Quick Flicks

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Julia Stockler and Carol Duarte star in a film about two sisters forced to separate, each thinking the other is living out her dreams. (R —139 minutes) D, N, S.

Liam Neeson gives a powerful performance in a drama in which his wife (Lesley Manville) is diagnosed with cancer. But it’s so much a film about disease as it is the testing of love’s limits. (R — 92 minutes) N, S.

Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas star in a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Jeremy Teicher’s film was shot at the site of the real 2018 Games, in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (PG-13 — 85 minutes) P, S.

Riley Keough is outstanding as a woman with a troubled past stranded with her fiancé’s children during a blizzard, when strange events occur. (R — 108 minutes) N, P, V.

Katie Holmes stars in a stand-alone sequel to “The Boy.” In this version a family moves into Heelshire Mansion, unaware of the goings-on in the first film. Their son makes friends with a life-like doll. Horror follows. (PG-13 — 86 minutes) V.

Harrison Ford stars in the latest version of the classic Jack London story, along with Buck, a visually fascinating computergenreated dog. Gorgeous scenery is a bonus. (PG — 100 minutes) P, V.

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Julia Garner is terrific in Kitty Green’s study of a toxic workplace run by an unseen Harvey Weinsteinlike boss. (R — 85 minutes) P.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a third installment of the franchise in which they play cops. With plenty of call-backs to the other films, it offers plenty for fans. (R — 123 minutes) D, P, S, V.

Robert Downey Jr. is as much a hindrance as a help in the latest version of the doctor who can talk to the animals. (PG — 101 minutes) P.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell can’t lift ‘Downhill’ to the heights of ‘Force Majeure,’ the film it’s a remake of. (R — 86 minutes) P, S.

Lucy Hale and Maggie Q star in a horror version of the 1970s TV show. (PG-13 — 110 minutes) D, P, V.

Nancy Stafford plays a woman not married to the President of the United States but who runs for First Lady. (PG —101 minutes)

Matt Damon and Christian Bale star as the men who brought Ford to glory Le Mans in this technically superb (if dramatically flawed) race-car film. (PG-13 — 152 minutes) P.

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Ritchie’s film delivers twists sure to confuse and cringe-worthy racial jokes. Add in some bestiality and an attempted rape of a female character, and you’re left trying to answer the question: “What did I just watch?” (R —113 minutes) D, P, S, V.

A horror version of the familiar fairy tale. Which, come to think of it, is pretty scary to begin with. With Sophia Lillis and Samuel Leakey. (PG-13 — 87 minutes) D.

The superhero girl-gang film we’ve been waiting for. But it’s more of a Harley Quinn biopic. (R — 109 minutes) D, S, V.

Terrence Malick has made a transcendent film, a deeply moral meditation of an Austrian man who conscientiously objects to Hitler at profound personal cost. (PG-13 – 174 minutes) V.

Ip Man (Donnie Yen) moves to the U.S., where his student, Bruce Lee (Kwok-Kwan Chan), has opened a school, angering the local martial arts community. (Not rated — 105 minutes)

Taika Waititi pulls off a balancing act in his film about a boy (Roman Griffin Davis, terrific) whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler (Waititi). Obviously questions of tone and taste arise, but Waititi and the cast make it work. (PG-13 — 108 minutes) P, V.

Enrique Salanic stars as a 19-year-old boy living with his mother in Guatemala. When he meets Luis (Manolo Herrera), his life changes. (Not rated — 85 minutes)

Danny DeVito and Danny Glover join the cast of this sequel, giving video game avatars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart new voices to impersonate. The writing is even lazier than in 2017’s “Welcome to the Jungle,” but the CGI ostrich stampede is mildly cool. (PG-13 — 123 minutes) P.

Jamie Foxx stars in an otherwise flat dramatization of a fight to overturn the wrongful conviction of a black man for murdering a white woman. (PG-13 —136 minutes)

Film attempts to tell the story of a fallen Vietnam War hero. Told with flashbacks and narration, it does little to inspire. (R — 110 minutes) P, V.

Daniel Craig leads an allstar cast in a grand whodunit that smiles as it spins you on a merry-goround of deceit. ( (PG-13 — 130 minutes). V, P, D.

Greta Gerwig’s take on the beloved novel of four sisters growing up in Civil War-era New England is handsome and heartfelt fare, if uneven. (PG — 134 minutes)

Sam Mendes’ film about two soldiers racing to the front to deliver a message during World War I is an awesome technical achievement. But the decision to make it look like one long shot sometimes distracts. (R — 119 minutes) P, V.

Bong Joon Ho looks at class division and warfare through two families at either end of the wealth spectrum in his nearly perfect film. (R — 132

A woman (Issa Rae) finds a photograph in the belongings of her estranged mother, who has died suddenly. It leads her to discover her mother’s past, and leads to romance. With LaKeith Stanfield. (PG-13 — 106 minutes) P, S.

A visually stunning, emotionally wrenching period drama about two women in love in the 18th century, and an instantly iconic work of queer cinema (R – 121 minutes) N, S.

The speedy title critter has spirit and Jim Carrey rolls out vintage goofiness as Dr. Robotnik in the family-friendly adventure. But the creative juices run out quickly.

Will Smith stars in an animated film as a secret agent who gets turned into a pigeon; Tom Holland plays the tech geek who must help him to save the world. (PG — 101 minutes) V.

The movie is unquestionably entertaining. But it’s not particularly challenging. (PG-13 — 141 minutes) V.

Pierfrancesco Favino plays Tommaso Buscetta, a real-life mobster turned informant. (R — 145 minutes) N, P, S, V.

Kristen Stewart is part of a crew of researchers trying to survive an earthquake, and something worse. (PG-13 — 95 minutes) P.