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

Opening Friday
BABY MAMA — ♥♥
(PG-13 — crude and sexual humor, language and a drug reference) — A career-driven single woman (Tina Fey) hires a surrogate (Amy Poehler) to carry her child to term. Starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. 1 hour, 36 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 8, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

DECEPTION — ♥
(R — sexual content, language, brief violence, some drug use) — Meek, bespectacled auditor Jonathan McQuarry (as in McVictim, played by Ewan McGregor) meets suave, predatory lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman) in a conference room late one night. The former finds himself on ''The List,'' the envy of Eliot Spitzers everywhere, which involves hot Wall Street babes calling him for anonymous sex at ritzy hotels. Oh, but it's never that simple, is it? 1 hour, 48 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, Hudson Cinema 10, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

FLAWLESS — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — brief strong language) — A pair of unlikely thieves, played by Demi Moore and Michael Caine, go after the world's biggest cache of diamonds in a heist thriller that will make you nostalgic for the smart, classy caper films of the 1960s. 1 hour, 45 minutes.
Cedar Lee

HAROLD & KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY — ♥♥1/2
(R — sexual content, nudity, strong language, drug use, crude humor) — Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are mistaken for terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay. 1 hour, 42 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, 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

Playing Friday through next week
21 — ♥♥
(PG-13 — violence, sexual content, partial nudity) — A formula movie ''inspired by'' a true story about the MIT students who developed a card-counting system that enabled them to win millions at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. 2 hours, 3 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 Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10, Magic City Drive-In

88 MINUTES — ♥1/2
(R — disturbing violent content, brief nudity, language) — Time is of the essence for Al Pacino's Dr. Jack Gramm, a forensic psychiatrist who receives a threatening call on his cell phone informing him he's got 88 minutes to live. 1 hour, 46 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 Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, Wooster 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.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Linda Theatre

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10, Linda Theatre

CHICAGO 10 — ♥♥1/2
(R — language, brief sexual images) — Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) fashions a collage of animation and archival clips about protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the subsequent conspiracy trial in which Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and others were convicted. It doesn't even try to be a documentary, but tries very hard to rally today's youth to the in-your-face street activism of four decades past. 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Cedar Lee

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.
Massillon 12

THE COUNTERFEITERS — ♥♥♥
(R — some strong violence, brief sexuality/nudity, language) — A true story of the Nazis' massive wartime counterfeiting operation, run out of a concentration camp. 1 hour, 38 minutes.
Cedar Lee

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

THE DIVING BELLAND 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.
Big Picture

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.
Garrettsville Cinemas, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7

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.
Garrettsville Cinemas, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Massillon 12, Blue Sky Drive-In

EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED — ♥
(PG — thematic material, some disturbing images, brief smoking) — Droning funnyman Ben Stein in a Michael Moore-styled mockery of evolution. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24

THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY — ♥♥♥
(PG — some mild language and thematic elements) — The high drama and backstretch color of the 2006 Kentucky Derby are captured in full glory by a pair of New York railbirds-turned-filmmakers. 1 hour, 36 minutes.
Cedar Lee

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10, Massillon 12

THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — martial-arts violence, strong language) — A Karate Kid-meets-Tolkien tale starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li as two martial-arts masters helping a shy, contemporary Boston boy (Will & Grace's Michael Angarano) on his quest to deliver a magical staff back in time to ancient China's Monkey King. Directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little). 1 hour, 43 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, Magic City Drive-In, Midway Drive-In

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL — ♥♥♥
(R — sexual content, language, some graphic nudity) — The latest issue from writer-producer-director Judd Apatow's anti-stud farm, a sibling of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Superbad. After his TV-star girlfriend leaves him for a British pop singer, Peter (Jason Segel, also the screenwriter) goes to Hawaii to recover — only to find them staying at the same resort. Ranks with the aforementioned Apatow-produced films for laughs and smarts. With Kristen Bell. 1 hour, 41 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, 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, Shaker Square Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, Wooster Movies 10

IN BRUGES — ♥♥1/2
(R — strong bloody violence, pervasive language and some drug use) — Never far from blood-letting brutality yet with an unapologetic weakness for a cheap laugh, 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.
Big Picture

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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

LEATHERHEADS —♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — brief strong language) — In 1925, an aging football legend (George Clooney) and the hot college star he's drafted for his pro team (John Krasinski) fight for the heart of an intrepid journalist (Renee Zellweger). 1 hour, 54 minutes.
Cinemark Aurora 10, 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, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7, Wooster Movies 10

