“Conan the Barbarian”
*1/2
Good vs. Evil in the fictional land of Hyboria. As frenetic and violent as could be expected. There’s enough head-bashing and limb-hewing to make an ER doc woozy. Ultimately, the movie is so pedestrian that it’s hard to work up much enthusiasm for it as it lurches from one big action set-piece to the next. R. 1 hour, 52 minutes. Cary Darling, McClatchy Newspapers
“Sarah’s Key”
***1/2
Director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s haunting adaptation of Tatiana de Rosnay’s best-selling novel. A journalist and a child are inextricably linked when the former’s husband begins to renovate a Paris apartment once occupied by the family of a child named Sarah. Kristin Scott Thomas is brilliantly restrained as the magazine writer who untangles the story of Sarah, a girl who tried to protect her brother from the infamous Vel d’Hiv roundup of French Jews in 1942. In English and French, with subtitles. From Neils Arestrup and Dominique Frot to Aidan Quinn, the ensemble is ace. R. 1 hour, 45 minutes. Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post
“Super 8”
**1/2
The year is 1979, and a group of kids in an Ohio town are making a zombie movie when a train wrecks and a mystery begins. But “Super 8” veers onto a familiar track, becomes chase-obsessed and leaves behind the authentic emotions it set up so well about mourning and hankering — and moviemaking. PG-13. 1 hour, 52 minutes. Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post
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