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Friday’s openings: Heroes and heaven on Earth

Dan Webster

Note: This post has been updated.

Looks as if it could be a slow week at the movie theaters, what with only two movies scheduled for the mainstream theaters and a single offering at the Magic Lantern. Final listing will come later, but the tentative openings are as follows:

"The Divergent Series: "Allegiant — Part 1": Our good looking young heroes (stepping from the pages of Veronica Roth's YA novels) continue their quest, this time to go beyond the walls of Chicago into what looks like a wasteland. But is really only the Midwest.

"Miracles From Heaven": Based on a true story, a young girl with a protective mother (Jennifer Garner) suffering from a rare disease has an accident … which leads, conveniently, to the film's title.

"The Bronze": "Big Bang Theory" star Melissa Rauch stars as a one-time Olympic bronze medal gymnast who has never adjusted to real life and resents the attention of her town's rising star. Cue the laugh track.

And at the Magic Lantern:

"Colliding Dreams": Documentary filmmakers Joseph Dorman and Owen Rudavsky explore the historical roots of Zionism, revealing the ideology's good and bad points. And there are plenty of both.

I'll have the final lineup when it's made available.