“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” Electro (Jamie Foxx), the Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan) and the Rhino (Paul Giamatti) train their sights on the webslinging hero (Andrew Garfield) in the official kickoff to the blockbuster summer movie season. 142 minutes (PG-13)

“Bears” A nature documentary following a year in the life of a bear family in Alaska with two impressionable young cubs. Narrated by John C. Reilly. Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. 77 minutes (G)

“Beneath the Harvest Sky” On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. 115 minutes (NR)

“Brick Mansions” An undercover cop in dystopian Detroit teams with a local hood on a mission to stop a gang with access to a weapon of mass destruction. With Paul Walker, David Belle and Rza. Written by Luc Besson and Bibi Naceri. Directed by Camille Delamarre. 89 minutes (PG-13)

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” The early word on the latest installment in the adventures of the shield-wielding superhero (Chris Evans) is that this may be the best Marvel Studios movie to date. Scarlett Johansson and Anthony Mackie are the Black Widow and the Falcon, respectively. Robert Redford plays some kind of baddie. 136 minutes (PG-13)

“Divergent” “The Descendants'” Shailene Woodley stars in the first adaptation of Veronica Roth’s wildly popular novels about a race of beings who don’t fit in with the rest of the world’s population. 139 minutes (PG-13)

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“Draft Day” Kevin Costner returns to the sports-drama arena as the general manager of a losing professional football squad who trades his No. 1 pick in hopes of getting the team back on track. 109 minutes (PG-13)

“Finding Vivian Maier” A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one the most accomplished street photographers. 83 minutes (NR)

“The Grand Budapest” The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Starring Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric. 100 minutes (R)

“Heaven is for Real” Greg Kinnear stars in this adaptation of Todd Burpo’s book about a father whose young son claims to have visited heaven during a near-death experience. 100 minutes (PG)

“Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return” In this animated fable, Dorothy (voiced by Lea Michele) returns to Oz to help protect her friends from a new menace who calls himself the Jester (Martin Short). 88 minutes (PG)

“Locke” Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his careful cultivated existence. 85 minutes (R)

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“Muppets: Most Wanted” While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick. 107 minutes (PG)

“Neighbors” The buzz is strong on this comedy about a pair of new parents (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne) forced to move next door to a raucous fraternity house led by a party animal (Zac Efron). 96 minutes (R)

“Oculus” A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon. 105 minutes (R)

“The Other Woman” A woman (Cameron Diaz) discovers her lover has a wife (Leslie Mann) and another mistress (Kate Upton) and convinces them to join forces to make the adulterer (“Game of Thrones'” Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) pay for his cheating ways. 109 minutes (PG-13)

“Rio 2” Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and Jemaine Clement provide the voices in this animated sequel to the 2011 hit, playing macaws trying to survive the dangerous jungles of the Amazon. 101 minutes (G)

— Compiled from wire reports

* Ends Thursday according to available listings.


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