Hall Pass: Owen Wilson and Christina Applegate get raunchy

Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl-watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey (his…

Now playing: Bhutto, Never Say Never, and Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune

Bhutto111 minutes. Not rated. 7 p.m. Friday, February 18 through February 20, at Bill Cosford Cinema, 1111 Memorial Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-4861; cosfordcinema.com. Tickets cost $9 general admission, $7 for seniors, students, and UM alumni and employees, and are free for UM students.Duane Baughman’s nonfiction film pays reverential tribute to…

Anthony Hopkins battles non-scary demons in The Rite

The Rite is the latest of at least a dozen widely released American movies in half as many years with demonic possession as a major plot-point. This doesn’t mean the subject is wrung out — its continuing resonance with audiences hasn’t been effaced by secular pop psychology or modernization within…

Rich hippie criminals in All Good Things

Generously bankrolled, then shelved, by an imperiled Weinstein Co. and peopled with Oscar nominees, All Good Things might be called an upscale version of straight-to-cable true crime crap — only that would make it sound more entertaining than it is. The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of 2003’s…

Gulliver’s Travels: now playing

Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has spent a decade stuck in the mailroom of a New York City newspaper before blundering and plagiarizing his way into a travel-writing assignment that lands him, en route to the Bermuda Triangle, in Lilliput. Black’s playing a “Gulliver,” but while sharing disproportionate size with Jonathan…

The Chronicles of Narnia: an ailing franchise gets another chance

A massive project, taken up lightly by Disney in the giddy post-Lord of the Rings atmosphere and dropped upon failing to return the requisite billions, this third adaptation from C. S. Lewis’s seven-volume (!) Chronicles of Narnia comes underwritten by a new studio, 20th Century Fox, and with a new…