Submitted photoJonah Hill, left, and Channing Tatum star in “22 Jump Street.”

Reviews by Richard Roeper or Roger Moore, unless otherwise noted.

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“Big Hero 6” — From Walt Disney Animation Studios, the team behind “Frozen” and “Wreck-It Ralph,” comes “Big Hero 6,” and action-packed comedy-adventure about the special bond that develops between Baymax (voice of Scott Adsit), a plus-sized inflatable robot, and prodigy Hiro Hamada (voice of Ryan Potter). The film opens Nov. 7 with a few early screenings Thursday. This film is available locally in 3-D. (PG)

— Synopsis from Walt Disney Pictures

“Bubba Ho-tep” — Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis. We find the King (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly nursing home resident who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his “death,” then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. This film is screening at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Volcanic Theatre Pub in Bend. Admission is $5. (R)

— Synopsis from Silver Sphere Corporation

“Days of My Youth” — Red Bull Media House, in association with MSP Films, presents “Days of My Youth,” a new film that examines every skier’s lifelong affinity for the sport. Filmed over two years using state-of-the-art techniques and technologies, this movie offers a unique glimpse into the journey of self-discovery that every skier experiences — exploring the globe and escaping to the playground of the mountains. Traveling worldwide, MSP’s team has looked through the lens in a new way to capture moments that redefine what is possible on skis. The film exposes the joys and struggles associated with a lifetime built around skiing, all while narrated to the prolific readings of Alan Watts alongside profound insights from an intimate cast of skiing’s modern-day superstars. “Days of My Youth” reminds every viewer of their first time on skis, and reinforces that the experience will continue to keep you young for a lifetime. The Volcanic Theatre Pub in Bend is screening this film at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in advance at bendticket.com. (No MPAA rating)

— Synopsis from MSP Films

“Interstellar” — After he plumbed the direst depths of Gotham City in his “Dark Knight” trilogy and traversed multiple levels of consciousness in “Inception,” it seems the only place filmmaker Christopher Nolan could go next was outer space. In his latest feature, “Interstellar,” an intrepid shuttle team slips the surly bonds of Earth to search for wormholes, black holes and planets beyond our galaxy; at the same time, the film is closely concerned with the pale blue dot the crew came from, which is rapidly becoming inhospitable to human life. The film opens Nov. 7 with a few early screenings Thursday. (PG-13)

— Dave Itzkoff, New York Times

“The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen” — Richard Eyre’s mesmerizing production of Bizet’s steamy melodrama returns with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili singing her signature role of the ill-fated gypsy temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko plays her desperate lover, the soldier Don José, and Ildar Abdrazakov is the swaggering bullfighter, Escamillo, who comes between them. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the irresistible score, which features one beloved and instantly recognizable melody after another. “Carmen” will screen at 9:55 a.m. Saturday and at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Regal Old Mill Stadium 16 & IMAX in Bend. 220 minutes. Admission is $24 for adults, $22 for seniors and $18 for children. (No MPAA rating)

— Synopsis from Fathom Events

“National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men” — Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) star in the hit Broadway production “Of Mice And Men,” filmed on stage by National Theatre Live. This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship. “Of Mice and Men” will screen at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Regal Old Mill Stadium 16 & IMAX in Bend. General admission is $18. (No MPAA rating)

— Synopsis from Fathom Events

“The NeverEnding Story” — Bastian is a young boy who lives a dreary life being tormented by school bullies. On one day he escapes into a book shop where the old proprietor reveals an ancient storybook to him. The 1984 film is screening at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday and at 3 p.m. Wednesday at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 kids (11 and under). (PG)

— Synopsis from McMenamins

“Riff Trax Live: Anaconda” — A live riffing on the ultimate snake flick from The Carolina Theatre of Durham in Durham, North Carolina. Fathom Events and RiffTrax.com are excited to bring indisputably the best digital snake movie of 1997, “Anaconda,” back to the big screen for a second showing at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Regal Old Mill Stadium 16 & IMAX in Bend. General admission is $12.50. (No MPAA rating)

