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to ensure she is fairest of them all. With Lily Collins as Snow and Armie Hammer as her prince, plus Sean Bean and Nathan Lane. Tarsem (Immortals) Singh directed. (106 min, PG. Big Picture) THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS★★★1/2 Aardman Animations offers a stop-motion comic take on the pirate craze, with Hugh Grant voicing a captain in pursuit of the Pirate of the Year award. Peter (Chicken Run) Lord directed the family adventure. With Salma Hayek and Jeremy Piven. (88 min, PG. Bijou, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace, Paramount [3-D], Sunset, Welden) THE RAVEN 1/2★ In which Edgar Allan Poe becomes a serial-killer-hunting action hero, played by John Cusack. He should’ve thought to team up with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. With Alice Eve, Luke Evans and Brendan Gleeson. James (V for Vendetta) McTeigue directed. (110 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Palace, Roxy) SAFE★★★ Jason Statham plays a former cage fighter who takes on organized crime to protect a young math genius in this action flick from director Boaz Yakin. With Reggie Lee and Chris Sarandon. (95 min, R. Essex, Majestic) SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN★★★1/2 Ewan McGregor’s struggle to satisfy a sheik’s whim of fly-fishing in the desert becomes a metaphor for chasing dreams in the latest from director Lasse Hallström. With Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas. (107 min, PG-13. Palace, Stowe) THINK LIKE A MAN★★1/2 Steve Harvey’s relationship guide Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man spawned this ensemble comedy in which the book becomes a pawn in the battle of the sexes, starring Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Michael Ealy, Taraji P. Henson, Chris
THE THREE STOOGES★★★ Directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly enter the realm of family comedy with this update in which classic slapstickers Moe, Larry and Curly, ripped free of historical context, end up on a reality show. Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos play the trio. (92 min, PG. Capitol, Stowe) WE HAVE A POPE★★★ Italy’s Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room) directed this comedy in which the newly elected pope (Michel Piccoli) experiences a panic attack and must consult a therapist (played by Moretti himself). (102 min, NR. Savoy; ends 5/10)
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TIM & ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE: Cult comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim (of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!”) squander and then must repay a vast sum in their first feature film. With John C. Reilly, Zach Galifianakis and Jeff Goldblum. (94 min, R. Read Margot Harrison’s Movies You Missed review this Friday on our staff blog, Blurt.)
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UNDERWORLD AWAKENING★★ Kate Beckinsale returns to the paranormal action series and her leather garb as a vampire who wakes from a coma to find herself with a teenage daughter who’s part werewolf. (Hey, these things happen!) With Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy. Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein directed. (88 min, R) THE VOW★★1/2 Amnesia comes between newlyweds Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum in this sudser inspired by a true story. With Sam Neill, Scott Speedman and Jessica Lange. Michael Sucsy (HBO’s Grey Gardens) directed. (104 min, PG-13)
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ebba Younis (Mona Zaki) hosts a popular TV talk show that regularly presents fierce criticism of Egypt’s rulers. Her husband Karim (Hassan El Raddad), who works at a government-owned newspaper, fears her outspokenness will cost him a promotion to editor in chief, so he begs her to devote a few weeks to stories about things “no one can blame on the government” — fluff and lady stuff. Hebba concedes, but the stories she discovers turn out not to be so fluffy. Nor are they unrelated to the nation’s political corruption.
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