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American Reunion

The Avengers

Battleship*

Bernie* The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Dark Shadows

The Dictator

First Position*

The Five-year Engagement

God Bless America

Headhunters

Mansome* The Pirates! Band of Misfits Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog*

The Raven

The Samaritan*

The Sound of My Voice

Think Like a Man

The Three Stooges

We Have a Pope What to Expect When You’re Expecting*

Where Do We Go Now?* This latest installment seems to depend so much on nostalgia for “Pie” history that I wonder if a first-timer to the series would feel a little out to sea. If you liked the earlier films, I suppose you gotta see this one. Otherwise, I dunno. (R, 112 min.) Roger Ebert Bess Kargman’s sharp-eyed and revealing documentary focuses on the challenges facing six young dancers from the United States and abroad as they compete in the annual Youth America Grand Prix. (NR, 94 min.) Hedy Weiss All-star cast in a promising premise, felled by doofus behavior. Women seek happiness in romance by leading their lives according to Steve Harvey’s best seller. This tiresome effort might have been better as satire. (PG-13, 122 min.) Roger Ebert An all-star comedy about five couples in search of pregnancy. The actors are likable, the movie is cheerful, but the plot risks gridlock, and I grew weary of the round-robin as the storylines keep updating. (PG-13, 109 min.) Roger Ebert In this all-star game for Marvel superheroes, the comic-book titans must save the world from the evil Loki and his machine monsters. It’s exactly what you’d expect, although more of the same as it gets the job done. (PG-13, 142 min.) Roger Ebert Alien spacecraft splash down in the Pacific where war games are being conducted by Allied navies, leading to a battle where a lot of stuff is blowed up real good. Similar to the “Transformers” movies, but more entertaining. (PG-13, 130 min.) Roger Ebert In Richard Linklater’s comedy, Jack Black gives one of the year’s best performances as a Texas funeral director accused of murder. Based on an almost unbelievable true story, balanced at a peculiar angle between pathos and satire. (R, 98 min.) Roger Ebert A charming, funny, heartwarming movie making good use of seven superb veteran actors, as a band of Brits on limited incomes take their chances on a retirement hotel in India, run on a shoestring with boundless optimism. (PG-13, 124 min.) Roger Ebert Tim Burton’s film is all dressed up with nowhere to go, an elegant production without a central drive. Johnny Depp is flawless as the vampire Barnabas, transported from the 18th century, but the others get lost in arch mannerisms. (PG-13, 112 min.) Roger Ebert Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest is funny, obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on. In a speech about dictatorships, he practices merciless political satire. He establishes a claim as best comic filmmaker now working. (R, 85 min.) Roger Ebert Uneven and a little too predictable but also consistently smart, sharp and sweet, this rom-com is more about the tension created when a couple uproots so one of them can realize a career dream than it is about fear of commitment. (R, 124 min.) Richard Roeper The wonderful folks at Aardman (“Wallace & Gromit”) have created another deliriously silly stop-motion animation delight, filled with giddy pleasures and so many witty details flying by that you wish for a pause button. (PG, 88 min.) Nell Minow In Bobcat Goldthwaite’s savage satire, a terminally ill man (Joel Murray) loses his job and starts killing people on TV who disgust him. The first 30 minutes are brilliant. After that the film is simply identifying with psychopathic behavior. (R, 100 min.) Roger Ebert A superior thriller from Norway, about an executive headhunter (Aksel Hennie), who moonlights as an art thief to lavish luxuries on the woman he loves. It’s not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as this one did. (R, 100 min.) Roger Ebert An ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) vows he’ll stay straight. But a guy approaches him with a tempting offer and won’t take no for an answer. In this film noir, everyone has multiple motives, and the plot conceals dark secrets. (NR, 90 min.) Roger Ebert Two documentary filmmakers infiltrate a cult led by an ethereal woman (Brit Marling) from the year 2054. Whether that and several other things are true is the question at the center of a low-budget but compelling weird tale. (R, 85 min.) Roger Ebert The Farrelly Brothers have made probably the best Three Stooges movie it’s possible to make in 2012, and perhaps ever since the Stooges stopped making them. Much depends on whether that was what you were hoping to hear. (PG, 92 min.) Roger Ebert An intriguing comedy in which the women of an isolated Lebanese village conspire to bring about peace. Tired of burying their men, they try such strategies as fake miracles, hashish brownies and even imported exotic dancers. (PG-13, 110 min.) Roger Ebert Morgan Spurlock’s latest effort is an amusing if slight look at the stylistic ways of the 21st century man. There’s a certain late-tothe-party aspect, as if he’s just discovered the metrosexual trend of what, 15 years ago? (PG-13, 84 min.) Richard Roeper A golden Labrador is followed as it experiences the rigorous training of a guide dog and becomes the companion of a blind man. Fascinating, realistic, touching and appropriate for all ages (thanks to the easily read subtitles). (NR, 100 min.) Roger Ebert This overwrought serial killer melodrama has only the most tenuous connection to the great writer. Save for the fact that Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious, the movie concocts a plot built more on sensational acting than on suspense. (R, 111 min.) Roger Ebert To his horror, a senior cardinal (the legendary Michel Piccoli) is elected pope. He begs to be excused: the responsibility is too great. So he slips out of Vatican City and wanders around Rome. Amusing, respectful, entertaining. (NR, 102 min.) Roger Ebert