Miles Teller, left, Justin Chon and Skylar Astin celebrate aging in '21 and Over.' --Relativity Media
OPENS TODAY
’21 and Over’
In this comedy from the writers of “The Hangover,” a promising student celebrates his 21st birthday with his two best friends on the night before his big medical school interview. (R, 93 minutes)
‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ 
The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when a young farmhand, fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds. Nicholas Hoult stars in the latest movie from director Bryan Singer. (PG-13, 114 minutes)
‘The Last Exorcism Part II’
As Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) tries to build a new life after the events of the first movie, the evil force that once possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan. (PG-13, 88 minutes)
LIMITED RELEASE
‘Phantom’
Forced to leave his family behind, the captain of a Soviet submarine leads a covert mission cloaked in mystery. Ed Harris and David Duchovny star. At Kapolei 16 (R, 97 minutes)
‘West of Memphis’ 1/2
The documentary examines the failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three, in particular Damien Echols, who spent 18 years on death row. At Kahala 8 (R, 150 minutes)
Nicholas Hoult stars as Jack in the action-adventure 'Jack the Giant Slayer.' --Warner Bros.
NOW PLAYING
‘Amour’
An elderly French couple’s bond of love is severely tested when the wife suffers a series of debilitating strokes. Michael Haneke’s winner of the best foreign language film Oscar is a moving love story, the resulting interplay of ruthless restraint and unavoidable passion. Its refusal to shrink from depicting the inevitable horrors of physical deterioration is devastating. (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times) (PG-13, 127 minutes)
‘Argo’
Ben Affleck directs and stars in the best picture Oscar winner that is a seamless blend of detailed international drama and breathtaking suspense, as a CIA “exfiltration” specialist concocts a risky plan to get six Americans out of Iran as the revolution reaches a boiling point. (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) (R, 120 minutes)
‘Beautiful Creatures’
A young man and woman uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their small Southern town. Consider this the thinking-person’s “Twilight,” and the leads Aiden Ehrenreich and Alice Englert are surrounded by heavyweights Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson and Emmy Rossum, who all do great character work. (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle) (PG-13, 89 minutes)
‘The Berlin File’ 1/2
A North Korean “ghost” agent finds himself in the crosshairs of an international manhunt when he’s exposed during an illegal arms trade gone wrong in Berlin. A twisting, breakneck tale of spy craft and betrayal, the film is somehow both nimble and a bit lumbering, as crack set pieces are placed against dense plotting and moments of languorous character development. (Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times) (NR, 120 minutes)
‘Dark Skies’
A family’s peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events and come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them. The biggest problem with this movie is that the director can’t quite decide just what story he is telling, a slow-burn horror parable or paranoid invasion flick, although it does hit a freak-out groove in its final third, gaining a steady momentum. (Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times) (PG-13, 98 minutes)
‘Django Unchained’
With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. There’s something gleefully satisfying in watching evil people get what they have coming, but this film is Quentin Tarantino — who won an Oscar for best original screenplay — at his most puerile and least inventive. He always gets good actors who deliver, though, and performances by Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson make it all intermittently entertaining. (David Germain, Associated Press) (R, 165 minutes)
‘Escape from Planet Earth’ 1/2
In this animated feature, an astronaut finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to a distress signal from a notoriously dangerous alien planet. Feel-good but not cloying, zippy but not frenetic, and refreshingly free of snark, the default setting for a lot of kids’ fare these days, the feature takes a pleasingly retro-futuristic stace on matters of decor and attitude. (Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times) (PG, 95 minutes)
‘A Good Day to Die Hard’
Bruce Willis returns as John McClane, who this time travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son and finds out instead he’s a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist. This off-the-shelf blend of car chases, fireballs and the rat-a-tat, thunk-a-thunk of automatic weapons fire is not likely to go out of style, but the handful of extended set pieces, linked by a simple-minded plot and a handful of half-clever lines, is definitely old news. (A.O. Scott, New York Times) (R, 97 minutes)
‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ 1/2
