At the Movies: ‘Four Sisters and a Wedding,’‘Just Like a Woman’ and more

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‘Four Sisters and a Wedding’
In this Filipino drama, sisters reunite to dissuade their younger brother from marrying his fiancee. As they interact, they face the feelings and issues they have kept buried for a long time. At Pearlridge West 16 (NR, 120 minutes)

‘Just Like a Woman’
Sienna Miller and Golshifteh Farahani star in this indie drama about two women on a road trip heading to Santa Fe, N.M. — one dreams of winning a belly-dancing contest and the other is a secret fugitive, accused of her mother-in-law’s death. At Koolau Stadium 10 (R, 90 minutes)

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A little girl is caught in the middle of her New York City parents’ bitter custody battle. Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard and Onata Aprile star. At Kahala 8 (R, 98 minutes)

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The third in a series of films by Richard Linklater starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. They play Jesse and Celine, who first met one romantic evening in Vienna, then again years later on the French leg of Jesse’s book tour. Now, nine years later (in real time), their characters are a married couple spending a vacation in Greece. Romantic ideal has given way to routine as the conversation is sometimes strained and love more confined. The film’s more disgruntled edge reflects what creeps up on couples as years pass, regrets stack up, kids factor in, and real life intervenes. (Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times) (R, 108 minutes)

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Steve Carell returns to voice the once-dastardly mastermind Gru, who is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super-criminal. The brilliantly animated sequel leans more on humor than heart, especially with a much-expanded role for the jabbering yellow Minions. The characters are pure silliness and that works beautifully. (Rick Bentley, Fresno Bee) (PG, 98 minutes)

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An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgard and Ellen Page star in this thriller co-written by Marling that is a dizzying cat-and-mouse game with all sorts of moral implications. (Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times) (PG-13, 116 minutes)

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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)

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An uptight FBI special agent is paired with a testy Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord. The movie relies on the tart chemistry shared by Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, and they and the largely game cast of supporting players riff on all sorts of ridiculousness. (Preston Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (R, 117 minutes)

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Filmed during a sold-out stint at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Hart throws jokes like he’s working a speed bag. Blending an elastic voice with a gift for visual mimicry, he evokes predecessors like Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock while setting himself apart. (Preston Jones, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (R, 75 minutes)

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The story of legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s epic crossing of the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in 1945, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Inflating it a bit for added drama, the film becomes a bit like “Life of Pi” without the tiger as the crew faces the usual raft of open-water problems: big storms, bigger whales, menacing sharks and men overboard. (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times) (PG-13 118 minutes)

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A Native American warrior recounts the untold tales that transformed a man of the law into a legend of justice. Gore Verbinski’s film is an overlong array of noisy, digitally assisted chases, shootouts, crashes and explosions, with the occasional flash of homage to the “real” Lone Ranger that suggests a better movie than the pricey, jumbled compromise delivered here. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG-13, 149 minutes)

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Yet another retelling of the Superman story, this time by director Zack Snyder with a cast starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon. A young adventure-seeker is forced to confront his secret extraterrestrial heritage when Earth is invaded by members of his race. The latest attempt to put the iconic superhero back into flight falls flat, as Snyder’s joyless film has nothing soaring about it. (Jake Coyle, Associated Press) (PG-13, 143 minutes)

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Mike and Sulley return in this prequel to “Monsters, Inc.,” looking back on their college days when they weren’t necessarily the best of friends. This Pixar feature is far more conventional, and not nearly as witty or clever as the original. The 3-D animation takes the art form to a new level, a few sentimental moments connect and the climax is a humdinger. But with the bar set so high by the first film, this can’t help but feel like a letdown. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (G, 110 minutes)

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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 between 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)

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The anticipated sequel finds the crew of the Enterprise finding an unstoppable force of terror from within its 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)

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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 Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson star in this often hilarious and generally irreverent comedy about the biblical apocalypse as seen through the windows of a movie star’s mansion. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (R, 107 minutes)

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While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx star in this staggeringly implausible, cartoonishly comical and refreshingly dumb movie from director Roland Emmerich. (PG-13, 137 minutes)

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A United Nations employee traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself. Brad Pitt stars in this big summer movie directed by Marc Forster that is actually scary — and not just scary, but relentless, because the zombies are strong and they run, determined in their attack. Structured as a succession of disasters, the movie is almost punishing to watch. It’s nerve-wracking and just keeps coming. (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle) (PG-13, 116 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)

FOR THE KIDS

Keiki Film Hui: ‘Night at the Museum’
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: ‘Yogi Bear’ and ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’
10 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday; Dole Cannery Stadium 18 and Windward Stadium 10, $1

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The Met: Live in HD Summer Encores: ‘Armida’
7 p.m. Wednesday, Dole Cannery Stadium 18, $12.50
This 2010 production features celebrated soprano Renee Fleming as the mystical sorceress in one of the greatest virtuoso roles from the bel canto repertory. (NR, 185 minutes)