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By Times Staff
Published May 11, 2006

Munich

DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg

CAST: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, Ciaran Hinds, Michael Lonsdale, Lynn Cohen, Hanns Zischler, Mathieu Amalric, Mathieu Kassovitz

SYNOPSIS: A squad of assassins tracks down the Arab terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

WHAT WE SAID: The St. Petersburg Times gave the movie a B.

MPAA RATING: R; strong violence, profanity, mature themes

RUNNING TIME: 164 min.

Grandma's Boy

DIRECTOR: Nicholaus Goossen

CAST: Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Joel David Moore, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider, David Spade

SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged video game tester (Covert) moves in with his grandmother (Roberts) and seduces her friend (Jones).

WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this movie.

MPAA RATING: R; drug use, strong language, strong crude and sexual humor, and nudity

RUNNING TIME: 90 min.

Big Momma's House 2

DIRECTOR: John Whitesell

CAST: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter, Zachary Levi, Mark Moses

SYNOPSIS: Lawrence returns as a cross-dressing FBI undercover agent playing nanny to a murder suspect's unruly children.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this movie.

MPAA RATING: PG-13; some sexual humor and a humorous drug reference

RUNNING TIME: 99 min.

Nanny McPhee

DIRECTOR: Kirk Jones

CAST: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly Macdonald, Thomas Sangster, Sir Derek Jacobi

SYNOPSIS: Thompson does a grotesque take on Mary Poppins, riding herd on the obnoxious children of a widower (Firth).

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the movie a C.

MPAA RATING: PG; mild thematic elements, some rude humor and brief language

RUNNING TIME: 92 min.

The New World

DIRECTOR: Terrence Malick

CAST: Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis

SYNOPSIS: Malick (The Thin Red Line) re-creates the English colonization of Jamestown and romance between Capt. John Smith (Farrell) and Pocahontas (Kilcher).

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the film a C.

MPAA RATING: PG-13; violence, brief sensuality

RUNNING TIME: 135 min.

Rumor Has It

DIRECTOR: Rob Reiner

CAST: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins

SYNOPSIS: A woman (Aniston) believes her family inspired The Graduate.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the movie a C.

MPAA RATING: PG-13; sexual situations, crude humor

RUNNING TIME: 96 min.

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