Ratings as appeared in Beacon Journal film critic and wire-service reviews:
♥=Weak
♥♥=Mediocre
♥♥♥=Worth Seeing
♥♥♥♥=Shouldn't Be Missed

Opening Friday
FOOL'S GOLD — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — action violence, some sexual material, brief nudity and language) — A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a couple's sense of adventure — and their estranged romance. With Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. 1 hour,. 50 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

VINCE VAUGHN'S WILD WEST COMEDY SHOW — ♥♥♥
(R — language and sexually-themed material) — In this documentary, the show's emcee, Vince Vaughn, and four stand-up comedians hand-picked by Vaughn, travel the country and perform in 30 cities in 30 days. The film documents the interactions on and off stage along the way. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — crude and sexual content, language and some drug references) — A successful talk show host (Martin Lawrence) leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the South. With Mo'Nique, Cedric the Entertainer, James Earl Jones, Joy Bryant, Mike Epps and Michael Clarke Duncan. 1 hour, 49 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

Opening Thursday
JUMPER
(PG-13 — sequences of intense action violence, some language, brief sexuality) — A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between ''jumpers'' and those who have sworn to kill them. With Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson and Jamie Bell. 1 hour, 28 minutes.
Garrettsville Cinemas, Great Oaks Cinema, Montrose 12

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
(PG — scary creature action and violence, peril) — Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Garrettsville Cinemas, Great Oaks Cinema, Montrose 12

Playing Friday
through
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27 DRESSES — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — language, some innuendo, sexuality) — Katherine Heigl's Jane is always a bridesmaid and never a bride, a role she's performed 27 times already because she's so adept at anticipating and meeting her friends' every prenuptial need. She's secretly in love with her boss (Edward Burns) but, naturally, there's another guy out there (James Marsden) whom she initially clashes with, and who obviously will end up being the one to keep her from having to wear bridesmaid dress No. 28. 1 hour, 48 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Great Oaks Cinema, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinema 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS — ♥♥
(PG — some mild rude humor) — It's about a trio of chipmunk brothers, their musical inclinations and their life with their human guardian. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Big Picture, Garrettsville Cinemas, Highland Theatre, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Jackson Township Movies 10, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

ATONEMENT — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — sex, violence, children in jeopardy, language) — Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan. A haunting tale of young love torn apart by war and false accusations. With Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. 2 hours, 3 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

AUGUST RUSH — ♥♥
(PG — some thematic elements, mild violence, language) — A drama with fairy-tale elements. An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents. 1 hour, 53 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

AWAKE — ♥1/2
(R — language, an intense disturbing situation, brief drug use) — A young man (Hayden Christensen) experiences ''anesthetic awareness'' during his heart surgery. Aware of the complications that develop while still under the knife, he's left helpless as people around him plan his murder. Jessica Alba plays his wife. 1 hour, 18 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

BEE MOVIE — ♥♥♥
(PG — mild suggestive humor) — Jerry Seinfeld does the voice for a rebel bee who refuses to settle down to a lifetime of drudgery before he explores outside the hive. That leads to a lawsuit against the human race for exploiting honey. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

THE BUCKET LIST — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — language, including a sexual reference) — Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play cancer patients who meet in a hospital room, where they're both given a year to live. Freeman keeps a list of things he means to do before kicking the bucket, and Nicholson, a billionaire, insists they use his money to circle the globe, see the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, etc. 1 hour, 33 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR — ♥♥♥
(R — strong language, nudity/sexual content, some drug use) — Based on a true story. Tom Hanks as a hard-drinking Texas congressman who, at the urging of a Houston socialite (Julia Roberts), uses his congressional subcommittee to arrange a secret $1 billion arms deal between Israel and Afghan freedom fighters, with Pakistan as the intermediary. With Philip Seymour Hoffman. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill

CLOVERFIELD — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — violence, terror, disturbing images) — Six yuppies flee from a towering monster that is destroying Manhattan; one of them carries a video camera, and the entire movie is shot ''queasy-cam'' style. Undeniably scary, especially in the first 45 minutes when we don't know quite what is causing the crisis. 1 hour, 20 minutes.
Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY — ♥♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — nudity, sexual content, some language) — The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke in 1995 at age 43 that left him almost totally paralyzed. His left eye was his only moving part. He used that eye to blink out his memoir. In French, with subtitles. 1 hour, 52 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Montrose 12

