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THE DISASTER ARTIST Rated R. 103 minutes. Violet Crown. See review, Page 35. 4 DAYS IN FRANCE Paul (Arthur Igual) wakes up one morning to find his lover, Pierre (Pascal Cervo) gone. He leaves Paris to follow Pierre’s trail of breadcrumbs across the countryside, using the dating app Grindr, and the eclectic variety of men on the app, as his only resource. Whatever the purpose of Pierre’s mission, Paul intends to find him — one tryst at a time. Not rated. 137 minutes. In French with subtitles. The Screen. (Not reviewed) JUST GETTING STARTED Duke (Morgan Freeman), an ex-mob lawyer in the Witness Protection Program, is the big shot at the desert retirement community he operates; he’s an ace in all the competitions and the women love him. One day, a retired FBI agent named Leo (Tommy Lee Jones) arrives and attracts the attention away from Duke. The two men engage in a low-key feud until an organized crime outfit comes to murder Duke, and they must rely on each other to keep Duke alive. This comedy by filmmaker Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) was shot in the Santa Fe and Albuquerque areas. Rated PG-13. 91 minutes. Regal Stadium 14; Violet Crown. (Not reviewed) NOVITIATE Writer and director Margaret Betts works with an intriguing premise in her debut feature, Novitiate, about a group of young, aspiring Catholic nuns, set in the mid-1960s, just as church upper-ups in Rome began imposing changes on the sisterhood via Vatican II. In the main plotline, seventeen-year-old Mary Grace (Dianna Agron) joins a strict order over her mother’s objections. In the convent, she finds young women with all sorts of reasons for becoming nuns. It is a rigorous life that the Rev. Mother (Melissa Leo) — a cartoonishly cruel character whose every utterance seems born of judgment and rage — informs them is not suited for every girl with naïve dreams of holy romance. Unfortunately, the story relies on stereotypical depictions of both “loose women” and women who join religious orders, and does not seem to know if is historical fiction, anti-Catholic horror, or an outsider’s fantasy of repressed lesbian sexuality. Rated R. 123 minutes. Violet Crown. (Jennifer Levin) PARADISE Not rated. 130 minutes. In German, French, and Russian with subtitles. The Screen. See review, Page 39. REBELS ON POINTE Not rated. 89 minutes. Jean Cocteau Cinema. See review, Page 37.