
“Wedding Crashers” stars Owen Wilson, left, and Vince Vaughn reunite as two former salesmen competing for a job at Google in “The Internship.”
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OPENS TODAY
‘The Internship’
The stars of “Wedding Crashers,” Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, reunite in this comedy about two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age, but find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment. (PG-13, 119 minutes)
‘The Purge’
A family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalized. (R, 85 minutes)
LIMITED RELEASE
‘The Iceman’
Michael Shannon stars in the true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When he was finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession. At Kahala 8 (R, 105 minutes)
‘Love Is All You Need’
A hairdresser who has lost her hair due to cancer finds out her husband is having an affair. She travels to Italy for her daughter’s wedding and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife. Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm star. At Kahala 8 (R, 116 minutes)
‘Not Today’
While on vacation with friends in India, a privileged young man’s life takes an unexpected turn after he initially refuses to help a starving man and his daughter. At Dole Cannery Stadium 18 (PG-13. 118 minutes)
‘Stories We Tell’
Sarah Polley’s documentary excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
At Kahala 8 (PG-13,108 minutes)
OPENS
WEDNESDAY
‘This Is the End’
Six actor friends find themselves trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson star in this comedy. (R, 107 minutes)
NOW PLAYING
‘After Earth’
Will Smith and his teenage son Jaden star in this sci-fi adventure about a crash landing that leaves the two of them stranded on a future Earth, thousands of years after events forced humanity’s escape. With the father injured, the son must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help. This is a self-serious monotone of a movie built around a young actor who, though he tries valiantly, can’t yet carry a film on his slender shoulders. (Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (PG-13, 100 minutes)
‘At Any Price’
A farming family’s business is threatened by an unexpected crisis, further testing the relationship between a father and his rebellious son. Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron star in this drama, which on one level is a critical exploration of agribusiness and its cutthroat, hypercompetive ways. On a deeper level it is a searching, somewhat ham-handed allegory of American hubris in the 21st century and a bleak assessment of the country’s wobbly moral compass. (Stephen Holden, New York Times) (R, 150 minutes)
‘Epic’
In this animated feature, a teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a ragtag group of characters in order to save both their world and ours. Derivative as all get-out and plainly concocted by a committee, this movie is more entertaining and emotional than it has any right to be. A strong story is worth more than any next-generation software. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG, 102 minutes)
‘Fast & Furious 6′
The latest sequel of this high-energy action franchise finds Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) enlisting Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his team to bring down former Special Ops soldier Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), leader of a unit specializing in vehicular warfare. In terms of sheer action adrenaline, this may be the best movie of the franchise. It’s almost enough to distract from the fact that hardly anyone breaks a sweat, let alone bones, after being involved in multiple car wrecks, falls from great heights onto speeding metal and glass, and fights too numerous to mention. (Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (PG-13, 130 minutes)
‘Frances Ha’
Director Noah Baumbach and actor Greta Gerwig co-wrote this story about a woman who apprentices for a dance company (though she’s not really a dancer) and throws herself headlong into her dreams. This is a small miracle of a movie, honest and funny with an aim that’s true. It’s both a timeless story of the joys and sorrows of youth and a dead-on portrait of how things are right now for one particular New York woman who, try as she might, can’t quite get her life together. (Kenneth Turan, Los Angelese Times) (R, 86 minutes)
‘The Great Gatsby’
A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor. Director Baz Luhrmann is the latest to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic book, and it’s a glitzed-up effort that is dishwater dull. Because Luhrmann has an eye for spectacle but is deaf to emotional detail, he has turned an exquisitely told story of doomed romance into a 3-D production with all the depth of a pop-up book. The movie plods on like a sixth-period American Lit class. (Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune) (PG-13, 143 minutes)
‘The Hangover Part III’
The Wolf Pack and nemesis Leslie Chow are back for this final movie in the popular franchise, as they travel back to Las Vegas two years after the initial mayhem of the bachelor party. Along with the expected number of outrageous lines and sight gags, the filmmakers have tried to create something bold and new here while simultaneously remaining true to the trilogy and wrapping it all up in a satisfying way. And thanks to the performances of Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong in particular, the movie is a huge improvement over Part II. (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) (R, 100 minutes)
‘Iron Man 3′
When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. Meticulously crafted to be a box-office juggernaut, the movie rises above its naked ambitions thanks to Robert Downey Jr.’s sly charm in the title role and Ben Kingsley’s too-short and ultimately hilarious turn as the villain. (Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (PG-13, 130 minutes)
‘Mud’
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) and form a pact to help him evade the bounty hunters on his trail and to reunite him with his true love. One of the best films of the year, it has the feel of a novel that’s rooted deep in American soil. McConaughey brings depth to a character who at first seems merely brashly macho, and Reese Witherspoon is nearly unrecognizable as the fugitive’s troubled girlfriend who has made many bad decisions in her life. (Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (PG-13, 130 minutes)
‘Na Ali’i of Comedy: Da Movie’