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star in this unique spin on the fairy tale that is more Gatling guns and grenades than the Brothers Grimm. They play bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. High-concept pitch or no, the movie doesn’t really work. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (R, 88 minutes)
‘Identity Thief’
A mild-mannered businessman travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing his identity. Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy star in this unsalvageable wreck of a comedy, regardless of the moments of McCarthy’s hilarious bits of violent slapstick. (Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald) (R, 111 minutes)
‘Life of Pi’ 1/2
Ang Lee’s multiple Oscar-winning film is about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor, a fearsome Bengal tiger. This is gorgeous, ruminative, soulful, provocatively entertaining and the most artful use of digital 3-D technology to date. (David Germain, Associated Press) (PG, 127 minutes)
‘Lincoln’
As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. Steven Spielberg’s splendid film stars Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, and is less a biopic than a political thriller, a civics lesson that is energetically staged and alive with moral energy. (A.O. Scott, New York Times) (PG-13, 149 minutes)
‘Quartet’ 1/2
At a home for retired opera singers, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday is disrupted by the arrival of a diva and the former wife of one of the residents. The bursts of energy that accompany practices and performances woven throughout give the film much of its vigor. Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Billy Connolly star in the genteel comedy directed by Dustin Hoffman. (Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times) (PG-13, 98 minutes)
‘A Royal Affair’ 1/2
The historical Danish drama — an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film — tells the story of a young queen, married to an insane king, who falls secretly in love with her physician. This powerfully understated film is brought to vivid life thanks to strong performances, taut direction by Nikolaj Arcel and cinematography through which the icy, muddy gloom almost sticks to your skin. (Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (R, 137 minutes)
‘Safe Haven’
Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough star in Nicholas Sparks’ latest treacly romance. A mysterious woman arrives in a small town and falls in love with a widower, forcing both to confront her dark past. It’s a story that involves no heavy lifting for its actors and few surprises, so safe that there’s nothing anybody would consider edgy. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG-13, 115 minutes)
‘Side Effects’
The lives of a successful New York couple unravel when a new drug is prescribed by the wife’s psychiatrist to treat her anxiety. Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Channing Tatum star in what’s supposed to be Steven Soderbergh’s final film. It’s a gripping and entertaining genre exercise much like his trailblazing 1989 debut “sex, lies and videotape.” (Christy Lemire, Associated Press) (R, 90 minutes)
‘Silver Linings Playbook’
After a stint in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and during his attempts to reconcile with his ex-wife meets a mysterious girl with problems of her own. This exuberant movie from director David O. Russell does almost everything right. An intensely focused Bradley Cooper gives a surprisingly effective performance and Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence gives her character an aching, tender and lovely quality. (Manohla Dargis, New York Times) (R, 122 minutes)
‘Sisterakas’
The Philippines’ highest grossing film of all time is a broad comedy that revolves around a couple of fashion-crazy half-siblings and stars popular celebrities Kris Aquino, Vice Ganda and Ai Ai delas Alas. (NR, 110 minutes)
‘Snitch’ 1/2
Dwayne Johnson plays a father who goes undercover for the DEA to free his son, who was imprisoned after being set up in a drug deal. The pacing in this straight-no-chaser thriller is off, too many scenes lack dramatic punch and play like filler. But Johnson is pretty good at being a guy in over his head, sharing scenes with flinty pros like Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt and Barry Pepper. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG-13, 112 minutes)
‘The Sorcerer and the White Snake’
Jet Li plays a sorcerer who fights for the soul of a young physician who has fallen in love with a woman whose true identity is that of a thousand-year-old snake demon. The movie is a Chinese twist on the reliable sword-and-sorcery genre, a piece of effects-driven nonsense that is every bit as bad — in a fun way — as the blockbusters it references. (Roger Moore, McClatchy Newspapers) (PG-13, 100 minutes)
‘Warm Bodies’
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. The movie is a sweetly funny and touching riff on “Beauty and the Beast” and “Romeo & Juliet” — if the Beast feasted on flesh or Romeo came back from the dead. (Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) (PG-13, 97 minutes)
‘Zero Dark Thirty’
