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picting the bloody Battle of Dunkirk, is a remarkable example of sheer filmmaking craft. The only thing it’s missing is a little humanity. Although the technical skill on display — from Hans Zimmer’s score to Hoyte Van Hoytema’s IMAX cinematography — is dazzling to behold, Nolan’s attempts to elicit any emotion from the audience feel strangely calculated because every character in the film is essentially a disposable pawn on a chessboard. (SS) Rated PG-13
GIRLS TRIP
The latest entry in the women-behaving-badly comedy subgenre assembles a quartet of likable actresses — Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish — and takes them on a gleefully R-rated cross-country trip, this time to New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival. “Crude and sexual content,” per the MPAA, abounds. From director Malcolm D. Lee, best known for his popular Best Man movies. (NW) Rated R
THE HERO
Sam Elliott plays a faded Western star who gets a grave health diagnosis just as he finds his career on an unexpected upswing. Like director Brett Haley’s previous film, the Blythe Danner showcase I’ll See You in My Dreams, this Sundance-approved drama is pretty thin, but it just barely gets by on a stellar central performance from an old pro who doesn’t get nearly enough lead roles. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated R
MAUDIE
The life of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, known for painting hundreds of colorful country scenes as her rheumatoid arthritis gradually worsened, is chronicled in this modest biopic. The film is at its best when it’s focused on the starring performance by the great Sally Hawkins, who embodies Lewis both physically and emotionally; less convincing is Ethan Hawke, playing her stern, weathered husband. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG-13
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A white writer is contacted by a 95-year-old Native American man wanting his life story documented before he dies, and he soon finds himself ferried about the Lakota reservation on a task he feels ill-equipped for. This sensitive indie comedy-drama, adapted from a novel by Kent Nerburn, creates a trio of vivid characters and allows them to explore their cultural and generational differences without ever coming across as preachy or condescending. At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Not Rated
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The Big Sick
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War for the Planet of the Apes
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A Ghost Story
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Maudie
66
Valerian
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American woman who’s on a vacation in Cannes with her overworked husband (Alec Baldwin). When he has to attend to business, she embarks on a road trip to Paris with one of his charming French associates (Arnaud Viard), sampling the region’s finest food and wines along the way. Care to predict what happens next? At the Magic Lantern. (NW) Rated PG
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
There was a time when Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow could enliven any tired script, but that ship has long since sailed. The bloated Disney behemoth splashes back into theaters, and this fifth big-budget adventure involves a zombie pirate hunter and a magical trident… or something. It’s about as much fun as waiting in an endless amusement park line on a 100-degree day. (MJ) Rated PG-13
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
After being mistreated in his last few movies, Peter Parker and his web-slinging alter ego finally get another feature worthy of the character’s long history. Now that fresh-faced Tom Holland is donning Spidey’s spandex, the SpiderMan franchise feels more grounded and human than it did in earlier installments, with Peter’s high school drama taking just as much precedence as the large-scale superhero set pieces. Let’s hope there are more bright adventures to come before they reboot the character all over again. (ES) Rated PG-13
TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT
For a franchise that has claimed to be “more than meets the eye,” the Transformers movies don’t have much more to offer: They’re reliably big, loud and dumb, and they never seem to end. In fact, if you were to sit through all of the live-action features, including this fifth installment, you’d have devoted more than 12 hours of your life to Michael Bay’s clanging, chauvinistic robot-bro saga. And they’ll just keep cranking ’em out. (NW) Rated PG-13
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
Luc Besson’s latest space opera is daffy,
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exhausting, occasionally dazzling and frequently befuddling, unbelievably dumb but with visual imagination to spare. Inspired by an influential, longrunning French comic series about rakish intergalactic swashbucklers, this film is so overloaded with outlandish alien creatures and neon-colored space markets that Rihanna’s appearance as a shape-shifting stripper is one of its least bizarre occurrences. It’s bad, sure, but almost admirably so. (NW) Rated PG-13
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
Who would have ever thought that a reboot of Planet of the Apes would have spawned one of the best blockbuster franchises of the 21st century? This third installment is another sophisticated sci-fi epic, with super-intelligent primate Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his simian army taking on a human warlord (Woody Harrelson). Despite its militaristic title, director Matt Reeves’ film is more focused on its nuanced characters than action, and it’s amazing how emotionally involved we get in the trials of CGI apes. (ES) Rated PG-13
WISH UPON
An unpopular and self-absorbed teenage girl is gifted an ornate Chinese box and discovers that it successfully grants wishes, allowing her to climb the high school social ladder. The downside: All her friends and loved ones start succumbing to bizarre accidents. Of the many lowlights in this ridiculous horror film, the most unintentionally hilarious include a death by garbage disposal, an inexplicable Jerry O’Connell cameo and Ryan Phillippe soulfully performing bad smooth jazz on a saxophone. (NW) Rated PG-13
WONDER WOMAN
On the heels of the lackluster Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad, DC’s latest actually does justice to one of its longest-running and most beloved characters, and it turns out to be one of the better superhero origin films. Gal Gadot announces herself as a major new star, playing the Amazon princess and Lasso of Truth-brandishing warrior who saves the life of an American spy (Chris Pine) and finds herself on the front lines of the first World War. (MS) Rated PG-13 n