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A.I.
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A.I. (EDC)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (EDC)
Abandon
Gloomy, plodding, college campus thriller that occasionally strikes an intelligent chord and rivets into real suspense before falling off into a draggy lull. Writer-director Stephen Gaghan, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for "Traffic," mindfully captures the anxious, uncertain tension of a young woman (Katie Holmes). She is days ...
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Abandon (CNS)
Abandoned, The
Routine horror film about a Russian-born woman (Anastasia Hille) who ventures from America to her remote birthplace and finds it haunted and her life in serious jeopardy along with that of the twin brother (Karel Roden) she never knew she had. In his feature-film debut, Spanish writer-director Nacho Cerda delivers sufficient ...
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Abandoned, The (CNS)
About Schmidt
Poignant tale of a newly retired and newly widowed 66-year-old (Jack Nicholson) who tries to reconnect with his daughter (Hope Davis) while hoping to abort her upcoming wedding. Nicholson shines in director Alexander Payne's bittersweet comedy about a man coming to terms with his unexceptional life and finding peace in tolerance, ...
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About Schmidt (CNS)
About Schmidt
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About Schmidt (SAM)
Absolute Power
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Absolute Power (SAM)
Accepted
Comedy about a savvy slacker (Justin Long) who, rejected by every college to which he applied, comes up with a face-saving scheme to create a fake school out of an abandoned hospital, which snowballs out of control when a motley mob of other misfits show up on the school's doorstep with ...
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Accepted (CNS)
Across the Universe
At once spectacular and schizophrenic, this musical tribute to the Beatles chronicles the adventures of a Liverpool dockworker (Jim Sturgess) as he travels to America, befriends a rebellious preppy (Joe Anderson), falls in love with the preppy's sister (Evan Rachel Wood), pals around with his Janis Joplin-like singer-landlady (Dana Fuchs), her ...
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Across the Universe (CNS)
Adam's Apples
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Adam's Apples (SAM)
Adaptation
Oddball tale of a self-loathing screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) whose frustrations adapting a book about an orchid smuggler and a reporter (Chris Cooper and Meryl Streep) increase when his shallow twin brother (also Cage) easily sells his cheesy first screenplay. Written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze, it's a wackily ...
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Adaptation (CNS)
Addicted to Love
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Addicted to Love (SAM)
Adventureland
Sensitive but downbeat coming-of-age tale, set in 1987 Pittsburgh, about an awkward college graduate (Jesse Eisenberg) who takes a summer job at a third-rate amusement park and falls for one of his co-workers (Kristen Stewart), not realizing she is having an adulterous affair with an older employee (Ryan Reynolds). Though generally ...
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Adventureland (CNS)
Adventures of Ociee Nash, The
Family-friendly drama set in 1898 which follows the modest adventures of a tomboyish 9-year-old (Skyler Day), who, leaving behind her widowed father (Keith Carradine), travels from rural Mississippi to North Carolina in order to live with her aunt (Mare Winningham) who is set on teaching her to become a "proper young ...
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Adventures of Ociee Nash, The (CNS)
Adventures of Pluto Nash, The
Lame adventure comedy set on the moon in 2087 in which a nightclub owner (Eddie Murphy) finds himself in trouble when he refuses to sell his establishment to a mysterious gangster who wants to turn the club into a casino. As directed by Ron Underwood, the film is one long, boring ...
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Adventures of Pluto Nash, The (CNS)
Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D, The
Entertaining family fantasy about a picked-on 10-year-old (Cayden Boyd) with a fertile imagination who finds himself recruited by the superheroes he created in his daydreams -- Shark Boy (Taylor Lautner) and Lava Girl (Taylor Dooley) -- and blasts off on a mission to save a distant world from the sinister machinations ...
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Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D, The (CNS)
Aeon Flux
Stylish but nonsensical sci-fi action adventure set in a distant future where the last remnant of a plague-thinned humanity lives in a walled, socially engineered "perfect" society, and centers on a female assassin (a cat-suit-clad Charlize Theron) conflicted about her assigned target: the utopia's totalitarian ruler (Marton Csokas), whom she senses ...
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Aeon Flux (CNS)
After the Sunset
Lackluster caper directed by Brett Ratner about a master thief (Pierce Brosnan) who, after calling it quits and retiring to a tropical island with his sexy accomplice (Salma Hayek), is tempted to steal a priceless gem aboard a cruise ship docked in port, while being watched by an FBI agent (Woody ...
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After the Sunset (CNS)
Against the Ropes
Leaden drama about a brassy female fight fan (Meg Ryan) who tosses her hat and her hopes into the ring when she decides to manage a promising young boxer (Omar Epps). Based loosely on the life of boxing manager Jackie Kallen, the film, directed by Charles S. Dutton, has little chance ...