— Synopsis from Fathom Events

“Saw 10th Anniversary” — Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back or die trying … To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the theatrical release of “Saw,” the Regal Old Mill Stadium 16 & IMAX in Bend will screen the film for one week starting Thursday. (R)

— Synopsis from Lionsgate

What’s New

“Before I Go To Sleep” — Three of the best actors in the business put on a master class in mystery thriller in “Before I Go to Sleep,” a lean, twisty-turning tale in the “Memento” style. Christine (Nicole Kidman) wakes up each day confused. Christine has lost 20 years, and every night when she dozes off she loses that day’s memories as well. “Before I Go to Sleep” hangs on Kidman’s intimate performance. She whispers, girlishly, shocked at being told she had an affair, puzzled that the two men give her differing versions of how she lost her memory. At the beginning of each day, she is passive, naive and trusting. She gets into the car of the man who calls himself her doctor without question. Writer-director Rowan Joffe (he wrote the Clooney hitman thriller, “The American”), adapting an S.J. Watson novel, maintains the mystery at the heart of this puzzle picture and jolts us with the odd shock — a violent flashback, a loud horn blast from a passing truck that nearly hits someone. Whatever twists this puzzle tosses at us, the film reminds us that a great actor, in close-up, telling a story with just her or his eyes, is still the greatest special effect the movies have to offer. This cast telling this story ensures us that nobody will be dozing off “Before I Go to Sleep.” Rating: three and a half stars. 92 minutes. (R) — Moore

“Nightcrawler” — As a freelance vulture who records video of crime and crash scenes for TV news, Jake Gyllenhaal plays one of the most disturbing movie characters of the year. But the film veers from dark satire to tense crime thriller before the tires come off near the end, leaving the entire vehicle just short of worth recommending. Rating: Two and a half stars. 117 minutes. (R) —Roeper

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“22 Jump Street” — After making their way through high school, officers Schmidt and Jenko go undercover at a local college. This film screens at 9 p.m. Saturday through Thursday at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for kids (11 and under). (R)

— Synopsis from McMenamins

“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” — Whatever else children take from Judith Viorst’s delightful “Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day,” the sly subtext this picture-heavy book is how exhausting and sometimes misguided the optimism of the eternally optimistic can be. Parents who smile all the time, who make light of the weight of the world kids carry around sometimes? Annoying, especially to those kids. That’s what the film version kicks around the block, and rather amusingly, a few times. Life is going to trip you up. A lot. Smiling about everything may help. But getting up after every knock-down is the only sure cure. It’s just competent, light entertainment, no more ambitious than that. But the stuff that’s not in Viorst’s slim book for children is what gooses this kids comedy, the plot points and grown-up concerns handled with comic flair by Jennifer Garner and Steve Carell, both of whom come right up to the brink of melting down — but don’t. This is why you hire movie stars, folks. Rating: Two and a half stars. 81 minutes. (PG) — Moore

“The Best of Me” — For an hour or so, Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden gamely swim against the current, fighting the torpid tide of tripe that romance novelist Nicholas Sparks sends their way in his latest. It’s sad to watch them strain and struggle and then give up as the lachrymose “The Best of Me” drowns them in a sea of saccharine. It’s yet another doomed last chance love story set in the coastal South, star-crossed lovers “destined” to be together but kept apart by tragedy. There’s barely a tear left in this limp weeper. Rating: One and a half stars. 113 minutes. (PG-13) — Moore

“The Book of Life” — “The Book of Life” is a Mexican-accented kids’ cartoon so colorful and unconventionally dazzling it almost reinvents the art form. As pretty as a just-punctured piñata, endlessly inventive, warm and traditional, it serves up Mexican culture in a riot of Mexican colors and mariachi-flavored music. The tale is told by a museum tour guide in an effort to impress a raucous bunch of American school kids. Mary Beth (Christina Applegate) recounts a love story built around El dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead. And the moment that story begins, the computer animated style switches from quirky, big-headed, plastic-looking adults and kids to a bizarre, wooden-puppet world of the past, the Mexican village of San Angel. At this point in the animation game, we know what to expect of Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks. “Book of Life” is something new and a gigantic step up from Reel FX Animation’s previous work (“Free Birds”). This sometimes riotous, always charming film suggests they’ve taken their own movie’s message to heart. You can “write your own story,” and have it pay off. This film is available locally in 3-D. Rating: Three and a half stars. 95 minutes. (PG) — Moore

