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ANTARTICA: A YEAR ON ICE (91 MIN)
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CITIZENFOUR (111 MIN)
ANTARTICA: A YEAR ON ICE
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AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA (81 MIN) Fri/Sat: 4:30 Sun: 2:30 Wed/Thu: 2:30
THE BABADOOK (93 MIN)
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MY OLD LADY (102 MIN)
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FORCE MAJEURE (117 MIN)
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A nominee for the Most Foreboding Film Title Ever award, this sequel to the 2012 horror flick that starred Daniel Radcliffe takes us to World War II London, where bombs are raining down on the city. A schoolteacher evacuates her class to a house in the countryside, but soon stuff starts to get weird and deadly when an otherworldly force possesses the kids. (MB) Rated PG-13
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WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH
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UNBROKEN
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THE GAMBLER
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES
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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB PG Daily (5:00) 7:10 9:25 Fri-Sun (12:30) (2:45)
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS PG-13 Daily 6:15 9:15
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 PG-13 Daily (4:20) 7:00 9:35 Fri-Sun (11:15) (1:40)
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
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BIG HERO 6
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ANNIE
The original Broadway version of Annie came out in 1977. And while the story told four decades later could use some updating, the newest film version of the beloved orphan leaves much to be desired. The pieces are all here — Jamie Foxx in the Will Stacks (aka Daddy Warbucks) role, Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan and the cheeky Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) as Annie. (LJ) PG
AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA
Yeah, everybody does yoga these days, but it didn’t always used to be that way. This documentary tells the story of Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought the ancient art to the Western world in the 1920s and also penned The Autobiography of a Yogi. Without him, your Saturday mornings would probably have a lot less downward dog. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated PG
BIG EYES
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INTO THE WOODS
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THE GAMBLER
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UNBROKEN
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THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES
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EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS
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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING PG-13 Daily (4:40) 7:20 9:40
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
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THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 PG-13 Daily (1:00) (3:40) 6:20 9:00 Fri-Sun (10:30)
BIG HERO 6
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INTERSTELLAR
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THE BABADOOK
Australian writer/director Jennifer Kent makes a stunningly assured feature filmmaking debut with this unnerving thriller about a single mom, Amelia, who’s exhausted due to the sleeplessness of near-7-year-old Samuel, who fears monsters that he believes to be hiding in closets and under the bed. Things escalate when Mister Babadook, an ominous children’s pop-up book, mysteriously appears in Samuel’s bedroom and warns against a dark and evil creature who cannot be gotten rid of once he’s been allowed into one’s home. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated
BIG EYES
Back in the 1950s, Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) convinced his wife Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) to let him take credit for her big eye-filled work. Art critics scoffed, but the art eventually became hugely popular. Decades later, the truth would emerge, shocking fans. This film is sure to have some strangeness; it’s directed by Tim Burton
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Citizenfour
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Interstellar
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Into the Woods
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The Hobbit
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After a decade of filming, Anthony Powell has completed his award-winning international documentary, Antarctica: A Year on Ice. The visual phenomenon offers viewers an immersion into a full year in the life of people who choose to live in one of Earth’s most isolated regions characterized by harsh climates and awe-inspiring displays of nature. At Magic Lantern (KG) Rated PG
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after all. But expect shades of Ed Wood, rather than Big Fish. (LJ) Rated PG-13
BIG HERO 6
Boy genius Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) spends his time illegally hustling in robot fights until his brother shows him his college science lab where his buddies are making astounding inventions under the tutelage of professor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell). But after tragedy strikes, Hiro accidentally activates Tadashi’s project — a marshmallow-puffy medical robot named Baymax (Scott Adsit). (SS) Rated PG
BIRDMAN
After good work in lots of small supporting roles over the past couple of decades, Michael Keaton gets back to work as a former franchise movie star now trying to make a comeback on the Broadway stage, but finding obstacles everywhere, many of them in his own head. He’s accompanied by a great cast, including Naomi Watts and Emma Stone, but the most sparks fly in Keaton’s scenes with a Method-mad actor played by Edward Norton. (ES) Rated R
CITIZENFOUR
An intimate look at Edward Snowden’s life in the days just before his spooky treasure trove of NSA secrets went public thanks to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the latter of whom directed this film. Citizenfour takes place almost exclusively in Snowden’s Hong Kong hotel room. The details laid out, though, are enough to keep you riveted and make you wonder why this story isn’t still dominating the news cycle. At Magic Lantern (MS) Rated R
EXODUS
Here, Ridley Scott has turned to the story of Moses (Christian Bale) and Rhamses (Joel Edgerton), raised as brothers in the palace of Egypt’s pharaoh, until Moses learns that he was actually born of the Hebrews who serve as Egypt’s slaves and becomes their leader in their
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fight for freedom. The effects are impressive and on a grand scale, but the performances and chopped-up story undermine those efforts. (SR) Rated PG-13
FORCE MAJEURE
A sly satire of masculinity as well as an engaging family drama, Force Majeure follows a Swedish family that travels to the (gorgeously shot) French Alps for a ski vacation that is brutally disrupted by an avalanche that turns a relaxing lunch into a disaster — particularly for family patriarch Tomas. How the family deals with the unexpected turn in their vacation made this a best foreign film nominee for the Golden Globes and Independent Spirit Awards. At Magic Lantern (DN) Rated R
THE GAMBLER
Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) leads an improbable double-life as a college English professor and gambler. In an effort to pay off accumulating debt, Bennett borrows money from a gangster (Kenneth Williams) and places his own life on the line as collateral. (KG) Rated R
GONE GIRL
David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network) gets his paws on the novel by Gillian Flynn (who also wrote the script) and comes up with one of the twisting-est, turning-est and most unsettling movies of the year. Ben Affleck is the once-happy husband whose once-happy wife, Rosamund Pike, up and vanishes on the morning of their fifth anniversary, with lots of clues and a few secrets pointing directly at him as the perpetrator. (ES) Rated R
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
Peter Jackson’s conclusion to The Hobbit is a perfect tie-in to the beginning of The Lord of the Rings. This one picks up right where the previous one ended, with a fiery attack by the dragon Smaug, reintroduces all of the main