“Disturbia”
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We have a right to be suspicious of any dumbed-down remake of Hitchcock’s incomparable classic “Rear Window,” but “Disturbia” honors the original without ruining it. Like moving a Shakespeare play to the modern era to inspire new ideas, director D.J. Caruso moves Hitchcock’s exploration of voyeurism to the Los Angeles suburbs, and populates it with bored, paranoid teenagers. Shia LaBeouf is on home detention and bides his time watching a potential new girlfriend next door, and a potential serial killer (David Morse) across the alley. Nicely updated with computer and camera technology, “Disturbia” is entertaining and well- executed – um, poor choice of words.|PG-13|100 minutes |Released today|Michael Booth
“I Think I Love My Wife”
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1/2 Investment banker Richard Cooper is a stand-up guy. Chris Rock, the man who plays him, is a stand-up comedian. The latter fact weighs on this comedy based on Eric Rohmer’s “Chloe in the Afternoon” (1972). Directed and co- written by the talented comic, the movie is hobbled by the rhythms of a punch-line-driven routine. Kerry Washington plays Nikki, an acquaintance who shows up at Richard’s office in a wardrobe always tempting malfunction. Flirtatious and seemingly unencumbered, she pushes the faithful if bored Richard toward a date with infidelity. Gina Torres holds down the suburban fort as Richard’s smart, beautiful mate. Watching Richard scratch his seven-year itch is often about as much fun as watching your dog suffer with fleas.|R|97 minutes |Released today|Lisa Kennedy
“TMNT”
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1/2 Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo – four brothers raised in the sewers of New York by the inscrutable teacher Splinter, a rat who looks like the Cheetos cheetah – are all split up when “TMNT” opens. There are beasties about, all connected to a legend of an immortal king (Patrick Stewart) and his army of stone-statue generals. April (Sarah Michelle Gellar), the Lara Croft-wannabe turtle pal, and Casey (Chris Evans of “Fantastic Four”) need their friends to team back up and give them a hand. The Foot Clan, their mortal ninja enemies, make an appearance. Zhang Ziyi (“Memoirs of a Geisha”) does the voice of their leader. Splinter has more lessons to pass on to the brothers, if they stop fighting one another long enough to listen.|PG|80 minutes |Released today|Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
