Movies

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The Martian Matt Damon is an astronaut stranded on Mars, and Kristen Wiig, Jessica Chastain and Chiwetel Ejiofor are among the NASA employees trying to get him home safely in director Ridley Scott’s thrilling adaptation of Andy Weir’s best-selling novel.

Running time: 141 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language, injury images, and brief nudity)

Airway Heights: 4:10, 7, 9:50. NorthTown Mall: 12:30, 4, 7:15, 10. River Park Square: 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:05, 7:25. Riverstone: 1, 4:30, 6:30, 8. Spokane Valley Mall: 12:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9:45. Wandermere: 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50.

The Martian in 3-D

Running time: 141 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language, injury images, and brief nudity)

Airway Heights: 3:30, 6:30, 9:20. NorthTown Mall: noon, 3, 3:30, 6:15, 6:45, 10:30. River Park Square: 11:30 a.m., 2, 2:45, 6:15, 6:45, 9:35, 10:15. Riverstone: noon, 3:15, 3:30, 7, 9:45, 10:15. Spokane Valley Mall: 11:45 a.m., 1, 3:15, 4:15, 6:45, 7, 10. Wandermere: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20.

Paul Taylor: Creative Domain Documentary gives a glimpse into the elusive choreographer’s creative process.

Running time: 82 minutes

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Magic Lantern: 6.

Sicario Director Denis (“Prisoners”) Villeneuve’s provocative look at the moral consequences of the war on drugs centers on an FBI agent (Emily Blunt) assigned to assist a CIA operative (Josh Brolin) and his lawyer consultant (Benicio Del Toro) in a raid against a powerful crime lord based in Juarez, Mexico.

Running time: 120 minutes

Rating: R

Airway Heights: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20. NorthTown Mall: 1, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45. River Park Square: 10:45 a.m., 1:35, 4:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:20. Riverstone: 12:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10. Spokane Valley Mall: 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40. Wandermere: 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20.

The Walk: An IMAX 3-D Experience Director Robert Zemeckis pushes the limits of 3D technology to deliver a you-are-there perspective in this recounting of the 1974 attempt by French high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to walk a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Center.

Running time: 123 minutes

Rating: PG (for thematic elements involving perilous situations, and for some nudity, language, brief drug references and smoking)

River Park Square: 10:30 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10.

Continuing

Ant-Man () Paul Rudd, droll and deadpan, is a cat burglar with an electrical engineering degree who puts on a weird, retro getup and can suddenly shrink himself to the size of an ant − and communicate with them, too. Clever bits emerge from long stretches of exposition and exploding stuff. Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly and Corey Stoll (as the villain Yellowjacket) co-star, plus some Marvel Cinematic Universe cameos.

Running time: 117 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence)

Hayden: 11:45 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45.

Best of Enemies () William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal − righty and lefty intellectuals, respectively − square off as the 1968 Republican and Democratic National Conventions are going on. A bracing view of a pivotal time in politics, and in TV news, as Vietnam and race riots scarred a nation’s soul, as the Establishment and the Counter Culture exchanged epithets and blows.

Running time: 87 minutes

Rating: R (for sexual content/nudity and language)

Magic Lantern: 4:15.

Black Mass () Johnny Depp utterly transforms himself in the role of James “Whitey” Bulger, the Boston mobster who racketeered and murdered his way to power in the ’70s and ’80s. Directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”), with strong performances from Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton and Dakota Johnson. Dark, bloody, harrowing.

Running time: 122 minutes

Rating: R (for brutal violence, language throughout, some sexual references and brief drug use)

Airway Heights: 4:30, 7:10, 9:45. NorthTown Mall: 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:35. River Park Square: 10:40 a.m., 1:25, 4:15, 7, 9:50. Riverstone: 12:35, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15. Spokane Valley Mall: 12:25, 3:25, 6:25, 9:25. Wandermere: 10:50 a.m., 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20.

Everest () Dramatic thriller based on the true story of the struggle for survival faced by members of a Mount Everest climbing expedition when they are caught in a blizzard.

Running time: 120 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for intense peril and disturbing images)

Airway Heights: 4, 6:40. NorthTown Mall: 9:55. River Park Square: 10:40 a.m., 4:20. Riverstone: 9:30. Spokane Valley Mall: 9:15. Wandermere: 1:20, 4, 6:40.

