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Will Ferrell, left, is headed to prison and seeks coping skills from Kevin Hart in "Get Hard."

'Get Hard'

This comedy is hard to sit through and hardly funny. So unless you're really hard up for entertainment, stay away from this tone-deaf raunchfest. Perhaps there's an edgy dark comedy to be made about race, class and prison, but Get Hard is not it. (*½ out of four stars)

'Home'

Home is not exactly where the heart is, though it tries mightily to warm ours with its cutesy look and emphasis on hearth and family. It's an inoffensive, sci-fi comedy hodgepodge that showcases outsiders trying to fit in and a focus on bravery and friendship. (** out of four stars)

'While We're Young'

Who's more pretentious: hipster Millennials or bourgeois Gen Xers? It's a question While We're Young toys with, if only to provide context for a sharply observed and witty dark comedy. Ben Stiller stars as a laboring documentary filmmaker, along with Naomi Watts, Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. (*** out of four stars)

Other recent releases:

Will Tris fight the power? Find out in The Divergent Series: Insurgent (*½)

Full of independent vim and vigor, drama Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter doesn't disappoint. (***)

It's a princess takeover: Fairy-tale classicCinderella dazzles, and is preceded by a special short, Frozen Fever. (both ***)

Liam Neeson plays his no-nonsense, action-hero self in Run All Night. (**)

The Hunting Ground documentary shows the harsh realities of sexual assault. (***½)

Al Pacino is an aged rocker in Danny Collins. (**½)

Vampy comedy What We Do in the Shadows is a pitch-perfect genre spoof. (***½)

Vince Vaughn's Unfinished Business should have been left, well, unfinished. (**)

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel brings a few new faces and more of the same plot lines. (** ½)

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