Movie captions for Sept. 5, 2013

Adore — A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other’s sons. Robin Wright, Naomi Watts star. Rated R. 100 minutes. Not reviewed.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints 3 stars HHHH — The greatest Terrence Malick movie Terrence Malick never made: David Lowery’s doomy, dreamy Texas romance stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as an outlaw couple determined to be together, even when prison tears them apart. Not rated. 105 minutes.Review on Page 17. Loft.

Hell Baby — The folks that brought you “Reno 911: Miami” came up with this story of a couple who move into a house with a deadly demonic curse. Rated R. 98 minutes. Not reviewed. Loft.

Kings of Summer — Three teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land. Rated R. 95 minutes. Not reviewed. Loft.

Riddick —Vin Diesel reprises his role as the sci-fi anti-hero Riddick, this time stranded on a planet of ferocious alien predators. Rated R. 119 minutes. Not reviewed. Cinemark, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

Continuing Friday

20 Feet From Stardom — A rocking doc about the unsung singers standing just to the right and left of Mick Jagger, Bette Midler, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, and other music superstars. Backup vocalists finally get their due. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. Crossroads.

2 GUNS HH — Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington team up in this slambang adaptation of the comic book about dueling undercover agents, dealing with a crazed Mexican drug lord and their own crooked bosses. The two stars riff, wrestle Rated R. 109 minutes. El Con, Foothills, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum, Uptown.

Blue Jasmine HHHH — Cate Blanchett storms her way through the title role of Woody Allen’s pastiche-y melodrama, about a fallen socialite seeking refuge in her sister’s San Francisco flat. With Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins and Bobby Cannavale, looking on in awe. PG-13. 98 minutes. Desert Sky, El Con, Marketplace, Spectrum.

The Conjuring HHH½ — Husband-and-wife paranormal investigators are thrown for a loop by the most terrifying case they’ve ever dealt with in this unexpectedly fresh, alive and vibrant haunted house thriller. Rated R. 112 minutes. Park Place, Spectrum.

Despicable Me 2 HHH½ — The Anti-Villain League recruits Gru when a powerful new criminal emerges in this animated family sequel. Rated PG. 98 minutes. Cinemark, El Con, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

Elysium HHH — Matt Damon is a 22nd century factory worker on a “diseased, polluted and vastly over-populated” Earth, trying to crash the gated community in the sky where the rich live in smug splendor. A rabble-rousing sci-fi allegory from the director of “District 9.” Rated R. 109 minutes. Cinemark, Desert Sky, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Oasis, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

Fruitvale Station HHH — Michael B. Jordan gives a deeply nuanced performance as Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Oakland, Calif., man shot and killed by a transit cop in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. Ryan Coogler’s film reconstructs — and in some instances, reimagines — the events of the day and night leading up to this tragic episode. Rated R. 85 minutes. Loft.

Getaway H½ — A former race car driver (Ethan Hawke) hijacks the souped-up Mustang of a young woman (Selena Gomez) and follows the commands of the people who have kidnapped his wife. Rated PG-13. 90 minutes. Cinemark, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

The Grand Master HHH½— Director Wong Kar Wai (“In the Mood for Love”) spent six years working on this martial-arts epic that focuses on Ip Man (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), the kung-fu master who taught Bruce Lee everything he knew. PG-13. El Con, Foothills, Park Place, Spectrum.

The Heat H½ — Sandra Bullock is the brains, Melissa McCarthy the mouth and the muscle in this mismatched-cop comedy founded on the proposition that the lower the humor, the louder the laughter. That’s true until this profanely funny comedy veers into a sinkhole of “Pulp Fiction” comic violence in its final third. Rated R. 117 minutes. Crossroads, Gateway.

In A World... HHH — Lake Bell wrote, directs and stars in this winning, off the wall comedy, set in the world of voice actors — an egomanical and neurotic Hollywood clan. With Demetri Martin, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry and Ken Marino. Rated R. 93 minutes. Loft.

Instructions Not Included — Acapulco’s resident playboy finds himself an unlikely father figure when a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and takes off without a trace. Rated PG-13. 100 minutes. Not reviewed. El Con, Foothills, Oasis, Spectrum.

