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Aquaman The latest “Justice League” spinoff is filled with awkward dialogue, a poorly conceived visual-effects plan and a soul-crushing and bladdercrushing 139-minute run time. Jason Momoa returns as Aquaman, and Nicole Kidman and Willem Dafoe are among the Atlantis residents. Director James Wan has some decent land-based thrills, but this is a shallow-end DC movie. Rated PG-13. 139 minutes.

— P. Hartlaub

Arctic Mads Mikkelsen has the screen to himself in this intelligent, well-placed survival film about a man stranded in the Arctic, trying to find a way of being discovered and rescued. Rated PG-13. 97 minutes. — M. LaSalle

Bohemian Rhapsody Big and splashy, sentimental and not completely true, this is the biopic that Freddie Mercury deserved, an absorbing story about an outsider who was either going to be a weirdo or an artist, and so he became a very flamboyant artist. The soundtrack is full of Queen songs, and even if you’re not a big Queen fan, you’ll find they sound better in the movie than they do on the radio. Rated PG-13. 135 minutes. — M. LaSalle

Bumblebee The latest installment in the “Transformers” series, about an alien robot that befriends an angst-ridden teenager, actually has wit, charm and likable characters. It’s as if the often unwatchable franchise has pleasantly mutated into a robotic version of “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” — and become a decent popcorn movie for the holidays. Rated PG-13. 114 minutes. — D. Lewis