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Short Takes: Movie listings and reviews for September 7

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Special screenings

The Castle of Cagliostro

9/14, 9/19, 1979 Japanese animated film plus bonus content, Thur 7 p.m. dubbed, Tue 7 p.m. subtitled, $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, RR, SF, SP, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Extraordinary

9/7, faith-based feature film plus bonus content, 7 p.m., $10.50-$12.50. Theaters: SP, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

The Heart of Man

9/14, faith-based feature film plus bonus content, 7 p.m., $13-$15. Theaters: COL, SF, SP, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers

9/12, documentary feature, 7 p.m., $15. Theaters: RR. Info: avettbrothersfilm.com.

Millennium Fandom Bar

9/7, Cult Classic Happy Hour with Blade Runner, 6:30 p.m., free. 9/10, Tron, 7 p.m., free. 9/10, Rick and Morty viewing party, 11 p.m., free. 900 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-405-0816.

Saturday Movie Matinee

9/9, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, 2 p.m., free. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400. 9/9, 1 p.m., free. Windmill Library, 7060 W. Windmill Lane, 702-507-6036.

Sci Fi Center

Mon, Cinemondays, 8 p.m., free. 9/9, Milfs vs. Zombies, 8 p.m., $5. 9/12, Flash Gordon, 8 p.m., $1. 5077 Arville St., 855-501-4335, thescificenter.com.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

9/10, 9/13, 35th-anniversary director’s cut plus introduction by William Shatner, 2 & 7 p.m., $7.50-$12.50. Theaters: COL, ORL, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, VS. Info: fathomevents.com.

Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou

Tue, 1 p.m., free. 9/12, The Gay Divorcee. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 702-507-3400.

Vegas Big Screen Events

9/8, Jurassic Park, 8 p.m., free. The Village Lake Las Vegas, 15 Costa di Lago.

New this week

9/11 (Not reviewed)

Charlie Sheen, Gina Gershon, Whoopi Goldberg. Directed by Martin Guigui. 94 minutes. Rated R. A group of people find themselves trapped in a World Trade Center elevator during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Theaters: SF, TS, TX

Fallen (Not reviewed)

Addison Timlin, Jeremy Irvine, Harrison Gilbertson. Directed by Scott Hicks. 91 minutes. Rated PG-13. A teenage girl sent to a mysterious reform school finds herself romantically torn between two boys with supernatural secrets.

Theaters: TS

Home Again (Not reviewed)

Reese Witherspoon, Pico Alexander, Nat Wolff. Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. 97 minutes. Rated PG-13. A single mother has her life changed when she rents rooms in her house to three young men.

Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DI, ET, FH, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

It Three and a half stars

Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard. Directed by Andy Muschietti. 135 minutes. Rated R. This new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic horror novel takes on just half the story of seven friends who combat an ancient evil, focusing on the characters as children in the late 1980s. It’s a slick modern horror movie that loses a bit of personality but boasts effective scares and consistently strong performances. —JB

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, DTS, ET, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

Love You to the Stars and Back (Not reviewed)

Julia Barretto, Joshua Garcia, Cherry Pie Picache. Directed by Antoinette Jadaone. 111 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A young woman and a young man fall in love on an impromptu road trip.

Theaters: ORL

True to the Game (Not reviewed)

Columbus Short, Erica Peeples, Vivica A. Fox. Directed by Preston A. Whitmore II. 108 minutes. Rated R. A young woman from the Philadelphia housing projects falls in love with a charismatic drug dealer.

Theaters: ORL, RR, SF, TS, TX

Yuddham Sharanam (Not reviewed)

Naga Chaitanya Akkineni, Lavanya Tripathi, Meka Srikanth. Directed by Krishna Marimuthu. Not rated. In Telugu with English subtitles. A drone expert uses his creations to take on a dangerous gangster.

