Friday’s openings: More fast, fatefully furious

Next week isn’t likely to be a big week for movies. Other than “The Fate of the Furious” — the latest and, sadly, not the last in the series that began in 2001 with “The Fast and the Furious” — not much is opening wide. But that’s always subject to change.

Anyway, Friday’s scheduled national releases are:

“The Fate of the Furious” : Charlize Theron stars as a mystery woman who seems to weave a spell that makes Dom (Vin Diesel) betray what he treasures most: family. Right, like there’s not a twist in there somewhere.

“Gifted” : Chris Evans (“Captain America”) stars as a man trying to give his dead sister’s brilliant daughter a normal childhood, despite his own mother’s desires that the girl be treated as the genius she is. ( Note : “Gifted” opened last week but is expanding and may hit area theaters. )