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In this week’s new movies, a star-studded cast provides canned holiday entertainment in “New Year’s Eve” and Jonah Hill plays a babysitter in “The Sitter.” Here’s what the Post critics had to say: “ Kinyarwanda ” (Unrated) “‘Kinyarwanda’ – whose title refers to the common language spoken by all Rwandans – isn’t hampered by complexity, but enhanced by it.

HBO inadvertently chose a difficult week to release “ 24/7 Penguins/Capitals: Road to the NHL Winter Classic ,” the DVD version ($15.99) of the exquisite, all-access documentary series that followed the local hockey team and rival Pittsburgh leading up to last season’s New Year’s Day outdoor game. The Capitals team captured by HBO’s cameras is suddenly very different from the squad fans watch at …

It’s a slow week for movies. But there were two openings this week: Steve McQueen’s “Shame,” which documents the life of a sex addict in New York; and “The Other F Word,” Andrea Blaugrund Nevins’s documentary on former punk-rockers as dads. Here’s what the Post critics had to say: “ Shame ” (NC-17) “In ‘Shame,’ Steve McQueen’s mournful portrait of an addict hitting rock bottom, Michael …

If you are looking for tips on how best to innovate, don’t look to the movies, says Eric Ries, entrepreneur and author of “The Lean Startup.” “There’s this real myth out there,” Ries said during an interview with the Post’s Michelle Williams, that “it’ll work out just like it did in the movies.” Ries who based his entrepreneurial pursuits, in the beginning, on movies and magazines, said the path …

In this week’s new movies, Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy return to the big screen, and Martin Scorsese directs a family-friendly story of a young orphan in 1930s Paris who lives in a train station. Arthur Christmas (PG) “A worthy addition to the Christmas-movie canon.

T he weeks between Thanksgiving and the new year provide lots of opportunities to go to the movies, and this year is no different. Here’s a look at some films made for kids that might be worth an outing for the entire family. “Happy Feet Two” Rating: PG Opening date: Last Friday

In this week’s new movies, George Clooney gives his best performance since “Michael Clayton” in “The Descendants” and Bella is back with the newest installment of the “Twilight Saga.” “ The Descendants ” (R) “George Clooney doesn’t put a foot wrong except on purpose in ‘The Descendants,’ a pitch-perfect movie that threads a microscopically tiny needle between high comedy and devastating drama …

In this week’s new movies, Kirsten Dunst stars in a stirring sci-fi anti-romance and Leonardo DiCaprio becomes J. Edgar Hoover in the new Clint Eastwood drama