Amanda Seyfried

** IN TIME Written and directed by: Andrew Niccol Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Wilde, and Cillian Murphy At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 109 minutes Rated: PG-13 (some violence, sexuality, partial nudity, and brief strong language) For addicts of forearm close-ups, "In Time" is the most important movie of the year. Here the future is one in which time is the only currency that matters, and whenever people want to see how much they have left, sleeves are pushed back to reveal an electroluminescent digital clock.

MAMMA MIA! ★ ★ ★ ½ (Comcast Movie Collections: New Movies) Unexpected bliss. The movie takes the jukebox musical that ate London and is still eating Broadway (20 ABBA songs whose hooks are the pop equivalent of gum on your shoe) and turns it into an alarmingly sensual experience. A jolly Meryl Streep plays a hotel proprietress on a remote Greek isle who, in time for her daughter's wedding, is reunited with three exes (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgard)

★★ Gone Amanda Seyfried is a former abduction victim who's convinced that her sister has just been snatched by the same predator. Seyfried has a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you. Still, this is a generic thriller with a climactic confrontation that feels like an afterthought. (95 min., PG-13) (Tom Russo) ★★★ Tyrannosaur The gifted actor Peter Mullan ("War Horse") plays a Yorkshire rageaholic whose fires are finally burning down in actor Paddy Considine's feature writing and directing debut.

★★ Gone Amanda Seyfried is a former abduction victim who's convinced that her sister has just been snatched by the same predator. Seyfried has a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you. Still, this is a generic thriller with a climactic confrontation that feels like an afterthought. (95 min., PG-13) (Tom Russo) ★★★ Tyrannosaur The gifted actor Peter Mullan ("War Horse") plays a Yorkshire rageaholic whose fires are finally burning down in actor Paddy Considine's feature writing and directing debut.

Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you. In Atom Egoyan's naughty 2009 thriller, "Chloe," she's a call girl who seems remarkably issue-free - until she starts sleeping with pretty much the whole cast. In her new, more generic thriller, "Gone," she is a former abduction victim who is convinced that her sister (Emily Wickersham) has just been snatched by the same man. She is chronically on edge, but not over-the-top hysterical, given the situation.

MAMMA MIA! ★ ★ ★ ½ (Comcast Movie Collections: New Movies) Unexpected bliss. The movie takes the jukebox musical that ate London and is still eating Broadway (20 ABBA songs whose hooks are the pop equivalent of gum on your shoe) and turns it into an alarmingly sensual experience. A jolly Meryl Streep plays a hotel proprietress on a remote Greek isle who, in time for her daughter's wedding, is reunited with three exes (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgard)

JENNIFER’S BODY (Comcast Movies: All Movies) Not a disaster but a meh: a teen horror comedy that’s neither funny enough nor terribly scary. The script by Diablo Cody (“Juno’’) swaggers but doesn’t bite, and Megan Fox (pictured) is too generic to make her demonically possessed high school queen bee very interesting. Amanda Seyfried is more fun as her nerd-grrl pal. “Heathers’’ it ain’t. (R; runs through June 24) TY BURR THE MIGHTY DUCKS (Encore on Comcast)

** GONE Directed by: Heitor Dhalia Written by: Allison Burnett Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Daniel Sunjata, Wes Bentley, and Jennifer Carpenter At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 95 minutes Rated: PG-13 (violence and terror, some sexual material, brief language, and drug references) Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you. In Atom Egoyan's naughty 2009 thriller, "Chloe," she's a call girl who seems remarkably issue-free - until she starts...

They stagger toward us, arms outstretched, skin ashen, hair immaculately gelled and mussed. They’re desperate to separate teenage girls from their allowances, but their souls are dead and their passion doth make one giggle. The zombie army of “Twilight’’ clones marches on with “Red Riding Hood,’’ a laughably inept series of adolescent poses trying to pass itself off as a movie. Two weeks ago, it was Alex Pettyfer as a hunky, misunderstood alien prince in “I Am Number Four,’’ and last week he returned as a hunky, misunderstood teen ogre in “Beastly.’’ This week...

Filmmaker Rodrigo Garcia has a shtick. He rounds up a bunch of Hollywood actresses of a certain age -- fine performers who no longer get the roles their talents deserve -- then lets them fly in short, incisive tales of ordinary madness. "Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her" from 2000 was a five-tale omnibus, while "Ten Tiny Love Stories," unreleased in this country, delivered what its title promised. Now comes "Nine Lives," featuring many of the same actors, and you have to wonder if Garcia has a peculiarly cinematic form of ADD. Whatever -- it seems to...

** GONE Directed by: Heitor Dhalia Written by: Allison Burnett Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Emily Wickersham, Daniel Sunjata, Wes Bentley, and Jennifer Carpenter At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 95 minutes Rated: PG-13 (violence and terror, some sexual material, brief language, and drug references) Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you. In Atom Egoyan's naughty 2009 thriller, "Chloe," she's a call girl who seems remarkably issue-free - until she starts...

Hand it to Amanda Seyfried - she seems to have a knack for underplaying unstable characters in a way that lets their nuttiness creep right up on you. In Atom Egoyan's naughty 2009 thriller, "Chloe," she's a call girl who seems remarkably issue-free - until she starts sleeping with pretty much the whole cast. In her new, more generic thriller, "Gone," she is a former abduction victim who is convinced that her sister (Emily Wickersham) has just been snatched by the same man. She is chronically on edge, but not over-the-top hysterical, given the situation.

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** IN TIME Written and directed by: Andrew Niccol Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Wilde, and Cillian Murphy At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 109 minutes Rated: PG-13 (some violence, sexuality, partial nudity, and brief strong language) For addicts of forearm close-ups, "In Time" is the most important movie of the year. Here the future is one in which time is the only currency that matters, and whenever people want to see how much they have left, sleeves are pushed back to reveal an electroluminescent digital clock.

With "In Time," writer-director Andrew Niccol takes a clever, compelling idea — that time is currency and you can buy your way to immortality or die broke — and beats it into the ground. For a movie about the importance of maximizing every second, "In Time" ultimately grows repetitive and wears out its welcome. It's fast-paced and hugely stylish, though, with its great-looking cast and a mix of gleaming, futuristic visuals and grimy, industrial chic. And it's a welcome return to the kind of slick sci-fi Niccol made his name on in the mid-‘90s with...