Film clips
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76 ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, PG Ed Oxenbould plays 11-yearold Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, only to discover that it’s also a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for his family (Jennifer Garner, Steve Carell, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey). (81 minutes) 71 THE BEST OF ME, PG-13 Two one-time high school sweethearts returning to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend are reunited after 20 years apart and find that, though it re-ignites the love they’ve never forgotten, forces that drove them apart live on. (119 minutes) 78 BEYOND THE LIGHTS, PG-13 The pressures of fame are starting to put the music world’s latest superstar on the edge until a young cop and aspiring politician who’s been assigned to her detail gives her the courage to find her voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be. (116 minutes) 87 BIG HERO 6, PG A plus-size inflatable robot (voice of Scott Adsit) and a prodigy (voice of Ryan Potter) form a special bond that comes in handy when the boy is catapulted into the midst of danger and transforms his six friends into a band of high-tech heroes. Animated. (108 minutes)
90 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED
VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE), R Michael Keaton plays an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play while battling his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself. (119 minutes) 72 DUMB AND DUMBER TO, PG-13 Directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly are back, and so are Jim Carrey as Lloyd and Jeff Daniels as Harry, as dumb as or dumber than ever, this time on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had, and the responsibility neither of them should ever be given. (110 minutes) 77 THE EQUALIZER, R Denzel Washington plays a guy who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and begun a new, quiet life — until he feels obligated to come out of self-imposed retirement and help a girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters. (131 minutes) 87 FURY, R With the Allies making their final push into Nazi Germany in April 1945, a battle-hardened sergeant (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. (134 minutes) 89 GLEN CAMPBELL: I’LL BE ME, PG Filmmakers James Keach and Trevor Albert compiled more than 700 hours of footage, focusing on singer and Arkansas native Glen Campbell’s 151-performance farewell tour that followed the 2011 announcement that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, plus interviews with Campbell fans and colleagues, including Bruce Springsteen, Bill Clinton, The Edge, Paul McCartney, Jay Leno, Vince Gill, Blake Shelton, Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Steve Martin, Chad Smith and Taylor Swift. (116 minutes) 85 GONE GIRL, R Ben Affleck plays a husband who reports his wife (Rosamund Pike) missing on their fifth wedding anniversary, but pressure from police and a growing media frenzy start to eat at his portrait of a blissful union and suspicions begin to arise that he may have done away with her. (149 minutes) 68 HORRIBLE BOSSES 2, R Three returning guys from the first film (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) are now their own bosses after starting their own business, but after a slick investor pulls the rug out from under them, they hatch a misguided plan to kidnap and ransom his son to regain control of their company. With Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Chris Pine, Christoph Waltz; directed by Sean Anders. (108 minutes)
85 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY
— PART 1, PG-13 Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), having shattered the games forever, and under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). (123 minutes) 83 INTERSTELLAR, PG-13 A group of explorers makes use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. (169 minutes) 86 THE JUDGE, R Robert Downey Jr. plays a big-city lawyer who returns to his childhood home, where his estranged father, the town’s judge (Robert Duvall), is a suspect in a murder. (141 minutes) 78 THE MAZE RUNNER, PG-13 A young man (Dylan O’Brien) finds himself trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys. With no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization, he must piece together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. (113 minutes) 77 OUIJA, PG-13 A group of friends awakens the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. (89 minutes) 77 PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR, PG Four flightless birdies team up to form a super undercover spy team to stop a villain (voice of John Malkovich) from destroying the world as we know it. Animated. With voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Jeong, Annet Mahendru, Peter Stormare; directed by Simon J. Smith, Eric Darnell. (92 minutes) 90 ST. VINCENT, PG-13 Melissa McCarthy plays a single mother who, recently moved to Brooklyn and working long hours, has no choice but to leave her 12-year-old son (Jaeden Lieberher) in the care of their new neighbor (Bill Murray), a retired curmudgeon with a penchant for booze and gambling who turns out to be a surprisingly good influence. (102 minutes) 82 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, PG-13 Eddie Redmayne plays astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with a fellow Cambridge student (Felicity Jones), then receives the earth-shattering diagnosis, at 21, that he has ALS. With David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Harry Lloyd; directed by James Marsh. (123 minutes)