ENCHANTED — ♥♥♥
(PG — some scary images, mild innuendo) — Amy Adams, Oscar-nominated for Junebug, is effortlessly charming as Giselle, a young girl from a fairy-tale world who is transported to modern New York City by a jealous queen (Susan Sarandon). The film starts as animation, then becomes live action, but still plays by fantasy rules. 1 hour, 47 minutes.
Linda Theatre

THE EYE — ♥
(PG-13 — violence/terror, disturbing content) — A remake of the Hong Kong film Jian Gui. A woman (Jessica Alba) receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

FIRST SUNDAY — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — language, some sexual humor, brief drug references) — Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Ice Cube will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. 1 hour, 36 minutes.
Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

THE GAME PLAN — ♥1/2
(PG — some mild thematic elements) — An NFL quarterback (Dwayne ''the Rock'' Johnson) living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 7-year-old daughter. 1 hour, 45 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

THE GOLDEN COMPASS — ♥♥
(PG-13 — sequences of fantasy violence) — In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. 1 hour, 54 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

GONE BABY GONE — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — violence, drug content, pervasive language) — Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan play private investigators specializing in tracking down deadbeats. Approached by clients to help find a missing child, they protest that they're just garden-variety PIs, don't carry guns, aren't looking for heavy lifting. But maybe they'll see something the cops miss. Good directing debut by Ben Affleck. 1 hour, 55 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

THE GREAT DEBATERS — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — violence, disturbing images, language, brief sexuality) — In 1935, a professor (Denzel Washington) at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, leads his underdog team of speech and debate students into a competition with Harvard University. 2 hours, 3 minutes.
Shaker Square Cinemas

HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT — ♥♥1/2
(G) — A 3-D concert film of the 2007 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus tour. 1 hour, 14 minutes.
Valley View 24

HOW SHE MOVE — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — some drug content, suggestive material, language) — A family tragedy forces a young student to drop out of a private school and return to her old neighborhood, where she eventually rediscovers her love of step-dancing. 1 hour, 31 minutes.
Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

I AM LEGEND — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence) — Robert Neville (Will Smith) finds himself the only healthy survivor of a virus. By day, Neville hunts the undead who walk the streets; by night, he barricades himself in his home against the ravenous beasts. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Big Picture, Linda Theatre

IN THE NAME OF THE KING:
A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE — ♥♥
(PG-13 — intense battle sequences) — A fantasy tale based on a video game about an evil sorcerer Gallian (Ray Liotta) who has created an army of Krugs, laid siege to the land and taken over the kingdom of his uncle, King Konreid (Burt Reynolds). Jason Statham plays a humble farmer turned reluctant hero who summons latent but powerful fighting skills in order to rescue his kidnapped wife. 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

JUNO — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — mature theme, sexual content, language) — Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, a young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. 1 hour, 32 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cedar Lee, Cinemark Aurora 10, Great Oaks Cinema, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

MAD MONEY — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — sexual material and language, and brief drug references) — Cutesy-poo caper comedy starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes and Ted Danson. The women are service workers at a Federal Reserve Bank who come up with a plan to smuggle a fortune out of the building. 1 hour, 44 minutes.
Valley View 24

MEET THE SPARTANS — ♥
(PG-13 — crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence) — A parody of the movie 300 in which the heroic, leather-clad Leonidas (Sean Maguire) leads 13 of his fellow Spartans in a campaign to defend their homeland from a Persian army that includes a hunchbacked Paris Hilton. 1 hour, 24 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

