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July 30, 2011

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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (Comcast Movies: All Movies) Matt Damon spends this sci-fi romance with Emily Blunt running from a mysterious agency trying to keep them apart. Whether this movie works for you largely depends on whether you’re willing to work for it. To which I say: Bring your gym clothes. Damon and Blunt are good together but to what end? Taken rather pointlessly by the writer and director George Nolfi from a short story by Philip K. Dick. (PG-13; runs through Nov. 26) WESLEY MORRIS

HALL PASS (Comcast Movies: All Movies) Bobby and Peter Farrelly bring water to the arid desert currently calling itself American film comedy. This movie’s hook makes a gimmicky first impression. The wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) of two suburban salesmen (Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis) give their men a week to cheat. If the Farrellys are chasing social fads, their movie serves as hilarious forensic evidence of the precipitous downside of some would-be trends. (R; runs through Nov. 13) WESLEY MORRIS

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (Comcast Movies: All Movies) The Michael Connelly paperback crime thriller becomes the first entry in a hopeful franchise starring Matthew McConaughey as a charmingly sleazy Los Angeles defense lawyer. A raft of ace character actors - William H. Macy, Marisa Tomei, Shea Whigham - make this more watchable than it has any right to be. With Ryan Phillippe. (R; runs through Nov. 24) TY BURR

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