Peter O'Toole plays an aging actor who forges an improbable and moving alliance with an insolent teenage girl. Jodie Whittaker and Vanessa Redgrave costar. Roger Michell directs. (95 min, R)
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LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA***
Ken Watanabe stars in Clint Eastwood's companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, which tells the story of the same WWII battle from the perspective of the Japanese. Co-starring Shido Nakamura. (141 min, R)
THE ITALIAN***1/2
Kolya Spiridonov stars in director Andrey Kravchuk's heart tugger about a 6-year-old Russian boy who escapes from an oppressive orphanage to search for the mother who abandoned him. With Denis Moiseenko and Sasha Sirotkin. (99 min, PG-13)
THE GOOD GERMAN**1/2
George Clooney teams up again with director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven) to play a foreign correspondent in 1945 Berlin in this black-and-white homage to classic film noir. Cate Blanchett costars. (145 min, R)
EPIC MOVIE*
From the folks who brought you Scary Movie and Date Movie comes yet another random collection of spoofs. Featuring Carmen Electra, David Carradine and Kal Penn. Directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. (80 min, PG-13)
APOCALYPTO***1/2
Mel Gibson directs this English-free action adventure set against the backdrop of the fall of the Mayan civilization. (139 min, R)
STOMP THE YARD**1/2
Chris Brown and April Clark are paired in this musical about a Los Angeles street dancer who is courted by rival college fraternities that need his moves to win a national competition. Co-starring Laz Alonso and Daisy Jade. Directed by Sylvain White. (115 min, PG-13)
PAN'S LABYRINTH*****
Guillermo Del Toro directs this fable about a young girl who creates a private world filled with fantastical creatures as a way of coping with the horrors of life in fascist post-war Spain. Sergi Lopez and Ariadna Gil star. (120 min, R)
THE FOUNTAIN**1/2
Darren (Requiem for a Dream) Aronofsky brings us this rumination on immortality, which follows Hugh Jackman as a 16th-century conquistador in search of the Fountain of Youth through a succession of time periods. Costarring Rachel Weisz and Ellen Burstyn. (96 min, R)
ARTHUR AND THE INVISIBLES**
David Bowie and Snoop Dogg are among the voice cast in Luc (La Femme Nikita) Besson's CGI-live action fairy tale about a boy who discovers a secret passage to a fantastic world right in his own backyard. Also featuring Mia Farrow, Freddie Highmore and Madonna. (100 min, PG)