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After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth — 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at a rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures. Sci-fi/action, rated PG-13, 90 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

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This sequel catches up with Avatar’s protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a decade after he’s decided to retire from service with the Marines and take up residence on Pandora

(the planet he was sent to colonize), become a member of the native Na’vi tribe, and marry Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). When an ancient threat resurfaces, Jake must fight a difficult war against the humans. With Kate Winslet and Sigourney Weaver. Sci-fi/ action, rated PG-13, 192 minutes, Regal Stadium 14

CHAMPIONS

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A former minor-league basketball coach (Woody Harrelson) receives a court order to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. Despite his doubts, he soon realizes that together they can go further than they ever imagined. With Kaitlin Olson, Cheech Marin, and Ernie Hudson. “Champions is billed as a comedy, and while it is amiable, it doesn’t even take a shot at being hilarious.” (Mark Jenkins/for The Washington Post) Comedy, rated PG-13, 124 minutes, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown

CLOSE

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Leo and Remi are two 13-year-old best friends whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Lukas Dhont’s second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing. “Dhont tells a familiar story in what feels like a fresh and urgently new way, with sensitivity, sadness and promising glimmers of hope.” (Ann Hornaday/the Washington Post) Drama, rated PG-13, 105 minutes, CCAC

COCAINE BEAR

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Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and gone on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow ... and blood. “Cocaine Bear isn’t so much a movie as an idea . ... If you’ve seen the viral trailer — heck, if you’ve read the title — you’ve already gotten the joke.” (Michael O’sullivan/the Washington Post) Thriller/action, rated R, 95 minutes, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown

CREED III

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Still dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) is thriving in his career and family life. When Damian (Jonathan Majors), a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, resurfaces after serving time in prison, he’s eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter who has nothing to lose. Sports drama, rated PG-13, 117 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

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When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero (Michelle Yeoh) must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Winner of seven Academy Awards. Sci-fi/action-adventure, rated R, 140 minutes, Violet Crown

INSIDE

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Nemo (Willem Dafoe), a high-end art thief, becomes trapped inside a luxury, high-tech penthouse in New York’s Times Square after his heist doesn’t go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive. “It is a strange, enclosed experience: Dafoe’s mastery of the screen keeps it meaningful.” (Guardian) Drama, rated R, 105 minuts, Violet Crown

JESUS REVOLUTION

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In the 1970s, Greg Laurie and a sea of young people descend on sunny Southern California to redefine truth through all means of liberation. Inadvertently, Laurie meets a charismatic street preacher and a pastor who open the doors to a church to a stream of wandering youth. What unfolds is a counterculture movement that becomes the greatest spiritual awakening in American history. Drama, not rated, 120 minutes, Regal Stadium 14

LINOLEUM

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Cameron Edwin (Jim Gaffigan), the host of a failing TV science show for children, has always had aspirations of being an astronaut. When a mysterious satellite falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests into a plan to rebuild the machine into a rocket. As surreal events start to unfold, he slowly realizes that there’s more to his life story than he once thought. “Thoughtful performances and earnest (if especially subtle) writing keep the film compelling enough until its final minutes, which are even more startling in their heart-wrenching effectiveness than in their mind-bending twists.” (Hollywood Reporter) Sci-fi/comedy/drama, not rated, 98 minutes, CCAC

MOVING ON

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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as estranged friends who reunite to seek revenge on the petulant widower (Malcolm Mcdowell) of their recently deceased friend. Along the way, Fonda’s character reunites with her great love (Richard Roundtree) as each woman learns to make peace with the past and each other. Comedy, rated R, 85 minutes, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown. Review Page 25

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH

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The latest installment in the adventures of the swashbuckling ginger cat kicks off with a visually fun opening battle, and Puss (Antonio Banderas) learns that he has just run through his eighth of nine lives. The imminent loss of quasi-immortality sends Puss into a funk. Eliminating all risk is the only thing Puss can think of to do, so he eats and sleeps and not much else — until learning of a magical star that can reset his nine lives if he wishes on it. He reunites with Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) and sets off. Comedy/animation, rated PG, 100 minutes, Regal Stadium 14

