FILM CLIPS

At area theaters

75 ANNIE, PG In this remake of the stage and screen musical, Quvenzhane Wallis plays the title foster child who escapes her horrid foster mother, Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz), when a wealthy mayoral candidate (Jamie Foxx), in a campaign gimmick, takes her in, whereupon she turns his life, and that of everybody else around him, upside down. (118 minutes)

90 BIG EYES, PG-13 Christoph Waltz plays a supposed artist who became a national celebrity in the 1960s by mass-producing and marketing prints of big-eyed kids. It turns out that the real artist was his shy wife (Amy Adams). (105 minutes)

87 BIG HERO 6, PG A plus-size inflatable robot (voice of Scott Adsit) and a prodigy (voice of Ryan Potter) form a special bond that comes in handy when the boy is catapulted into the midst of danger and transforms his six friends into a band of high-tech heroes. Animated. (108 minutes)

90 BIRDMAN (OR THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE), R Michael Keaton plays an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play while battling his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career and himself. (119 minutes)

79 THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, PG-13 Director Peter Jackson closes out his second Tolkien trilogy as title Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), and the Dwarfs he has been accompanying on a quest to retake the Lonely Mountain have unwittingly loosed the dragon Smaug on the folks who helped them along the way. Meanwhile, armies of Elves, Orcs and Men are drawn thither by the rumor of the mountain's supposedly unguarded treasures, and Bilbo -- and Middle Earth -- must survive a final massive battle before he can return to his home Hobbit hole. (144 minutes)

68 HORRIBLE BOSSES 2, R Three returning guys from the first film (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis) are now their own bosses after starting a business, but after a slick investor pulls the rug out from under them, they hatch a misguided plan to kidnap and ransom his son to regain control of their company. (108 minutes)

85 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY -- PART 1, PG-13 Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), having shattered the games forever, and under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). (123 minutes)

90 THE IMITATION GAME, PG-13 Benedict Cumberbatch plays British computer pioneer Alan Turing, credited with cracking the German Enigma code that helped the Allies win World War II, but who, after the war, found himself the victim of an unenlightened British establishment because of his sexual orientation. (114 minutes)

90 INHERENT VICE, R Joaquin Phoenix plays a private eye in the psychedelic '60s whose ex shows up out of nowhere with a story about a plot to kidnap her current billionaire land developer boyfriend. With Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Martin Short and Jena Malone; directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. (148 minutes)

86 INTO THE WOODS, PG Director Rob Marshall, who brought the musical Chicago to the big screen, hopes to reprise its success with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's modern twist on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. With Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, Lilla Crawford as Little Red Riding Hood, Johnny Depp as the Big Bad Wolf, Daniel Huttlestone as Jack (as in the beanstalk), ­MacKenzie Mauzy as Rapunzel, Chris Pine as Cinderella's Prince, plus James Corden and Emily Blunt as a baker and his wife and Meryl Streep as the witch who has put a curse on them. (124 minutes)

73 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB, PG Ben Stiller returns, for the third time, as the museum maven who must globe-trot in time and space to save the magic before it is gone forever. (97 minutes)

90 SELMA, PG-13 David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King Jr., whose campaign to secure voting rights for all Americans culminates with the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., that led to President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. With Cedric The Entertainer, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson; directed by Ava DuVernay. (127 minutes)

81 TAKEN 3, PG-13 Liam Neeson returns as the ex-government operative, this time falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home, employing -- as he's pursued by a savvy police inspector -- his "particular set of skills" to track the real perp, protect his family from kidnappers and killers, and exact his unique brand of justice. With Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Forest Whitaker; directed by Olivier Megaton. (109 minutes)

82 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, PG-13 Eddie Redmayne plays astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with a fellow Cambridge student (Felicity Jones), then receives the earth-shattering diagnosis, at 21, that he has ALS. (123 minutes)

75 UNBROKEN, PG-13 Jack O'Connell plays an Olympic running champion taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II who withstands their attempts to ... well, you can guess from the title. (137 minutes)

88 WILD, R Reese Witherspoon portrays Cheryl Strayed, who hiked the 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail as a way to recover from a catastrophe. ( 115 minutes)

82 THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH, PG-13 During the London bombings of World War II and 40 years after the first evidence cropped up that the place is haunted, two schoolteachers (Phoebe Fox, Helen McCrory) lead a group of children evacuating to a remote village, where they realize they are not alone. (98 minutes)

MovieStyle on 01/16/2015

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