Film clips

At area theaters

80 ACT OF VALOR, R A cast of real-life, active-duty Navy SEALS races to stop a deadly terrorist plot against the United States, but each time they think they’ve accomplished their mission, a new piece of intelligence reveals another shocking twist. With Roselyn Sanchez, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle, Nester Serrano; directed by “Mouse” Mccoy, Scott Waugh. (101 minutes) 86 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN,

PG Steven Spielberg’s motion-capture 3-D animated retelling of the Belgian comic book hero (voice of Jamie Bell), an intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story — involving a sunken ship and the treasure it contains — thrusts him into a world of high adventure. (107 minutes)

77 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS — CHIPWRECKED, G Dave (Jason Lee), the Chipmunks and the Chipettes, on a luxury cruise, wind up on an uncharted island which, of course, may not be as deserted as it seems. Animated and live-action. (87 minutes)

91 THE ARTIST, PG-13 In this practically silent film, Jean Dujardin plays a pre-talkies Hollywood matinee idol who becomes smitten with an ambitious chorus girl while his marriage is disintegrating and so is the final, epic silent film into which he has sunk all his money. (100 minutes)

86 BIG MIRACLE, PG A smalltown reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) forge an unlikely coalition, including Inuit natives, oil companies and Cold-warring superpowers, to help save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming Arctic Circle ice. (123 minutes)

87 CHRONICLE, PG-13 Three high school students find learning to control the uncanny powers they’re developing starts to bring out their darker sides. (84 minutes)

79 THE DARKEST HOUR, PG-13 Five young people find themselves stranded in Moscow when the aliens attack. (89 minutes)

88 THE DESCENDANTS, R George Clooney plays an indifferent husband and father of two girls who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife is left in a coma by a boating accident in Hawaii. (115 minutes)

87 EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE, PG-13 An inventive 11-year-old New Yorker discovers a key among the belongings

of his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, which sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. (129 minutes)

83 GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE, PG-13 Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze, the devil’s bounty hunter, who might risk everything to team up with the leader (Idris Elba) of a group of rebel monks to save a young boy from the devil — and possibly rid himself of his curse forever. (95 minutes)

87 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, R Director David Fincher’s English-language remake of the Swedish hit, based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy,” involving a discredited journalist (Daniel Craig) and a mysterious computer hacker (Rooney Mara) working to solve the mystery of a 40-year-old murder. (158 minutes)

75 GONE, PG-13 A young woman (Amanda Seyfried) is convinced the man who has abducted her sister is the same kidnapper she escaped from a year before. With Jennifer Carpenter, Wes Bentley, Sebastian Stan, Michael Pare; directed by Heitor Dhalia. (94 minutes)

83 GOOD DEEDS, PG-13 Director Tyler Perry plays a successful, wealthy businessman named, naturally, Deeds, jolted out of his always-do-what’s-expected-of-him routine when he meets a down-onher-luck single mother (Thandie Newton). With Brian White, Rebecca Romijn, Jamie Kennedy, Beverly Johnson, Phylicia Rashad, Gabrielle Union. (129 minutes)

82 THE GREY, R Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks whose plane has crashed into a remote Alaskan wilderness, where they must battle not only mortal injuries and merciless

weather, but a vicious pack of rogue wolves. (117 minutes)

80 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, PG In this “follow-up” (guess we can’t call ’em “sequels” anymore) to 2008’s remake of

Journey to the Center of the Earth, Dwayne Johnson (playing the new stepfather of a 17-year-old portrayed by Josh Hutcherson) and a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his “beautiful, strong-willed daughter” (Vanessa Hudgens) set out to find the title island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before it sinks into the sea. (94 minutes)

80 JOYFUL NOISE, PG-13 Discord between the two lead singers (Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton), compounded by disagreement over a budding relationship between the former’s daughter and the latter’s grandson, threatens to tear apart a small-town-georgia church choir on the brink of a national competition. (118 minutes)

79 MAN ON A LEDGE, PG-13 Sam Worthington plays an ex-cop, now a wanted fugitive, whose lengthy stand on the ledge of a New York high-rise leads the hard-living police hostage negotiator (Elizabeth Banks) trying to talk him down to realize he might have an ulterior objective. (102 minutes)

87 PUSS IN BOOTS, PG The Shrek sequel “star” spins off into his own prequel, setting off on an adventure with the tough and street-smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. Animated. (90 minutes)

82 RED TAILS, PG-13 The black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee, Ala., training program waging two wars in 1944 — against enemies overseas and against discrimination within the military and back home — finally get the chance to prove themselves in combat. (125 minutes)

83 SAFE HOUSE, R Denzel Washington plays the CIA’S most dangerous renegade, on the run with his rookie-operative “housekeeper” (Ryan Reynolds) after mercenaries tear apart his South African safe house. (115 minutes)

87 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY, G A secret friendship blossoms between a tiny but tenacious 14-year-old (voice of Bridgit Mendler), part of a community of little people living quietly in an undiscovered secret world under the floorboards, and a 12-year-old human (voice of David Henrie). (From the legendary Studio Ghibli, based on Mary Norton’s The Borrowers.) (94 minutes)

STAR WARS, EPISODE I: THE

PHANTOM MENACE 3D, PG NineyearAnakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), a Jedi master (Liam Neeson), his young apprentice ObiWan Kenobi (Ewan Mcgregor), the Queen of Naboo (Natalie Portman) and floppy-eared Nabooster JarJar Binks (Ahmed Best) battle the Dark Side of the Force, now in 3-D. (131 minutes)

76 THIS MEANS WAR, PG-13 Two top CIA operatives (Chris Pine, Tom Hardy), inseparable partners and best friends until they fall for the same woman (Reese Witherspoon), instead turn their considerable and deadly skills upon ... each other. (97 minutes) 88 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, R Gary Oldman plays agent George Smiley, brought out of involuntary retirement to expose the Soviet mole his former boss (John Hurt) is convinced has been sabotaging the British secret service. (127 minutes)

87 THE VOW, PG-13 A newlywed husband (Channing Tatum) endeavors to rewin the heart of his bride (Rachel Mcadams) after a car crash wipes out her memory. (104 minutes)

84 WANDERLUST, R Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston reteam as an overextended, stressed-out Manhattan couple who, headed for down and out, encounter an idyllic community populated by colorful characters who embrace a different way of looking at things. (Hint: It involves a lot of nudity.) With Justin Theroux, Malin Akerman, Kathryn Hahn, Lauren Ambrose, Ken Marino, Alan Alda; directed by David Wain. (98 minutes)

78 WAR HORSE, PG-13 Director Steven Spielberg offers an epic adventure involving the friendship between a heroic horse and a young trainer, separated and then reunited in the heart of No Man’s Land during World War I. (146 minutes)

76 WE BOUGHT A ZOO, PG A single father and his two children get a fresh start by moving to the most unlikely of places: a zoo, which, with the help of an eclectic staff and many misadventures, they return to its former glory. (126 minutes)

86 THE WOMAN IN BLACK, PG-13 Daniel Radcliffe plays a widowed young lawyer who, while sorting out the papers of a recently deceased, very eccentric client, begins to uncover the remote village’s tragic secret, involving a spectral woman ... well, you know. (95 minutes)