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Review: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' Review: 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'
Seven pensioners board a plane from England to India in this last-chance-at-love travelogue. I'd call it "Eat Gray Love," myself, but that's why I don't work in marketing. -- PC

Review: 'Dark Shadows' Review: 'Dark Shadows'
The tried-and-true tandem of director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp is often a tantalizing proposition. But not every Burton/Depp offering is must-see cinema. "Dark Shadows" lands in the "underwhelming" category. -- TH

 
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Battleship NEW
PG-13
Not Reviewed
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Swabbies Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson are enlisted to protect the planet from marauding aliens.

12:01 a.m.
12:01 a.m.

PG-13
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Maggie Smith and Judi Dench head to India for some postretirement exotica and find themselves living in a run-down yet charming old palatial hotel.

1:15, 2:30, 4:15, 5:30 & 7:15 p.m.

G
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Disney True Life Adventure tracks the exploits of a fun-loving baby chimp in the lush forests of the Ivory Coast.

11:20 a.m.; 1:40, 3:55, 6:20 & 8:50 p.m.

PG-13
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Big-screen sendup of the cult Gothic soap opera stars Johnny Depp as an 18th century vampire who rises from the dead smack dab in the middle of the swinging, dysfunctional 1970s; Tim Burton directs.

11 a.m.; noon, 12:50, 1:50, 2:50, 3:50, 4:50, 5:50, 7, 7:50, 9, 9:50 & 10:30 p.m.
11:15 a.m.; 2, 4:45, 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.

PG-13
Whole star
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Ensemble dramedy about a missing pooch and the misadventures of the people who set out to find him; Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline and Sam Shepard star.

4:15, 7 & 9:30 p.m.

The Dictator NEW
R
Not Reviewed
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Sacha Baron Cohen as a deposed North African dictator trying to re-create his former majesty in the blase USA.

11 a.m.; 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 8:10 & 10:30 p.m.

R
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Emily Blunt and Jason Segel as a quasi-committed couple making a tortured, half-decade journey from "yes" to "I do."

12:30, 3:40, 7:05 & 10:15 p.m.

Girl in Progress NEW
PG-13
Not Reviewed
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A prepubescent girl with a distracted, inattentive mother decides to skip adolescence altogether and take a quick shortcut to adulthood.

12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:20 & 9:50 p.m.

PG-13
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In post-apocalyptic North America a teenage girl fights for her life against a squad of trained assassins on a popular government-sponsored reality show!

11:50 a.m.; 3:20, 6:30 & 9:45 p.m.

PG-13
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An all-star cast of superheroes (Iron Man, The Hulk and Black Widow among them) team up to thwart a fiend bent on global domination; Joss Whedon directs Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson.

12:10, 1:30, 3:30, 7:10, 8:30 & 10:30 p.m.; In 3D at 11 & 11:40 a.m.; 12:50, 2:20, 3, 4:20, 5, 6:10, 6:40, 7:50, 9:30 & 10 p.m.

PG-13
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An Algerian schoolteacher living in Quebec connects with pupils still recovering from the suicide of their old headmaster.

3:30, 6 & 8:30 p.m.

PG
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Swashbuckling cartoon about three buccaneers' quest for their profession's highest honor: Pirate of the Year.

11 a.m.; 4:10 & 9:10 p.m.; In 3D at 1:20 & 6:50 p.m.

The Road to Glory (1936)
Not Rated
Not Reviewed

Starring Fredric March and Warner Baxter. Directed by Howard Hawks.

5:35 & 9:10 p.m.

R
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Thriller about an LA cult and the weird and mesmerizing high priestess whose followers obey her every command.

4:45, 7:30 & 9:55 p.m.

The Thing from Another World (1951)
Not Rated
Not Reviewed

Starring Kenneth Tobey and Margaret Sheridan. Directed by Howard Hawks.

7:30 p.m.

Think Like a Man
PG-13
Not Reviewed
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Four women learn to manipulate their boyfriends after reading Steve Harvey's best-selling insider-info love guide.

1, 4, 7:15 & 10:20 p.m.



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