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This apocalyptic comedy follows two neighbors who set out for one last road trip after learning that a massive asteroid will wipe out all life on Earth in just three weeks. Dodge and Penny are both having a very bad day. Shell-shocked after hearing that the last hope of destroying the massive asteroid on a collision course with Earth has failed, Dodge watches helplessly as his wife bounds out of their car and vanishes into the night. Later, as the now-reluctant loner ponders what to do with his remaining time on the doomed planet, sobbing waif Penny appears at his window lamenting her breakup with self-centered boyfriend Owen. When the sun rises the following morning, the two neighbors who had barely exchanged passing glances in the hallway have forged a tenuous yet very real connection. Tensions rise, however, when Dodge learns that Penny inadvertently received an inviting love letter from the ex he’s always loved, and that she failed to give it to him before all of mankind was doomed to a catastrophic fate. When Dodge announces a plan to reconnect with his ex while he still has the time, guilt-ridden Penny vows to help him accomplish his goal at all costs. But the more time this mismatched pair spend on the road together, the more their journey takes on a new meaning — one that neither could have ever seen coming, but which both sense was the way things were meant to be. Director: Lorene Scafaria. Cast: Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Connie Britton, Adam Brody, Rob Corddry. Rated: R. Time: 1:41.

A president who kicks butt. If only the debates featured this man. Abraham Lincoln is reinvented as a vampire-killing president. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” author Seth Grahame-Smith adapted his own book for 20th Century Fox.

The film follows Lincoln who as a boy lives with his parents on a plantation. His mother Nancy is killed by the plantation overseer, Barts, ­ who, unknown to Lincoln, is a vampire. Lincoln attacks the man nine years later and is almost killed, is rescued by Henry Sturgess, who teaches Lincoln to be a vampire hunter.

Years later, Lincoln marries Mary in Springfield, Illinois and begins his political career, campaigning to abolish slavery. Sturgess warns Lincoln that the slave trade keeps vampires under control, as vampires use slaves for food, and if Lincoln interferes, the vampires will retaliate. Once Lincoln is elected president and the war has begun, Confederate President Jefferson Davis convinces the south’s head vampire to deploy his gouls on the front lines, which is in his interest, as he plans to turn the United States into a nation of the undead.

Lincoln orders the confiscation of all the silverware in the area and has it melted to produce silver weapons, which can kill vampires.Confederate vampires stage a final, massive assault and are met head on by Union forces. Armed with their silver weapons, the Union soldiers destroy the vampires and win the war.

Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Cast:Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell. Rated: R. Time: 1:45.

Inspired by Los Angeles Times writer Leslie Gornstein’s article “A Jinx in a Box,” this film tells the tale of a broken family that comes under attack from a malevolent supernatural entity of Jewish folklore. Director: Ole Bornedal. Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Madison Davenport, Matisyahu. Rated: PG-13. Time: 1:31.

This fact-based docudrama centers on the nightmarish experiences of an Iraqi army lieutenant whose life became a living hell after he was hand-selected to be a “fiday” (body double) for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s ruthless son Uday in Baghdad, 1987. Director: Lee Tamahori. Cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi, Philip Quast, Mimoun Oaissa. Rated R. Time: 1:48.

A famed author and noted skeptic attempts to debunk a haunting at a prestigious London prep school, and encounters a supernatural force that seems beyond human comprehension in this creepy gothic chiller set in England, 1921. Director: Nick Murphy. Cast: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Shaun Dooley, Joseph Mawle. Rated: R. Time: 1:47.

Although Jason Bourne never shows in this fourth installment of the Bourne series, the action of this film runs alongside that of the third, The Bourne Ultimatum, in which agent Bourne goes rogue after a journalist is shot dead while working on a sensational story about sinister CIA operations, including experiments in neuro-pharmacology, creating a team of genetically modified super-agents.

One of Jason’s fellow covert warriors is Aaron Cross, who has to go on the run when intelligence chief Eric Byer, decides that the compromised project has to be shut down and every single agent ruthlessly rubbed out. So Cross takes off, gallantly taking with him the beautiful and bewildered government scientist Dr. Marta Shearing who has also been earmarked for termination with extreme prejudice. A very long chase scene keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Director: Tony Gilroy. Cast: Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz, Joan Allen, Albert Finney. Rated: PG-13. Time: 2:15.