“The Boxtrolls” — There’s something about stop motion 3D animation — the not-quite-real textures of skin and hair, the quite real cloth and metal, the subtle gloomy lighting effects — that says “spooky.” All the best animated films with a hint of Halloween have been stop motion animation or digital efforts that duplicate that hand-molded model look — “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Coraline.” “The Boxtrolls” is from Laika, the studio that made “ParaNorman” and “Coraline.” This adaptation of an Alan Snow novel (“Here Be Monsters!”) is inventive and fanciful and almost certainly the best animated film of the year. It’s spooky and funny and a little twisted, with a little social commentary in the “ParaNorman” style. Start to finish, it’s a delight. Rating: Three and a half stars. 97 minutes. (PG) — Moore

“Dracula Untold” — So it wasn’t the rains that kept the Turks from getting their cannons to Vienna, seizing the city and ending Western Civilization in the late 15th/early 16th centuries. It was Prince Vlad (Luke Evans), hero of the Transylvanians, a misunderstood warrior with fangs and a taste for Turkish Type O. That’s the premise of “Dracula Untold,” a vampire tale that attempts an origin story for “Vlad the Impaler” taking him back to his days in service to the Turkish sultan. “Dracula Untold” is a straight two-genre genre picture (vampires, sword and sorcery), well-mounted, with whirlwinds of bats and gloomy, moon-clouded nights. Some battle sequences are viewed on the reflection of a shiny sword blade. Nice touch, (director) Gary Shore. The action scenes are otherwise a blur of singing swords and blood spray. Evans, a bit bland, at least wears the cape well. “Untold” might have been better left untold, but all things considered, not a bad genre film. Rating: Two stars. 92 minutes. (PG-13) — Moore

“The Equalizer” — This ridiculous and audacious thriller features some gruesomely creative violence, but it’s equally memorable for the small, gritty moments. And most of all, it’s got Denzel Washington going for it. Rating: Three and a half stars. 128 minutes. (R) — Roeper

“Fury” — We get round after round of horrific battles, interspersed with brief scenes of macho dialogue and no small measure of Scripture-quoting, in this WWII drama starring Brad Pitt as a tank commander. In only one scene does “Fury” rise above its solid but standard war movie status and approach something really special. Rating: Three stars. 133 minutes. (R) — Roeper

“Gone Girl” — Ben Affleck gives one of his best performances as the prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance. It’s a thing of beauty watching the characters from Gillian Flynn’s novel manipulate, stumble, recover and stumble again. This is a nutty film, and for the most part, I mean that in a good way. Rating: Three and a half stars. 149 minutes. (R) — Roeper

“Guardians of the Galaxy” — Chris Pratt plays the leader of a misfit band of anti-heroes, including a cynical raccoon and a walking tree, in this refreshing confection of entertainment, a mostly lighthearted and self-referential comic-book movie with loads of whiz-bang action, some laugh-out-loud moments and a couple of surprisingly beautiful and touching scenes as well. Rating: Three and a half stars. 122 minutes. (PG-13) — Roeper

“John Wick” — A single uniformed cop shows up in the hitman-out-for-revenge thriller “John Wick.” Keanu Reeves is Wick, whom we meet — bloodied — as he crashes an SUV into a loading dock. What ensues is pure, unadulterated slaughter, delivered in a style similar to Luc “The Transporter” Besson’s action films, with a touch of John “The Killer” Woo. Reeves is a bit rough in a few moments where he has to make a speech, but convincingly enraged in others. As fodder for fiction, this is strictly C-movie material. This film is available locally in IMAX. Rating: Two and a half stars. 100 minutes. (R) — Moore

“If I Stay” — Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate. This film screens at 6 p.m. Saturday through Thursday at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for kids (11 and under). (PG-13)

— Synopsis from McMenamins

“The Judge” — Robert Downey Jr. commands the screen as a hotshot lawyer who returns to his small hometown and defends his father (Robert Duvall) against a murder rap. But by the time all the ghosts and feuds have been put to rest, it’s surprising how little we care about these characters. Rating: Two stars. 141 minutes. (R) — Roeper

