“Astro Boy”
*** (out of 4)
The hero, who is about the same age as his target audience, is smarter, braver and stronger than the adults in his world. Toby is also a quick learner; after he dies in an accident, he’s reborn inside a robot that looks just like him and retains all of his memories. PG. 1 hour, 30 minutes. Roger Ebert
“Did You Hear About the Morgans?”
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker have good, sometimes great, comedic timing. But their gifts are ill served in writer-director Marc Lawrence’s trout-out- of-water story about a Manhattan couple who must hide out in Wyoming. Sam Elliott (of the cowboy baritone) and Mary Steenburgen (doing grit and gumption) are the sheriff and his deputy both in law and love. They’re charged with keeping the witnesses to a murder safe. More, they act as models of a working marriage for Paul and Meryl Morgan who are on the skids. The talent’s here. But so are too many cliches about big city/small town misunderstandings and enlightenment. PG-13. 1 hour, 43 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“The Fourth Kind”
** (out of 4)
Someone or something has been terrorizing the people of Nome, Alaska. “The Fourth Kind” is an unintentionally silly thriller about alien abduction. For those who care about such things, encounters of the fourth kind are ones in which the subject’s body is physically carried off, often to be probed in ways that are far too horrible to describe. PG-13. 1 hour, 38 minutes. Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post
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