New movies: ‘Moneyball,’ ‘Dolphin Tale,’ ‘Abduction,’ ‘Killer Elite’

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[waitingforcorrection: no audio attached, invalid GUID] This weekend, a variety of anticipated movies are hitting theaters. “Moneyball,” starring Brad Pitt, is a dramatic film based on Michael Lewis’s popular 2003 book of the same name. “Dolphin Tale,” which stars Morgan Freeman, is a family film based on a true story about an injured bottlenose dolphin. “Abduction” is a thriller about a teenager who discovers that he was kidnapped as a young child. And “Killer Elite” is an action flick with Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer, hosts of The Takeaway Movie Date Podcast  give their reviews of these films. In addition to reviewing films for The Takeaway, Guzman is a film critic at Newsday.
Here’s the trailer for “Moneyball:”

And for “Dolphin Tale:”

And for “Abduction:”

And “Killer Elite:”

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