Jobs HH½ — Ashton Kutcher tries on the guise of Steve Jobs, the 1970s college dropout turned new millennium computer company billionaire, in this less-than-multi-dimensional biopic. Apple products changed the world; this movie about its co-founder, will not. PG-13. 122 minutes. El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Oasis, Park Place.

Kick-Ass 2 HH — A lame followup to the punky, profane 2010 misfit teens superhero spoof, with Chloe Grace Moretz and Aaron Taylor-Johnson back as the costumed crimefighters, but with none of the novelty or nutball charm of the original. Rated R. 103 minutes. Cinemark, El Con, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

Lee Daniels’ The Butler HH½ — Based on the true story of an African-American who served eight presidents, from Truman to Reagan, in the White House, with Forest Whitaker, full of dignity and humilty in the title role, as pivotal events in the history of the Civil Rights movement swirl all around him. With Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. and David Oyelowo. PG-13. 132 minutes. Cinemark, Desert Sky, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

Monsters University HH½ — Pixar’s first prequel takes a look at how its “Monsters, Inc. stars, Mike and Sully (the voices of Billy Crystal and John Goodman), first met, in the ivied halls of a college campus . Rated G. 110 minutes. El Con, Foothills, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum, Uptown.

Mortal Instruments: City of Bones HH — Discovering she has mysterious powers, a girl (Lily Collins) hooks up with her kindreds (Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan and Robert Sheehan) to battle evil in all its gory guises. A slick but imitative Goth teen thriller. PG-13. 130 minutes. Desert Sky, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Oasis, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum, Uptown.

One Direction: This is Us HH — Morgan Spurlock (‘Super Size Me’) directs this documentary recounting the meteoric rise of the British boy band. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes. Cinemark, Desert Sky, El Con, Marketplace, Oasis, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

Passion HH — The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder. Rated R. 102 minutes. Loft.

Paranoia HH — A corporate espionage thriller that’s pretty much completely lacking in thrills, unless Liam Hemsworth with his shirt off meets your requirements. PG-13. 115 minutes. Cinemark, Marketplace.

Planes — Dusty the cropduster pursues his crazy dream of racing elite aircraft around the globe. Dane Cook, Stacy Keach and Brad Garrett lend their voices to a dismal kids’ film that exists mostly as an excuse for a toy line. Rated PG. 92 minutes. Not reviewed. Cinemark, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Oasis, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

RED 2 HH½ — The explosive adventures of retired spies Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and John Malcovich never get old. Just a little formulaic in this sequel. Rated PG-13. 116 minutes. Crossroads, Gateway.

The Spectacular Now HHHH — A high school romance that feels genuine, and finds deep places to go, with Miles Teller as a freewheeling senior who surprises himself by falling for a shy and unlikely schoolmate, beautifully played by “The Descendants’” Shailene Woodley. Rated R. 95 minutes. El Con, Marketplace.

The Way Way Back HHH — Sly, richly modulated, emotionally engaging, and brutally honest, Oscar winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s brilliantly cast coming of age dramedy is about Duncan, a geeky, awkward, alienated 14-year-old boy forced to spend summer vacation with his single mom (Toni Collette) and her new beau, an obnoxious, overbearing car salesman (Steve Carell). Rated PG-13. 103 minutes. Crossroads, Gateway.

We’re The Millers HHH½ stars —A pot dealer and a stripper — Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston — pose as an all-American, RV-driving couple, recruiting two misfit teens to play their kids so they can smuggle a huge shipment of marijuana across the Mexican border. Rated R. 110 minutes. Cinemark, Desert Sky, El Con, Foothills, Marketplace, Oasis, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

The Wolverine HH½ — Hugh Jackman stars in this dark and stormy — and ragingly fun — X-Men thriller, in which Logan, the brooding mutant with the retractable adamantian claws, finds himself is the thick of whooshing ninjas, tattooed yakuza and all the anime cool of 21st century Japan. PG-13. 126 minutes. Cinemark, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

The World’s End HHH — Edgar Wright and his anarchic nutball mates from the “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” parodies turn their attention to another genre, as five old school chums reunite for an epic pub crawl in their old hometown. Rated R. 107 minutes. El Con, Foothills, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum.

You’re Next HH — A family is terrorized by killers while on vacation, but one of their guests turns out to be the most talented killer of all. Rated R. 95 minutes. El Con, Foothills, Oasis, Park Place, Pavilions, Spectrum, Uptown.