“Blackthorn”
*** | “Blackthorn” imagines a scenario for the continuing story of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and gives us a different kind of Western — somber, reflective and set in the elevated plains and salt flats of Bolivia. R. 1 hour, 38 minutes. Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle.
“Midnight in Paris”
*** | Owen Wilson makes a surprisingly good onscreen avatar for Woody Allen in this oft charming — but perhaps too contemptuous —tale of Gil. A magical auto transports successful screenwriter but struggling novelist Owen Wilson from the Paris he’s visiting with his impatient fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and her wealthy parents by day to the Paris of Picasso and Dali, Cole Porter and Ernest Hemingway. At Gertrude Stein’s, Gil meets Adriana (Marion Cotillard). And “Voila!?” We’re not telling. PG-13. 1 hour, 34 minutes. Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post
“Straw Dogs”
*** | Hollywood screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his actress wife, Amy (Kate Bosworth), relocate from the West Coast to Mississippi to restore and sell her family home. Things go wrong.
R. 1 hour, 49 minutes. Rene Rodriguez, McClatchy Newspapers
“Warrior”
*** | Dad Nick Nolte is a man of principles, a former wreck looking for redemption. His boys, Joel Edgerton, the teacher, and Tom Hardy, home from the war — two fighters once trained by Paddy — aren’t giving it. A straight genre picture, a fight movie of the old school.
PG-13. 1 hour, 59 minutes. Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel.
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