OPENED YESTERDAY
Gridlock'd 
Tim Roth, the late Tupac Shakur and Thandie Newton star in this clumsy heroin-addiction comedy that just isn't funny. With its nonstop violence and clumsy script it's an overwhelming bummer. And the ghost of Shakur also hangs over and spoils the party. (R) At Enchanted Lake, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row
OPENING TOMORROW
The Funeral This pretentious crime movie is difficult to watch. The uniformly solid performances from Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo, Annabella Sciorra and Isabella Rossellini, the moody lighting and some finely written, impactful scenes are all in the service of tired Mafia themes of loyalty, infidelity and betrayal. (R) At Marina
Meet Wally Sparks
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Rodney Dangerfield portrays a sleazy talk-show host who crashes a society party. Dangerfield co-wrote the raunchy script. Co-stars Burt Reynolds and Cindy Williams. (R) At Aikahi, Enchanted Lake, Kapolei, Mililani, Pearlridge West
Shadow Conspiracy
(Star rating unavailable)
Charlie Sheen plays a presidential aide who ends up running for his life, along with his ex-girlfriend (Linda Hamilton) after he uncovers a deadly plot to overthrow the government. With Donald Sutherland. (R) At Enchanted Lake, Kapolei, Koko Marina, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row
Star Wars: The Special Edition
To mark the 20th anniversary of the movie's release, the rerelease features some new footage, enhanced special effects and a digital THX soundtrack. It's all here as you remember it, but somehow more imposing. (PG) At Kahala, Kapolei, Keolu, Mililani, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 3
CONTINUING
Beverly Hills Ninja 
As the first white man trained in the secret survival arts of the Japanese warriors, Haru (Chris Farley) is more ninny than ninja. Farley is a funny guy, which is more than can be said for the scriptwriters. (PG-13) At Aikahi, Kahala, Kapolei, Keolu, Mililani, Nanakuli, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row
Breaking the Waves
This alternately rapturous and devastating love story from director Lars von Trier is one of the best films of 1996. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival and Emily Watson's portrayal has reaped best actress awards all over the globe. (R) At Marina, and today and tomorrow at Academy of Arts theater, see Film Societies at right.
The English Patient
This adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's romantic novel of wartime passion packs all the adventurous and emotional wallop of "Casablanca" and all the coolheaded intellectualism of some scholarly treatise on the futility of war. Stars Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas and Juliette Binoche. (R) At Varsity
Evita
Madonna plays the title role in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical. The clamorous, overblown style can't disguise the vagueness of the story. A triumph of flash over substance. (PG) At Kapolei, Keolu, Waikiki 1
Fierce Creatures
The ensemble from "A Fish Called Wanda" are back in a nonsequel. The ripping yarn is built around plans to pump up a zoo's profits by stocking it only with fierce creatures. The film and its stars, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin, are hilarious. (PG-13) At Kahala, Kailua, Kapolei, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row
High School High
Though loaded with pratfalls, sight gags and an out-of-it hero (Jon Lovitz), "High School High" fails because it doesn't get its own joke. Instead of parodying earnest-teacher movies, it ultimately becomes one itself. (PG-13) At Kam Drive-In
In Love and War
The World War I romance between 18-year-old Ernest Hemingway, a wounded Red Cross driver, and 26-year-old Red Cross nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky is portrayed with Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock in the leads. Beautifully produced and well-acted, the only disappointment is the true-to-life but sour conclusion to the love affair. (PG-13) At Kapolei, Koko Marina, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row
Jackie Chan's First Strike
The storyline is difficult to follow, but Jackie Chan's stunts are, as usual, extraordinary. Chan is inimitable but makes generally bad movies. He would be something to behold if he ever makes a film with a great filmmaker. (PG-13) At Kapolei, Laie, Mililani, Pearlridge West, Restaurant Row, Waikiki 2
Jerry Maguire
A modern morality play in which Tom Cruise plays a sports agent who dishonors himself by being honest. Nobody does redemption better than Cruise, and he does it again - and better, as a sports agent who dishonors himself by being honest. (R) At Kahala, Kailua, Kapolei, Pearlridge West
Mars Attacks!
Tim Burton's cult sci-fi comedy is miscast as an elaborate, all-star extravaganza. Instead of the uproarious humor that might have ensued from the material, there is only wonderment at the bizarre imaginations and impressive skills of the filmmakers. (PG-13) At Laie
Metro
This is a mediocre urban thriller with Eddie Murphy as a San Francisco hostage negotiator who does most of his reasoning with guns. A dull compendium of action-movie cliches from the past three decades, and Murphy makes an unconvincing action hero. "Metro" is retro. (R) At Kahala, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Nanakuli, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row
Michael
This story about a grungy archangel's visit to Earth owes almost all of its pleasures to the film's star, John Travolta. (PG) At Kahala, Pearlridge West
Mother
Writer-director Albert Brooks' perfectly pitched comic direction and witty, surprising script give Debbie Reynolds an ideal showcase as an eccentric mother who uses a hazy-dazey air of ineptness to keep her grown-up son at a distance. (PG-13) At Varsity
101 Dalmatians
Where the 1961 animated "101 Dalmatians boasts both style and substance, the live-action remake has Glenn Close in an over-the-top impersonation of Disney icon Cruella DeVil and screenwriter/producer John Hughes' harebrained violence. (G) At Pearlridge West
The Relic
This sad rip-off of "Alien" has none of that movie's suspense or technical brilliance. Instead, the story of a biologist (Penelope Ann Miller) and a cop (Tom Sizemore) trying to solve a rash of grisly murders is reminiscent of old hammy disaster films. (R) At Kahala, Kam Drive-In, Kapolei, Pearlridge, Restaurant Row
Scream
Director Wes Craven's new teens-in-peril thriller raises the cheesy formula of the stalk-and-slash movie to an unexpected level of intelligence and valid suspense. (R) At Kahala, Kapolei, Keolu, Mililani, Pearlridge West
Shine
Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks tells the story of a prodigy, pianist David Helfgott, driven to madness by a possessive father, and saved by strangers. It is an unforgettable story of the power of love. (PG-13) At Cinerama
Turbulence
Dramatically flat variation of the killer-is-loose scenario has Ray Liotta as a convicted killer who gets control of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet en route from New York to Los Angeles. (R) At Pearlridge West
Zeus and Roxanne
This tale of friendship between dog and dolphin (and their respective humans) is just too cute and badly overacted. The story's conflict remains on the level of a comic strip and adult stars Steve Guttenberg and Kathleen Quinlan have been seen to far better advantage. (PG) At Kapolei, Keolu, Laie, Marina