“Book of Eli” (R): Denzel Washington headlines this post-apocalyptic odyssey about a loner fighting his way across country to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving humanity: the last remaining Bible. Gary Oldman and Mila Kunis co-star for filmmaking twins Albert and Allen Hughes (“From Hell”).
Elsewhere on the recent-release front, “Youth in Revolt” (R) returns Michael Cera to his trademark geek-in-lust role, as a bookish guy who falls for a precocious prep school student (Portia Doubleday) while on vacation — and invents an arrogant “supplementary persona,” a bad-boy Frenchman, to help him win her heart. In “When in Rome” (PG-13), an unlucky-in-love New Yorker (Kristen Bell) steals some coins from a legendary fountain of love — and finds herself pursued by several suitors, including a sausage magnate (Danny DeVito), a street magician (Jon Heder), a painter (Will Arnett), a narcissistic model (Dax Shepard) and a reporter (Josh Duhamel) who might just be Mr. Right. And in “Stark Raving Black” (R), Lewis Black takes the stage at Detroit’s historic Fillmore Theatre for a comedy concert featuring his trademark blistering social and political commentary.
