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fl ick picksTheater contacts:Gateway, Liberty cinemas: 662-4567Junction Cinema: 548-6684Ruby Theatre: 682-5016Omak, Mirage theaters: 826-0860
“Iron Man 3”PG-13 ★★ 1/2Robert Downey Jr.Gwyneth PaltrowTony Stark begins an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution after a ter-rorist, the Mandarin, tears his world apart.Omak: Fri.-Sat. 6:45, 9:45 (3:45 Sat.); Sun. 4, 7; Mon.-Thurs. 7Gateway: Daily 12:15, 1, 2:30, 3, 3:45, 5:15, 5:45, 6:30, 8, 8:30, 9:15Gateway in 3D: Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45Gateway VIP: Fri.-Sun. 3:30, 6:15, 6:55, 9; Mon.-Thurs. 6:15, 6:55, 9
“The Lords of Salem”R ★Sheri Moon ZombieBruce DavisonA radio DJ receives a record and its sound triggers fl ashbacks of her town’s violent past.Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 5:20, 7:30 (9:40 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 3:10, 5:20, 7:30
“Pain & Gain”PG-13 ★★ 1/2Mark WahlbergDwayne JohnsonThings go wrong when three Miami body builders attempt to kidnap a rich businessman.Gateway: Daily 1:45, 4:15, 7, 9:40Gateway VIP: Daily 9:30
“42”PG-13 ★★★Chadwick BosemanT.R. KnightA biography of Jackie Robinson as he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of a team executive.Mirage: Fri.-Sat. 6:45, 9:45 (3:45 Sat.); Sun. 4, 7; Mon.-Thurs. 7Gateway: Daily 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:30
“Oblivion”PG-13 ★★★Morgan FreemanTom CruiseAfter a devastating war, one of the last men on Earth discovers he’s not alone.Mirage: Fri.-Sat. 6:45, 9:45 (3:45 Sat.); Sun. 4, 7; Mon.-Thurs. 7Gateway: Daily 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45Gateway VIP: Fri.-Sun. 4
“The Company You Keep”R ★★ 1/2Shia LaBeoufRobert RedfordA former Weather Underground activist goes on the run after a journalist dis-covers his identity.Gateway: Daily 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9
“Place Beyond the Pines”R ★★★ 1/2Ryan GoslingEva MendesA corrupt police department sends a rookie cop to nab a motorcycle-stunt-man-turned-bank-robber.Gateway: Daily 12:25, 9:20
“The Big Wedding”R ★ 1/2Robert DeNiroDiane KeatonA divorced couple fakes being married as they prepare for their son’s wedding.Gateway: Daily 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10
“Scary Movie 5”PG-13 ★Lindsay LohanCharlie SheenWith the help of surveillance cameras, a young couple learn they’re being stalked by a demon.Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 5:35, 7:25, 9:15; Sat.-Sun. 2, 3:50, 5:35, 7:25, 9:15
“Oz: The Great and Powerful”PG ★★★James FrancoMichelle WilliamsRachel WeiszA circus magician is whisked away to an enchanted land where he has the power to become a great wizard.Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 5:15 (8 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 2:25, 5:15Liberty in 3D: Daily 6:45
“Olympus Has Fallen”R ★★Gerard ButlerAngela BassettA disgraced guard is trapped inside the White House and must use his inside knowledge to rescue the president.Mirage: Fri.-Sat. 6:45, 9:45 (3:45 Sat.); Sun. 4:15, 7:15; Mon.-Thurs. 7:15Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 4:45, 7:10 (9:35 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 2:20, 4:45, 7:10
“The Croods”PG ★★★Nicolas CageEmma StoneA cautious prehistoric family goes on an unexpected adventure through uncharted lands.Gateway: Daily 12:15, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20
“Evil Dead”R ★★ 1/2Jane LevyShiloh FernandezFive friends unwittingly summon demons, who posses them until only one is left to fi ght for survival.Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 5, 7 (9 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 3, 5, 7
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation”PG-13 ★★Channing TatumDwayne JohnsonThe G.I. Joes battle with their sworn enemy Cobra, while dealing with threats from within the government.Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 4:55, 7:20 (9:45 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 2:30, 4:55, 7:20Liberty in 3D: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 4:25 (9:25 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 2:10, 4:25
“The Host”PG-13 ★★Saoirse RonanDiane KrugerA young woman resists an alien spe-cies bent on inhabiting human bodies.Liberty: Fri., Mon.-Thurs. 4:30, 7 (9:30 Fri.); Sat.-Sun. 2, 4:30, 7Ruby: Fri.-Sat., Mon.-Tues. 7, Sun. 4:30
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BY ROGER MOORE
McClatchy News Service
The third “Iron Man” movie, the fi nale to this trilogy of Marvel marvels, is the jokiest and cutest of them all. Iron Man / Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) gets a kiddie sidekick, for
Pete’s sake.It’s also far and away the
most violent, with a “Die Hard” body count, bombs and bullets, and Stark trash-talking evil henchmen about how he’s going to kill them.
