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

Opening Friday
CARAMEL — ♥♥♥
(PG — thematic elements involving sexuality, language, some smoking) — A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut. Arabic and French with English subtitles. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Cedar Lee

DRILLBIT TAYLOR — ♥♥1/2
( PG-13 — crude sexual references throughout, strong bullying, language, drug references and partial nudity) — Three high school kids hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them from the playground bully. Movie can't decide what it is. Is it a toned-down prequel to Superbad? Is it an attempt at a modern version of My Bodyguard, a similarly themed 1980 film? Or is it about loser bonding and redemption? Stars Owen Wilson and Ravenna native Nate Hartley. 1 hour, 42 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

PARANOID PARK — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — some disturbing images, language and sexual content) — A Northwestern companion piece to Elephant and Last Days, Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park explores the troubled conscience of Alex (Gabe Nevins), the teenager who narrates the movie and who actually sounds like a teenager when doing so. In voice-over, Alex reads aloud from his journal as if he were delivering a book report in class, but he's trying to confess the darkest secret of his young life. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Cedar Lee

SHUTTER — No star rating
(PG-13 — terror, disturbing images, sexual content, language) — A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved. 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

TYLER PERRY'S MEET THE BROWNS — No star rating
(PG-13 — drug content, language including sexual references, thematic elements and brief violence) — A single mom (Angela Bassett) takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father — a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to their relatives: the crass, fun-loving Brown family. With Tyler Perry as Madea. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Rolling Acres Cinema, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

Playing Friday
through
next week
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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

10,000 BC — ♥1/2
(PG-13 — sequences of intense action, violence) — A young mammoth hunter journeys through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. 1 hour, 49 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, 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

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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.
Big Picture

THE BAND'S VISIT — ♥♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — brief strong language) — The Alexandria (Egypt) Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives on the wrong bus in the wrong small Israeli town, and is stranded overnight. The bandleader (Sasson Gabai) stiffly approaches Dina, the owner of the cafe (Ronit Elkabetz) and what begins is a long, tender night of shared loneliness. An exquisite film that also functions quietly as a comedy. In Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles. 1 hour, 39 minutes.
Cedar Lee

THE BANK JOB — ♥♥1/2
(R — sexual content, nudity, violence and language) — A heist movie based on a 1971 British bank robbery. A group of criminals is lured into a heist, thinking they are going to rip off jewels and valuables from safety deposit boxes. Instead, they have been unknowingly hired to steal incriminating information about the royals. Stars Jason Statham. 1 hour, 55 minutes.
Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

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, Massillon 12

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.
Big Picture, Interstate Park Cinemas 18

COLLEGE ROAD TRIP — 1/2♥
(G) — Raven-Symone plays a high school whiz kid visiting prospective colleges with her overprotective police chief father (Martin Lawrence). 1 hour, 23 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster 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.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Massillon 12

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

DR. SEUSS' HORTON HEARS A WHO! — ♥♥1/2
(G) — Horton the elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbors who refuse to believe it exists. 1 hour, 26 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Great Oaks Cinema, Highland Theatre, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Rolling Acres Cinema, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

DOOMSDAY — ♥
(R — strong bloody violence, language, some sexual content/nudity) — A futuristic action thriller. A team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race. 1 hour, 45 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

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

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Wooster Movies 10

FUNNY GAMES — ♥♥♥
(R — terror, violence, some language) — Two assailants infiltrate a cabin in the woods and, with unexpected sophistication, put a vacationing family through a series of psychologically and physically abusive games. 1 hour, 52 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

HONEYDRIPPER — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — brief violence, some suggestive material) — Writer-director John Sayles' new film is set in 1950 in the South. Danny Glover, desperate for cash to save his failing Honeydripper Lounge, books the famous Guitar Sam. But when Sam doesn't turn up, he appeals to a kid who drifted into town. With Charles S. Dutton, blues singer Mable John, Stacy Keach. 2 hours, 3 minutes.
Shaker Square Cinemas

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.
Montrose 12

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.
Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Jackson Township Movies 10, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

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, Hudson Cinema 10, Montrose 12

MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — some partial nudity and innuendo) — A charming film based on a novel by Winifred Watson about a frumpy governess, Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), who becomes the social secretary for nightclub singer Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), who is intent on becoming a star. 1 hour, 32 minutes.
Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, 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.
Jackson Township Movies 10, Linda Theatre

NEVER BACK DOWN — ♥♥
(PG-13 — mature thematic material involving intense sequences of fighting/violence, some sexuality, partying and language — all involving teens) — Never Back Down is gutsy-underdog tale for the teenage children of now-grown Karate Kid fans. Former Parma resident Sean Faris is the troubled kid who is lured into fighting at his new high school. He finds a mentor in a mixed martial arts veteran (Djimon Hounsou). 1 hour, 50 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, Cinemark Aurora 10, Garrettsville Cinemas, Great Oaks Cinema, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

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, Hudson Cinema 10, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, 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.
Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12

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.
Big Picture

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.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

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.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Linda Theatre, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Valley View 24

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.
Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Tower City Cinemas

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, Montrose 12

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.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, Wooster 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.
Valley View 24