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With 10 new movies opening this weekend, every moviegoer should find something that appeals to them. Or not.

Four of the new movies weren't screened for critics. One of them is opening wide: Kevin James' comedy sequel "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2." Another, the Soviet-set thriller "Child 44," is essentially being dumped by its distributor. The other two are playing only at Brewvies Cinema Pub: The lovers-on-the-run thriller "Cut Bank" (with Liam Hemsworth and Teresa Palmer), and the horror comedy "Zombeavers" (which, as the title suggests, is about zombie beavers).

Another movie opening wide is the low-budget horror movie "Unfriended," in which six high-school friends chat over Skype, only to discover they are being contacted by the spirit of a classmate who killed herself a year earlier after being cyberbullied. The story is pedestrian, but the format — all told on one of the teens' computer screen, with instant-messaging windows next to YouTube links — is fairly clever.

For the family audiences, there's the latest DisneyNature documentary "Monkey Kingdom." The film features fascinating footage of a colony of macaques in the jungles of Sri Lanka, following their day-to-day life and their rigid social order. Tina Fey narrates, with the perfect blend of humor and seriousness.

The psychological drama "True Story" is a riveting true-life tale of a disgraced reporter (Jonah Hill) who learns his identity has been used by a murder suspect (James Franco) before his arrest. The two men meet, and a battle of wits and wills unfolds — with the reporter trying to understand the accused killer, and the suspect evading easy categorization. The performances are quite effective in this low-key thriller. (Read The Cricket's interview with the movie's director, Rupert Goold.)

The Broadway has the week's best movie, the breathtakingly edgy Argentine drama "Wild Tales." This Oscar nominee tells six stories of betrayal and revenge, each more striking and outlandish than the one before. The results are exhilarating and endlessly entertaining.

The other strictly-arthouse entries aren't so good. "Queen & Country," John Boorman's sequel to his semi-autobiographical "Hope and Glory," is a lukewarm drama about a young man (Callum Turner) dealing with life in the British army in 1952. And "Beyond the Reach" is a weak cat-and-mouse thriller, with a scenery-chewing Michael Douglas as a rich hunter making things miserable for a desert guide (Jeremy Irvine).