MOVIES

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Limitless (PG-13, 106 min.) A top-secret drug gives BradleyCooper superhuman abilities.

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The Lincoln Lawyer (R, 119 min.) See review on Page 16.

Forest Hill 8, Stage Cinema, Majestic, Collierville Towne 16,DeSoto Cinema 16, Studio on the Square, Cordova Cinema, Paradiso,Hollywood 20 Cinema, CinePlanet 16.

Paul (R, 116 min.) "Shaun of the Dead" writers/stars Simon Peggand Nick Frost re-team for this comedy about an E.T. on Earth.

Forest Hill 8, Stage Cinema, Majestic, Collierville Towne 16,DeSoto Cinema 16, Cordova Cinema, Paradiso, Hollywood 20 Cinema,CinePlanet 16.

SPECIAL MOVIES

The American Astronaut (Not rated, 91 min.) Writer-director- starCory McAbee's cult musical sci-fi Western is presented by IndieMemphis and ArtsMemphis Bravo.

7:30 p.m. Thursday, Summer Quartet Drive-In. Admission: free.Visit indiememphis.org.

Grey Gardens (Not rated, 104 min.) Jessica Lange is "Big Edie"and Drew Barrymore is "Little Edie" in this HBO movie based on thetrue story of former socialites living in squalor in a decayingmansion. A cocktail party ("Edie" costumes encouraged) precedes thefilm at 6 p.m.

7 p.m. Thursday, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Tickets: $8, or $6for museum members. Visit brooksmuseum.org.

Hubble: Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this new IMAX filmexplores the legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope and its impact onour understanding of the universe. runs through Nov. 11. Tickets $8,$7.25 senior citizens, $6.25 children ages 3-12; children under 3free.

IMAX Theater at Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 Central. Call320-6362 for show times, tickets and reservations.

Legends of Flight: Experience aerial innovation at the dawn of anew era in flight transportation; an insider's view of how a modernaircraft is built. Through Nov. 11. Tickets $8, $7.25 seniorcitizens, $6.25 children ages 3-12; children under 3 free.

IMAX Theater at Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 Central. Call320-6362 for show times, tickets and reservations.

Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin' (Not rated, 90min.) Premiere of a documentary look at the 1950s-1980s heyday oflocal professional wrestling.

7 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Paradiso. Tickets: $10. Visitmemphisheatthemovie.com.

Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Not rated, 82 min.) Alive-via-satellite New York production of Donizetti's tragic opera,set in the 17th century hills of Scotland.

Noon Saturday, Paradiso. Tickets: $20. Visit malco.com.

Mooz-lum (Rated PG-13, 99 min.) See story on Page 12.

12:30 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, University Center Auditorium,University of Memphis. Tickets: $10. Visit muslimsinmemphis.org.

Ride the Divide (Not rated, 82 min.) A documentary about theworld's toughest mountain bike race, which traverses more than 2,700miles along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. Proceedshelp benefit Livable Memphis.

7 p.m. Monday, Paradiso. Tickets: $10. Visit malco.com.

Soul of a People: Writing America's Story (Not rated, 104 min.)This documentary examines the 1930s Federal Writers Project, whichemployed Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, John Cheever and others. Co-producer James Mirabello will take part in a video question-and-answer session afterward, via the Internet application Skype.Screened in conjunction with the exhibition "(Extra)Ordinary: TheStory of Documentary Photography and the American South."

2 p.m. Sunday, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Admission: free.Visit brooksmuseum.org.

NOW SHOWING

The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13, 99 min.) A New York politician(Matt Damon) discovers that his love-at-first-sight relationshipwith a dancer (Emily Blunt) may run counter to the predestinedcourse of the universe as designed by an all-seeing cosmicmicromanager known as "the Chairman" (think God, not Frank Sinatra).

Forest Hill 8, Wolfchase Galleria Cinema 8, DeSoto Cinema 16,Studio on the Square, Cordova Cinema, Paradiso, Hollywood 20 Cinema.

Battle Los Angeles (PG-13, 117 min.) Moviegoers are offered thechance to purge their anxieties about a domestic terrorist strike inthis old-school war movie in newfangled science-fiction drag, inwhich "a coordinated attack by an unknown enemy" - in this case, aninvasion from outer space - knocks the U.S. and much of the Earth toits knees, at least until the few, the proud, the Marines cause themonstrous aliens to see stars, and I'm not talking about Orion'sbelt. What's it all about, E.T.? Apparently, this is a war for waterinstead of oil; according to a TV commentator, the aliens "are herefor our resources.... we are being colonized." But don't expect anyreferences to chickens coming home to roost, or to the book ofGalatians ("Whatever a man sows, that he will also reap"). There'sno irony in director Jonathan Liebesman's earnest, cornball,military-recruitment- style presentation of doomsday deferred, whichbenefits from the presence of Aaron Eckhart as a newly retiredsergeant who - to paraphrase Lloyd Bridges in "Airplane!" - pickedthe wrong day to give up soldiering.

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Beastly (PG-13, 93 min.) Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer.

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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13, 108 min.) MartinLawrence , Brandon T. Jackson.

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Black Swan (R, 108 min.) Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis.

Wolfchase Galleria Cinema 8.

Cedar Rapids (R, 87 min.) This occasionally raunchy yet likable,charming and often very funny film about the coming-of-age of agrown man stars Ed Helms ("The Hangover") as a salesman forBrownstar Insurance in Brown Valley, Wisconsin; his personality isbrown, too, until it is colored by the rainbow variety of mixeddrinks, skinnydipping opportunities and other excesses availableduring a business convention in Iowa, where his new friends includean "Afro-American" (Isiah Whitlock Jr.), a vulgar party animal (JohnC. Reilly) and a married insurance agent (Anne Heche) who is agentler version of Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air." The film'ssweetness and - dare we say it? - innocence will be no surprise tofans of director Miguel Arteta, whose films ("Chuck & Buck," "Youthin Revolt") display a genuine empathy for underdogs and oddballs -or "dorks," to quote the toast made by Heche's character. The finescript is by Phil Johnston.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG, 115min.) Ben Barnes, Will Poulter.

