LITTLE ROCK — At area theaters
74
THE A-TEAM, PG-13 This bigscreen version of the ’80s TV action/comedy introduces a new team (with pretty much the same character names), a group of Iraq war veterans who become mercenaries for hire. (117 minutes)
83
CLASH OF THE TITANS, PG-13 A loose remake of the 1981 film, subbing CGI for Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion animation. Greek hero/demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington) leads a band of warriors against unholy demons and fearsome beasts in an attempt to defeat vengeful god of the underworld Hades (Ralph Fiennes) before he can seize power from Zeus (Liam Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. (103 minutes)
88
CYRUS, R John C. Reilly plays a divorced guy who, having all but given up on romance seven years after the break-up of his marriage, meets what he thinks is the right woman (Marisa Tomei) - until he meets the other man in her life, her 21-year-old son, who’s not ready to let her go. With Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener, Matt Walsh; directed by Jay and Mark Duplass. (92 minutes)
87
DATE NIGHT, PG-13 Steve Carell andTina Fey play a married couple whose date night goes wildly awry. (88 minutes)
78
DEATH AT A FUNERAL, R As a family comes together to lay a beloved husband and father to rest, mayhem ensues involving shocking revelations, festering resentments, ugly threats, blackmail and a misdirected corpse. A remake of a 2007 British film. (90 minutes)
88
DESPICABLE ME, PG A supervillain has to put his plans for the greatest heist in history - he’s going to steal the moon - on hold when he’s put in charge of three small orphan girls. Animated. (95 minutes)
88
GET HIM TO THE GREEK, R A record company intern (Jonah Hill) has two days to drag an uncooperative rock legend (Russell Brand) to Hollywood for a comeback concert. (109 minutes)
88
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
, not rated
A discredited journalist and a cunning computer hacker link a disappearance to a number of 40-yearold grotesque murders and a dark and appalling family history. Based on the novel by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Subtitled. (152 minutes)
81
GROWN UPS, PG-13 Over a Fourth of July weekend, 30 years since they graduated from high school, five former basketball teammates (Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider) gather at the lake house where they celebrated their biggest victory to mourn the passing of their coach and realize that just because they’re all grown up and have started families doesn’t mean that they’ve lost that old spark. (102 minutes)
79
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, PG A Viking teenager doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Animated. (98 minutes)
90
INCEPTION, PG-13 Leonardo Di-Caprio plays the ultimate dream thief, stealing secrets from deep within the subconscious, an international fugitive who gets a chance at redemption: not to steal an idea this time, but to plant one. With Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page; directed by Christopher Nolan. (148 minutes)
83
IRON MAN 2, PG-13 Robert Downey Jr. returns as the title superhero, akabillionaire inventor Tony Stark, now under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Of course, once he does, it’s bound to end up in the wrong hands, right? (125 minutes)
68
JONAH HEX, PG-13 Another graphic-novel-to-big-screen epic, focusing on a scarred gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter (Josh Brolin) with one foot in the Old West and the other “on the other side” (which provides plenty of opportunity for big-budget special effects) who receives an assignment he can’t refuse: track down and stop a dangerous terrorist (John Malkovich) who is gathering an army and preparing to unleash hell. (82 minutes)
72
JUST WRIGHT, PG Queen Latifah plays a sports trainer who finds herself falling in love with a professional basketball player while rehabilitating him from a career-threatening injury. (111 minutes)
83
THE KARATE KID, PG In this remake, Jaden Smith (son of Will) learns more than martial arts from Chinese master Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). (126 minutes)
74
KILLERS, PG-13 Katherine Heigl plays a woman on the rebound whothinks she’s found and married the dashing, handsome man of her dreams (Ashton Kutcher) - until the bullets start flying. Turns out he never quite got around to telling her he’s a superspy/hitman. (100 minutes)
87
KNIGHT AND DAY, PG-13 Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are a violent couple on the lam trying to avoid capture by a determined federal agent (Peter Sarsgaard). (130 minutes)
68
THE LAST AIRBENDER, PG A 12-year-old boy (Noah Ringer) provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos. (103 minutes)
78
THE LAST SONG, PG A father (Greg Kinnear) in a small Southern beach town gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenage daughter (Miley Cyrus), who’d rather be home in New York. (105 minutes)
78
LEAP YEAR, PG Amy Adams plays a woman determined to get married to the perfect guy, whose plan to follow her boyfriend to Dublin so she can propose to him on Feb. 29 goes predictably awry. (97 minutes)
77
LETTERS TO JULIET, PG A 1951 letter spurs a young American (Amanda Seyfried) visiting Verona, Italy, who joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to the legendary Juliet Capulet (of Romeo and ...) to help its author (Vanessa Redgrave) reconnect with a long-lost love. (105 minutes)
70
MARMADUKE, PG The outsized comic strip Great Dane moves to the big screen, living large in Orange County, Calif., but has a hard time fitting in with new four-legged friends and a potential puppy love. (87 minutes) 88 ONDINE, PG-13 Colin Farrell plays a recovering alcoholic Irish fisherman trying to scratch out a living and support his young daughter who finds something in the ocean that at least seems tobring him good luck. (111 minutes)
78
PREDATORS, R Adrien Brody plays a mercenary leading a group of human predators who discover that they’re being hunted as prey on the alien planet that produced the aliens in the original Predator series. (106 minutes)
82
ROBIN HOOD, PG-13 Russell Crowe takes a shot at the title role of a 13thcentury archer who assembles a mercenary and lethal gang of marauders to take on the corrupt and despotic sheriff of Nottingham while remaining loyal to the king and winning the love of spirited widow Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett). (148 minutes)
85
THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE,
PG
A seemingly average guy (Jay Baruchel) with hidden talents is the reluctant recruit of a master magician (Nicolas Cage) in a fight against the forces of darkness. With Alfred Molina and Teresa Palmer; directed by Jon Turteltaub. (111 minutes)
88
TOY STORY 3, G As owner Andy prepares to depart for college, Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen) and others in the gang face a future in a playroom full of untamed tots who can’t wait to get theirsticky little fingers on these “new” toys. (103 minutes)
86
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, PG-
13
The love triangle between mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart), vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) teeters as the werewolf pack and the Cullen clan join together to fight a new breed of vampires. (124 minutes)
88
WINTER’S BONE, R A 17-year-old (Jennifer Lawrence) challenges her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risks her life to track down her father, who has put their house in the Ozarks up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, she and her family will be turned out into the woods. With Lauren Sweetser, John Hawkes; directed by Debra Granik. (100 minutes)
Movie-rating
point system
Movies are rated on
a scale from 50 to
100. Guidelines for
moviegoers:
96-100 Transcendent
90-95 Exceptional
80-89 Better than most to remarkable
70-79 Average
60-69 Awful to mediocre
50-59 Irredeemable
MovieStyle, Pages 33 on 07/23/2010