro stars as Zequi, a bank robber who disguises himself as a substitute teacher at an unruly high school in order to access some money that he buried on the school grounds. As he whips the kids into shape using unorthodox methods, he discovers he has a knack for teaching. Rated PG-13. 100 minutes. In Spanish with subtitles. Regal Stadium 14; DreamCatcher. (Not reviewed) PETE’S DRAGON This remake of Disney’s 1977 feature combines live action and computer animation and focuses on a woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) who encounters young Pete (Oakes Fegley), who has lived in the woods for years with the help of his dragon, and attempts to learn his identity. Karl Urban and Robert Redford co-star. Rated PG. 102 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14; DreamCatcher. (Not reviewed) THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS What mischief goes on when humans aren’t around? The first part of this movie is content to imagine the shenanigans your four-legged pals might actually be involved in when you close that door. But there are 90 minutes to fill, and before long, we’re off to car chases and physical mayhem involving all sorts of reptiles and birds of prey, led by a rogue bunny who has it in for humankind. There are some undeniably funny moments but also long stretches where you can check your watch or make mental grocery lists. The movie is voiced by an all-star cast led by Louis C.K. and Kevin Hart. Rated PG. 90 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14. (Jonathan Richards)

SNOWDEN

Edward Snowden, the man who blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance of American citizens, is still living in Russia. To some, he is a traitor. To others, he’s a hero. To most, he’s a cipher. Oliver Stone’s movie sets out to give a human dimension to this polarizing figure and to fill in the gaps in his pilgrim’s progress from staunch belief in his country’s intelligence mission to discomfort, doubt, disillusion, and finally an act of principled treason. It’s persuasive and riveting, but it’s delivered in a low-key way that eschews the standard pulse-pounding, palm-sweating devices of the international spy thriller. You won’t leave the theater with any doubts as to where Oliver Stone stands on the hero/traitor question, but you will leave with a much fuller sense of who Ed Snowden is and why he took the life-changing, world-changing path he did. Rated R. 134 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown. (Jonathan Richards)

SUICIDE SQUAD

This trashy (in mostly good ways) story of a bunch of dangerous criminals who are forced by the government to fight superpowered villains nails its casting — Will Smith as the sharpshooting Deadshot, Margot Robbie as nihilistic Harley Quinn, and Viola Davis as the no-nonsense bureaucrat Amanda Waller — all of whom are excellent. However, director David Ayer sends them on a mission that isn’t exciting and is rendered in a murky visual palette, leading up to a forgettable climax. He tries to usher the plot and too many character introductions along by using dozens of popular rock and rap songs, but the result is a mess. Still, seeds are planted for a superior sequel, and the box office numbers suggest that we’ll get one. Rated PG-13. 130 minutes. Screens in 2-D only at Regal Stadium 14. (Robert Ker)

SULLY

Clint Eastwood takes one of the most publicized news stories of recent years and turns it into nail-

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall play John and Laura Taylor, a married couple struggling to have children. They make a deal with a surrogate mother named Anna (Jaz Sinclair), taking her into their home when she becomes a victim of domestic violence. But Anna develops an unhealthy obsession with John, and soon the Taylors’ marriage — along with their unborn child’s life — is at risk. Rated PG-13. 107 minutes. Regal Stadium 14. (Not reviewed) biting suspense, with Tom Hanks comfortably filling the role of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who coolly brought his disabled US Airways jet down on the Hudson River after losing both engines to a flock of geese moments after takeoff. All 155 on board (including Santa Fean David Sontag) survived with only a few minor injuries, and Sully was hailed as a hero. But Eastwood amps up the drama by heightening the confrontational aspect of the National Transportation Safety Board, whose investigators question whether the aquatic landing was necessary, suggesting Sully could and should have made it to an airport. Eastwood and screenwriter Todd Komarnicki jump around in time and in consciousness, interspersing Sully’s nightmares of what might have been. Good support comes from Aaron Eckhart as Jeff Skiles, Sully’s co-pilot, and Laura Linney in her familiar thankless role as the suffering wife. Rated PG-13. 96 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown; DreamCatcher. (Jonathan Richards)