“The Da Vinci Code” (PG-13)

Who’s in it: Tom Hanks (left), Audrey Tautou (right), Ian McKellen and Paul Bettany

What it’s about: Professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) and Sophie Neveu (Tautou) race to solve a 2,000-year-old mystery concerning Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings, Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church and a killer albino monk (Bettany).

Worth watching? (star)(star)

“`The Da Vinci Code’ may be controversial and even heretical–but worse still it’s plodding, tedious, deathly dull.

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Opening this week: “The Da Vinci Code,” “Dead Man’s Shoes,” “Down in the Valley,” “Over the Hedge,” “The Proposition,” “See No Evil,” “The Sisters”

Opening next week: “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Lady Vengeance,” “Army of Shadows,” “Wah Wah”