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INHERENT VICE Joaquin Phoenix stars as the hapless goofball protagonist in this adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon comic novel about sex and drugs in 1970s L.A., as a low-rent private eye searches for a missing ex-girlfriend. Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, and Reese Witherspoon co-star for director Paul Thomas Anderson. (R) 148 minutes. Starts Friday.
SELMA David Oyelowo stars as Dr. Martin Luther King in Ava DuVernay’s fiction film dramatizing the courageous three-month march King led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, a massive civil rights demonstration that convinced President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth, and Oprah Winfrey co-star. (PG-13) 123 minutes. Starts Friday.
TAKEN 3 Liam Neeson rides again as the implacably cool ex-CIA op who foiled complex kidnapping plots in the first two thrillers now using all his wicked counter-intelligence skills to elude the bad guys tracking him and clear himself of a bogus murder charge. Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen co-star for returning director Olivier Megaton. (PG-13) 109 minutes. Starts Friday.
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THE IMITATION GAME The mighty Benedict Cumberbatch is outstanding as troubled mathematical genius Alan Turing, the brilliant puzzle-solver, unsung in his own lifetime, who built the first computer to break the Nazi’s Enigma code during World War II. Turing’s arrogant intelligence, closeted sexuality and borderline Asperger’s syndrome would reduce a lesser actor to tics and melodrama, but Cumberbatch’s commanding focus makes his performance a series of acute and subtle revelations. Morten Tyldum’s time-traveling narrative conveys the complexity of Turing’s story before, during, and after his work on Enigma, presenting the singular Turing as a man trying to crack the code of social “normality” throughout his life. Mark Strong, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, and Charles Dance offer smart supporting performances. (PG-13) 114 minutes. (***)—Lisa Jensen.
INTO THE WOODS Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s hit Broadway musical, a fairy-tale mashup for grown-ups, is capably directed by Rob Marshall into a savvy piece of moviemaking. A great cast of actors not known as singers (Meryl Streep as the Witch and the scene-stealing Chris Pine as Cinderella’s Prince are particularly good) delivers Sondheim’s witty lyrics and intricate harmonies with style and clarity. A dark and lush entertainment that considers classic fairy-tale themes in all their glamorous, sinister glory. PG) 125 minutes. (***1/2)—Lisa Jensen.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH Forty years after the creepy events in the first movie, the same haunted house is unwisely chosen as the new home for a group of children evacuated from wartime London. Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, and Phoebe Fox star. Tom Harper directs. (PG-13) 98 minutes.
