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More than 40 years after “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones is still raiding lost arks, but his fifth big screen go-round, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” feels more like an homage to Indiana Jones than a proper Indy adventure.

Here are some of the things made fun of in “Asteroid City”: the Actors Studio, the Stage Manager in “Our Town,” ’50s sci-fi films such as “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” science fairs and playwright Clifford Odets. So, yes, it’s a Wes Anderson movie.

Having barely survived the adventures of the first film, soldier for-hire Tyler Rake returns for “Extraction 2.” Played again by Chris Hemsworth, Rake is recovering in a remote cabin in Austria when he is visited by a mysterious handler (Idris Elba) and charged with rescuing the wife and two children of a Georgian gangster held in a ruthless prison.

Directed by Eva Longoria, making her feature film debut after directing television for several years, “Flamin’ Hot” tells the disputed-by-some story of real-life figure Richard Montanez (Jesse Garcia, “Quinceanera”), a doting husband and father and uneducated maintenance worker (i.e., janitor) at Frito-Lay, who has a dream of a creating a spicy line of Latino-aimed products.

Based on the 2009 book by Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Buzz Bissinger (“Friday Night Lights”) and nicely directed by Chris Robinson (“Woke”), “Shooting Stars” is the 1990s-set coming-of-age story of James and his “Fab Four” crew of fellow basketball enthusiasts with whom he played and grew up in Akron.

“Who can turn the world on with her smile?” It’s Mary Tyler Moore, of course, and you should know it.

With a load of family love and cooperation, the documentary “It Ain’t Over” celebrates the accomplishments of St. Louis-born, New York Yankees-bred Lawrence “Yogi” Berra (1925-2015), whose talent for phrasemaking and so-called Yogi-isms had a nagging tendency to outshine his slugging and catching and managing prowess.

After joining forces in 2003’s “Gigli” and 2004’s “Jersey Girl” to, shall we say, diminishing returns, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez might never pair up on screen again.

McFly: The surname of the time-traveler Michael J. Fox played in “Back to the Future” suits that character, by design. It also captures the propulsive stardom and perpetual motion of the actor who became a star, then a superstar, and then a struggling, secretive superstar dealing with a degenerative brain disease.

You could say “Peter Pan & Wendy,” the latest voyage to the Disney+ recycling bin, is an unexpectedly strong movie. But it’s not unexpected, so really, you shouldn’t call it that.