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Twenty years later, and Lloyd and Harry are still dumb.

"Dumb and Dumber To" reunites the Farrelly brothers with stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, for more silliness and stupidity. This time, the guys go cross-country to find Penny (Rachel Melvin), who may be Harry's long-lost daughter, while Penny's stepmom (Laurie Holden) and boyfriend (Rob Riggle) plot to kill them (for reasons that are really not worth getting into). There are some funny jokes, but they're surrounded by lots of dead space — and watching Carrey and Daniels, aged 20 years, is more pathetic than funny.

Also opening wide (but not screened for Utah critics): "Rosewater," the directorial debut of Jon Stewart, about an Iranian journalist (Gael Garcia Bernal) imprisoned by Iranian interrogators; and "Beyond the Lights," a romantic drama about a pop star (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who falls for a policeman (Nate Parker).

The best movie this week is "The Overnighters," Jesse Moss' documentary (a special jury prize-winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival) that follows the plight of unemployed men trying to find work in North Dakota's oil boom — and the conflicted pastor who tries to help them by letting the men sleep in his church. The scenes in the film are uncomfortably raw and honest, and reveal a minister and a town wrestling with upheaval.

"Force Majeure" is a biting comedy-drama in which a Swedish family on a ski trip experiences a crisis that reveals a less-than-noble streak in the patriarch (Johannes Bah Kuhnke). Writer-director Ruben Östlund subtly cuts to the heart of family tensions when the father's manliness is called into question.

And there's "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya," a painterly and gorgeous animated story by director Isao Takahata, who co-founded Japan's Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki. It's a Japanese folk tale, about a bamboo cutter who discovers a tiny princess in a bamboo shoot — who grows into a beautiful girl, whom the cutter decides must be raised as a noblewoman. The pacing is pokey in places, but the images are luminous.