FILM CLIPS

At area theaters

71 THE BEST OF ME, PG-13 Two one-time high school sweethearts returning to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend are reunited after 20 years apart and find that, though it re-ignites the love they've never forgotten, forces that drove them apart live on. (119 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)

88 BOYHOOD, R Director Richard Linklater has spent 12 years filming this story as seen through the eyes of a child (Ellar Coltrane) who literally grows up on-screen. (165 minutes)

88 CITIZENFOUR, R Laura Poitras changed the focus of her documentary in January 2013 from post-Sept. 11, 2001, security to the person identifying himself as "citizenfour" while sending her encrypted emails blowing the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies. And yes, it turned out to be Edward Snowden. (114 minutes)

72 DUMB AND DUMBER TO, PG-13 Directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly are back, and so are Jim Carrey as Lloyd and Jeff Daniels as Harry, as dumb as or dumber than ever, this time on a road trip to find a child Harry never knew he had, and the responsibility neither of them should ever be given. (110 minutes)

77 THE EQUALIZER, R Denzel Washington plays a guy who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and begun a new, quiet life -- until he feels obligated to come out of self-imposed retirement and help a girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) under the control of ultraviolent Russian gangsters. (131 minutes)

87 FURY, R With the Allies making their final push into Nazi Germany in April 1945, a battle-hardened sergeant (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. (134 minutes)

85 GONE GIRL, R Ben Affleck plays a husband who reports his wife (Rosamund Pike) missing on their fifth wedding anniversary, but pressure from police and a growing media frenzy start to eat at his portrait of a blissful union and suspicions begin to arise that he may have done away with her. (149 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 their own 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)

83 INTERSTELLAR, PG-13 A group of explorers makes use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. (169 minutes)

86 THE JUDGE, R Robert Downey Jr. plays a big-city lawyer who returns to his childhood home, where his estranged father, the town's judge (Robert Duvall), is a suspect in a murder. (141 minutes)

78 THE MAZE RUNNER, PG-13 A young man (Dylan O'Brien) finds himself trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys. With no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization, he must piece together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. (113 minutes)

77 OUIJA, PG-13 A group of friends awakens the dark powers of an ancient spirit board. (89 minutes)

77 PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR, PG Four flightless birdies team up to form a super undercover spy team to stop a villain (voice of John Malkovich) from destroying the world as we know it. Animated. (92 minutes)

70 THE PYRAMID, R A team of U.S. archaeologists get more than they bargained for when they discover a lost pyramid unlike any other in the Egyptian desert. With Ashley Hinshaw, James Buckley, Denis O'Hare, Christa Nicola; directed by Gregory Levasseur. (89 minutes)

90 ST. VINCENT, PG-13 Melissa McCarthy plays a single mother who, recently moved to Brooklyn and working long hours, has no choice but to leave her 12-year-old son (Jaeden Lieberher) in the care of their new neighbor (Bill Murray), a retired curmudgeon with a penchant for booze and gambling who turns out to be a surprisingly good influence. (102 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)

MovieStyle on 12/12/2014

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