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39-42 Movie Listings 4118.Indd MARCH 4–10 MOVIES Polsky provides a master class in fi elds of physics and cosmology meets Chariots of Fire in Angelina real-world storytelling. PARKER take a backseat to the story of Jolie’s “meh” directorial debut. PG- HALL . Cinema 21. his and Wilde’s courtship, mar- 13 . Academy Theater, Laurelhurst riage and eventual divorce . PG- Theater. Selma 13 . MICHAEL NORDINE . Fox Tower, Movies on TV, Tigard. Whiplash 5:55PM 8:15PM 10:35PM A- Selma, Ava DuVernay’s drama Chappie XD (R) 10:50AM 1:50PM 4:50PM Still Alice (PG-13) 11:10AM 1:50PM 4:30PM 7:10PM about three 1965 civil rights B+ Whiplash clefts music from 7:50PM 10:45PM 9:50PM marches in Alabama, is not perfect, Timbuktu dance, love and spirituality. What’s The Duff (PG-13) 11:30AM 2:05PM 4:50PM 7:30PM Chappie (R) 12:20PM 3:20PM 6:20PM 9:20PM 10:05PM but it arrives at a historic moment A The fi rst movie from a West left is muscle, red and raw, beating Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (PG) 11:00AM Birdman (R) 10:50AM 1:40PM 4:35PM 7:25PM 10:15PM that will leave only the most blink- African country to be nominated faster and faster against a drum. 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM American Sniper (R) 12:40PM 3:50PM 7:05PM 10:10PM for an Oscar studies the rela- Damien Chazelle’s beautiful but Seventh Son 3D (PG-13) 2:35PM 7:55PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 1:00PM 4:10PM ered viewer feeling chuff ed about Project Almanac (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:10PM 4:55PM troubling fi lm centers on a battle 7:20PM 10:25PM the superiority of the present to tionship between the peoples 7:35PM 10:20PM A La Mala (PG-13) 11:20AM 2:00PM 4:35PM 7:15PM the past. Violence here is never of Timbuktu and a neighbor- of egos and tempos, as Andrew Unfinished Business (R) 12:30PM 3:00PM 5:30PM 8:00PM 9:55PM 10:30PM aestheticized for its own sake, but ing Tuareg encampment and the (Miles Teller) must decide how McFarland, USA (PG) 10:45AM 1:45PM 4:45PM 7:45PM Jupiter Ascending 3D (PG-13) 1:45PM 7:45PM Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 10:45AM 4:45PM 10:45PM brought to life so that we might jihadis who have taken over. They much of himself and his sanity 10:45PM Seventh Son (PG-13) 11:55AM 5:15PM 10:35PM Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) 11:00AM 1:30PM 4:05PM understand its escalation and are grim, cloaked specters walking he’s willing to give to music. Teller The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) 6:35PM 9:05PM impact. The fi lm is transfi xing, but through the streets with rifl es gives a close-to-the-chest per- 7:00PM Fifty Shades Of Grey (R) 10:45AM 1:40PM 4:40PM 7:40PM formance. J.K. Simmons is cer- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) 10:40PM not easy to watch. And it should slung over their shoulders. There’s 11:05AM 1:35PM 4:20PM 9:30PM Focus (R) 10:55AM 12:00PM 1:35PM 2:40PM 4:15PM not be easy to watch . PG-13 . CHRIS a lingering sense that violence tainly horrifying as his instructor. The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) 10:55AM 1:15PM 3:35PM 5:20PM 6:55PM 8:00PM 9:35PM 10:40PM STAMM . Living Room Theaters, could break out at any moment, And here’s where Whiplash is most Bridgeport, City Center. like when a fi shmonger waves a troubling: It views the abusive knife at jihadis for demanding that instructor as a necessary evil for Seventh Son she wear gloves. Or when a group creating great art. This fl ies in the Chappie (R) 11:00AM 12:25PM 1:50PM 3:15PM 4:40PM The Duff (PG-13) 11:40AM 2:15PM 4:50PM 7:25PM 6:05PM 7:30PM 8:55PM 10:20PM 10:00PM A fantasy that reunites Jeff Bridges of kids get arrested for playing face not just of morality but of Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (PG) 11:05AM (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:15PM 3:30PM and Julianne Moore. We rewatched soccer with an imaginary ball. Or history. R . JAMES HELMSWORTH . The Lazarus Effect 12:30PM 1:55PM 3:20PM 4:45PM 6:10PM 7:35PM 9:00PM The Big Lebowski i n s t e a d . PG-13 . when a woman gets 40 lashes Bridgeport, City Center, Fox Tower, 5:45PM 8:00PM 10:15PM 10:25PM Clackamas, Division, Movies on TV. for being caught singing about Movies on TV. Birdman (R) 1:15PM 7:15PM the glory of God. “Where’s leni- Still Alice (PG-13) 12:00PM 3:00PM 6:00PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 1:00PM 4:00PM Unfinished Business (R) 12:45PM 3:10PM 5:35PM 8:00PM Slaughter Nick for President ency?” a priest asks the leader of Wild 7:00PM 10:00PM the jihadis. “Where’s forgiveness? A- 10:25PM B Reese Witherspoon trudges American Sniper (R) 12:00PM 3:10PM 7:00PM 10:05PM Since it fi rst aired, Tropical Heat Where’s piety? Where’s God in all McFarland, USA (PG) 1:00PM 4:00PM 7:00PM 10:00PM has been a cult hit in the Balkan north in Wild, the fi lm adapta- Enakkul Oruvan (Praneeth Media) (NR) 9:00PM of this?” PG-13 . JOHN LOCANTHI . Surya vs. Surya (Movie Arts Den) (NR) 9:00PM republic, with fans considering tion of Portlander Cheryl Strayed’s Living Room Theaters. