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“Body of Lies” (R, 128 minutes): With its urgent post-9/11 context and often brutal violence, it seems off-key to describe this film as a nifty political thriller, but that’s what it is. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Roger Ferris, a crackerjack CIA operative stationed in the Middle East whose handler, Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), backs him up by way of a secure phone and all-knowing satellite camera. The team is searching for a powerful al-Qaida leader who has been masterminding bombings in Europe; the search will take Ferris from Iraq to Jordan to Dubai and finally to Syria in an escalating cat-and-mouse game of deception and mushy moral middle ground. Contains strong violence, including some torture, and profanity throughout. DVD Extras: Special edition features director’s commentary and featurettes

“Changeling” (R, 140 minutes): It is 1928, and Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a Pacific Telephone & Telegraph employee in Los Angeles, finds that her young son is gone. Months later, the kid is returned to Collins. Case closed — except that the boy isn’t her son. And for insisting that this is so, Collins is committed to an insane asylum. Collins suffering creates a great deal of righteous indignation but far too little intrigue. Contains violence, vulgarity and adult content. DVD Extras: Two featurettes

“Choke” (R, 92 minutes): This adaptation of a book by cult pulp novelist Chuck Palahniuk (“Fight Club”), might appeal to Palahniuk’s niche of fans, but for the most part it’s a grim, joyless turnoff. Sam Rockwell, who’s becoming alarmingly adept at playing weaselly, chinless antiheroes, plays Victor, a compulsive womanizer, con man and Colonial theme park reenactor whose myriad life issues stem from a troubled relationship with Mommy (Anjelica Huston). Contains strong sexual content, nudity and profanity.

“Flash of Genius” (PG-13, 116 minutes): The true story of inventor Robert Kearns’ years-long struggle to force the Detroit auto industry to admit it stole his 1963 design for the intermittent windshield wiper will appeal less to courtroom-drama fans than to stick-it-to-the-Man fans. For one thing, the courtroom drama — a climactic lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. in which Kearns (Greg Kinnear) acts as his own attorney — doesn’t kick in until almost 90 minutes, and much human drama, have elapsed. Contains crude language.

“High School Musical 3: Senior Year” (G, 110 minutes): With exuberant and terrifically danced choreography, catchy soft-rock songs and a likable cast that doesn’t look too impossibly perfect, this first feature film in the series that began on Disney cable TV ought to delight fans — especially those in the 8-to-12, or ’tween, range. Zac Efron will again set hearts aflutter as Troy, a high-school basketball star and ace singer/actor. Senior year, he’s torn between continuing the family tradition of going to a local Albuquerque university to play sports or following his musical gifts to a school farther away. His girlfriend, Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), knows she’s headed to Stanford. So there are the usual senior-year fears about losing touch or making the wrong choices. Contains nothing objectionable. DVD Extras: Extended version; bloopers; deleted scenes; featurettes

“How to Lose Friends & Alienate People” (R, 110 minutes): The film, based on an account by British journalist Toby Young of his stint working for Vanity Fair, reads like “The Devil Wears Prada” for guys. It’s a sharply aimed skewering of New York media circles and their sycophantic orbit around celebrity culture. Standing in for Young, Simon Pegg plays Sidney, a loutish Englishman recruited by Sharps magazine editor Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges) to inject some vinegar into the glossy mag. But Sidney ends up only annoying everyone on the magazine’s staff, most notably his immediate supervisor, Alison (Kirsten Dunst). Contains crude language, nudity, sexual references and drug content. DVD Extras: Commentary with director Robert Weide and Simon Pegg; making-of featurette

“I Served The King of England” (R, 118 minutes): An extravagant, visually stunning feast of sensory delights, Jiri Menzel’s winsome comedy, set in World War II-era Prague, pirouettes along a beguiling but treacherous line between horror and whimsy. Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev) wants only one thing in life: to be a millionaire. The film chronicles with sumptuous detail his picaresque journey from pub to brothel to world-class hotel in Prague. As Jan comes up in the world, he turns a blind eye to the historic changes swirling around him. Contains sexual content and nudity. In Czech with subtitles.

“Quarantine” (R, 89 minutes): Jennifer Carpenter, playing the too-thin, too-young, too-flirty TV reporter whose “ride along” with firefighters turns into a zombie virus nightmare, gives a performance that harks back to the Golden Age of Jamie Lee Curtis. The script isn’t anything special, and the novelty long ago wore off for this style of moviemaking. Contains bloody, violent and disturbing content, terror and strong language.

“Religulous” (R, 101 minutes): Several of Bill Maher’s ideas about religion will make you laugh out loud in the television host’s globe-trotting, full-frontal assault on the three major Western faiths. But one of the rules of satire is that you can’t mock things you don’t understand, and the film starts developing fault lines when it becomes clear that Maher’s view of religious faith is based on a sophomoric reading of the Scriptures. Contains crude language and sexual material. DVD Extras: Commentary with Maher and director Larry Charles; deleted scenes.

Also: “Feast 3: The Happy Finish,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Units: Season 8,” “The Midnight Meat Train,” “Murder She Wrote: Season 9,” “One Long Night,” “Palo Alto, CA” and “Still Waiting...”

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