The Oscar-nominated drama of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy SEAL Team 6 in May 2011. This is a cool, outwardly nonpartisan intelligence procedural that seamlessly weaves truth and drama, and Kathryn Bigelow’s direction here is unexpectedly stunning, at once bold and intimate. (Manohla Dargis, New York Times) (R, 157 minutes)
'Mabul: The Flood' opens the Temple Emanu-El Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival tomorrow, March 2. --Courtesy photo
SPECIAL
The Met Live in HD: ‘Parsifal’
Noon Saturday, Dole Cannery Stadium 18; $24 general, $22 senior and $18 child
Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom in Francois Girard’s new vision for Wagner’s final masterpiece (NR, 345 minutes)
PaleyFest featuring ‘The Walking Dead’
8 p.m. Thursday, Dole Cannery Stadium 18, $15
The TV fan festival from Los Angeles features a panel discussion with the executive producers and the cast of the popular zombie drama. (PG-13, 120 minutes)
ARTHOUSE
DORIS DUKE THEATRE
Honolulu Museum of Art, 900 S. Beretania St., entry on Kinau Street (532-8768; $10 general and $8 museum members (tickets also available online at www.honolulumuseum.org)
11th Annual Temple Emanu-El Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival: ‘Mabul: The Flood’
7:30 p.m. tomorrow (with 6 p.m. opening night reception; $15, $12 museum members)
Things take a turn for a dysfunctional family when the autistic brother of a boy preparing for his bar mitzvah returns home after being a decade away. (2011, 100 minutes)
‘Foreign Letters’
1 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Set in 1982, a 12-year-old Jewish immigrant makes friends with a Vietnamese refugee her age in their new home and life in America. (2012, 100 minutes)
‘A Bottle in the Gaza Sea’
4 p.m. Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
A teenage French-Israeli student and a young Palestinian strike up a turbulent but tender long-distance relationship. (2011, 90 minutes)
‘The Flat’
7:30 p.m. Sunday, and 1 p.m. Wednesday
Documentarian Arnon Goldfinger follows the hints his grandparents left behind to investigate long-buried family secrets and unravel the mystery of their painful past after immigrating from Nazi Germany to Tel Aviv in the 1930s. (2011, 97 minutes)
‘Remembrance’
1 p.m. Tuesday
Inspired by actual events, it’s a remarkable love story between a Polish prisoner and his Jewish girlfriend — the escape from a concentration camp and rescue of the girl, their forced separation, and reuniting more than 30 years later in New York City. (2011, 105 minutes)
‘My Best Enemy’
1 p.m. Thursday
A World War II tragicomedy about the son of a wealthy Jewish Austrian art dealer who pretends to be a Nazi to escape the concentration camps. (2011, 109 minutes)
‘Dolphin Boy’
7:30 p.m. Thursday
An Israeli documentary about a brutally beaten Arab teenager who is healed through dolphin-assisted therapy. (2012, 72 minutes)
MOVIE MUSEUM
3566 Harding Ave. (735-8771): $5 general and $4 members; reservations recommended
‘The Last of the Mohicans’
Noon, 2 and 6 p.m. today
Three trappers protect a British colonel’s daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War. Daniel Day-Lewis stars in Michael Mann’s adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel. (1992, 112 minutes)
‘My Last Day Without You’
4 and 8 p.m. today
On a one-day business trip to New York, a young German business executive falls into a whirlwind romance with a black singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. (2011, 90 minutes)
‘The Master’
Noon, 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; and noon and 8:30 p.m. Monday
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain about his future until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader. Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams star in the latest film from Paul Thomas Anderson. (2012, 137 minutes)
‘Winter’s Bone’
Noon, 1:45, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday
Jennifer Lawrence’s breakout performance as an unflinching Ozark Mountain girl who hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. (2010, 100 minutes)
‘No Country for Old Men’
5:15 p.m. Sunday
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin star in this favorite from the Coen brothers. (2007, 122 minutes)
‘Romuald et Juliette’
2:30, 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Monday
A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal, and the only person who can help him is the West Indian evening cleaning woman, who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. (1989, 108 minutes)
‘The Intouchables’
1:30, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday
In this popular French film, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker after he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident. (2011, 112 minutes)
BODY & SPIRIT DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES
Still & Moving Center, 1024 Queen St. (397-7678); $5
‘Happy’
6:30 p.m. Sunday
This documentary addresses how to balance the allure of money, fame and social status with our need for good relationships, health and a sense of contentment. (2011, 79 minutes)
MONDAY MOVIE CAFE
TheVenue, 1146 Bethel St. (436-4326); $10, $5 students
‘Our Generation’
7 p.m. Monday
A documentary that looks at the current state of Aboriginal rights in Australia. (2012, 79 minutes)
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