Everest in 3-D

Airway Heights: 8:50. NorthTown Mall: 1:20, 4:10, 7. River Park Square: 1:30, 7:05, 9:50. Riverstone: 12:25, 3:20, 6:25. Spokane Valley Mall: 11:55 a.m., 3:10, 6:10. Wandermere: 10:50 a.m., 9:10.

Fantastic Four () It’s overstating things to say this Marvel Comics reboot stars Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell, because rarely has a group of actors appeared less invested in the movie they’ve signed up for. A long, tedious origin story, introducing the quartet of hangdog superheroes who work best together, when they’re not bickering, brooding or running away to South America.

Running time: 105 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for sci-fi action violence, and language)

Hayden: 2:10, 9:20.

The Gift () The lives of a happily married couple take a dark turn after a mysterious former acquaintance of the husband shows up. Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, and Joel Edgerton star.

Running time: 108 minutes

Rating: R (for language)

Hayden: 4:50, 9:30.

The Green Inferno Director Eli (“Hostel”) Roth’s long-delayed gorefest, about a group of student activists who run afoul of cannibals deep inside the Amazon’s rainforests, is an homage to gross-out cult favorites such as 1980’s controversial “Cannibal Holocaust.”

Running time: 103 minutes

Rating: R (for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use)

NorthTown Mall: 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15. River Park Square: 4:35, 10:30. Riverstone: 12:55, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40. Spokane Valley Mall: 10:05. Wandermere: 12:20, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:25.

Hotel Transylvania 2 Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez and Kevin James return as the voices of the creatures and humans at the monsters-only resort.

Running time: 89 minutes

Rating: PG (for some scary images, action and rude humor)

Airway Heights: 3, 4:30, 6:20, 6:50, 8:20, 9:10. NorthTown Mall: 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:40. River Park Square: 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:50, 3, 6:30, 7:20, 9:45. Riverstone: 12:45, 4, 6:45, 9:15. Spokane Valley Mall: 12:30, 3, 7:15, 9:50. Wandermere: 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 1, 2:30, 3, 4:30, 6:20, 8:20.

Hotel Transylvania 2 in 3-D

Airway Heights: 5. NorthTown Mall: 12:50, 3:20, 6:25, 9. River Park Square: 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 9. Riverstone: 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 9:50. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15. Wandermere: 11 a.m., 5, 6:50, 8:50.

Inside Out () The central characters in Pixar’s propulsively inventive animated adventure aren’t talking toys or cars. They’re emotions: Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness, jockeying for control in the mind of a preteen girl. The first psychological thriller that’s fun for the whole family. Really psychological. And really fun. From the director of “Up,” with the voice talents of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling and Bill Hader.

Running time: 102 minutes

Rating: PG (for mild thematic elements and some action)

Hayden: 11:45 a.m., 2, 4:15, 6:40, 8:50.

The Intern () Anne Hathaway is an e-commerce entrepreneur, Robert De Niro a retiree who becomes her eager aide, in Nancy Meyers’ impossibly charming generation gap comedy − make that generation-chasm. The business and personal crises fly, but don’t worry, De Niro’s septuagenarian gent is ready to provide sage counsel. And Rene Russo, as the company’s in-house masseuse, is ready to provide back rubs.

Running time: 121 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for some suggestive content and brief strong language)

Airway Heights: 4:10, 6:45, 9:15. NorthTown Mall: 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25. River Park Square: 10:35 a.m., 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10. Riverstone: 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10. Wandermere: 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15.

Jurassic World () The genetically spliced mega-beast that runs amok in the third Jurassic Park sequel is trumpeted by its theme park creators as “bigger, scarier, cooler.” The movie is bigger and it is pretty scary. But it’s not cooler, or smarter, than the original. Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt lead a cast whose main job is to run for their lives. A lot of them don’t make it.

Running time: 124 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril)

Garland: 7:15. Hayden: noon, 4, 7:10, 9:40.

Jurassic World in 3-D

Hayden: 1:30.

Learning to Drive ( 1/2) Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley team up for a small, artfully crafted story of companionship, loneliness, resilience. She’s a New York literary critic who’s just been dumped by her husband; Kingsley is an Indian Sikh who gives the suddenly and single middle age woman driving lessons. Put the car (and your life) in forward; be aware and anticipate; control your rage; know where you’re going.

Running time: 105 minutes

Rating: R (for language and sexual content)

Magic Lantern: 3:15.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials () The saga continues with the Gladers facing their most difficult challenge yet.

