The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by Catholic News Service.

Arthur (Warner Bros.)
The utterly frivolous, merrily alcoholic heir (Russell Brand) to a billion-dollar corporate fortune is threatened with disinheritance unless he marries a domineering executive (Jennifer Garner) who plans to curb his wayward lifestyle. Though director Jason Winer's remake of Steve Gordon's popular 1981 comedy intermittently touches on the limits of materialism, it gives a pass to its main character's promiscuity and tends to trivialize his problem drinking. The fitful laughs mostly derive from the tart observations of Helen Mirren as the man-boy's affectionate but not uncritical British nanny --- the distaff counterpart to John Gielgud's butler in the original. A fleeting nongraphic bedroom scene, an obscured nude image, brief irreverent humor, frequent sexual references, a couple of uses of profanity and a few crude terms. (A-III, PG-13)

Hanna (Focus)
Espionage thriller in which Saoirse Ronan plays the titular teen, a child bred to kill. Raised in isolation by her father (Eric Bana), who trains her to use violence as instinctively as a wild animal, she's pursued --- once she starts to put her deadly skills to use --- by the CIA agent (Cate Blanchett), who alone knows her family's dark secrets. Engaging performances overcome plot improbabilities in director Joe Wright's action outing. But the moral murkiness of story lines instrumental to the wrap-up, and references to genetic manipulation and abortion, restrict the film's appropriate audience to religiously and ethically well-grounded adults. Mature themes, extensive but non-gory gun and martial-arts violence, a single profanity and fleeting crude language. (L, PG-13)

Rio (Fox)
Buoyant animated adventure with music about a Brazilian-born macaw raised as a cosseted pet in Minnesota. Informed by an eccentric Rio-based scientist that her feathery friend is the last male of his species, his devoted owner reluctantly brings him back to his native land so that he can mate with his sole remaining female counterpart. But the potential lovebirds get caught up in the illegal avian trade. Lessons about environmental stewardship and love-inspired loyalty are decked out in kaleidoscopic colors and delivered in an overwhelmingly child-friendly tone in director Carlos Saldanha's 3-D flight of fancy. A few nursery-level bathroom references, a fleeting double entendre. (A-I, G)

Source Code (Summit)
Taut direction by Duncan Jones and game performances all around help disguise the logical conundrums underlying this sci-fi thriller. The claustrophobic atmosphere of the sometimes grim proceedings is offset by an emphasis on the central character's humanity, while the script's musings on life, death and parallel existences are too confused either to challenge or reinforce beliefs of any stripe. Recurring action violence, some of it potentially disturbing, brief gory medical images, about a half-dozen uses of profanity, at least one instance of the F-word, some crude language. (A-III, PG-13)

Your Highness (Universal)
This sophomoric send-up of medieval swashbucklers follows the quest of a gallant prince to rescue his bride-to-be from the clutches of the evil wizard who kidnapped her, an adventure which affords his ne'er-do-well younger brother a shot at bettering himself. The humor in director David Gordon Green's smirking spoof --- which also features Natalie Portman as a freebooting warrior with an agenda of her own --- relies heavily on the supposed joke of "olde tyme" characters inhaling pot and exhaling murky clouds of foul language. Strong sexual content, including full nudity and masturbation, drug use, pervasive sexual humor, a couple of uses of profanity, close to 50 instances of rough language, many crude and crass terms. (O, R)