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) Imitation Game, The (PG-13) 12:45PM 3:30PM 6:15PM Slaughter a hero. Slaughter Nick best-selling memoir about 1:25PM 6:15PM Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 4:15PM 10:15PM for President follows the show’s hiking 1,100 miles from scorched The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) Fifty Shades Of Grey (R) 1:20PM 4:15PM 7:15PM 10:10PM star, charming and humble Rob The Woman in Black 2: California to soggy Oregon. R . 11:00AM 3:50PM 8:40PM Focus (R) 11:50AM 2:25PM 5:00PM 7:40PM 10:20PM Stewart, as he visits Serbia, where Angel of Death Eastport, Living Room Theaters, he’s greeted by mobs of adoring Alas, Daniel Radcliff e isn’t back in Bridgeport. fans, appears on a game show, this supernatural horror sequel, pre- plays guitar with a punk band sumably because he’s spent more Chappie (R) 11:10AM 12:35PM 2:00PM 3:25PM 4:50PM The Lazarus Effect (PG-13) 11:00AM 1:15PM 3:30PM and is generally worshiped as than enough time in creaky country- 6:15PM 7:40PM 9:05PM 10:30PM 5:45PM 8:00PM 10:30PM royalty. Like the singer Rodriguez, side houses . PG-13 . Vancouver. Still Alice (PG-13) 11:05AM 1:45PM 4:30PM 7:15PM The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D (PG) who was . AP KRYZA . C l a c k a m a s , For more Movies listings, visit 10:00PM 11:15AM 1:40PM 4:05PM Division. Unbroken The Duff (PG-13) 11:25AM 2:15PM 5:00PM 7:45PM Kingsman: The Secret Service (R) 12:45PM 2:10PM 3:55PM 7:10PM 8:10PM 10:25PM B Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence 10:25PM The SpongeBob Movie: Wild (R) 11:05AM 5:15PM Fifty Shades Of Grey (R) 1:00PM 4:10PM 7:20PM 10:25PM Sponge Out of Water Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (PG) 11:00AM McFarland, USA (PG) 12:30PM 3:45PM 7:00PM 10:05PM 1:50PM 4:40PM 7:30PM 10:20PM American Sniper (R) 12:55PM 4:00PM 7:05PM 10:10PM B Maybe it’s the titular charac- REVIEW The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) Jupiter Ascending 3D (PG-13) 3:50PM ter’s manic—nay, demented—laugh. 12:25PM 2:50PM 5:20PM 7:50PM 10:20PM Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) 12:40PM 6:55PM 9:55PM Or maybe it’s the cavalier way Focus (R) 11:30AM 2:05PM 4:45PM 7:25PM 10:15PM the writers sneak in references to Unfinished Business (R) 11:20AM 1:45PM 4:20PM 7:00PM Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (R) 6:50PM 9:30PM Mad Max and The Shining amid 9:45PM the wholesomeness. Let’s just say FRIDAY there’s a reason The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water will still be showing after your kids’ bedtime. The quest to recover the lost Krabby Patty Secret Formula by SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) and Plankton spans time and space in what feels somewhere between an extended episode and a half- baked animated feature . PG . JOHN COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES OF COURTESY PARAMOUNT LOCANTHI . Showing at most Portland-area theaters. Still Alice A- Julianne Moore started her screen career in the world of soap operas, starring in As the World Turns for much of the early 1980s. REVVED UP: Audrey Hepburn and Still Alice, which charts a linguistics professor’s descent into early-onset Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. Alzheimer’s disease, is hardly a ITALIAN STYLE: Postwar Italy was a land of sun-drenched, sur- return to that universe. But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s realist beauty where anything could happen. Its cinema followed fi lm does have an element of care- suit: A princess and journalist fall in love in Roman Holiday, and fully balanced melodrama, thanks to a tightly written script and Moore’s lonely Katharine Hepburn lounges with a debonair shopkeeper in transformative performance.
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