Theaters: SP

Now playing

47 Meters Down Three and a half stars

Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine. Directed by Johannes Roberts. 89 minutes. Rated PG-13. A pair of sisters end up trapped in a rickety cage at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by deadly sharks, in this lean, suspenseful survival thriller. Occasional plot contrivances aside, most of the movie is tense and well-crafted, making great use of the murky depths surrounding the characters. —JB

Theaters: TC, TX

All Saints (Not reviewed)

John Corbett, Cara Buono, Barry Corbin. Directed by Steve Gomer. 108 minutes. Rated PG. A pastor fights to save a small church that serves Burmese refugees in the U.S.

Theaters: BS, SC

Annabelle: Creation Two and a half stars

Lulu Wilson, Talitha Bateman, Anthony LaPaglia. Directed by David F. Sandberg. 109 minutes. Rated R. A prequel to a spinoff, Creation has to work within some narrow parameters, and the filmmakers don’t find any interesting new directions for the evil doll. Director Sandberg’s flair for creepy set pieces puts Creation slightly above 2014’s Annabelle, but it’s still pretty formulaic, with only occasional scary moments. —JB

Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, DI, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

Atomic Blonde Three and a half stars

Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella. Directed by David Leitch. 115 minutes. Rated R. Theron plays a British MI6 agent in 1989 Berlin in this stylish if confusingly plotted spy thriller. Theron is fantastically cool, the supporting performances are entertaining, the set and costume design are sophisticated, and the jaw-dropping action sequences are both brutal and beautiful. —JB

Theaters: DTS, GVR, SC, ST, VS

Baadshaho (Not reviewed)

Ajay Devgn, Ileana D’Cruz, Emraan Hashmi. Directed by Milan Luthria. 162 minutes. Not rated. In Hindi with English subtitles. A heist thriller set in Mumbai during the 1970s.

Theaters: VS

Baby Driver Three and a half stars

Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey. Directed by Edgar Wright. 113 minutes. Rated R. The plot of Baby Driver, about a getaway driver looking to leave behind his life of crime, is nothing new, but the way that writer-director Wright tells that story is playful and virtuosic, making the movie into one long visual mixtape. It’s like a mediocre crime thriller crossed with several very good music videos. —JB

Theaters: DTS, FH, COL, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

The Big Sick Three and a half stars

Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Ray Romano. Directed by Michael Showalter. 119 minutes. Rated R. The broad narrative arc of The Big Sick is not that different from the average Hollywood romantic comedy; the movie succeeds in the personal specificity of the story, written by comedian Kumail Nanjiani and his wife, based on their real-life romance. It delivers a real love story with real humor from real people. —JB

Theaters: GVR, SC

Birth of the Dragon Two stars

Billy Magnussen, Philip Ng, Xia Yu. Directed by George Nolfi. 103 minutes. Rated PG-13. Ostensibly about a young Bruce Lee’s fight with old-school Chinese kung-fu master Wong Jack Man, this heavily fictionalized thriller is mostly about a made-up white American student of Lee’s. There’s a boring love story and a fight against gangsters, all in a movie that has no idea what kind of story to tell. —JB

Theaters: AL, CAN, CH, COL, FH, ORL, PAL, RR, SP, SF, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Three and a half stars

Voices of Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch, Ed Helms. Directed by David Soren. 84 minutes. Rated PG. This computer-animated movie, about two best friends (voiced by Hart and Middleditch) whose superhero creation comes to life, contains hand-drawn sequences and even a sock-puppet sequence. Rambunctious, but cheerfully clever—or at least cheerful—it contains fart jokes, but also a built-in critique and aesthetic appreciation of fart jokes. —JMA

Theaters: TC

Cars 3 Two and a half stars

Voices of Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Armie Hammer. Directed by Brian Fee. 109 minutes. Rated G. The third movie in Pixar’s most blatantly commercial animated franchise finds race car Lightning McQueen (Wilson) losing ground to younger models. The world of anthropomorphic vehicles is still colorful and lovingly detailed, but the plot is slow-moving and dull, rehashing elements of the first movie. —JB

Theaters: RR, ST, VS

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Not reviewed)

Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr. Directed by Steven Spielberg. 137 minutes. Rated PG. Fortieth-anniversary re-release of the sci-fi classic about aliens arriving on Earth.