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Against the Ropes (CNS)
Agent Cody Banks
Juvenile comedy in which a 15-year-old CIA recruit (Frankie Muniz) teams with an older sexpot agent (Angie Harmon) to foil a plot that would allow a megalomaniac (Ian McShane) to control the world using microscopic robots. Director Harald Zwart attempts to fashion a teen-age James Bond franchise around the appealing Muniz ...
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Agent Cody Banks (CNS)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Stale sequel to 2003's "Agent Cody Banks" which, this time around, finds the junior spy (Frankie Muniz) in an English boarding school for musical prodigies in order to thwart the evil designs of his former CIA instructor (Keith Allen), who plans to use stolen top-secret, mind-control technology to take over the ...
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (CNS)
Air Force One
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Air Force One (SAM)
Air I Breath, The
Energetic but seamy study of characters trapped by their own passions through four interconnected stories involving a gangster (Andy Garcia), a reckless gambler (Forest Whitaker) who's in debt to him, his vulgar nephew (Emile Hirsch), one of his enforcers (Brendan Fraser), a popular singer whose career he controls (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ...
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Air I Breath, The (CNS)
Akeelah and the Bee
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Akeelah and the Bee (SAM)
Akeelah and the Bee
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Akeelah and the Bee (EDC)
Akeelah and the Bee
Irresistible story about a South Los Angeles 11-year-old loner (Keke Palmer) who reluctantly agrees to compete in a national spelling bee -- under the tutelage of an emotionally fragile English professor (Laurence Fishburne) against the initial wishes of her hard-working mother (Angela Bassett), who worries the endeavor will interfere with the ...
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Akeelah and the Bee (CNS)
Alex & Emma
Leaden romantic comedy about a writer (Luke Wilson), forced by gambling debts to finish his novel in 30 days or face dire consequences, who falls in love with the opinionated stenographer (Kate Hudson) he hires to help him complete the daunting task. Directed by Rob Reiner, this clunker offers little in ...
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Alex & Emma (CNS)
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
Adequately entertaining action adventure based on the first volume of the popular children's book series by Anthony Horowitz, about a London teen (Alex Pettyfer) who, after learning that his recently deceased uncle (Ewan McGregor) was a secret agent for the British government, is recruited into the spy biz to investigate a ...
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (CNS)
Alexander
Ambitious historical epic which explores the life of Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell), the fabled fourth-century B.C. Macedonian conqueror, chronicling his rise to power, stunning military victories and empire expansion, with breaks in the sword-and-sandal action for some Freudian forays into his bisexuality and estranged relationship with his conniving mother (Angelina ...
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Alexander (CNS)
Alfie
Successfully competing with fond memories of the 1966 Michael Caine English film, this new version, set in Manhattan, features a superb Jude Law as the womanizing cad whose callous ways eventually catch up with him. Charles Shyer's beautifully crafted remake -- an exceedingly moral film even as it features a most ...
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Alfie (CNS)
Alien vs. Predator
Sci-fi actioner about a team of scientists (including Sanaa Lathan) hired by a wealthy industrialist (Lance Henriksen) to explore a mysterious ancient pyramid discovered beneath the Antarctic who become live bait in a battle royal between the two eponymous space species slugging it out for bragging rights in the galaxy. Cross-pollinating ...
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Alien vs. Predator (CNS)
Aliens in the Attic
Fans of the CBS-TV series "Everybody Loves Raymond" may appreciate a scene in the comic adventure "Aliens in the Attic" (Fox/Regency) that features Doris Roberts—who on the sitcom portrayed Ray Romano's pesky mom, Marie—in a slow-motion, high-flying martial arts-style smackdown.
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Roberts' otherwise matronly and nurturing character, Nana Rose, ...
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Aliens in the Attic (CNS)
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
Limp sequel to 2004's "Alien vs. Predator," set in a remote Colorado town having the misfortune to be near where a Predator spacecraft full of the slimy, fast-breeding, insectlike aliens (seen in five previous films) crash-lands. Directing brothers Colin and Greg Strause and screenwriter Shane Salerno opt for stale, predictable chaos ...
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (CNS)
All About Steve
"All
About Steve" (Fox) is really all about Mary (Sandra Bullock), a
motormouthed, trivia-spouting, crossword-puzzle writer for a fictional
Sacramento, Calif., newspaper whose wealth of arcane knowledge is not matched
by her social skills.
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Unfortunately,
Mary's supposed quirkiness is grating rather than endearing, and the
implausible story of how her isolated life is transformed by ...
