Movies from a family perspective:

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Teens and older.

What you should know: Robert Downey Jr. steps into the title role with Jude Law as his sidekick. Guy Ritchie directs this action picture with bromance undertones.

Language: Tame, maybe one harsher version of darn.

Sexual situations and nudity: Bare-chested brawlers and veiled references to affairs, and a woman changes clothes behind a screen.

Violence/scary situations: This is where the movie earns its rating with deaths or near-deaths, the hanging of a hooded figure, exchange of punches, kicks and gunfire, talk about black magic, and characters who are in danger of falling to their deaths or being sliced by a meat saw.

Drug or alcohol use: Adults with wine or other alcoholic beverages.

-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rated: PG-13

Suitable for: Teens and up.

What you should know: Former Pittsburgher Rob Marshall reinvents the Broadway musical "Nine" and the Fellini movie that inspired it. Daniel Day-Lewis stars with a powerhouse female cast.

Language: A couple of uses of "Christ."

Sexual situations and nudity: In addition to suggestive dancing and costumes, Day-Lewis' married character has a mistress who engages in racy bedroom play. Another woman invites him to her room for a rendezvous, and a character is a prostitute.

Violence/scary situations: A suicide attempt and a boy is punished with a whipping.

Drug or alcohol use: Adults consume champagne and other alcoholic drinks.

-- Post-Gazette

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Children with a fondness for chipmunks who sing, ride toy motorcycles and crack jokes.

What you should know: Alvin and his brothers cope with fame, school and the allure of girl chipmunks. Movie has lessons about keeping your word and sticking up for family.

Language: Chipmunk clean.

Sexual situations and nudity: Chipmunk goo-goo eyes.

Violence/scary situations: Slapstick stuff, one good shot to the crotch.

Drug or alcohol use: None.

-- The Orlando Sentinel

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