MICHAEL CLAYTON — ♥♥♥♥
(R — language, including some sexual dialogue) — George Clooney plays a slick, efficient but weary fixer for a big law firm. A near-perfect example of the legal/business thriller, with the usual undercurrents of guilt and shame. 1 hour, 59 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS — ♥♥1/2
(PG — some violence) — Nicolas Cage is back as Benjamin Franklin Gates. This time, his team of treasure hunters tracks traces of a Civil War conspiracy and treasure. 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN — ♥♥♥♥
(R — strong graphic violence and some language) — Movie regards a completely evil man with wonderment, as if astonished that such a merciless creature could exist. He is Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who travels Texas and kills people with a cattle stun gun. He is one strand in a plot involving a drug deal gone bad. Another is a sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and a third is a hunter (Josh Brolin), a poor man who comes across $2 million in drug money. A masterpiece based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, written, directed and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. As good as their Fargo, which is saying something. 2 hours, 3 minutes.
Big Picture, Cinemark Aurora 10, Highland Theatre, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

ONE MISSED CALL — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — intense sequences of violence and terror, frightening images, some sexual material) — In this remake of a
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Japanese horror film, several people start receiving voice-mail from their future selves — messages that include the date, time and some of the details of their deaths. 1 hour, 27 minutes.
Tower City Cinemas

OVER HER DEAD BODY — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — sexual content, language) — Eva Longoria Parker dies on her wedding day with Paul Rudd. Eventually, he consults a psychic (Lake Bell), and they begin to fall in love, but the dead fiancee's ghost appears and tries to sabotage the romance. Not very funny. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

P.S. I LOVE YOU — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — adult themes, brief nudity) — A widow (Hilary Swank) discovers love letters written by her recently deceased husband (Gerald Butler) that are meant to help her begin the next chapter of her life. 2 hours, 4 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Jackson Township Movies 10

PERSEPOLIS — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — violent images, sexual references, language, brief drug content) — The animated story of an Iranian girl's coming of age. Born under the shah, she and her family were not good fits after his fall and the rise of militant Islam. Outspoken, she's sent to family friends in Vienna to keep her out of trouble, finds unhappiness, returns, is homesick for a nation that no longer exists. Based on the autobiography of Marjane Satrapi. In French with subtitles. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Cedar Lee

THE PIRATES THAT DON'T DO ANYTHING: A VEGGIE TALES MOVIE — ♥♥1/2
(G) — Larry the Cucumber, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape are whisked away from their jobs at the Pirate Times Dinner Theater and dropped in the middle of a hairy situation with real-life 17th-century pirates. 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10, Valley View 24

RAMBO — ♥♥
(R — strong graphic bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly images, language) — In Thailand, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) assembles a group of mercenaries and leads them up the Salween River to a Burmese village after hearing that a group of aid workers he assisted has gone missing. 1 hour, 33 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

THE SAVAGES — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — some sexuality, language) — A sister (Laura Linney) and brother (Philip Seymour Hoffman) face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. 1 hour, 53 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Montrose 12, Tinseltown USA

STRANGE WILDERNESS — No star rating
(R — language, drug use and crude and sexual humor) — With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, the two stars look to give the ratings a boost by scoring footage of Bigfoot in the wild. Stars Steve Zahn, Allen Covert and Justin Long. 1 hour, 24 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Valley View 24

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — graphic bloody violence) — Tim Burton's macabre, blood-soaked film version of Stephen Sondheim's hit musical. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter do their own singing, and very effectively, too, as the cutthroat barber and the landlady he supplies with fresh meat for her pies. 1 hour, 57 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Wooster Movies 10

THERE WILL BE BLOOD — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — some violence) — Daniel Day-Lewis, an obsessed loner, starts with nothing and becomes an oil tycoon in a life dominated by greed, duplicity, hatred and loneliness. Paul Thomas Anderson's epic is ambitious and relentless as the study of a human monster. 2 hours, 38 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza 8 at Chapel Hill, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

UNTRACEABLE — ♥♥♥
(R — grisly violence, torture, some language) — Untraceable is a horrifying thriller, smart and merciless. A psychopath devises ways to slowly kill people online, in live streaming video. The more hits he gets, the further the process continues, until finally his captive is dead. On his trail: Diane Lane as the head of the Portland Cyber Crimes unit, Colin Hanks as her partner and Billy Burke as a Portland detective. Well made and acted; a sadistic nightmare. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP — ♥♥1/2
(PG — some action/peril, mild language, brief smoking) — A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend. 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Big Picture, Great Oaks Cinema