What’s opening in theaters this week

Kellan Lutz is shown in a scene from "Hercules: The Legend Begins." (Photo credit: Millennium Films)

Kellan Lutz is shown in a scene from “Hercules: The Legend Begins.” (Photo credit: Millennium Films)

Opening Friday:
HER (R): Writer-director Spike Jonze’s sci-fi tinged fantasy centers on a man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with a computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). Although it sounds cutesy, the movie is actually a melancholy and observant meditation on loneliness and alienation.

LONE SURVIVOR (R): Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch are among the members of a Navy SEAL team that failed a 2005 mission to hunt down a Taliban leader.

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (R): Tracy Letts adapts his Pulitzer-prize winning play to the screen, with Meryl Streep as a domineering mother and Julia Roberts among her dysfunctional children. There will be shouting

THE LEGEND OF HERCULES (PG-13) Renny Harlin (The Deep Blue Sea, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight) directs this new recounting of the adventures of the musclebound Greek hero (played by Kellan Lutz).

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