“The Adjustment Bureau”
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
It can be praised as an action movie and as an imaginative fantasy, but the main thing that keeps audiences glued throughout its running time is that it’s a love story, easily one of the best American love stories of the past year. A failed senatorial candidate (Matt Damon) meets a woman (Emily Blunt) and their ease, their instantaneous delight in each other’s company, are so apparent that we know we’re witnessing the kind of connection that happens just once or twice in a lifetime. But walking the earth are divine agents whose job is to nudge events in the right direction, usually in quiet and unforced ways. PG. 1 hour, 39 minutes. Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle
“Cedar Rapids”
** (out of 4)
Many a filmmaker professes love for the rube, the naif. Yet much in this indie comedy suggests otherwise. Contempt is more the tone — if not for the hapless, honorable insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms), then for all the others who people his Midwestern world. John C. Reilly is typically game as the uncouth jester. Ann Heche is believable as a romantic spoiler. But the naughty-and-nice turns feel canned. R. 1 hour, 26 minutes. Lisa Kennedy
“Unknown”
*** (out of 4)
Liam Neeson plays horticulture professor Martin Harris, who, as the film opens, arrives for a biotech conference in Berlin with his wife, Liz (January Jones). When Harris inadvertently leaves his briefcase — containing his passport — on the Berlin airport curb, a series of domino-effect mishaps ensue. “Unknown” owes less to Jason Bourne than to Alfred Hitchcock. PG-13. 1 hour, 49 minutes. Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
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