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The week’s releases: Denzel, Abba and the Dark Web

Dan Webster

Denzel Washington may have won two Academy Awards for his acting, but in recent years he's been trying to reinvent himself as an action star — one, though, with a brain. Washington's newest film is one of three releases on the week's national schedule, which looks like this:

"The Equalizer 2": Washington returns as Robert McCall, the former CIA special operative who works freelance dispensing his own kind of justice. When a friend is murdered, he goes postal on her killers. Directed again by Antoine Fuqua.

"Mama Mia! Here We Go Again": The music of ABBA accompanies this story, building from the 2008 original, to tell the stories of two pregnancies separated by two-plus decades. Oh, Fernando.

"Unfriended: Dark Web": The week's third sequel, following 2014's "Unfriended," focuses on a teen girl who comes upon a laptop, whose owner will do anything to get it back. Even turn to Facebook.

As always, I'll update when the local theaters finalize their bookings.