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All About Steve (CNS)
All the King's Men
Uneven remake of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer-Prize winner set in the 1950s, about a rabble-rousing everyman (Sean Penn) who rises from obscurity, railing against political corruption, and is elected governor of Louisiana, only to be polluted by power once he's in office; and the idealistic journalist (Jude Law) who falls ...
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All the King's Men (CNS)
Almost Famous
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Almost Famous (SAM)
Alone in the Dark
Insufferably inane sci-fi action film directed by Uwe Boll about a paranormal detective (Christian Slater), who in investigating the disappearances of several missing people uncovers a plot by a mad scientist to open a virtual portal to hell which will unleash an evil race of savage creatures on the world. Based ...
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Alone in the Dark (CNS)
Along Came Polly
Stale romantic comedy about a tightly wound New York insurance risk assessor (Ben Stiller) who, after being jilted by his newlywed bride (Debra Messing) on their honeymoon, has his play-it-safe lifestyle turned topsy-turvy when he falls for a bohemian former high school classmate (Jennifer Aniston). In lieu of a smart, witty ...
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Along Came Polly (CNS)
Along Came a Spider
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Along Came a Spider (SAM)
Alpha Dog
Extremely ugly drama, set amid the drug culture of affluent youths in Los Angeles and loosely based on true events, about a teenage dealer (Emile Hirsch) who, together with his clique (including Justin Timberlake), abducts the kid brother (Anton Yelchin) of a rival (Ben Foster) who owes him money, triggering unforeseen ...
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Alpha Dog (CNS)
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Entertaining comedy with music in which the three familiar animated warblers (voiced by Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney) befriend a failing ad man and would-be composer (Jason Lee) and inspire him to write a hit Christmas song which they record, while also trying to reunite him with the ...
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (CNS)
Amélie
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Amélie (EDC)
Amélie
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Amélie (SAM)
Amazing Grace
Compelling historical biography about William Wilberforce (a dynamic Ioan Gruffudd), the great 18th century British abolitionist, who with the help of the young British Prime Minister William Pitt (Benedict Cumberbatch), and other like-minded friends in Parliament and elsewhere (Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Youssou N'Dour), managed -- after tireless and ...
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Amazing Grace (CNS)
Amazing Grace
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Amazing Grace (SAM)
Amelia
One emerges from "Amelia" (Fox Searchlight), a
handsome, overly mellifluous biography of Amelia Earhart, certain of
one thing: The legendary aviatrix, played by Oscar-winner Hilary Swank,
was impossible to pin down.
Those
expecting a stirring portrait of a feminist pioneer—Earhart was born in
1897 and disappeared over the Pacific in 1937—will be disappointed by
the ethereal ...
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Amelia (CNS)
Amen
Flawed historical drama in which a Lutheran Nazi chemist (Ulrich Tukur), horrified after witnessing in Poland the extermination of Jews in death camps, tries to alert Protestant leaders, the Allies, and finally the Vatican. In this he enlists the aid of a Jesuit priest (Mathieu Kassovitz) who is unable to convince ...
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Amen (CNS)
An American Affair
Odd coming-of-age tale, set in 1963 Washington, about a 13-year-old Catholic schoolboy (Cameron Bright) who spies on, and becomes obsessed with, a free-spirited artist (Gretchen Mol) who lives in his neighborhood, despite being warned against her by his otherwise indifferent parents (Perrey Reeves and Noah Wyle). Director William Sten Olsson's cliche-ridden ...
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An American Affair (CNS)
America's Heart and Soul
Captivating documentary in which filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg traverses the country interviewing a colorful assortment of folks who are passionate about what they do, including a blind mountain climber, a musically inclined dairy farmer, an aerobatic pilot and cliff dancers, to name only a few. Combined with breathtaking, panoramic cinematography, the film's ...
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America's Heart and Soul (CNS)
America's Sweethearts
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America's Sweethearts (SAM)
American Beauty
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American Beauty (SAM)
American Carol, An
Heavy-handed conservative satire in which a left-wing, America-hating filmmaker (Kevin Farley), out to abolish the Fourth of July, is visited by the ghosts of some of the nation's past leaders (Chriss Anglin, Kelsey Grammer and Jon Voight) who urge him to repent. Director and co-writer David Zucker's slapdash reworking of Charles ...
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American Carol, An (CNS)
American Dreamz
Fairly amusing satire of fame and politics as a would-be terrorist (Sam Golzari) enamored of American show tunes winds up on an "American Idol"-like talent show, where his Afghan superiors expect him to kill the U.S. president (Dennis Quaid) who is appearing as a celebrity judge to boost his image, while ...