Theaters: CAN, GVL, ORL, RR, SF, SP, TS

The Dark Tower Two stars

Tom Taylor, Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. 95 minutes. Rated PG-13. The long-in- the-works adaptation of Stephen King’s epic fantasy-novel series has turned it into a generic, streamlined action-fantasy, making the sprawling mythology feel limited and small. Elba is a highlight as world-weary warrior Roland, but Taylor is the real star as an overly earnest teen who joins Roland to save the world. —JB

Theaters: AL, CH, COL, PAL, ST, TS, VS

Despicable Me 3 Two stars

Voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda. 90 minutes. Rated PG. There’s a sense of tired obligation to the third movie in the animated series about reformed supervillain Gru (Carell), which runs barely 90 minutes and throws together a handful of haphazard storylines. Nothing in the plot carries much of an impact, despite the series of apparently momentous developments. —JB

Theaters: AL, COL, SF, ST, TS, VS

Detroit Three stars

John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. 143 minutes. Rated R. Set mostly during the 1967 Detroit riots, the movie aims to put viewers alongside the black residents of the city as they rebel. It gets bogged down in depicting a particularly notorious incident that takes up most of the movie, with a cartoonish cop villain, but it still has powerful moments throughout. —JB

Theaters: COL

Dunkirk Four stars

Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance. Directed by Christopher Nolan. 106 minutes. Rated PG-13. Nolan’s docudrama about the evacuation of Dunkirk early in World War II is perhaps the boldest gamble yet made by this ambitious director, injecting a potentially alienating degree of abstraction into the sheer intensity of pitched battle. Once again, he somehow makes it work. —MD

Theaters: AL, CH, FH, GVR, ORL, RR, SC, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS

The Emoji Movie One star

Voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris. Directed by Tony Leondis. 86 minutes. Rated PG. The epitome of a cynical Hollywood brand extension, this animated movie based on smartphone icons borrows elements from superior movies like Inside Out and The Lego Movie, lazily going through the motions of an animated family adventure, with maximum product placement along the way. —JB

Theaters: CH, COL, RP, RR, SF, SP, TS, TX

Girls Trip (Not reviewed)

Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. 122 minutes. Rated R. A group of lifelong friends cut loose on a trip to New Orleans.

Theaters: AL, COL, ET, ORL, PAL, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, VS

The Glass Castle Three and a half stars

Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. 127 minutes. Rated PG-13. Jeannette Walls’ memoir about growing up with a flighty, irresponsible mom and an alcoholic dreamer of a dad finds enough emotional truth to compensate for occasional lapses into Hollywood phoniness. Larson plays the author, with Harrelson and Watts as the bad parents. —MD

Theaters: DTS, GVR, SC

Gook Three and a half stars

Justin Chon, Simone Baker, David So. Directed by Justin Chon. 94 minutes. Not rated. Set on the first day of the 1992 LA riots, writer-director Chon’s Gook, starring Chon and So as Korean-American brothers trying to keep their family’s shoe store afloat, is surprisingly upbeat and funny. Although it eventually takes a disappointingly manipulative turn toward the end, Gook is mainly a heartfelt passion project. —JB

Theaters: VS

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Three stars

Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista. Directed by James Gunn. 136 minutes. Rated PG-13. After teaming up to save the galaxy in the surprise-hit previous movie, Marvel’s intergalactic superheroes are split up and set on various courses until they come together for the action-packed finale. If you liked the first movie, well, here’s more of it, only not as refreshing or original. —JB

Theaters: TC

Hazlo Como Hombre (Not reviewed)

Mauricio Ochmann, Alfonso Dosal, Aislinn Derbez. Directed by Nicolás López. 109 minutes. Rated R. In Spanish with English subtitles. The relationship among three longtime male friends is tested when one of them reveals that he’s gay.

