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★★½ A Cat in Paris Besides the title feline, this 2012 Oscar animation nominee features a cat burglar, a little girl, her police superintendent mother, and the mother’s gangster nemesis. The film has low-key charm and a pleasurably laconic visual style. But who’s the intended audience? A bit opaque for kids, “Cat” is too, well, cartoony for grown-ups. With the voices of Anjelica Huston, Marcia Gay Harden, and Matthew Modine. (68 min., PG) (Mark Feeney)

★★½ Chely Wright: Wish Me Away Two years ago, Chely Wright became the first commercial country artist to openly identify as gay. This documentary makes it clear just how grueling and groundbreaking her decision was. Speaking specifically to Wright’s experience, it’s also a broad examination of why country music is so skittish about homosexuality. You’d think a genre so consumed with matters of the heart would embrace a performer who’s staying true to hers. (96 min., unrated) (James Reed)

★★Madea’s Witness Protection Tyler Perry returns as America’s least unbuttoned elderly black woman. The great Eugene Levy plays the CFO of a company that’s been used in a Ponzi scheme by organized crime. The feds stash Levy and family with Madea. “My cousins,” she explains to a neighbor, “they lost all the pigmentation in their skin overnight.” The way Perry delivers the line, it actually is funny. (114 min., PG-13) (Mark Feeney)

★★★½ Magic Mike Ladies’ night at the multiplex, and a lot better than it needs to be. Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, and a deliriously dissolute Matthew McConaughey play male strippers in Tampa. Director Steven Soderbergh is working at the top of his game; it’s an old, old story — “Flashdance” with himboes — but made with confidence and style. (110 min., R) (Ty Burr)

★★ People Like Us An earnest, polished tearjerker from writer-director Alex Kurtzman and his writing partner Roberto Orci, known for penning the “Transformers” movies. Chris Pine is a troubled young man trying to connect with the half-sister (Elizabeth Banks) he never knew he had; Michelle Pfeiffer plays his mother. Well-acted but neither optimal nor prime. (115 min., PG-13) (Ty Burr)

★★ Portrait of Wally A documentary about the restitution of an Egon Schiele painting that had been stolen by the Nazis and ended up in the possession of a prominent Austrian collector. The film has an interesting story to tell but takes too long to do so. Worse, it’s lacking in nuance and not lacking in self-righteousness. In English and German, with subtitles. (90 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney)

★★★ Ted Writer-director Seth MacFarlane’s debut feature is a crass, foul-mouthed, mostly hilarious, surprisingly sentimental bromance about a grown boy named John (Mark Wahlberg) and his bong-huffing teddy bear (voiced by MacFarlane). It’s really about that screw-up friend you want to outgrow but can’t. With a Boston vibe that feels close to the real thing. (100 min., R) (Ty Burr)

★★★½ The Turin Horse An elderly farmer, his adult daughter, and their bedraggled mare live in a farmhouse in the middle of a windswept nowhere. Hungarian master Bela Tarr’s ninth and final feature (he’s said he’s retiring from filmmaking) is a parable of life, death, and, especially, duration. Shot in a very gray black and white, the film is bleak, pure, forbidding, and often transfixing. In Hungarian, with subtitles. (146 min., unrated) (Mark Feeney)

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