These movies are showing at local theaters this weekend. Check daily listings for show times. Capsule reviews are from wire services and staff reports.
For Love of the Game
Kevin Costner's laconic self-possession works best as a no-longer-young athlete ("Bull Durham," "Field of Dreams," "Tin Cup"). Here he plays a Detroit Tiger who examines his personal life in flashback while pitching one final, perfect game. Kelly Preston co-stars. Advance word is strong.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Blue Streak
Martin Lawrence stars as a fast-talking jewel thief who poses as the baddest cop on the Los Angeles police force. Luke Wilson plays the straight-arrow foil to the Lawrence antics.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Stir of Echoes
Kevin Bacon plays an earnest blue-collar worker who starts having paranormal powers after he's hypnotized by his sister-in-law. Talented Ileana Douglas is the sis-in-law.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Stigmata
Patricia Arquette is a fast-lane party girl whose body starts to display the wounds of Christ on the cross. The Vatican sends Gabriel Byrne to investigate. The usually agreeable Jonathan Pryce fits in somewhere.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Love Stinks
Supermodel Tyra Banks, "3rd Rock From the Sun's" French Stewart and MTV's Bill Bellamy star in this comedy that tackles a problem faced by, well, no one we know: Is there any graceful way to get rid of a woman who keeps hanging on and won't get out of your life?
- Plaza Six, 24th and Iowa.
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde's 1895 play is like a silk-lined box of bon-bons and bons mots. Jeremy Northam stars as the married politico who fears his wife will leave him if she learns about his past, and Rupert Everett his bachelor friend who aids him. With Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver and Julianne Moore.
- Plaza Six, 24th and Iowa.
Outside Providence
Produced by the Farrelly brothers, whose "There's Something About Mary" spawned a host of hormone-driven if sometimes moronic imitations. Another coming-of-age comedy, with Alec Baldwin in a bravura performance as a blue-collar father.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Chill Factor
Action-adventure about the investigation of a military operation that -- oops! -- results in a chemical substance that could kill every living thing within hundreds of miles. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich are among those endangered.
- Plaza Six, 24th and Iowa.
The 13th Warrior
Antonio Banderas battles mysterious creatures that want to eat everyone. Save us, Antonio!
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Bowfinger
Written by Steve Martin, this comedy stars him as a Hollywood producer wannabe determined to make a blockbuster. Eddie Murphy plays both an A-list star and his nerdy look-alike. Intriguing cast includes Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp and Robert Downey Jr.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Run Lola Run
Exhilarating moviemaking, with a flame-haired Berliner charging across the city in a race against time, with 20 minutes to find 100,000 marks -- or her boyfriend will be dead. Cinematic, kinetic, playful and profound, the film literally teems with possibilities.
- Liberty Hall Cinemas, 644 Mass.
Mystery Men
Ever think you'd see Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush in the same flick with Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-Wee Herman)? Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy and Greg Kinnear also star as clumsy superhero wannabes who attempt to save a city when its real protector is kidnapped.
- Plaza Six, 24th and Iowa.
The Thomas Crown Affair
Loosely based on the 1968 Steve McQueen caper, this tells of an unlikely romance between a millionaire art thief (Pierce Brosnan) and an insurance investigator (Rene Russo).
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Sixth Sense
Child psychologist Bruce Willis has his hands full with a boy who channels troubled ghosts.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
Runaway Bride
This reteams the major players of the 9-year-old box-office smash "Pretty Woman": Julia Roberts, Richard Gere and director Garry Marshall. It's not a "Pretty Woman" sequel; in fact, Harrison Ford and Geena Davis once were mentioned for the leads. Instead of playing lonely billionaire and happy hooker, the lushly photographed stars play a cynical newspaper columnist and a down-home young woman who keeps leaving grooms at the altar. When he makes her the subject of a column, she wants revenge.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
The Blair Witch Project
The "disappearance" of three young filmmakers shooting a documentary about the occult is the basis for a fake that's genuinely disturbing. The trick in this brilliantly sustained mockumentary is that rarest of treats -- an original and disturbing horror movie.
- Plaza Six, 24th and Iowa.
The Red Violin
A time-and-space-spanning tale that follows the history of a master-crafted musical instrument from its birth in a 17th-century Italian workshop through its sale at an auction in modern-day Montreal -- and follows the passions, sorrows and joys of the people who come to own it. A stately, visually-striking omnibus, occasionally hindered by its own conventions, and featuring some embrassingly bad erotic interludes. With Samuel L. Jackson, Greta Scacchi and a large, international cast.
- Liberty Hall Cinemas, 644 Mass.
Mickey Blue Eyes
Bubbly Hugh Grant plays an auctioneer with a seemingly respectable fiancee, Jeanne Tripplehorn. Trouble comes in the form of James Caan, playing Tripplehorn's poppa, an organized-crime boss who wants to mold Grant into one of the family.
- Southwind Twelve, 3433 Iowa.
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