Theaters: CAN, ORL, PAL, ST, TS, TX, VS

The Hitman’s Bodyguard Two stars

Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Elodie Yung. Directed by Patrick Hughes. 118 minutes. Rated R. Reynolds plays a private security professional reluctantly tasked with protecting the life of a contract killer (Jackson) set to testify against a brutal dictator (Gary Oldman) in international court. The two loudmouths banter incessantly but weakly, the action is mediocre and the story drags on at least 30 minutes too long. —JB

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DI, ET, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TS, TX

The House Two stars

Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Jason Mantzoukas. Directed by Andrew Jay Cohen. 88 minutes. Rated R. Ferrell and Poehler star as a middle-class couple who start an underground casino in their neighbor’s basement when they unexpectedly lose the money for their daughter’s college tuition. Like most comedies starring SNL alumni, it’s long on semi-improvised goofiness and short on actual jokes. —MD

Theaters: TC

I Do ... Until I Don’t One and a half stars

Lake Bell, Ed Helms, Mary Steenburgen. Directed by Lake Bell. 103 minutes. Rated R. Bell’s second effort as writer and director (after In a World …) is a major disappointment, a contrived and unfunny romantic comedy about three married couples participating in a documentary. The characters are annoying, the humor is stale, the plotting is a mess and the message is disappointingly retrograde. —JB

Theaters: GVR

Ingrid Goes West Three and a half stars

Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Directed by Matt Spicer. 97 minutes. Rated R. Plaza plays a troubled young woman who forcibly befriends a social-media star (Olsen) in this clever dark comedy. Rather than taking easy potshots at entitled millennials, the movie explores themes of grief, loneliness and mania that transcend whatever current technology is enabling them. —JB

Theaters: COL, VS

I See You (Not reviewed)

Alessandra de Rossi, Empoy Marquez. Directed by Sigrid Andrea Bernardo. 84 minutes. Not rated. In Filipino with English subtitles. A blind woman falls in love with a man who treats her kindly.

Theaters: VS

Kidnap Two stars

Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn. Directed by Luis Prieto. 94 minutes. Rated R. Berry plays a waitress chasing after the kidnappers of her young son in this empty, predictable, cheap-looking thriller. More than half the movie is a repetitive, drawn-out car chase, and despite a running time that barely hits 80 minutes, Kidnap is still padded and plodding. —JB

Theaters: BS, COL, FH, ORL, SC, ST, TX

Leap! Two and a half stars

Voices of Elle Fanning, Nat Wolff, Carly Rae Jepsen. Directed by Éric Summer and Éric Warin. 89 minutes. Rated PG. Set in 19th-century France, Leap! follows plucky orphan girl Félicie (Fanning) as she travels to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a ballet dancer. The animation is serviceable, the voice work is adequate, and the story wraps up exactly as expected in under 90 minutes. —JB

Theaters: AL, CAN, COL, CH, FH, GVL, ORL, PAL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

Logan Lucky Two and a half stars

Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. 119 minutes. Rated PG-13. Soderbergh’s comeback is an uneven heist comedy starring Tatum and Driver as a pair of working-class brothers who conspire to rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina. The actors mostly lean hard on comical redneck accents, and the slow-moving plot features way too many leaps of logic. —JB

Theaters: AL, BS, CH, COL, DI, ET, FH, ORL, RR, SC, SF, SHO, SP, SS, TX

Marvel’s Inhumans Two stars

Anson Mount, Iwan Rheon, Serinda Swan. Directed by Roel Reiné. 75 minutes. Not rated. The first two episodes of the upcoming ABC Marvel TV series are presented as an IMAX movie, but the cheap-looking effects, costumes and set design are poorly served by the giant-screen conversion. The high-level maneuvering in a hidden civilization of superpowered beings should be exciting and dangerous, but instead it’s mostly stultifying. —JB

Theaters: TS

Maudie Three stars

Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett. Directed by Aisling Walsh. 115 minutes. Rated PG-13. This biopic of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (Hawkins) focuses on her tumultuous relationship with her husband (Hawke), sometimes at the expense of details about her work. It can be an affecting look at a dysfunctional marriage, although it suffers from familiar biopic issues, including unclear progression of time and thin supporting characters. —JB

Theaters: SC

Menashe Three stars

Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus. Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein. 82 minutes. Rated PG. In Yiddish with English subtitles. This documentary-style drama about a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn fighting for custody of his son after his wife passes away is a bit repetitive, but it’s such an immersive portrayal of an insular world rarely seen onscreen that the thin story isn’t a major problem. —JB

Theaters: VS

Midnight Runners (Not reviewed)

Park Seo-joon, Kang Ha-neul, Park Ha-seon. Directed by Kim Joo-Hwan. 109 minutes. Not rated. In Korean with English subtitles. Two students at Korea’s national police academy team up to solve a kidnapping.

