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Friday’s openings: Action, horror and more

Dan Webster

Friday's mainstream movie offerings are out, and it's a mixed bag. For starters, Martin Scorsese's "Silence" isn't among them. As for the others, they are:

"xXx: Return of Xander Cage": Vin Diesel returns as the title character, a long-thought-dead secret agent bent on capturing something called the Pandora's Box. Sequel city. 

"20th Century Women": Annette Bening stars as a woman trying to raise her 14-year-old son as he and the women around him struggle to adjust to life in 1979 California. Not everybody, it appears, went surfing now.

"Split": James McAvoy stars as a mental case with 23-going-on-24 different personalities who kidnaps young women. For what reason, we can only imagine.

"The Founder": Michael Keaton stars as McDonald's franchise founder Ray Kroc. I'll have fries with that.

"The Resurrection of Gavin Stone": A man pretends to be a Christian but then finds that his role in a Passion Play is more profound than he imagined. Talk about method acting.

That's the lot. So go. See a movie. And enjoy.