Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher star as a suburban couple living next door to the Joneses (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot), a seemingly normal couple who turn out to be secret agents. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Ouija: Origin of Evil
The second entry in the Ouija franchise is set in 1967 Los Angeles, where a widow and her two daughters scam people by conducting fake seances. When a Ouija board enters the picture, things suddenly become all too real. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Our Little Sister
Three sisters, ages 29, 22 and 19, live together in the large seaside home that belonged to their grandmother. They meet the title character, their 13-year-old half-sister, on a trip to the funeral of their estranged father, and afterward they invite her to come live with them. Much of Hirokazu Koreeda’s calm, gently lyrical drama is about the ways these four young women with scrambled family ties and contrasting personalities make lives for themselves together and in the absence of guidance and support from their parents, deceased and otherwise. And much of the story proceeds by an amiable sort of indirection, with the bits of blatant drama happening mostly off-screen and the moments of rich emotion arising almost offhandedly in seemingly mundane circumstances. “Story” in the usual sense is almost nonexistent, but there is great charm and much quiet beauty in the performances of the sister roles, in the ravishingly atmospheric sense of the places they inhabit, and in the contemplative calm of the entire production. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG —J.C.S.
Now playing The Accountant
Ben Affleck stars as a math whiz who cooks the books for criminal organizations, and when a treasury agent (J.K. Simmons) starts sniffing around, people start to die. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
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Deepwater Horizon
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The Girl on the Train
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Comedian Kevin Hart’s latest stand-up was filmed in front of an intimate crowd of 50,000, outdoors at Philly’s Financial Field. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.
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The Magnificent Seven
What Antoine Fuqua’s remake has going for it is mostly a matter of Denzel Washington and a diverse and appealing set of supporting roles, including a Mexican (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a Native American (Martin Sensmeier), a Korean (Byung-hun Lee) and a woman (Haley Bennett). Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio and Peter Sarsgaard make solid contributions as well. Denzel is Denzel, and that’s always a good thing, although the film never really gives him a chance to be more than good. Pratt has some fun amid the boy’s club/frat-house posturing of some of the central seven, and burly, hirsute Jack Horne (D’Onofrio) might be the most distinctive and intriguing character in the bunch. Hawke and Sarsgaard both look unwell, something their respective roles require, except that Hawke eventually seems terminally bored with his entire role, while Sarsgaard’s campy villain seems sickened by the whole enterprise, right from the start. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.
Storks
In this 3-D, computer-animated flick starring the voices of Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer and Jennifer Aniston, storks have gone from delivering babies to delivering packages for a giant Internet company, until one day … . Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.
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Sully
One of the most storied events of recent times, an occasion for rare heroic triumph, came when pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger successfully and safely landed a stricken jet airliner on the Hudson River in January 2009. Sully, with Tom Hanks in the title role, revisits that event in ways that are both compact and complex, and unexpectedly moving as well. The film gives a genuinely riveting account of the landing itself while also developing multifaceted “inside views” of the event and its aftermath, including some of the more personal aspects of the pilot’s experience. It’s an intense kind of action film while Sully’s plane is in the air and/ or on the Hudson, but a sizable portion of the film’s dramatic power resides in the scenes of Sully and co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) facing off with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board. While the brilliantly rendered in-flight and landing sequences have something like the power of gloriously recovered memory, the most intricately sustained moments of suspense arrive via the pilots’ climactic confrontations with NTSB investigators. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.
Still here Max Steel
Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life Cinemark 14. Rated PG.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Director Peter Berg’s film drops you into a situation where fire and explosions are so realistic, you can feel the heat and disorientation of the 2010 BP oil disaster. The setup is a doozy: Oil workers Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell) head out for a three-week stay on the Deepwater Horizon along with a couple of BP stuffed shirts. Much to their amazement, some men who were supposed to be conducting important tests are leaving upon their arrival without conducting anything. This leads to a showdown with a sleazy BP employee, played by a slithery John Malkovich. Some backward reasoning leads to the rig being cleared to start up. Unbeknownst to the higher ups and technicians, there’s a cataclysmic clog in the works, causing mud to explode upward, eventually followed by a massive gas leak, and you probably know the rest. It’s not all about the fire and explosions, as Berg, his writers and performers all give the movie a true heroic element, one that results in heartbreak after the film plays out. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.
Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.
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