FILM

Adam's Rib and Woman of the Year-Of all the Tracy-Hepburn films, these two are probably the best. What is there to say about the greatest couple ever to hit the silver screen? If you haven't seen it, go, although if you wait long enough you'll see them on the Late Show one night. Hepburn as a career woman and Tracy as her jealous, decidedly unliberated husband are not to be missed.

The End-Is the only good thing about this movie. Ambitions Burt Reynolds takes on writing, directing, and acting chores in this clunker about a man with a terminal disease, and poor Burt fails at two out of three (guess which ones). This is the idea for a comedy? Ha.

Bananas-Early Woody Allen, and while this film surely lacks the polish of his later work, it has more of the wild, reckless humor and endless one-liners that made Woody famous before everyone knew he was neurotic and an intellectual, too. In this one, he plays a nebbish, of course, who by weird circumstance ends up leading a Latin American revolution and reclaiming his lost sweetheart (Louise Lasser). Best moments Howard Cosell covering the assassination of a banana republic dictator and Woody ordering 500 hamburgers to go, 300 with cole slaw....

The Turning Point-Herbert Ross does a great job directing this story of the ballet, faded hopes and lost youth. Shirley Maclaine, as the one-time dancer who gave it up, and Anne Bancroft as her friend who went on to fame, provide the firepower, and Leslie Browne and Mikhail Baryshnikov supply the looks and the dancing talent. A fine film, and Bancroft has never been better since The Graduate.

Dear Inspector-The New England premiere of Phillippe deBroca's latest, a charming combination of love story and mystery. The combination doesn't quite make it, but the combination of Annie Giradot as the harried inspector on a big case and falling in love all at once and Phillipe Noiret as her college professor-lover. Entertaining and very pleasant, but don't go looking for a big mystery....

The Swarm-Bzzzzzzzzzzz. Bees eat New Hampshire, Vermont, your little brother, film critics, movie projectors. You gotta be warped to want to see this. Bring your netting and flamethrower.

LISTINGS

BOSTON

Beacon Hill Theater - 1 Beacon St. - Pretty Baby, 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10.

Charles I - 195 Cambridge St. - The Last Waltz, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. Friday - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - call for times.

Charles II - A Little Night Music, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

Charles III - A Different Story, 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10.

Cheri I - 50 Dalton St. - Heaven Can Wait, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

Cheri II - An Unmarried Woman, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

Cheri III - The Cheap Detective, 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10.

Cinema 57 - 200 Stuart St. - I - The End, 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15. II - Grease, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 8, 10.

Exeter Theater - Exet er St. - Cat and Mouse, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight show - The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The Paris - 841 Boylston St. - Carnal Knowledge, 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10.

Pi Alley - 237 Washington St. - Jaws II, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

Savoy I - 539 Washington St. - The Swarm, 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10.

CAMBRIDGE

Brattle Theater - Brattle St. - Adam's Rib, 5:45, 9:40. Woman of the Year. 7:35.

Central Cinema I - Mass Ave, Central Square - Illustrious Corpses, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35.

Central II - Kurosawa's Dodes' Ka-Den, 5:15, 9. The Most Dangerous Game, 7:45.

Fresh Pond Cinema - Fresh Pond Parkway - The End, 1:30, 3:25, 5:20, 7:30, 9:30. Star Wars, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:35.

Galeria - Boylston St. - An Unmarried Woman- 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:35.

Harvard Square Theater - Friday - Love and Death, 1, 5:25, 9:55, Everything you always wanted to know about sex, 2:30, 6:55; Bananas, 4, 8:30. Saturday - Sunday - The Turning Point, 4:15, 8:10; Lumiere, 2:30, 6:20, 10:10. Midnight shows, Friday and Saturday, Let It Be/Yellow Submarine.

Off the Wall - 861 Main St. - Cartoons of Max Fleischer, 4, 6, 8, 10, also Friday-Saturday at midnight and Saturday-Sunday at 2.

Orson Welles Cinema I - 1101 Mass Ave. Dear Inspector, 4, 5:50, 7:50, 9:45.

Welles II - Madame Rosa, 4, 6, 8, 9:55.

Welles III - Outrageous, 4, 5:55, 8:10, 10:05. Friday and Sturday midnight shows - The Harder They Come, Female Trouble, and Night of the Living Dead.