Film clips

At area theaters

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. (100 minutes)

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

83 THE CONJURING, R A couple of world-renowned paranormal investigators (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga) find themselves forced to confront a powerful demonic entity. With Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor; directed by James Wan. (112 minutes)

86 DESPICABLE ME 2, PG Steve Carell returns as the voice of semi-supervillain Gru. Animated. With voices of Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Russell Brand, Steve Coogan, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt; directed by Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin. (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)

83 GIRL MOST LIKELY, PG-13 After her career and relationship hit the skids, a New York playwright must make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother, where a strange man is sleeping in her old bedroom and an even stranger man is sleeping in her mother’s bed. With Kristen Wiig, Matt Dillon, Natasha Lyonne, Annette Bening, Darren Criss; directed by Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini. (1o3 minutes)

77 THE GREAT GATSBY, PG-13 The latest film version based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, the story of a would-be writer who moves from the Midwest to New York in 1922 and finds himself enmeshed in the world of the super rich. (143 minutes)

62 GROWN UPS 2, PG-13 The five former high-school basketball teammates who reunited after 30 years for the first movie have reunited for a second, including Lenny (Adam Sandler), who has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time, “the grown-ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.” (101 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. (117 minutes)

77 THE INTERNSHIP, PG-13 Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play salesmen with careers torpedoed by the digital world who, trying to prove they are not obsolete, talk their way into a coveted internship at Google. (119 minutes)

89 THE KINGS OF SUMMER, R Three young guys, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land - and testing their friendship. With Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Moises Arias, Mary Lynn Rajskub; directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. (93 minutes)

75 THE LONE RANGER, PG-13 Spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a masked legend of justice and fighter against greed and corruption. With Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Ruth Wilson, Helena Bonham Carter; directed by Gore Verbinski. (149 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. (143 minutes)

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). 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)

83 ONLY GOD FORGIVES, R When his brother is murdered, the respected guy who runs a Thai boxing club and smuggling ring finds himself forced to settle the score with his brother’s killers. With Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam, Vithaya Pansringarm; directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. (90 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)

87 PACIFIC RIM, PG-13 When massive robots piloted by pairs of mind locked humans aren’t enough to beat back legions of monstrous creatures that have risen from the sea, mankind’s defenders must rely on two unlikely heroes - a washed-up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi). (131 minutes)

71 THE PURGE, R In a future America, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity - including murder - becomes legal, and a resident of a gated community (Ethan Hawke) and his family must make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. (85 minutes)

85 RED 2, PG-13 Retired black-ops CIA agent Bruce Willis reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. With John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Brian Cox, Neal McDonough; directed by Dean Parisot. (116 minutes)

70 R.I.P.D., PG-13 Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds play undead cops in the Rest in Peace Department, protecting the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. With Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephanie Szostak, Robert Knepper, James Hong, Marisa Miller; directed by Robert Schwentke. (96 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 Mc-Bride, Jonah Hill) are trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. (107 minutes)

75 TURBO, PG An underdog snail’s impossible dream of winning the Indy 500 kicks into overdrive when he miraculously attains the power of super-speed. Animated. With voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti; directed by David Soren. (96 minutes)

82 WHITE HOUSE DOWN, PG-13 A Capitol cop (Channing Tatum) gets his chance to save the president (Jamie Foxx) and his daughter when a heavily armed paramilitary group takes over the White House. (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

MovieStyle, Pages 35 on 07/26/2013

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