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** 1/2 stars | All legs and hair and eyeliner and attitude, Cameron Diaz makes a formidable bad teacher in the raunchy new comedy. She’s nasty, conniving and selfish as Elizabeth Halsey, a middle-school instructor who cares more about scamming money for breast implants than about student participation or test scores. R. 1 hour, 32 minutes. Connie Ogle, McClatchy Newspapers
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
*** 1/2 stars | The “Pirates” franchise has righted course with old-fashioned swashbuckling, lovely mermaids and a race to the Fountain of Youth. Best news: With slurry, sloshy, happy-to-vamp-and-pillage- for-laughs Johnny Depp aboard, the Capt. Jack Sparrow drag show is as good as ever. On hand to spar — verbally and then some — with the pirate is Penelope Cruz as Angelica, Blackbeard’s daughter. PG-13. 2 hours, 8 minutes. Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post
“A Better Life”
*** 1/2 stars | This is a simply affecting look at a man beset with problems, not the least of which is his immigration status. Yet this isn’t some polemic. It’s not pushing immigration reform or a political viewpoint. It’s only pushing Carlos, his humanity, his desperate scramble to support himself and his son, Luis, with a pickup filled with gardening tools. PG-13. 1 hour 37 minutes. Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
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