At area theaters
88 AIN’T IN IT FOR MY HEALTH: A FILM ABOUT LEVON HELM, not rated Documentary director Jacob Hatley spent time with the late Levon Helm at his home in Woodstock, N.Y., while Helm was creating his first studio album in 25 years. With Billy Bob Thornton, Libby Titus, Larry Campbell. (83 minutes)
82 THE CALL, R Halle Berry plays a veteran 911 operator who realizes, after taking a life-altering call from an abducted teenage girl (Abigail Breslin), that she must confront a killer from her past to save the girl’s life. (95 minutes)
87 THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, R Director Robert Redford plays a public interest lawyer and single suburban father whose world is suddenly turned upside down when a brash young reporter (Shia LaBeouf) outs him as a ’70s anti-war radical fugitive wanted for murder. (125 minutes)
79 THE CROODS, PG When the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed, the world’s first prehistoric family discover 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, with voices of Beyonce Knowles, Colin Farrell, Christoph Waltz, Amanda Seyfried, Steven Tyler; directed by Chris Wedge. (102 minutes)
74 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, PG Lionized astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) and his quiet, nerdy by-the-rules brother (Rob Corddry) find themselves in a fiendishly plotted trap when they rocket off to answer an SOS from a notoriously dangerous planet. Animated. (90 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. With Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Gina Carano; directed by Justin Lin. (130 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; directed by Jon M. Chu. (110 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 City in 1922 and finds himself enmeshed in the world of the super rich. (143 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. With Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, John Goodman; directed by Todd Phillips. (100 minutes)
83 IRON MAN 3, PG-13 Brash-but brilliant industrialist Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.),embarks on a harrowing quest to hunt down the enemy who has destroyed his personal world, forced to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. (130 minutes)
87 JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, PG-13 A young man who inadvertently opens a door between our world and the home of fearsome giants re-ignites an ancient war. With Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, Ewan McGregor; directed by Bryan Singer. (115 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)
85 OBLIVION, PG-13 Tom Cruise plays one of the last remaining drone repairmen on a war-torn future Earth whose life is turned upside down after he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. (126 minutes)
77 OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, PG James Franco plays Oscar Zoroaster Diggs, a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, where he encounters three witches (Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams) who are not entirely convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. (127 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)
77 SNITCH, PG-13 Supposedly “inspired by true events.” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays a father who, determined to save his wrongly accused teenage son from a long prison sentence for drug distribution, makes a deal to infiltrate a drug cartel as an undercover informant. (112 minutes)
88 SPRING BREAKERS, R Four girlfriends hold up a restaurant to finance a spring break adventure, but find themselves in debt to a local rapper, drug pusher and arms dealer who lures them into a criminal underworld “that’s as lurid as it is liberating.” (94 minutes)
87 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, PG-13 In the wake of 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)
71 TEMPTATION, PG-13 Tyler Perry is the writer, producer and director but, for a change, does not appear in this woman’s journey into the nature of desire. (111 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 39 on 05/31/2013