THE QUIET GIRL

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In rural Ireland in 1981, 9-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth. “The Quiet Girl is that rare thing: a work of storytelling that speaks most loudly when it is saying nothing.” (Michael O’sullivan/the Washington Post) Drama, rated PG-13, 94 minutes, CCAC

SCREAM VI

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Four survivors of the Ghostface murders leave Woodsboro behind for a fresh start in New York City. However, they soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when a new killer embarks on a bloody rampage. With Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere, Courteney Cox, and Dermot Mulroney. “It’s tempting to call Scream VI less of a fresh idea than a cynical exercise in boosting an existing intellectual property to make a buck. But including a line of dialogue in the new screenplay that does exactly that ... doesn’t inoculate the makers of this latest chapter against accusations of trafficking in lazy formula.” (Michael O’sullivan/ The Washington Post ) Horror, rated R, 123 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown

SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS

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Bestowed with the powers of the gods, Billy Batson and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with their adult superhero alter egos. When a vengeful trio of ancient gods arrive on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago, Shazam (Zachary Levi) and his allies get thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and the fate of the world. “Fun, clever, smartly conceived entertainment that doesn’t take itself too seriously. What a concept.” (Rolling Stone)

Action/adventure, PG-13, 130 minutes, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Regal Stadium 14, Violet Crown

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STREAMING NAVALNY

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Navalny just won the Oscar for best documentary feature, but its subject, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the leading opposition voice to President Vladimir Putin, couldn’t make the ceremony since he is in solitary confinement, serving a sentence of 11½ years for fraud in his home country. How did it all come to this, after Navalny was famously poisoned in 2020? Daniel Roher’s excellent film walks us back to before the attack, following its subject’s public campaign against Putin in Russia, his recovery from the nerve agent Novichok while in exile in Germany, and his decision to return to Russia in January 2021. Documentary, rated R, 98 min, HBO Max

BOSTON STRANGLER

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In the fact-based crime drama Boston Strangler, Keira Knightley is Loretta Mclaughlin, the ambitious newspaper reporter who, in 1960s Boston, broke the story of the serial killer who would come to be known as the Boston Strangler. Loretta’s editors decide she’s in over her head, calling in veteran reporter Jean Cole (Carrie Coon) to help. The film’s refreshing focus on victims and the women searching for justice breathes new life into the true-crime genre. Crime drama, rated R 112 minutes, Hulu

ALL THE WORLD IS SLEEPING

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Filmmaker Ryan Lacen and Young Women United — a New Mexico-based reproductive justice nonprofit that has since changed its name to Bold Futures NM — collected the stories of real women of color struggling with addiction to create the fictionalized plot of All the World Is Sleeping, a drama that centers on a composite character played by Melissa Barrera (Scream VI). Drama, not rated, 110 minutes rated.

ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?

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Nominated for a Caméra d’or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Are You Lonesome Tonight? is a Chinese neo-noir thriller surrounding a hit-and-run car accident in which an air conditioning repairman (Eddie Peng) kills a pedestrian — whose body later is discovered to be riddled with bullet holes. Crime/mystery, not rated, 95 minutes.

PINBALL: THE MAN WHO SAVED THE GAME

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Mike Faist (West Side Story) stars in the fact-based drama Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game as Roger Sharpe, a writer for GQ magazine and pinball aficionado who, in the 1970s, helped overturn a 35-year ban on the game in New York City, which once considered the machines to be illegal gambling devices. Comedy, not rated, 94 minutes

SUPERCELL

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Alec Baldwin, Anne Heche, Skeet Ulrich, and Daniel Diemer star in Supercell, a disaster thriller about storm chasers. Action, rated PG-13, 100 minutes

— Streaming items by Michael O’sullivan and Olivia Mccormack/ The Washington Post