“Love Is Strange” — After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and — victims of the relentless New York City real estate market — temporarily live apart until they can fin an affordable new home. While George moves in with two cops (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez) who live downstairs, Ben lands in Brooklyn with his nephew (Darren Burrows), his wife (Marisa Tomei), and their temperamental teenage son (Charlie Tahan), with whom Ben shares a bunk bed. While struggling with the pain of separation, Ben and George are further challenged by the intergenerational tensions and capricious family dynamics of their new living arrangements. The film will screen at 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at the Tin Pan Theater in Bend. Admission is $6. (R)

— Synopsis from Sony Pictures Classics

“The Maze Runner” — This month’s “young adults save the future” film franchise is “The Maze Runner,” an indifferent quest tale about boys trapped in a gigantic maze with no idea how they got there. A teen boy (Dylan O’Brien) wakes up, screaming, on a freight elevator soaring up to a field, where it promptly drops its “greenie” or newbie into a clatch of rustic boys his own age. He doesn’t know his name or anything else other than the English language. But the other lads set him straight. This is “Glades,” the glade. Some boys are “Builders,” some are “Runners.” They run through the vast walled maze that surrounds their encampment each day, coming home just before the huge walls creak shut on gigantic gears each night. The actors aren’t bad, with “Nanny McPhee” vet Thomas Brodie-Sangster standing out by being as skinny as a teen stuck in the woods, forced to fend for himself, and O’Brien, Aml Ameen, Will Poulter and Ki Hong Lee having decent screen presence. But all these literary underpinnings do not disguise a blasé, emotion-starved script, dialogue that ineptly repeats what the images have already shown us is happening, stagey scenes where characters poke each other in the chest to keep them from storming out of the camera frame. And the resolution to this puzzle is so botched it’s insulting, as if they’re daring us to laugh at the notion that this is merely “the beginning.” Rating: One and a half stars. 112 minutes. (PG-13) — Moore

“Ouija” — This Halloween, find out what happens when a deadly presence refuses to say “Goodbye” in the classic Ouija board game. Starring Olivia Cooke, the film is a supernatural thriller in which a group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they unwittingly make contact with a dark power from the other side. This film was not reviewed in advance. (PG-13)

— Synopsis from Universal Pictures

“Skeleton Twins” — As children, Maggie and Milo Dean seemed inseparable. But tragedy hit their family as teenagers when their father died, sending them on different paths, and ultimately leading to a decade-long estrangement. Now in their thirties, another set of near-tragedies brings them together. Melancholic Milo (Bill Hader), a frustrated actor with no prospects, decides to accept his sister’s offer to return to their hometown in bucolic upstate New York. However, he’s unaware that Maggie (Kristen Wiig) herself is barely holding it together, secretly unhappy despite her loving husband Lance (Luke Wilson). With painful wounds that only the other can understand, Milo and Maggie grow closer as they try to guide each other through this newest set of secrets. But as the hurt from the past catches up to the confusion in the present, their special bond is put to the test once again. They bring out not only the best in each other, but also the worst, and they are each desperate to avoid owning their own mistakes. Eventually Milo and Maggie grow to understand that living truthfully and sharing their lives with each other, pain and all, is the only way they can move forward and reclaim the happiness they once enjoyed together. This film screens at 3:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Tin Pan Theater in Bend. Admission is $6. (R)

— Synopsis from Roadside Attractions

“St. Vincent” — This story of a chain-smoking gambler baby-sitting the neighbor kid is a prime showcase for Bill Murray and his skill set. Nearly every scene is contrived, but writer-director Ted Melfi has a nice way with dialogue, and the cast — including Melissa McCarthy and young Jaeden Lieberher — is uniformly outstanding. Rating: Three and a half stars. 102 minutes. (PG-13) — Roeper

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” — Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O’Neil and her cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder’s diabolical plan. This film screens at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at McMenamins Old St. Francis School in Bend. Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for kids (11 and under). (PG-13)

— Synopsis from McMenamins