(opening dates are tentative)
Fill the Void, PG When the daughter of a well-to-do rabbi dies in childbirth, the mother pressures her younger daughter to marry her late sister’s husband. Subtitled. With Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir, Ido Samuel; directed by Rama Burshtein. Aug. 2
I’m So Excited, R Pedro Almodovar’s latest is a comedy about a doomed airliner heading to Mexico City and the lengths the pilots, flight crew and passengers will go to escape the anguish of the moment. With Carlos Arceces, Cecile Roth, Penelope Cruz. 90 minutes. Aug. 2
Smurfs 2, PG When the evil wizard Gargamel creates a couple of mischievous Smurf-like creatures called the Naughties, and learns that only the 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. With voices of Neil Patrick Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, Katy Perry, Jonathan Winters, Christina Ricci, George Lopez; directed by Raja Gosnell. Opens Wednesday
Stuck in Love, R Three years past his divorce, a novelist (Greg Kinnear), still obsessing over the wife who left him for another man, faces the challenges of a neighbor with-benefits trying to push him back into the dating pool, a fiercely independent college-student daughter publishing her first novel and a teenage son trying to find his voice. With Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff; directed by Josh Boone. Aug. 2
2 Guns, R Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg play operatives from competing bureaus who have been working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate who, when their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel goes haywire, are forced to go on the run together — and neither knows that the other is a federal agent. With Paula Patton, Bill Paxton, Edward James Olmos, James Marsden; directed by Baltasar Kormakur. Aug. 2
MovieStyle, Pages 33 on 07/26/2013