Writer-director Shane Black, who cut his teeth on “Lethal Weapon” movies and directed Downey in one of his best pre-”Iron Man” pictures, “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” brings a more violent, angst-ridden sensibility to the franchise. And a less subtle one.
“Ever since that big dude with the hammer dropped out of the sky,” a character apologizes, remembering Thor’s arrival and “The Avengers,” “subtlety’s kind of gone out the window.”
So there is not one Iron Man this time, and not just two (the War Machine suit, worn by Stark’s military
pal played by Don Cheadle). No, as the trailers promise, there are many — suits that can be summoned, video game fashion, in mid-fi ght, mid-fl ight. That sort of deus
ex machina robs the fi ghts-to-the-death of their fear of death and the fi lm of some of its high-stakes urgency.
A new terrorist foe — “I prefer the term ‘teacher’”— is assaulting America. The Mandarin (Ben Kinglsey, big and broad), who isn’t Chinese, is threatening the president (William Sadler), the country and Iron Man.
And when the bad guy’s minions take down
Tony Stark’s bodyguard (Jon Favreau, who also directed the fi rst two “Iron Man” movies), Tony vows “good old-fashioned revenge.”
That’s when Tony’s Fortress of Malibu is destroyed. That’s when Tony’s beloved Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is endangered.
This “Iron Man” is about the “demons” we create through the people we wrong, and Black (who co-wrote the script) frames all this
within a Tony fl ashback, to the day he scored a one-night-stand with a scientist (Rebecca Hall) and stiff ed a think tank founder (Guy Pearce).
Downey is as on the money as ever as Stark, punching up pithy punchlines — “BILL me” to a bloodthirsty reporter who eggs him into trashing the guy’s cellphone.
Stark criss-crosses the country, from Tennessee to Miami, and suff ers anxiety attacks along the way. A kid (Ty Simpkins of “Insidious”) with a Disney Channel haircut to make up for his hard-luck life in Tennessee pitches in to help. A pushy, inquisitive child and these red-eyed minions of evil whose wounds heal in an instant would give anybody heart palpitations.
The third-act twists are pretty easy to see coming, and the action beats feel pre-or-dained. But one bit of business involving people sucked out of Air Force One is the fi lm’s jaw-dropper, a stunt / eff ect that is as epic as anything this genre has produced.
And the broad, goofy jokes and one-liners land — even if they feel a little winded this time.
Iron Man 3: Violent with a side of goofy
AP photos
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man and Gwyneth Paltrow, as Pepper Potts, in a scene from Marvel’s “Iron Man 3.” At right, Downey Jr. in the Iron Man suit.
movie review★★ 1⁄2
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce
Director: Shane Black
Rating:: PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action, violence, brief suggestive content.
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