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

Opening today
CITY OF MEN — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — violence, language, some sexuality) — Best buddies Ace and Wallace, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts that will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas. In Portuguese with subtitles. 1 hour, 50 minutes.
Cedar Lee

GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD — ♥♥1/2
(R — strong horror violence and gore, pervasive language) — Film students making a horror movie for a school project turn into guerrilla documentarians with video shaky-cams when the undead return to stalk the Earth. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Valley View 24

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — mature thematic elements, sexual content, some violent images) — It's Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) versus her sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Henry VIII (Eric Bana) in this familiar genre picture about treachery in the House of Tudor. It's a historical drama that is also a political thriller. 1 hour, 54 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

PENELOPE — ♥♥♥1/2
(PG — some innuendo and language) — A fanciful romantic fable in which the title character was born with a pig snout for a nose. The only thing that will remove the ''curse'' is if Penelope (Christina Ricci) finds true love. Enter Max (James McAvoy), who pursues her at first for money, but then really falls for her. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

SEMI-PRO — ♥♥1/2
(R — crude humor, strong language) — In the 1970s, Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of an American Basketball Association team, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true. With Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson and Andre Benjamin. 1 hour, 31 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 Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Rolling Acres Cinema, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

U2 3D — ♥♥♥
(G) — A 3-D presentation of the rock band U2's global Vertigo tour. Shot at seven shows, this production employs the greatest number of 3-D cameras ever used for a single project. 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Valley View 24

Playing through
next week
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS — ♥♥♥♥
(Not rated) — A woman helps her friend arrange an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania. With subtitles. 1 hour, 53 minutes.
Cedar Lee

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.
Hudson Cinema 10, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Jackson Township Movies 10, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Valley View 24

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, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Jackson Township Movies 10, Linda Theatre, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

ATONEMENT — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — sex, violence, children in jeopardy, language) — A haunting tale of young love torn apart by war and false accusations. With Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. 2 hours, 3 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

BE KIND REWIND — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — some sexual references) — After every tape in a VHS rental store is inadvertently erased, Jack Black and Mos Def don't want the store owner (Danny Glover) to find out. So they set to work to ''re-enact'' the films in low-tech home movies. Written and directed by Michel Gondry. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Shaker Square Cinemas, Valley View 24

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, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

CHARLIE BARTLETT — ♥♥1/2
(R — language, drug use, adult themes) — Anton Yelchin is appealingly goofy in this teen comedy about a kid's yearning for popularity won by illegally selling prescription drugs to his fellow students. Like many of John Hughes' high school movies, it presents a fantasy about kids from different social circles — nerds, jocks, punks, cheerleaders, drama clubbers — coming together to fight adult authoritarianism. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Independence 10, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

DEFINITELY, MAYBE — ♥♥
(PG-13 — sexual content, including some frank dialogue, language, smoking) — Ryan Reynolds plays Will Hayes, a 30-something advertising whiz who agrees to tell his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), about the women he dated before her mom, but he changes the names and Maya must guess which one is her mother. 1 hour, 48 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

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

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. 1 hour, 47 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

THE EYE — ♥
(PG-13 — violence/terror, disturbing content) — A woman (Jessica Alba) receives an eye transplant that allows her to see into the supernatural world. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Tower City Cinemas

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.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

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

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

IN BRUGES — ♥♥1/2
(R — strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use) — Director Martin McDonagh spins a tale of a couple of bumbling hit men dispatched to the medieval Belgian town and told to wait there for further instructions. Stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. 1 hour, 47 minutes.
Shaker Square Cinemas

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. Stars Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson. 1 hour, 28 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster 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.
Cedar Lee, Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL — ♥♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — some sex-related content) — Ryan Gosling plays Lars Lindstrom, a painfully shy young man who can barely stand the touch of another human being. One day he orders a life-size love doll through the Internet, using ''Bianca'' not for sex but for companionship. He expects everyone else to treat the doll the same way. 1 hour, 46 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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.
Great Oaks Cinema, Jackson Township 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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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.
Big Picture, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Tinseltown USA, 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, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 8, Linda Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, 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 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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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.
Jackson Township 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.
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. Based on the autobiography of Marjane Satrapi. In French with subtitles. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Cedar Lee

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

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES — ♥♥
(PG — scary creature action and violence, peril) — A family moves into a creepy old mansion and discovers it is already inhabited by creatures from the spirit world. Starring Freddie Highmore as twins, Sarah Bolger as their sister, and Mary-Louise Parker as their mom, plus a supporting cast of gifted actors and impressive effects. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Great Oaks Cinema, Highland Theatre, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Rolling Acres Cinema, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

STEP UP 2 THE STREETS — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — language, some suggestive material and brief violence) — The sequel to 2006's sleeper hit Step Up. 1 hour, 38 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

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.
Big Picture, Jackson Township 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. 2 hours, 38 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Cinemark Aurora 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, Montrose 12

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. 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. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Valley View 24

VANTAGE POINT — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images and brief strong language) — An edgy, action-packed reprising of an attempted presidential assassination that not only gives us glimpses into an innocent bystander's recollections, but also reveals the viewpoints of the participants — on both sides of the attack. Starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker and Sigourney Weaver. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent University Plaza, 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

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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.
Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas, Rolling Acres Cinema, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

WITLESS PROTECTION — ♥
(PG-13 — crude and sex-related humor) Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he thinks is a kidnapping and rescues the victim. Her ''kidnappers'' are FBI agents who are supposed to be protecting her before a trial, but are actually trying to kill her, so the sheriff and the witness try to solve the case. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Kent University Plaza, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10