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Here are selected capsule reviews of movies in current release.

– = Among the new movies that open this week.

– A Map of the World (star) 1/2 Sigourney Weaver and David Strathairn star in this awkward film about an urban family whose move to rural Wisconsin is marred when the mother, a school nurse, is falsely accused of sexually abusing a student. R. 2:07. — B.S.

– Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (star) (star) (star) “Mr. Death” is a documentary account of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a self-styled expert in “humane executions,” whose career was derailed by his insistence that the Holocaust did not occur. PG-13. 1:34. — M.W.