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'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'
Dinosaurs! 3-D! The third installment in the popular animated series pulls out all the stops — and erases major evolutionary gaps — to make sure your little ones will clamor to learn more about the fate of a pair of woolly mammoths, a sloth with maternal instincts, a maudlin saber-toothed tiger and a pratfall-prone squirrel, the latter of whom finds a love interest this time around. Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary are the vocal stars. PG, 93 minutes

'Nothing Like the Holidays'
It's almost Halloween, which means we're about five seconds from Christmas, retail-wise. One of the first holiday movies down the pike is this tale of a Puerto Rican family gathering at their modest Chicago home on Christmas Eve. Alfred Molina and Elizabeth Pena are the parents; John Leguizamo, Freddy Rodgriguez and Vanessa Ferlito are their grown kids. Everyone has an issue and/or secret, and there's lots of loud talking, but the result is warm and well-acted. PG-13, 99 minutes

'Whatever Works'
Woody Allen returns to Manhattan for this dyspeptic romantic comedy, apparently written decades ago as a vehicle for the legendary Zero Mostel. Larry David steps into the central role of Boris Yellnikoff, an angry physicist whose fourth-wall breaking tirades are interrupted by the appearance of a runaway Southern beauty queen (Evan Rachel Wood) who predictably wants nothing more from life than a cynical geezer to share her bed. Her parents (Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr.) require more convincing. PG-13, 92 minutes