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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU — Matt Damon and Emily Blunt fall in love and flee shadowy figures in this immensely stylish romantic thriller. If only the ending lived up to the buildup and wasn’t overly simplistic, heavy-handed religious allegory. PG-13 for brief strong language, sexuality and a violent image. 99 minutes.
1/2
BEASTLY — Alex Pettyfer is the chiseled, blond Kyle, arrogant, moneyed and cruel, the perfect guy to rule his Manhattan prep school. Nothing else in this film based on Alex Flinn’s young-adult take on “Beauty and the Beast” remotely resembles reality. PG-13 for language including crude comments, brief violence and theme. 86 minutes.
1/2
GNOMEO & JULIET — Animated riff with yard gnomes as our star-crossed lovers is spirited and brisk. G. 84 minutes.
HALL PASS — Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are trapped in stereotypically stagnant marriages. Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate are their wives, cliched, spiteful nags advised to give them a weeklong “hall pass” from marriage. R for crude and sexual humor, language, nudity and drugs. 105 minutes.
1/2
I AM NUMBER FOUR —
Great, another Chosen One. D.J. Caruso’s action tale is mostly familiar stuff, presenting the latest teen outsider coming into possession of his latent superpowers. PG-13 for intense violence and action, brief language. 109 minutes.
JUST GO WITH IT — Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston’s romantic comedy is stuffed with narcissists saying and doing the dumbest, cruelest things. PG-13 for crude and sexual content, partial nudity, drug references, language. 116 minutes.
1/2
JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER — Part biopic, part concert film and all crowd-pleaser, this celebration of the pop phenom knows exactly how to send its target audience of tween girls into a tizzy. G. 105 minutes.
THE KING’S SPEECH – You can’t help but succumb to this weighty-yet-uplifting period drama based on a true story about British royalty. R for language. 118 minutes.
1/2
RANGO — An inventive animated amalgamation of “Chinatown,” Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns and the drug-conjured lizards of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” this is, yes, a PG-rated kids movie. PG for crude humor, language, action and smoking. 107 minutes.
TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT — A nostalgic homage to the romantic-comedy romps of the 1980s, this cycles through all the conventions without breathing any new life into them. Topher Grace stars as a recent MIT grad working at a video store and living with his parents. When he sees a chance to hook up with the prom queen he’s loved from afar, he says he’s a big-time banker. R for language, sex and drugs. 97 minutes.
1/2
UNKNOWN — Liam Neeson continues his fascinating late-career path in this chilly little thriller about amnesia, mistrust and lost identity. PG-13 for intense violence and action, brief sexual content. 106 minutes.
1/2