Film clips

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82 ABOUT TIME, R A young man, scion of a family where the men have the ability to travel through time, can’t change history but he can change his life by traveling back and getting a girlfriend - a task that’s not as easy as it seems. With Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie; directed by Richard Curtis. (123 minutes)

70 BAGGAGE CLAIM, PG-13 Paula Patton plays a flight attendant who racks up 30,000 miles and countless comedic encounters trying to find Mr. Right so she can get engaged before her youngest sister’s wedding - in a month. (96 minutes)

89 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, PG-13 Tom Hanks plays the title character, Richard Phillips, the captain of the U.S. cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009 and the subject of a daring Navy rescue operation. (134 minutes)

87 CARRIE, R Not a remake but a “reimagining” of the 1976 movie based on the Stephen King tale, in which the title character (Chloe Grace Moretz), a shy outcast dominated by her extremely religious mother (Julianne Moore), unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. (92 minutes)

72 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2, PG Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his most infamous invention, a machine that turned water into food, causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But now he discovers that his invention not only survived, but is creating feral food animals. Animated. (95 minutes)

73 THE COUNSELOR, R A respected lawyer’s dalliance with an illegal business deal that spirals out of control. (111 minutes)

78 ELYSIUM, R In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium; the rest live on an overpopulated, ruined planet and, desperate to escape the rampant crime and poverty, turn to an unlikely hero (Matt Damon). (109 minutes)

87 ENDER’S GAME, PG-13 Under the tutelage of legendary commanders (Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley), a shy but strategically brilliant boy (Asa Butterfield) becomes Earth’s next great hope against a hostile alien race. (114 minutes)

87 ENOUGH SAID, PG-13 Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a divorced single masseuse dreading the empty nest when her daughter leaves for college, for whom romance blooms when she meet a sweet, funny and like-minded man (James Gandolfini) also facing an empty nest. Trouble surfaces when her new client and friend (Catherine Keener) constantly rags on her ex-husband (guess who?). (93 minutes)

78 ESCAPE PLAN, R One of the world’s foremost authorities on structural security (Sylvester Stallone), wrongly imprisoned, must recruit a fellow inmate (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from an ultra secret, high tech facility called “The Tomb.” (116 minutes)

84 THE FIFTH ESTATE, R Benedict Cumberbatch plays WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose platform that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously leak covert data is breaking hard news of a particularly sensitive kind. With Daniel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney; directed by Bill Condon. (124 minutes)

75 FREE BIRDS, PG Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good. Animated. (90 minutes)

89 GRAVITY, PG-13 A brilliant medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) on her first shuttle mission and a veteran astronaut (George Clooney) commanding his last flight before retiring have a horrific accident during a space walk, leaving them stranded, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness with no apparent chance for rescue. (90 minutes)

62 GROWN UPS 2, PG-13 The five former high-school basketball teammates who reunited after 30 years for the first movie have reunited for a second, including Lenny (Adam Sandler), who has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time, “the grownups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.” (101 minutes)

86 HOW I LIVE NOW, R In the near future, a withdrawn and alienated American teenager, sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside, begins to warm up to her charming surroundings and a handsome young man as tense news reports come in of an escalating conflict in Europe. With Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay, Corey Johnson; directed by Kevin Macdonald. (101 minutes)

75 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, PG-13 In this sequel, members of the haunted Lambert family seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. (105 minutes)

72 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA, R Johnny Knoxville plays the title character, on a journey across America with his 8-year-old grandson (Jackson Nicoll), playing pranks on supposedly “ordinary” folks, including male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners and biker-bar patrons, who have no idea what’s really going on. (92 minutes)

78 LAST VEGAS, PG-13 Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline play friends since childhood who, when one of them finally proposes to his much younger girlfriend, head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. (105 minutes)

83 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER, PG-13 Forest Whitaker plays a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. (132 minutes)

85 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, G In this Monsters Inc. prequel, college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal), in his first semester at Monsters University, finds his plans to become a primo Scarer sidelined when he crosses paths with hotshot Sulley (voice of John Goodman) and discovers that the mismatched pair will have to work together, along with an odd bunch of misfit monsters, to make it to the top. Animated. (110 minutes)

71 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, PG-13 A seemingly ordinary New York teenager (Lily Collins) discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. (130 minutes)

73 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS, PG Young demigod Percy Jackson and his friends embark on a treacherous odyssey through the Bermuda Triangle to find the Golden Fleece, battling terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and an ancient evil along the way. (106 minutes)

78 PLANES, PG Above the world of Disney’s/Pixar’s Cars comes the story of a plane (voice of Dane Cook) with dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer who turns to a seasoned naval aviator to help him get into shape - and conquer his fear of heights - before the big championship race. Animated. (92 minutes)

78 PRISONERS, R Hugh Jackman, searching for his apparently kidnapped 6-year-old daughter and her young friend, takes matters into his hands when the only suspect in the disappearance is released from jail, even if it means crossing the line between seeking justice and becoming a vigilante. (146 minutes)

85 RED 2, PG-13 Retired black-ops CIA agent Bruce Willis reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. (116 minutes)

67 THE SMURFS 2, PG When the evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties, and learns that only Smurfette’s secret spell can turn them into real Smurfs, it’s up to the rest of the clan to rescue her from his clutches. (105 minutes)

82 THOR: THE DARK WORLD, PG-13 Chris Hemsworth returns as Marvel Comics hero Thor, the Mighty Avenger, battling to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from the shadowy enemy, an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith, that returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. With Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgaard, Idris Elba, Rene Russo and Anthony Hopkins; directed by Alan Taylor. (120 minutes)

91 12 YEARS A SLAVE, R Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a free black man from pre-Civil War upstate New York who, abducted and sold into slavery, struggles not only to stay alive under the thumb of a malevolent owner, but to retain his dignity. With Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt; directed by Steve McQueen. (133 minutes)

88 WADJDA, PG A 10-year-old Saudi girl challenges deep-rooted traditions in a determined quest to buy a bicycle - and sees one last chance in the cash prize for winning her school’s Koran recitation competition. (98 minutes)

85 WE’RE THE MILLERS, R Jason Sudeikis plays a small time marijuana dealer whose attempt to help out some local teens leads to a drug-smuggling trip to Mexico with a fake wife and kids in tow. (110 minutes)

Movie-rating point system

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