MARRIED LIFE — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — some mature thematic elements, a scene of sexuality) — Set in 1949. Chris Cooper confides to trusted friend Pierce Brosnan that he plans to leave his wife (Patricia Clarkson) to be with a much younger woman (Rachel McAdams). But he has such pity on his wife that rather than break her heart with this news, he plans to murder her. A strange and twisted film that satisfies only if you like not being quite satisfied. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Cedar Lee

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

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

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 a 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.
Jackson Township Movies 10, Magic City Drive-In, Midway Drive-In

NIM'S ISLAND — ♥♥♥
(PG — mild adventure action, brief language) — A popular author (Jodie Foster) teams up with the adventure-loving Alex Rover (Gerald Butler) in order to help a young girl (Abigail Breslin), who lives on an island where her father has gone missing. Two problems the author faces: her crippling fear of leaving her house, and Alex is merely the main character in her best-selling novels. 1 hour, 35 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, Kent Plaza Theatre, Lake Cinemas 8, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Tinseltown USA, Valley View 24, West Market Plaza 7,Wooster 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

PROM NIGHT — ♥
(PG-13 — violence, terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, language) — A remake of a 1980 slasher film. The man who killed a high school's girl's family stalks her at her prom. Stars Brittany Snow. 1 hour, 28 minutes.
Carnation Cinema, 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 RUINS — ♥♥1/2
(R — strong violence, gruesome images, language, some sexuality, nudity) — A Mexican vacation takes a turn for the worse for a group of Americans when they head into the jungle to look for the missing brother of a fellow traveler. A foreboding encounter with a couple of locals is only a hint of the evil that awaits them. 1 hour, 37 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Independence 10, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Tower City Cinemas, 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.
Jackson Township Movies 10

SHINE A LIGHT — ♥♥♥
(PG-13 — brief strong language, drug references and smoking) — Martin Scorsese's documentary about the Rolling Stones. 1 hour, 57 minutes.
Valley View 24

SHUTTER — ♥1/2
(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.
Jackson Township Movies 10, Tower City Cinemas

SMART PEOPLE — ♥♥
(R — language, brief teen drug and alcohol use, some sexuality) — Dennis Quaid plays a professor who's indifferent to his students and just about everything else, including his family. A widower, he lives with his Young Republican daughter (Ellen Page, toning down her Juno ever so slightly) and ne'er-do-well adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church) and his rebellious son (Ashton Holmes). Sarah Jessica Parker plays a doctor and former student instrumental in bringing him out of his brittle shell. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Shaker Square Cinemas, Valley View 24

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. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Jackson Township 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. At the Maryland School of the Arts, students Andie (Briana Evigan) and Chase (Robert Hoffman) look to impress at an underground street-dance competition by forming a crew with the school's best performers. 1 hour, 38 minutes.
Jackson Township Movies 10

STOP-LOSS — ♥♥♥1/2
(R — graphic violence, pervasive profanity) — Writer-director Kimberly Peirce's film about a young soldier home from Iraq (Ryan Phillippe) who is forced to rethink his ideas about heroism and patriotism when he is ''stop-lossed'': involuntarily assigned to another tour of duty. 2 hour, 2 minutes.
Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill

STREET KINGS — ♥1/2
(R — strong violence, language) — Keanu Reeves is a renegade cop who does not play by the rules. He follows a twisted trail of corruption that leads all the way to the highest levels of the LAPD. With Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans, Common and Hugh Laurie. 1 hour, 48 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Kent Plaza Theatre, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Rolling Acres Cinemas, Tinseltown USA, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

SUPERHERO MOVIE — ♥
(PG-13 — crude, sexual content, comic violence, drug references, language) — An accident turns a bumbling young guy (Drake Bell) into a clumsy superhero known as Dragonfly. 1 hour, 25 minutes.
Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Macedonia Cinemark 15, Massillon 12, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Tower City Cinemas, Blue Sky Drive-In

TYLER PERRY'S MEET THE BROWNS — ♥
(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.
Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill, Rolling Acres Cinema, Tower City Cinemas, Valley View 24

UNDER THE SAME MOON — ♥♥1/2
(PG-13 — some mature thematic elements) — There is a little bit of fairy-tale moon dust sprinkled over this story of a 9-year-old boy who runs away from his home in Mexico to find his mother in Los Angeles. The story is formulaic and a little syrupy, but sensitive performances and skillful storytelling hold our interest. 1 hour, 39 minutes.
Cedar Lee, Montrose 12, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill

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.
Big Picture, Huntington Street Cinema 16, Interstate Park Cinemas 18, Jackson Township Movies 10, Magic City Drive-In

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN —♥♥
(PG-13 — some strong language) — Director and guide Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) uses animation and other methods to take viewers on a nation-hopping look at the terrorist leader and his place in the world. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Cedar Lee