Theaters: VS

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature One and a half stars

Voices of Will Arnett, Katherine Heigl, Maya Rudolph. Directed by Cal Brunker. 91 minutes. Rated PG. This grating animated sequel doesn’t even have the semi-clever heist-movie premise of its predecessor, instead throwing a bunch of hyperactive, annoying animal characters together in a jumble of subplots loosely related to saving their park home from an evil developer. It’s chaotic, ugly and unpleasant, without even a solid lesson for the kid audience. —JB

Theaters: COL, DI, SC, ST, VS

The Only Living Boy in New York (Not reviewed)

Callum Turner, Pierce Brosnan, Kate Beckinsale. Directed by Marc Webb. 88 minutes. Rated R. An aimless recent college graduate begins an affair with his father’s mistress.

Theaters: VS

Patti Cake$ Three stars

Danielle Macdonald, Siddharth Dhananjay, Bridget Everett. Directed by Geremy Jasper. 108 minutes. Rated R. The story of a plus-sized white woman from working-class suburban New Jersey who dreams of hip-hop stardom boasts a charismatic lead performance from Macdonald and some authentic New Jersey grit before giving in to feel-good clichés in its familiar triumph-of- the-underdog story. —JB

Theaters: SC, ST

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Two stars

Johnny Depp, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario. Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. 129 minutes. Rated PG-13. The fifth movie in the series initially based on a Disney theme-park ride features legendary pirate Jack Sparrow (Depp) on a quest for Poseidon’s trident. The plot is convoluted and interminable, and Depp stumbles and mumbles his way through another performance as Jack, who’s lost all of his irreverent charm. —JB

Theaters: TC

Spider-Man: Homecoming Three and a half stars

Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jacob Batalon. Directed by Jon Watts. 133 minutes. Rated PG-13. Bringing popular teen superhero Spider-Man (Holland) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Homecoming is a feat of corporate deal-making as much as an artistic endeavor. There are a few impressive set pieces (most notably one set at the Washington Monument), some seeds planted for future movies and some entertaining bits of humor. —JB

Theaters: AL, BS, COL, FH, ORL, RP, RR, SF, SHO, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

A Taxi Driver Three stars

Song Kang-Ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hai-Jin. Directed by Jang Hoon. 137 minutes. Not rated. In Korean with English subtitles. The true story of a German journalist who captured footage of South Korea’s 1980 citizen uprising, thanks to the reluctant help of a Korean taxi driver, gets an overlong but uplifting dramatization. The main character’s political awakening is a little heavy-handed, but the performances are strong and the message is a worthy one. —JB

Theaters: VS

Transformers: The Last Knight One and a half stars

Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock. Directed by Michael Bay. 148 minutes. Rated PG-13. Just getting through Bay’s fifth Transformers movie makes for an exhausting endeavor. Once again, the plot is byzantine and inane, the characters are superfluous and barely one-dimensional, the comic relief is painful and the acting is almost entirely perfunctory. The fate of the world is at stake (again), but none of it means anything. —JB

Theaters: TC, TX

Tulip Fever (Not reviewed)

Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O’Connell. Directed by Justin Chadwick. 107 minutes. Rated R. In 17th-century Amsterdam, an artist falls in love with a married woman whose portrait he’s been commissioned to paint.

Theaters: BS, GVR, ORL, RR, SC, TS

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Two and a half stars

Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen. Directed by Luc Besson. 137 minutes. Rated PG-13. The convoluted plot of Besson’s adaptation of a long-running French comic book (starring the miscast DeHaan and Delevingne as intergalactic secret agents) takes too long to get moving and then is sidelined for long stretches. The movie is a colorful and baffling experience that is sometimes charming but more often just exhausting. —JB

Theaters: COL, TX

War for the Planet of the Apes Three stars

Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn. Directed by Matt Reeves. 140 minutes. Rated PG-13. Part three of the rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise boldly asks viewers to reject our own kind and root wholeheartedly for simian victory. Serkis remains a marvel as Caesar; shame the film stacks the deck by making its handful of humans cartoonishly evil, complexity be damned. —MD

