WE-18 • PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE • 3/14/​24

OPENING THIS WEEK

CAPTIVE STATE Set in a Chi­cago neigh­bor­hood nearly a de­cade af­ter an oc­cu­pa­tion by an ex­tra-ter­res­trial force, the film ex­plores the lives on both sides of the con­flict — the col­lab­o­ra­tors and dis­si­dents. PG-13 for sci-fi vi­o­lence and ac­tion, some sex­ual con­tent, brief lan­guage and drug ma­terial. 109 min. AMC Del­mont, Mt. Leb­a­non, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cen­tury Square; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Cran­berry; Phoe­nix CV & NV; SouthSide Works; Water­works.

CLIMAX ✮✮✮ French danc­ers gather in a re­mote empty school build­ing to re­hearse on a win­try night, but the all-night cel­e­bra­tion morphs into a hal­lu­ci­na­tory night­mare when they learn their san­gria is laced with LSD. R for dis­turb­ing con­tent in­volv­ing a com­bi­na­tion of drug use, vi­o­lent be­hav­ior and strong sex­u­al­ity, and for lan­guage and some graphic nu­dity. 97 min. AMC Wa­ter­front, Regent Square.

EVERYBODY KNOWS A Spa­nish woman liv­ing in Bue­nos Aires re­turns to her home­town out­side Ma­drid with her two chil­dren to at­tend her sis­ter’s wed­ding. The trip is up­set by un­ex­pected events that bring se­crets into the open. R for some lan­guage. 133 min. Manor.

FAITH, HOPE & LOVE Faith, a re­cent di­vor­cee, en­ters a dance con­test to save her dance stu­dio, where she meets Jimmy and starts re­dis­cov­er­ing her faith and dreams. PG for some the­matic el­e­ments. 106 min. AMC Wa­ter­front.

FIVE FEET APART A pair of teen­agers with life-threat­en­ing ill­nesses meet in a hos­pi­tal and fall in love. PG-13 for the­matic el­e­ments, lan­guage and sug­ges­tive ma­terial. 116 min. AMC Del­mont, South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cen­tury Square; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Cran­berry; Phoe­nix CV & NV; SouthSide Works; Water­works.

NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE A bit of an out­sider strug­gling to fit into her new sur­round­ings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve a mys­tery, make new friends, and es­tab­lish their place in the com­mu­nity. PG for peril, sug­ges­tive ma­terial, the­matic el­e­ments and lan­guage. AMC Del­mont, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land.

WONDER PARK The story of a mag­nif­i­cent amuse­ment park where the imag­i­na­tion of a wildly cre­ative girl named June comes alive. PG for some mild the­matic el­e­ments and ac­tion. 85 min. AMC Del­mont, Mt. Leb­a­non, South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cen­tury Square; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Cran­berry; Depend­able; Penn Hills; Phoe­nix CV & NV; SouthSide Works; Water­works.

YARDIE Set in ’70s King­ston and ’80s Hack­ney, the film cen­ters on the life of a young Ja­mai­can man who has never fully re­cov­ered from the mur­der, com­mit­ted dur­ing his child­hood, of his older brother. No rat­ing. 101 min. Har­ris.

CURRENT MOVIES

ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL Cy­ber­punk ac­tion film set in a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic world, star­ring Rosa Sal­a­zar in the ti­tle role and Chris­toph Waltz. 122 min. PG-13. AMC Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cine­mark Mon­roeville, Robin­son & Taren­tum.

APOLLO 11 A look at the Apollo 11 mis­sion to land on the moon led by com­mander Neil Arm­strong and pi­lot Buzz Aldrin. 93 min. AMC Wa­ter­front, Cran­berry, Manor, SouthSide Works, Tull.

CAPTAIN MARVEL ✮✮½ Carol Dan­vers (Brie Lar­son) be­comes one of the uni­verse’s most pow­er­ful he­roes when Earth is caught in the mid­dle of a ga­lac­tic war be­tween two alien races. PG-13 for se­quences of sci-fi vi­o­lence and ac­tion and brief sug­ges­tive lan­guage. 124 min. AMC Del­mont, Mt. Leb­a­non, South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cine­mark Mon­roeville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Cran­berry; Depend­able; Manor; Penn Hills; Phoe­nix CV & NV; Tull; SouthSide Works; Water­works.

COLD PURSUIT A snow­plow driver seeks re­venge against the drug deal­ers he thinks killed his son. Based on a 2014 Nor­we­gian film. R for strong vi­o­lence, drug ma­terial and some lan­guage in­clud­ing sex­ual ref­er­ences. 118 min. Cine­mark Taren­tum, Phoe­nix NV.

FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY ✮✮✮ A for­mer wres­tler and his fam­ily make a liv­ing per­form­ing at small ven­ues around the coun­try while his kids dream of join­ing World Wres­tling En­ter­tain­ment. PG-13 for

crude and sex­ual ma­terial, lan­guage through­out, some vi­o­lence and drug con­tent. 108 min. AMC Del­mont, South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Phoe­nix CV.

