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Cressida (Natalie Dormer) is a director of filmed provocations — called “propos” — who joins the rebels in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1.
Cressida (Natalie Dormer) is a director of filmed provocations — called “propos” — who joins the rebels in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1.

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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)

87 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 spent 12 years filming this story as seen through the eyes of a child (Ellar Coltrane) who literally grows up on-screen. (165 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)

71 EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS, PG-13 Moses (Christian Bale) rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) and, after a terrifying cycle of deadly plagues, takes 600,000 Hebrew slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt in this partial retelling of The Ten Commandments. With John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Aaron Paul, Ben Mendelsohn, Tara Fitzgerald; directed by Ridley Scott. (150 minutes)

90 THE HOMESMAN, R Tommy Lee Jones directs and plays the claim-jumper who, after a frontier farm woman (Hilary Swank) saves his life, lets her persuade him to help her escort three insane women (Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto and Sonja Richter) to a haven in Iowa. With Meryl Streep, John Lithgow, Hailee Steinfeld, William Fichtner, Tim Blake Nelson, James Spader. (122 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 returnsto 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)

88 NIGHTCRAWLER, R Jake Gyllenhaal plays a driven young man who hooks up with a group of freelancers who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem in the high-speed world of Los Angeles crime "journalism" known as nightcrawling. (117 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. (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)

88 TOP FIVE, R An encounter with a whip-smart, beautiful journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces a New York comedian-turned-serious film actor (Chris Rock) to confront the comedy career -- and the past -- he has left behind. With Kevin Hart, Tracy Morgan, Cedric The Entertainer; directed by Scott Rudin. (101 minutes)

MovieStyle on 12/19/2014

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