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★ ★ The Bay When you’re a veteran director who’s never made a fake documentary or a work of true science fiction or an ecological screed, I imagine, there’s still a way to make a single movie of all three, a movie that scares, informs, and entertains, a movie that makes you bite your knuckles while robo-dialing your senator. This misconceived Barry Levinson thriller, about a flesh-eating virus, isn’t it. (85 min., R) (Wesley Morris)