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Drive Angry 3D (R, 104 min.) Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard.

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The Fighter (R, 116 min.) Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale.

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Gnomeo & Juliet (G, 84 min.) Voices of Emily Blunt, James McAvoy.

Majestic, Palace Cinema, Hollywood 20 Cinema (in 3-D), CinePlanet16 (in 3-D).

The Grace Card (PG-13, 108 min.) For much of its length, thislocally produced, faith-based movie from Memphis optometrist-turned-debuting director David G. Evans is surprisingly tough, confrontingpotent, distressing issues of social inequity, family dysfunctionand personal despair without the overt religious cant and Sundayschool perkiness that can make so-called Christian films a trial forskeptics.

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The Green Hornet (PG-13, 119 min.) Seth Rogen, Jay Chou.

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Hall Pass (R, 108 min.) Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis .

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I Am Number Four (PG-13, 110 min.) An alien teen hunk (AlexPettyfer) with extraordinary powers poses as a typical high-schoolstudent and romances an artsy-pretty classmate (Dianna Agron of"Glee").

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Just Go With It (PG-13, 117 min.) Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston?

Stage Cinema, Majestic, Collierville Towne 16, Hollywood 20Cinema, CinePlanet 16.

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (G, 105 min.) Bieber fever infectsthe third dimension.

Stage Cinema (in 3-D), CinePlanet 16 (in 3-D).

The King's Speech (R, 118 min.) Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush.Winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director andBest Original Screenplay.

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Little Fockers (PG-13, 98 min.) More Fock for your movie buck.

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Lord of the Dance 3D (Not rated, 105 min.) A movie version of theMichael Flatley stage hit.

Ridgeway Four, Cordova Cinema, Palace Cinema, Hollywood 20Cinema, CinePlanet 16.

Mars Needs Moms (PG, 88 min.) As used here and in the past byproducer Robert Zemeckis ("The Polar Express"), the "performancecapture" process - in which actors covered in reflective markers arephotographed so their movements and expressions can be translatedinto computer-generated imagery - seems pointless: Instead ofcreating distinctive characters, it typically turns actors intoinferior simulacra of themselves. The effect of this "realism" isnot just creepy but kitschy, and it's especially offputting whenshackled to an anti-feminist story in which a young Earth boy("performed" by Seth Green, voiced by Seth Robert Dusky) discoversthat the killjoy female tyrants of Mars have exiled the planet'sscruffy, happy-go-lucky males to an underground garbage dump. Noisyand obvious and very un-funny (a chubby sidekick named "Gribble" isespecialy annoying), the film was directed by Simon Wells, workingfrom a children's book by "Bloom County" creater Berkeley Breathed.

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No Strings Attached (R, 108 min.) Natalie Portman, AshtonKutcher.

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Rango (PG, 107 min.) Sergio Leone meets "The Shakiest Gun in theWest" at "High Noon" on the way to "Chinatown": That's one way todescribe this odd and original (for all its references) computer-animated movie about a chameleon who - credit the filmmakers fortheir cleverness - doesn't blend in.

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Red Riding Hood (PG-13, 100 min.) Draped in the blood-huedgarment that symbolizes the onset of sexual maturity (hence, herappeal to "wolves"), Amanda Seyfried stars as the title fairy taleheroine, and my, what big eyes she has. The better to see - what?Like director Catherine Hardwicke's previous features ("Thirteen,""Twilight," and, yes, "The Nativity Story"), this is an extremecoming-of-age story about young people coping with extraordinarycircumstances, but the soap opera/murder mystery tone is wobbly andthe focus is unclear. The setting is a deliberately artificial,almost Rankin/Bass-esque medieval village named Daggerhorn (thedoubly phallocentric name should sound a warning to any maidens),menaced by a murderous werewolf, a priestly witchfinder general(Gary Oldman) and a heritage of hypocrisy; no wonder Seyfriedprefers the less creepy threat of her hunky teen wooers, a well-offblacksmith (Max Irons) and a poor woodcutter (Shiloh Fernandez).Despite the dreaminess of this duo, it's unlikely this admirablystylized but emotionally inert film will nspire any "Team Henry"versus "Team Peter" rivalries.

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The Rite (PG-13, 114 min.) Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue.

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The Roommate (PG-13, 92 min.) Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester.

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Somewhere (R, 97 min.) With this portrait of a few days in theennui-ridden Sunset Boulevard life of a young movie star namedJohnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), writer-director Sofia Coppola againexamines the isolation and cultural dislocation ("Lost inTranslation," indeed) of privileged public people - peoplesurrounded by both the exposing fishbowl of celebrity and theprotective bubble of entitlement. The movie is refreshingly un-tragic, even if a crying Johnny worries that he's "not a person" -an idea conveyed more powerfully without words, when the actor'sface is obliterated by a mound of goo during a scene at a specialmakeup effects studio.

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Take Me Home Tonight (R, 98 min.) Topher Grace, Anna Faris.

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Tangled (PG, 101 min.) Voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi.

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The Tourist (PG-13, 104 min.) Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie.

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True Grit (PG-13, 110 min.) Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld.

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Unknown (PG-13, 113 min.) Liam Neeson.

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Unstoppable (PG-13, 98 min.) Denzel Washington, Chris Pine.

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Yogi Bear (PG, 83 min.) Voices of Dan Ayrkoyd, Justin Timberlake.

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