Theaters: AL, BS, COL, FH, SC, SP, ST, TX

Wind River Three and a half stars

Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene. Directed by Taylor Sheridan. 107 minutes. Rated R. Screenwriter Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water) now adds directing with another finely crafted crime story about people living on the margins of society. Renner and Olsen play federal agents investigating the murder of a Native American teen on a Wyoming reservation. The story is straightforward but suspenseful, with rich regional details. —JB

Theaters: AL, BS, CAN, CH, DTS, FH, GVL, GVR, ORL, PAL, RP, SC, SHO, SF, SP, SS, ST, TS, TX, VS

Wish Upon Two stars

Joey King, Ki Hong Lee, Ryan Phillippe. Directed by John R. Leonetti. 90 minutes. Rated PG-13. Teenager Clare (King) makes every dumb horror-movie decision possible after she discovers a Chinese music box that promises to grant seven wishes. The (fairly bloodless, PG-13-friendly) death scenes rip off the Final Destination movies, and every plot development is dopey and predictable, with a complete lack of scares. —JB

Theaters: TC

Wonder Woman Three and a half stars

Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen. Directed by Patty Jenkins. 133 minutes. Rated PG-13. Set during WWI, this solo adventure for the iconic DC superhero is a step forward for DC’s movie universe. Gadot plays Wonder Woman with an appealing sense of integrity and compassion. The movie never reinvents the superhero origin story, but it hits all the familiar beats with enthusiasm and style. —JB

Theaters: AL, COL, FH, SHO, SP, ST, VS

JMA Jeffrey M. Anderson; JB Josh Bell; MD Mike D’Angelo

Theaters

(AL) Regal Aliante

7300 Aliante Parkway, North Las Vegas, 844-462-7342 ext. 4011

(BS) Regal Boulder Station

4111 Boulder Highway, 844-462-7342 ext. 269

(CAN) Galaxy Cannery

2121 E. Craig Road, North Las Vegas, 702-639-9779

(CH) Cinedome Henderson

851 S. Boulder Highway, Henderson, 702-566-1570

(COL) Regal Colonnade

8880 S. Eastern Ave., 844-462-7342 ext. 270

(DI) Las Vegas Drive-In

4150 W. Carey Ave., North Las Vegas, 702-646-3565

(DTS) Regal Downtown Summerlin

2070 Park Center Drive, 844-462-7342 ext. 4063

(ET) Eclipse Theaters

814 S. Third St., 702-816-4300

(FH) Regal Fiesta Henderson

777 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson, 844-462-7342 ext. 1772

(GVR) Regal Green Valley Ranch

2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, 844-462-7342 ext. 267

(GVL) Galaxy Green Valley Luxury+

4500 E. Sunset Road, Henderson, 702-442-0244

(ORL) Century Orleans

4500 W. Tropicana Ave., 702-889-1220

(PAL) Brenden Theatres at the Palms

4321 W. Flamingo Road, 702-507-4849

(RP) AMC Rainbow Promenade

2321 N. Rainbow Blvd., 888-262-4386

(RR) Regal Red Rock

11011 W. Charleston Blvd., 844-462-7342 ext. 1756

(ST) Century Sam’s Town

5111 Boulder Highway, 702-547-1732

(SF) Century Santa Fe Station

4949 N. Rancho Drive, 702-655-8178

(SHO) United Artists Showcase

3769 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 844-462-7342 ext. 522

(SP) Century South Point

9777 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-260-4061

(SC) Century Suncoast

9090 Alta Drive, 702-869-1880

(SS) Regal Sunset Station

1301-A W. Sunset Road, Henderson, 844-462-7342 ext. 268

(TX) Regal Texas Station

2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, 844-462-7342 ext. 271

(TS) AMC Town Square

6587 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-362-7283

(TC) Regency Tropicana Cinemas

3330 E. Tropicana Ave., 702-438-3456

(VS) Regal Village Square

9400 W. Sahara Ave., 844-462-7342 ext. 272

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