Film clips

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68 AFTER EARTH, PG-13 A teenager (Jaden Smith) embarks on a perilous journey to get help to his critically injured father (Will Smith) after a crash landing strands them on Earth 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. (100 minutes)

88 BEFORE MIDNIGHT, R Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and director Richard Linklater reunite for the third meeting of Jesse and Celine - first on a European train with one romantic evening together in Vienna in Before Sunrise; then, nine years later in Paris in Before Sunset; and now, both in their 40s, they meet again nine years later, still in Greece. (109 minutes)

67 THE BIG WEDDING, R Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton, long divorced, must play the happy couple for their adopted son’s wedding once they discover that his ultraconservative biological mother is flying halfway across the world to attend. (90 minutes)

79 THE CROODS, PG When the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed,the world’s first prehistoric family discovers an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures. Animated. (98 minutes)

82 EPIC, PG A teenage girl magically transported into a secret universe where the forces of good and evil do battle deep in the forest joins a ragtag team of “fun and whimsical characters” to save their world - and ours. Animated. (102 minutes)

85 FAST & FURIOUS 6, PG-13 Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) are living unfulfilled lives despite extracting $100 million from the kingpin’s empire they toppled, but full pardons await the speedsters if they can help Hobbs (Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson) shut down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Luke Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command (Michelle Rodriguez) once linked to Dom. (130 minutes)

87 FRANCES HA, R A New Yorker who is an apprentice for a dance company but who’s not really a dancer throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of their fulfillment fades. With Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver, Grace Gummer, Mickey Sumner, Patrick Heusinger. (86 minutes)

82 G.I. JOE: RETALIATION, PG-13 The G.I. Joes fight their mortal enemy, Cobra, while forced to contend with threats from within their government. With D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson. (110 minutes)

74 THE HANGOVER PART III, R No wedding. No bachelor party. A grieving Alan turns to his friends in the Wolfpack, and when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off. (100 minutes)

79 THE HEAT, R An uptight, straitlaced FBI special agent (Sandra Bullock) teams up with a foulmouthed, short-fused Boston cop (Melissa McCarthy) to bring down a drug lord. With Marlon Wayans, Michael Rapaport. (117 minutes)

87 THE ICEMAN, R Based on the true story of a notorious mob contract killer who, until his 1986 arrest for the murder of more than 100 men, appeared to be living the American dream as a devoted husband and father whose wife and daughters had no clue about his real profession. (106 minutes)

88 KON-TIKI, PG-13 Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five other men put together an expedition that crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsa-wood raft in 1947 to prove how pre-Columbian South Americans likely crossed the sea and settled on Polynesian islands. (118 minutes)

80 LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED, R A lonely, middle-aged English widower and estranged single father living in Denmark and a Danish hairdresser, recuperating from a long bout of illness who’s just been left by her husband for a younger woman, embark on a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of his son and her daughter. (116 minutes)

78 MAN OF STEEL, PG-13 Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Henry Cavill as the latest cinematic incarnation of Superman, blasted to earth as a boy, yadda, yadda … discovers he has unusual powers, yadda, yadda … must go through a process to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do, yadda, yadda … and discover the hero within so he can save the world and yadda, yadda, yadda, become the symbol of hope for all mankind. (143minutes)

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) 89 MUD, PG-13 Writer/director Jeff Nichols shot most of this movie in Arkansas, a Mark Twain-like adventure involving two boys who find a man hiding on a Mississippi River island with a pocketful of tall tales that turn out to be true. (130 minutes)

77 NOW YOU SEE ME, PG-13 A super-team of the world’s greatest illusionists known as “The Four Horsemen” pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of an an elite FBI squad that’s trying to nail them. (101 minutes)

68 OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, R When a terrorist mastermind captures the White House and kidnaps the president, it’s up to a discredited former Secret Service agent and his inside knowledge to help his team retake the building and save the chief executive. (120 minutes)

78 PAIN & GAIN, R Based on the true story of a group of Miami-area bodybuilders involved in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder. (129 minutes)

80 PEEPLES, PG-13 Sparks fly in the Hamptons when a regular guy (Craig Robinson) crashes the reunion of the preppy Peeples family to ask for their precious daughter’s (Kerry Washington) hand in marriage. (95 minutes)

67 SCARY MOVIE 5, PG-13 More horrific send ups and lampoonery of more horror movie films and franchises. (85 minutes)

87 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, PG-13 After a shocking act of terrorism, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), in defiance of regulations and with a personal score to settle, leads the Enterprise crew on a manhunt to “capture an unstoppable force of destruction and bring those responsible to justice.” (132 minutes)

87 THIS IS THE END, R Six friends (Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill) are trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. (107 minutes)

82 WHITE HOUSE DOWN, PG-13 A Capitol cop (Channing Tatum) turned down for his dream job - to be a Secret Service agent - nonetheless gets his chance to save the president (Jamie Foxx) and his daughter when a heavily armed paramilitary group takesover the White House. With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, James Woods. (137 minutes)

87 WORLD WAR Z, PG-13 Brad Pitt plays a United Nations guy in a race against time to stop a “pandemic” (a virus that kills, reanimates and turns people into flesh-eating zombies). (116 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