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75 ADDICTED, R Sharon Leal plays a successful businesswoman with a dream husband she loves (Boris Kodjoe), two wonderful children and a flourishing career, but she's still drawn to temptations she cannot escape or resist. (105 minutes)
76 ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY, PG Ed Oxenbould plays 11-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, only to discover that it's also a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for his family (Jennifer Garner, Steve Carell, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey). (81 minutes)
72 ANNABELLE, R This prequel to The Conjuring shows how the evil doll (now locked up in an occult museum in Connecticut and visited only by a priest who blesses it twice a month) became a conduit to the damned via an entity conjured up by satanic cultists who violently attack the couple who purchased it. (98 minutes)
71 THE BEST OF ME, PG-13 Two onetime high school sweethearts returning to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend are reunited after 20 years apart and find that though it reignites the love they've never forgotten, forces that drove them apart live on. With Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, Liana Liberato, Luke Bracey, Sebastian Arcelus, Gerald McRaney; directed by Michael Hoffman. (119 minutes)
89 THE BOOK OF LIFE, PG A young man torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart embarks on an adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears. Animated. With voices of Diego Luna, Channing Tatum, Zoe Saldana, Ice Cube, Ron Perlman, Christina Applegate, Cheech Marin, Placido Domingo, Hector Elizondo, Gabriel Iglesias, Ricardo "El Mandril" Sanchez, Danny Trejo; directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez. (95 minutes)
81 THE BOXTROLLS, PG A community of quirky, mischievous underground creatures has lovingly raised an orphaned human boy (voice of Isaac Hempstead Wright), who must go above ground to save them from a villain (voice of Ben Kingsley) plotting to get rid of the Boxtrolls. Animated. (97 minutes)
89 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, PG-13 A band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier faces off against the growing nation of genetically evolved apes on the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species. (130 minutes)
78 DOLPHIN TALE 2, PG Another true story inspired by the life of Winter the dolphin (a resident of the Clearwater, Fla., Marine Aquarium, who plays herself in the film), now joined by a baby dolphin named Hope, who was rescued by the aquarium in 2010. (107 minutes)
67 DRACULA UNTOLD, PG-13 Luke Evans plays the title character in this "how he became Dracula" origin story. (92 minutes)
77 THE EQUALIZER, R Denzel Washington plays a guy who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and begun a new, quiet life -- until he feels obligated to come out of self-imposed retirement and help a young girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters. (131 minutes)
87 FURY, R With the Allies making their final push into Nazi Germany in April 1945, a battle-hardened sergeant (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. With Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs; directed by David Ayer. (134 minutes)
85 GONE GIRL, R Ben Affleck plays a husband who reports his wife (Rosamund Pike) missing on their fifth wedding anniversary, but pressure from police and a growing media frenzy start to eat at his portrait of a blissful union and suspicions begin to arise that he may have done away with her. (149 minutes)
90 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, PG-13 Another Marvel marvel: A brash human adventurer (Chris Pratt), after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe, joins up with a quartet of disparate misfits to sidestep an unrelenting bounty hunt and ... yep, you guessed it ... guard the galaxy. (121 minutes)
79 INTO THE STORM, PG-13 A storm chaser goes to extremes for that once-in-a-lifetime shot while others seek shelter as a town is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. (89 minutes)
86 THE JUDGE, R Robert Downey Jr. plays a big-city lawyer who returns to his childhood home, where his estranged father, the town's judge (Robert Duvall), is a suspect in a murder. (141 minutes)
70 LEFT BEHIND, PG-13 Nicolas Cage plays an airline pilot who, just hours after the Rapture has caused millions of people around the globe to simply vanish, is 30,000 feet over the Atlantic with a damaged plane, terrified passengers and a desperate desire to get back to his family. (110 minutes) Oct. 3
75 LUCY, R Scarlett Johansson plays a woman who, when an experiment turns her into a merciless warrior beyond human logic, turns the tables on her captors. (90 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 begins to turn her pure heart to stone, becomes bent on revenge and places a curse upon the newborn infant of her persecutor's successor. (97 minutes)
78 THE MAZE RUNNER, PG-13 A young man (Dylan O'Brien) finds himself trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys. With no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization, he must piece together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. (113 minutes)
87 MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN, R High school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image and their love lives. With Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, Adam Sandler; directed by Jason Reitman. (119 minutes)
71 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE, PG When world-famous air racer Dusty (voice of Dane Cook) learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he shifts gears and enters the world of aerial firefighting, joining a dynamic crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park from raging wildfire -- including spirited super scooper Dipper (voice of Julie Bowen). (83 minutes)
78 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, PG-13 Four outcast brothers rise from the sewers and work with a fearless reporter (Megan Fox) and her wisecracking cameraman (Will Arnett) to save New York and unravel the evil Shredder's (Tohoru Masamune) diabolical plan. (101 minutes)
83 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, R After the death of their father, four grown siblings must return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother (Jane Fonda) and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. (103 minutes)
82 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION, PG-13 As humanity picks up the pieces after an epic battle that destroyed a great city but saved the world, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history and an ancient, powerful new menace puts Earth in its cross hairs. (157 minutes)
77 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, R Liam Neeson plays an ex-New York cop working as an unlicensed private investigator who reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and brutally murdered his wife. (113 minutes)
78 WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL, PG Jim Caviezel plays the coach who took a high school football team from obscurity to a record-shattering 151-game winning streak. (115 minutes)
MovieStyle on 10/24/2014