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KNIGHT & DAY PG13
12:05, 1:20, 2:35, 3:50, 5:05, 6:20*,
7:35, 8:50*, 10:05
*EXCEPT TUES 6/29
GROWN UPS PG13
12:20, 1:35, 2:50, 4:05, 5:20 6:35,
7:50, 9:05, 10:20
TOY STORY 3 IN 3D G
SPECIAL EVENT PRICING: $3.50
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10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55
TOY STORY 3 G
11:50, 12:45, 2:35, 3:30, 5:20,
6:15, 8:05, 9:00
JONAH HEX PG13
11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15
KARATE KID (2010) PG
11:05, 12:40, 2:15, 3:50, 5:25,
7:00, 8:35, 10:10
THE A-TEAM PG13
10:55, 12:20, 1:45, 3:10, 4:35,
6:05, 7:25*, 8:50, 10:15*
*EXCEPT TUES 6/29
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz
in Knight and Day
Bourne to Run
TWILIGHT TRILOGY PG13
ONLY ON TUES 6/29 AT 7:15 &
7:16 PM
THE TWILIGHT SAGA:
ECLIPSE PG13
ONLY ON TUES 6/29 AT 12:02,
12:03 & 12:04 AM
GET HIM TO THE GREEK R
7:15, 9:50
MARMADUKE PG
12:05, 2:25, 4:45
KILLERS PG13
7:30, 9:55
PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE
SANDS OF TIME PG13
11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40,
10:30*EXCEPT TUES 6/29
SHREK FOREVER AFTER PG
12:10, 2:30, 4:50
ROBIN HOOD (2101) PG13
12:40, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10
IRON MAN 2 PG13
1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05
Tom Cruise film is part spoof, mostly pleasure
KNIGHT AND DAY: Directed by James
Mangold. Written by Patrick O’Neill.
Cinematography,
Phedon
Papamichael.
Music, John Powell. Starring Tom Cruise,
Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis
and Paul Dano. 20th Century Fox, 2010. PG-13.
110 minutes. 44421
A
rriving at a theater near you is
Knight and Day and, hovering
above it, the dark cloud that has
become Tom Cruise. Weather seems a
fi tting metaphor for a global phenomenon
like Cruise — Forbes once ranked him
as the world’s most powerful celebrity
— particularly since his Oprah frolic,
which saw his career go from lightning to
lightning rod in an instant. Actually, wind
is the better analogy: When it comes to a
Tom Cruise fi lm, he’s the thing that makes
it go and the thing that holds it back. It
wasn’t long ago that Cruise was big — not
Jesus big or even Beatles big, but Michael
Jackson big — and like the King of Pop,
when we sensed Cruise kneeling at his
own altar, we sacrifi ced him upon it.
Knight and Day isn’t Cruise’s best fi lm,
but he’s easily the best thing in it, a fact
that may not sway his hardcore detractors.
(Actors, like presidents, have favorability
ratings, and Cruise’s rating is equivalent to
Bush’s record low in 2006.) For everyone
else, Knight is arguably the strongest
summer action fl ick since 2008’s Iron Man.
Cruise plays Roy Miller, a Jason Bourne-
like superagent who may have gone rogue
for all the right reasons. What sets Roy
apart from the Bournes and Bonds is that
he’s something of a clown, a subversion
of the spy hero similar to Owen Wilson’s
whiny cowboy in Shanghai Noon. The
skewed perspective invigorates Knight’s
pedestrian conceit concerning which side
Roy is on, a problem his hostage, the batty
but glamorous June Havens (Cameron
Diaz), endlessly tries to determine.
Roy and June hook up in midair when a
Starts Fri, 6/25—
5:00 & 7:15 Nightly Sun Mat 2:40
R
THE GOOD,
THE BAD,
THE WEIRD
Starting Fri, 6/25—
9:30 Nightly Sat Mat 2:00
R
THE SECRET
OF KELLS
Starting Fri, 6/25—
6:30 Nightly
Sat & Sun Mat 1:00
THE GIRL WITH
THE DRAGON TATTOO
(unrated, but contains sexually violent scenes)
Starting Fri, 6/25—
8:30 Nightly Sat & Sun Mat 3:00
planeful of assassins target Roy as June
preens in the airplane bathroom. When
she emerges, Roy struggles to explain the
dead bodies: Apparently, June disarms him
more effectively than any hit man.