Running time: 131 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for extended sequences of violence and action, some thematic elements, substance use and language)

Airway Heights: 4:15, 7, 9:40. NorthTown Mall: 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20. River Park Square: 10:30 a.m., 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20. Riverstone: 12:15, 3:25, 6:50, 10:05. Spokane Valley Mall: noon, 3:20, 6:35, 9:40. Wandermere: 11 a.m., 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:40.

Meru ( 1/2) Filmmaker Jimmy Chin documents his ascent − along with friends Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk − to the top of Meru, a Himalayan mountain harder to climb than Everest. But the facts are a bit too wishy-washy for documentary standards.

Running time: 90 minutes

Rating: R (for language)

Magic Lantern: 7:45.

Minions () A spinoff of, and prequel to, the “Despicable Me” movies, starring a trio of yellow, pill-shaped pipsqueaks who speak in an undecipherable tongue and find themselves in the merry employ of a supervillain bent on usurping the British throne. A hyperanimated farce with shades of Silent Era slapstick, Three Stooges slapfests and the jaw-slapping wackiness of a stoner comedy.

Running time: 91 minutes

Rating: PG (for action and rude humor)

Hayden: noon, 2:15.

Pawn Sacrifice Tobey Maguire stars as the chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, who squared off against the Soviet Union champion (Liev Schreiber) at the height of the Cold War.

Running time: 114 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language, some sexual content and historical smoking)

River Park Square: 11:45 a.m., 5:15. Riverstone: 12:15.

Pixels Adam Sandler, Brian Cox, Kevin James and Peter Dinklage defend Earth from an invasion by aliens, who have taken the form of 1980s video games such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders. Is it wrong that we’re rooting for the extra-terrestrials to win?

Running time: 106 minutes

Rating: PG-13 (for some language and suggestive comments)

Garland: 5. Hayden: noon, 4:20, 6:50.

Shaun the Sheep The latest animated adventure from the creators of Wallace & Gromit centers on a wayward sheep who wanders off the farm and into the big city.

Running time: 85 minutes

Rating: PG (for rude humor)

Hayden: 11:45 a.m.

Trainwreck ( 1/2)A showcase for Amy Schumer’s cutting brand of comedy, the film smoothly switches tracks from raunchy copulatory one-liners to compulsory rom-com schmaltz to emotionally raw business about relationships, family, self-image and self-destructiveness.

Running time: 122 minutes

Rating: R (for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use)

Garland: 9:50.

Vacation () A crass remake of the beloved original features Ed Helms as Russ Griswold, taking over where Clark (Chevy Chase, who makes a cameo) left off, bringing his family to the storied Walley World. It’s an unnecessary remake that has its laughs.

Running time: 99 minutes

Rating: R (for crude and sexual content and language)

Hayden: 2:30, 7:25.

The Visit ( 1/2) Hansel and Gretel with a shakycam, M. Night Shyamalan’s toe-dip into low-budget horror is a “found footage” pic, a slow-build affair with funny gags thrown into the mix, in which a camcorder-toting teenage brother and sister hop the train from Philly to spend a week in the country with the grandparents they’ve never met. Nana and Pop Pop prove to be scarily strange.

Running time: 94 minutes

Rating: PG-13

Airway Heights: 3:20, 5:20, 7:15, 9:15. NorthTown Mall: 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25. Riverstone: 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20. Spokane Valley Mall: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50. Wandermere: 11:20 a.m., 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:15, 9:15.

A Walk in the Woods ( 1/2) Robert Redford plays real-life travel writer Bill Bryson, who decides to hike the Appalachian Trail with his pal (Nick Nolte), a chubby, wheezing, recovering alcoholic. Redford gets a chance, long overdue, to be funny during the charmingly hopeless endeavor.

Running time: 104 minutes

Rating: R (for language and some sexual references)

Magic Lantern: 5. Riverstone: 1:05, 3:55, 6:35, 9:35. Wandermere: 11:50 a.m., 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10.

War Room A couple with a seemingly perfect life struggle with a crumbling marriage. When Miss Clara enters their lives, she gives them the tools and a battle plan for prayer to face their troubles.

Running time: 120 minutes

Rating: PG (for thematic elements throughout)

NorthTown Mall: 12:10, 9:30. Riverstone: 12:05, 3:10, 6:20, 9:20. Spokane Valley Mall: 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55. Wandermere: 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9.