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Film Shorts OPENING: Going the Distance (R) Drew Barrymore and Justin Long star in this comedy as a New York couple who hook up with each other six weeks before she moves permanently to San Francisco to finish grad school. The script is surprisingly serious in its treatment of the challenges of maintaining a long-distance relationship, but it doesn’t come up with anything particularly insightful. The leads — despite being a real-life couple — can’t make us care about their predicament. The bursts of raunchy humor and Christina Applegate’s expert performance as Barrymore’s protective older sister don’t make this movie worth seeking out, but they save it from being completely forgettable. Also with Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Ron Livingston, Jim Gaffigan, Kelli Garner, Rob Riggle, Sarah Burns, and Leighton Meester. (Opens Friday)
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Film Shorts OPENING: Animal Kingdom (R) David Michôd’s crime thriller stars James Frecheville as a 17-year-old Australian boy trying to go straight while his entire family st...
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Film Shorts OPENING: Breathless (NR) Fiftieth anniversary re-release of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic about two young outlaws (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg)...
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Film Shorts OPENING: Get Low (PG-13) Robert Duvall stars in Aaron Schneider’s comedy as a 1930s Tennessee hermit who wants to hold a funeral party for himself while he’s st...
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Film Shorts OPENING: The Concert (PG-13) Radu Mihaileanu’s comedy about a former Russian symphony conductor-turned-janitor (Alexei Guskov) who gathers his old musicians toget...
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