GREEN BOOK ✮✮✮✮ A work­ing-class Ital­ian-Amer­i­can bouncer be­comes the driver of an African-Amer­i­can clas­si­cal pi­a­nist on a tour of ven­ues through the 1960s Amer­i­can South. PG-13 for the­matic con­tent, lan­guage in­clud­ing ra­cial ep­i­thets, smok­ing, some vi­o­lence and sug­ges­tive ma­terial. 129 min. AMC Del­mont, South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cine­mark North & Robin­son, Cran­berry; Phoe­nix CV & NV; Water­works.

GRETA ✮✮½ A young woman be­friends a lonely widow who’s har­bor­ing a dark and deadly agenda to­ward her. R for some vi­o­lence and dis­turb­ing im­ages. 98 min. AMC Mt. Leb­a­non & West­more­land; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Phoe­nix CV & NV.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD When Hic­cup dis­cov­ers Tooth­less isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek The Hid­den World, a se­cret Dragon Uto­pia, be­fore a hired ty­rant named Grim­mel finds it first. PG for ad­ven­ture ac­tion and some mild rude hu­mor. 104 min. AMC Del­mont, Mt. Leb­a­non, South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cen­tury Square; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Cran­berry; Depend­able; Phoe­nix CV & NV; Water­works.

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK ✮✮✮½ A woman in Harlem des­per­ately scram­bles to prove her fi­ance is in­no­cent of a crime while she is car­ry­ing their child. Based on

the novel by James Bald­win. R for lan­guage and some sex­ual con­tent. 119 min. Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville.

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC ✮✮✮: Rebel Wil­son plays a woman who takes a hit to the head and wakes up to her life be­ing a ro­man­tic com­edy. PG-13 for lan­guage, some sex­ual ma­terial, and a brief drug ref­er­ence. 88 min. AMC Del­mont, Mt. Leb­a­non & West­more­land; Cine­mark North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Phoe­nix CV.

THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART ✮✮✮½ It’s been five years since ev­ery­thing was awe­some, and the cit­i­zens are fac­ing a huge new threat: in­vad­ers from outer space, wreck­ing ev­ery­thing faster than they can re­build. PG for some rude hu­mor. 106 min. AMC Del­mont, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cen­tury Square; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Cran­berry; Phoe­nix CV & NV; Water­works.

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE ✮✮✮½ Miles Mo­rales be­comes the Spi­der-Man of his re­al­ity and crosses paths with his coun­ter­parts from other di­men­sions to stop a threat. PG for fre­netic se­quences of an­i­mated ac­tion vi­o­lence, the­matic el­e­ments and mild lan­guage. 117 min. Cine­mark Taren­tum.

A STAR IS BORN ✮✮✮ A mu­si­cian helps a young singer and ac­tress find fame, even as age and al­co­hol­ism send his own ca­reer into a down­ward spi­ral. R for lan­guage through­out, some sex­u­al­ity/​nu­dity and sub­stance abuse. 136 min. AMC Del­mont, South Hills & Wa­ter­front; Cine­mark Taren­tum.

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD ✮✮✮½ Peter Jack­son’s doc­u­men­tary about World War I with never-be­fore-seen foot­age to com­mem­o­rate the cen­ten­nial of the end of the war. R for dis­turb­ing war im­ages. 99 min. Cine­mark Taren­tum.

TYLER PERRY’S A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL A joy­ous fam­ily re­union be­comes a hi­lar­i­ous night­mare as Madea and the crew travel to back­woods Geor­gia, where they find them­selves un­ex­pect­edly plan­ning a fu­neral that might un­veil un­sa­vory fam­ily se­crets. PG-13 for crude sex­ual con­tent, lan­guage and drug ref­er­ences through­out. 102 min. AMC South Hills, Wa­ter­front & West­more­land; Cen­tury Square; Cine­mark Mon­ro­eville, North, Robin­son & Taren­tum; Depend­able; Penn Hills; Phoe­nix CV & NV; SouthSide Works; Water­works.

THE UPSIDE Kevin Hart plays a re­cently pa­roled ex-con­vict who strikes up an un­likely friend­ship with a bil­lion­aire, played by Bryan Cran­ston, who is par­a­lyzed. PG-13 for sug­ges­tive con­tent and drug use. 125 min. AMC Del­mont, South Hills & West­more­land; Cine­mark Robin­son; Depend­able.

WHAT MEN WANT A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents but gains an un­ex­pected edge over them when she de­vel­ops the abil­ity to hear men’s thoughts. R for lan­guage and sex­ual con­tent through­out, and some drug ma­terial. 117 min. AMC Wa­ter­front, Phoe­nix NV, SouthSide Works.

Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios
“Captain Marvel” stars Brie Larson in the title role.