The documentary follows longtime local comic favorites Andy Bumatai, Mel Cabang, Frank De Lima, Ed Kaahea and Augie Tulba as they embark on a tour around the state. (NR, 144 minutes)
‘Now You See Me’
This is a slick and kind of smirky entertainment in which a quartet of street charlatans-turned-Las Vegas stars pull off an epic heist using the tricks of the magic trade. The movie wants to be “Ocean’s Eleven,” but the rapport among the principals — Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco — doesn’t come close to that earlier film’s cool. (Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer) (PG-13, 116 minutes)
‘Pieta’
In this Korean drama, a loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother. Provocative director Kim Ki-duk’s new film is expectedly gruesome in some of its details, but it’s the explicitness about capitalism’s emotional wreckage that gives this micro-budgeted drama a gut-punch heft. (Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times) (NR, 104 minutes)
‘Star Trek Into Darkness’
The anticipated sequel finds the crew of the Enterprise finding an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, with Captain Kirk leading a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. Director J.J. Abrams has sacrificed a lot of Trek’s idiosyncrasy and, worse, the large-spirited humanism that sustained the original, to put this movie squarely in the conventional revenge-driven action genre. (A.O. Scott, New York Times) (PG-13, 132 minutes)
‘Tai Chi Hero’
The sequel to Stephen Fung’s “Tai Chi Zero,” our hero is still trying to find his place in a village filled with martial arts masters, even though he helped save the town from a frightening steam-powered machine. The production quality is top-notch, and there’s undeniably an entertainment value to it, albeit an empty one. (G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle) (NR, 144 minutes)
‘The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii’
Ryan Kawamoto’s documentary about the little-known story of the Hawaii internees and the confinement sites in the islands. (R, 100 minutes)
‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’
A Bollywood drama starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone as two people whose relationship changes in a couple of points in their lives: just out of college and then in their late-20s. (NR, 160 minutes)
FOR THE KIDS
Keiki Film Hui:
‘Ice Age: The Meltdown’
10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; Kapolei 16, Koko Marina 8, Koolau Stadium 8, Mililani Stadium 14, Pearlridge West 16 and Ward Stadium 16, $1
Summer Movie Express:
‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ and ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked’
10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Dole Cannery Stadium 18 and Windward Stadium 10, $1
SPECIAL
Summer at La Scala:’Carmen’
2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Kahala 8; $20
The first of three operas to be shown on the big screen, this production of the Bizet classic stars Anita Rachvelishvili and Jonas Kaufmann, and is conducted by Daniel Barenboim. (NR, 170 minutes plus one intermission, sung in French with English subtitles)
‘Spirit of the Marathon II’
7 p.m. Wednesday, Dole Cannery Stadium 18, $12.50
The film takes the audience through the training and challenges seven people face in running the famed Rome Marathon. (NR, 115 minutes)
ARTHOUSE
DORIS DUKE THEATRE
Honolulu Museum of Art, 900 S. Beretania St., entry on Kinau Street (532-8768): $10, $8 museum members (tickets also available online at www.honolulumuseum.org)
Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival
($10, $9 museum members; $15 8 p.m. Sunday closing night; hrff.festpro.com/schedule)
>> Today: “Out in the Dark” (6 p.m.) and “Any Day Now” (8:15 p.m.)
>> Saturday: “I am Divine” (1 p.m.), “Frauensee” (3 p.m.), “I Do” (6 p.m.) and “Peaches Does Herself” (8:30 p.m.)
>> Sunday: “Facing Mirrors” (12:30 p.m.), “Beyond the Walls” (3 p.m.), “Bye Bye Blondie” (6 p.m.) and “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (8 p.m.); also “Ian Harvie Superhero” (4:15 p.m. at R&D, Interisland Terminal, in Kakaako)
‘Go Grandriders’
7:30 p.m. Tuesday (free admission, presented by Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Honolulu)
A box-office hit in Taiwan, the documentary follows a large group of octogenarians who defy expectations as they go on a 13-day cross-country road trip on scooters. (2012, 80 minutes)
‘One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das’
1 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday
A documentary on the life of whom The New York Times calls “the chantmaster of American yoga,” an American rock singer who went in search of happiness and spiritual enlightenment to the foothills of the Himalayas. (2012, 74 minutes)
MOVIE MUSEUM
3566 Harding Ave. (735-8771): $5, $4 members; reservations recommended
‘Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World’
Noon, 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m. today; and 1:30, 4 and 8:15 p.m. Monday
While searching for his fiancée, a man rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days. (2004, Japan, 138 minutes)
‘Warm Bodies’
Noon, 2, 4, 6 and 8 p.m. Saturday
A paranormal romantic comedy starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer about the relationship between a teenage girl and a zombie boy that may transform the entire lifeless world. (97 minutes)
‘Mental’
Noon, 2, 4, 6 and 8 p.m. Sunday
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family’s life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband’s political ambitions and his infidelity. Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber and Anthony LaPaglia star. (Australia, 116 minutes)
‘Mosquita y Mari’
Noon and 6:30 p.m. Monday; and 1:45, 5 and 8:30 p.m. Thursday
After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers in Los Angeles find a bond that confuses them at times. (2012, 85 minutes)
‘Silent Wedding’
Noon, 3:15 and 6:45 p.m. Thursday
A period comedy set in March 1953, at the exact moment of Josef Stalin’s death. A couple determinedly attempts to celebrate their wedding festivities despite repeated interruptions because of the dictator’s death. (2008, Romania, 95 minutes)
MONDAY MOVIE CAFE
TheVenue, 1146 Bethel St. (436-4326): $10, $5 students
‘Primal Twang: The Legacy of the Guitar’
7 p.m. Monday
The story of the world’s most popular instrument, including performances by such masters as Eric Johnson, Albert Lee and the late Doc Watson. (2009, 82 minutes)