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July 21, 2010

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IT’S COMPLICATED
(Comcast Movies: All Movies) Officially, this is a Meryl Streep movie. As a well-to-do baker and businesswoman having an affair with her married ex-husband (Alec Baldwin), Streep deploys all her best moves. But Baldwin’s gusto comes as a shock. He doesn’t steal the movie from her so much as counterpunch with charisma. Written and directed by Nancy Meyers. (R; runs through Oct. 1) WESLEY MORRIS

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
(Comcast Movies: All Movies) The second installment in Hollywood’s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling vampire romance series is an anemic comedown after the full-blooded swoon of last year’s “Twilight.’’ Director Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that’s a morning-after mope-fest, but Taylor Lautner is relaxed and likable as Native American wolfboy Jacob Black. (PG-13; runs through Nov. 30) TY BURR

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
(Encore on Comcast) Steve Martin and Michael Caine as Riviera con men deceiving rich women provide a refreshingly elegant antidote to the crude bloat that so often passes for comedy today. It’s a pleasure to watch them work — Caine a marvel of deadpan economy, Martin bringing spectacular balletic precision and grace to his crass character’s moves. (PG; runs through Sept. 16)

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