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NOW SHOWING BAD TEACHER (R) — Cameron Diaz plays a foul-mouthed, gold-digging seventh-grade teacher. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14 BEGINNERS (R) — A new relationship causes Oliver (Ewan McGregor) to remember his recently deceased father (Christopher Plummer) who, after 44 years of marriage, came out of the closet. Canal Place BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES (NR) — The museum screens a 4-D
film, bringing audiences into battle using archival footage and special effects. National World War II Museum Solomon Victory Theater
BRIDESMAIDS (R) — A
comically struggling woman (Kristen Wiig) tries to get her life in order while also serving as her best friend’s maid of honor. AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20
BUCK (PG) — The documen-
tary follows Buck Brannaman, who channeled his abusive childhood into a career as a wildly successful “horse whisperer.” Canal Place
CARS 2 (PG-13) — The Pixar
DEEP SEA (NR) — Audiences experience the depths of the ocean. Entergy IMAX GREEN LANTERN (PG-13) — In the DC Comics adaptation that was filmed in New Orleans, a hot-shot test pilot must maintain peace in the universe using a mystical green ring. AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG-13) — The Harry Potter
series culminates in an epic showdown with Lord Voldemort. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Canal Place, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14, Prytania THE HANGOVER PART II (R) —
After the infamous bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu (Ed Helms) tries to play it safe for his wedding in Thailand
In Trust, Annie gets a laptop computer for her 14th birthday and soon meets “Charlie” online. He’s a middle-aged man posing as a teenager in an Internet chatroom, and it’s not long before she agrees to meet him in person. The film is gripping to say the least, excruciatingly uncomfortable at times and an excellent drama about how the Internet can make a teenage girl easy prey in her own home. Director David Schwimmer (of Friends fame) keeps the story simple and straightforward, offering no distractions or cartoonish exaggerations. Charlie (Chris Henry Coffey) is a calculating and shrewd predator, but not a drooling monster. Annie (Liana Liberato) is naive about love, but not oblivious about life, and the film delves into what makes her respond to Charlie, even after she realizes he’s not her age. She’s not a loner, but her father (Clive Owen) misses a moment when she desperately wants his attention, and he unfortunately suggests his career is more important. She’s maturing and beginning to discover her sexuality and fusses when her mother (Catherine Keener) refuses to let her buy a lacey, frilly bra. Their family life is not perfect, but it’s also not dysfunctional, and in between these moments of mundane conflict, Charlie becomes a remote but reassuring source of support, praise and what comes to seem to Annie like love. That’s enough to make her defend the relationship, all the more so after the encounter goes horribly wrong. Schwimmer brilliantly balances the candor he needs to fully address the subject of sexual predators and the restraint he needs to keep it from getting horrifically graphic or sensational. The police are called, but it never becomes a crime movie. The only heavy handed element is Annie’s father’s job in advertising: he handles an account for a clothing company called American Academy, which uses scantily clad young models in its advertisements, a reference to American Apparel. Liberato does an excellent job portraying the awkwardness of straddling the tween and adult worlds. She strikes repeated awkward smiles and poses while trying to take a mature-looking selfportrait she can send to Charlie, and it’s dreadfully clear that her failure would only please him more. And at times, she negotiates the aftermath better than her father, whose obsession with catching Charlie leaves him ignoring her feelings yet again. Tickets $8.50 general admission, $6.50 New Orleans Film Society Members. — Will Coviello
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Trust 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, 304-9992; www.chalmettemovies.com
SCREEN GEMS PRESENTS A CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT/ZUCKER/OLIVE BRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION A WILL GLUCK FILM “FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS” PATRICIA CLARKSON JENNA ELFMAN BRYAN GREENBERG EXECUTIVE WITH RICHARD JENKINS AND WOODY HARRELSON SUPERVISIONMUSICBY WENDE CROWLEY PRODUCER GLENN S. GAINOR STORY BY HARLEY PEYTON AND KEITH MERRYMAN & DAVID A. NEWMAN SCREENPLAY BY KEITH MERRYMAN & DAVID A. NEWMAN AND WILL GLUCK PRODUCED BY MARTIN SHAFER LIZ GLOTZER JERRY ZUCKER JANET ZUCKER WILL GLUCK DIRECTED BY WILL GLUCK STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 22
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sequel finds its characters competing in an international race. AMC Palace 10, AMC Palace 12, AMC Palace 16, AMC Palace 20, Chalmette Movies, Grand, Hollywood 9, Hollywood 14
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