At area theaters
82 ABOUT LAST NIGHT, R Not a remake but a "modern reimagining" of the 1986 film. (100 minutes)
77 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, PG-13 Only Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) can protect his fellow New Yorkers from the formidable villains who threaten the city, including Electro (Jamie Foxx). (142 minutes)
87 BEARS, G From Disneynature, a year in the life of two Alaskan mother bears as they impart life lessons to their impressionable young cubs. (77 minutes)
86 BELLE, PG Inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of Adm. Sir John Lindsay, raised by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, whose lineage affords her certain privileges but whose status causes suitors to avoid her -- until she meets an idealistic young vicar's son bent on changing society, including ending slavery in England. (104 minutes)
71 BLENDED, PG-13 After a disastrous blind date, single parents (Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore) agree on only one thing: They never want to see each other again. Then they discover they've signed up for a family vacation with their kids at a luxurious African safari resort and are stuck together for a week in the same suite. (117 minutes)
90 CHEF, R Director Jon Favreau plays the title character, who, having suddenly quit his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, ends up in Miami teamed with his ex-wife, his friend and his son to launch a food truck. (115 minutes)
83 EDGE OF TOMORROW, PG-13 In a near future in which an alien race has launched an unrelenting assault on Earth that no existing military unit in the world can fight, Tom Cruise plays an officer killed on a suicide mission who finds himself caught in a time loop that, as he repeats the same brutal combat, increases his skills. (113 minutes)
86 FADING GIGOLO, R Director John Turturro plays a guy in need of money, whose friend (Woody Allen) talks him into becoming a gigolo with him as his manager. With Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone, Liev Schreiber. (90 minutes)
87 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, PG-13 Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort play extraordinary teenagers who meet and fall in love at a cancer support group, sharing an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. (125 minutes)
87 GODZILLA, PG-13 Everybody's favorite post-nuclear monster, Godzilla, battles malevolent creatures that are bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance. (123 minutes)
88 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, PG Heroic Viking Hiccup and his faithful dragon Toothless must protect the peace and save the future of men and dragons from the power-hungry Drago. Animated. With voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Kit Harington, Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig; directed by Dean DeBlois. (105 minutes)
91 THE IMMIGRANT, R A woman, separated at Ellis Island from the sister she sailed with from their native Poland to New York in search of a new start and the American dream, winds up in the clutches of a charming but wicked pimp -- and finds hope of rescue from his cousin, a dashing stage magician. With Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Angela Sarafyan, Dagmara Dominczyk; directed by James Gray. (120 minutes)
85 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY'S RETURN, PG Animators once again invade the Land of Oz, this time with a 3-D musical based on the adventure books by Roger Stanton Baum, Oz creator L. Frank's great-grandson. Dorothy (voice of Lea Michele) is whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), the Lion (Jim Belushi), the Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer) and Glinda (Bernadette Peters) from a devious new villain, the Jester (Martin Short). (88 minutes)
89 THE LEGO MOVIE, PG An ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average Lego minifigure (voice of Chris Pratt), mistakenly identified as the key to saving the world, joins a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant. Computer animated in 3-D. (100 minutes)
83 MALEFICENT, PG In this prequel/remake of Sleeping Beauty from the villain's point of view, Angelina Jolie plays the title role of a beautiful young woman who, after a ruthless betrayal turns her pure heart to stone, becomes bent on revenge and places a curse upon the newborn infant of her persecutor's successor. (97 minutes)
82 MILLION DOLLAR ARM, PG A once successful sports agent (Jon Hamm) being edged out by bigger, slicker competitors comes up with an idea to save his business: Seek ball players among Indian cricket players for the next baseball pitching sensation. The goal: Get the two finalists from among thousands of hopefuls signed to a major-league team. (124 minutes)
88 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST, R Co-writer/director Seth MacFarlane plays a cowardly sheep farmer whose girlfriend left him after he backed out of a gunfight, who then falls for a mysterious and beautiful woman who helps him find his courage -- especially when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge. (116 minutes)
86 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN, PG Super-genius canine Mr. Peabody and his mischievous boy, Sherman, took all kinds of time-travel adventures, via their "Wabac" machine, on the old Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends show. But when Sherman and his friend Penny accidentally rip a hole in the universe, wreaking havoc on the most important events in world history, Mr. Peabody must come to their rescue. Animated. (90 minutes)
86 MUPPETS MOST WANTED, PG The Muppet gang, on a world tour and selling out grand theaters in several European capitals, find themselves entangled in an international crime caper headed by a master criminal who's a dead ringer for Kermit. (112 minutes)
72 NEED FOR SPEED, PG-13 This latest video-game derivative involves a blue-collar mechanic (Aaron Paul), just out of prison on a manslaughter frame-up, who takes on his arrogant ex-partner in a cross-country race against time that begins as a mission for revenge but proves to be one of redemption. (130 minutes)
82 NEIGHBORS, R After the birth of their baby, a young couple suffering from arrested development battle the next-door fraternity house. (96 minutes)
72 THE OTHER WOMAN, R Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to punish the lying, three-timing jerk who has been cheating on them. (109 minutes)
70 RIDE ALONG, PG-13 A squad-car ride-along turns into 24 hours of insanity when a high school security guard (Kevin Hart), trying to show he has what it takes to marry the sister (Tika Sumpter) of a decorated detective (Ice Cube), enters the police academy. (100 minutes)
75 RIO 2, G Our animated animal heroes, trying to fit into the Amazon wilds after being hurtled out of the big city, encounter a vengeful rival and worse -- an unpleasant in-law. (101 minutes)
78 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE, R So, although all 300 Spartans died by the end of the first movie, since when has that ever stopped the making of a sequel? The Spartans' heroic sacrifice has delayed the armies of Persian Emperor Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) just long enough for Athenian General Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) to try to unite all Greece against the invaders. (102 minutes)
85 TRANSCENDENCE, PG-13 Johnny Depp plays the foremost researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the entirety of human knowledge with the full range of human emotions, a project that has made him the prime target of anti-tech extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. (119 minutes)
83 22 JUMP STREET, R Now out of high school (for the second time), undercover officers (Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum) are now undercover at a local college, where they not only have to crack the case but figure out if they can have a mature relationship. With Ice Cube, Amber Stevens, Craig Roberts; directed by Phil Lord, Chris Miller. (109 minutes)
88 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, PG-13 The ultimate X-Men ensemble -- those from the original trilogy joining forces with their younger selves -- fights an epic battle for the survival of the species that must change the past to save the future. (131 minutes)
MovieStyle on 06/20/2014