FILM CLIPS

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21 JUMP STREET R After Jonah Hill agreed to this reboot that satirizes the 1980s TV series, producers tapped hunky Channing Tatum to co-star. Slow-witted Jenko (Tatum) befriends book-smart Schmidt (Hill) during training at the police academy, and the unlikely duo becomes inseparable. After graduating, the rookie cops are pleased to pose as high-school students in order to bust a synthetic drug ring. Both are itching for a high-school do-over, but neither can get a grip on the school’s PC mentality. To jump-start their popularity and throw the ultimate high-school bash, Schmidt and Jenko steal weed from the evidence lockup and purchase keggers. Skewering its dramatic source material with blithe disregard, the film’s comic bits include a Johnny Depp cameo that satirizes the mega-star’s role on the TV series. (Lisa Miller)

RAMPART R Co-written by James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) and directed by Oren Moverman (The Messenger), Rampart is a neo-noir that escapes that genre’s deep rut of clichés through a closely observed study of characters and milieu. Woody Harrelson is marvelous as the psychologically damaged, misanthropic Officer Brown. Whatever measure of sympathy we may have for Brown, who spends his life clamping down on rapists and crank dealers, slowly evaporates into startled fascination as he descends into deepening madness. Rampart’s superb cast also includes Cynthia Nixon, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi. (David Luhrssen)