Roy is in possession of a superbattery
called the Zephyr, a tiny, never-ending
power supply. But the battery is simply the
MacGuffi n which allows elements of the
plot to come forward — and other actors,
all of them recent headliners, from Viola
Davis (Doubt) and Peter Sarsgaard (An
Education) as Roy’s colleagues to Paul
Dano (There Will be Blood) as the whiz
kid responsible for inventing the battery.
Whether Roy is a knight or a dragon is
an open question throughout most of
Knight, but the fi lm lives and dies with
the chemistry betweem Cruise and Diaz,
of which there is plenty. Sure, Diaz enters
the fi lm with the slightest wisp of a Boston
accent — the kiss of death in fi lms from
Quiz Show to Shutter Island — which she
jettisons a few moments later, never to
recover. And if you want overtly ridiculous
montages, Knight and Day has more than
a couple. But it also has wit and humor
aplenty, as well as music that at fi rst seems
incongruous (tango during a shootout?)
but in fact comes off fl awlessly.
Speaking of couples, June eventually
is less a hostage than an admirer. Whether
she becomes Roy’s accomplice is another
matter altogether. What’s worth doing is
worth doing to excess in Knight and Day,
and for the most part, it hits its targets.
Mixing the trademark Bourne paranoia
with the romance-on-the-run fare of North
by Northwest, Knight’s appeal is in how
easily it sends up the tradition of spies-
in-love fi lms, including Cruise’s own
Mission: Impossible cycle. If it did so more
consistently, Knight would be a summer
movie classic. Instead, it’s just a dose of
ew
much-needed summer fun.
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DRAGON PG
11:35, 12:45, 2:05, 3:15, 4:35,
5:35, 7:05, 8:20, 9:35
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM
STREET REMAKE R
10:20 PM
THE BACK-UP PLAN PG13
11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15
DEATH AT A FUNERAL
(2010) R
11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 7:40, 9:55
CLASH OF THE TITANS
PG13
11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40
FURRY VENGEANCE PG
12:00, 2:25, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50
KICK-ASS R
4:10, 10:00
THE LAST SONG PG
12:30, 7:15
DATE NIGHT PG13
11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45
THE BOUNTY HUNTER
PG13
12:20, 4:00, 7:35, 10:10
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE R
12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:45, 10:05
ALICE IN WONDERLAND PG
11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:20
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID PG
11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30
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TOY STORY 3 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (G) ★
Fri. - Sun.(1045 1145 130 230) 415 515 700 800 935 1035
GROWN UPS (PG-13) ★
Fri. - Sun.(1100 1130 145 215) 430 500 715 745 945 1015
KNIGHT AND DAY (PG-13) ★
Fri. - Sun.(1050 1120 135 205) 420 450 705 735 955 1025
TOY STORY 3 (G) ★
Fri.(1115 200 345) 445 730 905 1005
Sat.(1115 100 200) 445 630 730 1005
Sun.(1115 200 345) 445 630 730 1005
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Fri.(100 PM) 630 PM
Sat.(345 PM) 905 PM
Sun.(100 PM) 905 PM
JONAH HEX (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.(1140 235) 510 755 1000
THE A-TEAM (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.(1105 155) 435 725 1010
THE KARATE KID (PG)
Fri. - Sun.(1155 340) 645 950
GET HIM TO THE GREEK (R) - ID REQ'D
Fri. - Sun.(1150 225) 505 740 1030
KILLERS (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.(1110 140) 405 635 915
PRINCE OF PERSIA: SANDS OF TIME (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.(115 355) 650 930
SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG)
Fri. - Sun.(1135 AM 220 PM) 440 PM
IRON MAN 2 (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.720 PM 1020 PM
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JONAH HEX (PG-13)
Fri. - Sun.400 PM 640 PM 930 PM
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Fri. - Sun.(110) 410 700 940
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Fri. - Sun.(130) 450 730 1010
THE KARATE KID (PG)
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