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American Dreamz (CNS)
American Gangster
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American Gangster (SAM)
American Gangster
Gritty, chaotically filmed 1970s New York true life story about a scrupulously honest if womanizing cop (Russell Crowe) investigating a notorious drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who's shipping heroin from Thailand to the States in Vietnam War soldiers' body bags all the while posing as an upstanding family man. Director Ridley Scott, ...
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American Gangster (CNS)
American Gun
Disjointed, intermittently forceful drama that examines America's gun culture through the lens of three unrelated, but thematically linked, stories: an Oregon single mother (Marcia Gay Harden) and her teenage son (Christopher Marquette) struggling to cope with festering emotions three years after her older boy went on a Columbine-style shooting rampage and ...
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American Gun (CNS)
American Haunting, An
Spookily atmospheric, well-acted thriller based on the "true story" of the "Bell Witch" case, the only documented case in the U.S. of a spirit causing the death of a person, as the Bells, an 1818 Tennessee couple (Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek) battle ghostly horrors in their home and the possession ...
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American Haunting, An (CNS)
American Splendor
Quirky biographical comedy about cultural icon and first-class curmudgeon Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti), author of the underground comic-book series "American Splendor." Full of mordant cynicism and acerbic wit, directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini integrate documentary-style interviews with the real Pekar and traditional narrative, in order to explore day-to-day living ...
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American Splendor (CNS)
American Violet
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American Violet (SAM)
American Wedding
Predictable and puerile comedy in which college sweethearts (Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan) decide to tie the knot, while their repugnant friends (Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas) fight over the bride's sister (January Jones). Scraping the bottom of the barrel for laughs, director Jesse Dylan's third installment of the "American ...
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American Wedding (CNS)
Amistad
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Amistad (SAM)
Amityville Horror, The
Schlocky and unnecessarily grisly remake of the 1979 horror movie based on the alleged true experiences of a Long Island couple (Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George) who, along with their three children, move into a spooky new home with a suspiciously low asking price and an evil past involving its former ...
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Amityville Horror, The (CNS)
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Atrocious action thriller about a scientific expedition (including Johnny Messner and Kadee Strickland) sent to Borneo by a pharmaceutical company to search for a rare flower with fountain-of-youth medicinal qualities, but winds up lost deep in a jungle slithering with giant man-eating snakes. Made sillier by the fact that anacondas are ...
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (CNS)
Analyze That
Coarse sequel in which a jailed mobster (Robert De Niro) is released into the custody of his reluctant psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) who soon finds himself in the middle of a mob war. Director Harold Ramis substitutes vulgarity for witty humor in this often flat, always mean-spirited comedy. Comic treatment of crime ...
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Analyze That (CNS)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Lame spoof set in the era of 1970s' male-dominated TV newscasts in which a pompous San Diego anchorman (Will Ferrell) loses his heart and then his job to a more competent blonde newcomer (Christina Applegate) set on becoming a network anchor. Writer-director Adam McKay's underperforming comedy mocks chauvinist behavior but the ...
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (CNS)
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen
Curious story about an English jewel thief (Jeremy Irons) trying to start a new life and a nightclub singer (Patricia Kaas) nursing a broken heart whose paths intersect when they wind up in the same hospital suffering from severe memory lapses and discover that love just may save their lives. Hopping ...
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And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (CNS)
Angels & Demons
Highly improbable but mindlessly entertaining sequel to "The Da Vinci Code"—adapted from Dan Brown's prequel written in 2000—in which religious symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and a scientist (Ayelet Zurer) join forces with a church official (Ewan McGregor) to try to prevent the destruction of the Vatican and the murder of ...
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Angels & Demons (CNS)
Anger Management
Displeasing comedy in which a meek businessman (Adam Sandler) is ordered to take intensive anger management behavior modification from a volatile therapist (Jack Nicholson) who proceeds to steal his girlfriend (Marisa Tomei). As directed by Peter Segal and targeted to teen boys, the emphasis on sex and that size matters is ...
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Anger Management (CNS)
Annapolis
Diverting but derivative drama about a scrappy shipyard worker (an appealing James Franco), who, after being accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy, must prove his mettle while training for the school's boxing tournament against his no-nonsense drill instructor (Tyrese Gibson). Though director Justin Lin's adrenalized climax achieves its desired rousing effect, ...
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Annapolis (CNS)
Anne Frank Remembered
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Anne Frank Remembered (SAM)
Ant Bully, The
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Ant Bully, The (EDC)
Ant Bully, The
Whimsically entertaining computer animated fable about a young boy (voiced by Zack Tyler Eisen) who, in response to havoc wreaked on an anthill in his front yard, is magically shrunk to bug size by an ant wizard (voiced by Nicolas Cage), put on trial and sentenced to remain miniaturized until he ...
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Ant Bully, The (CNS)
Antwone Fisher
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Antwone Fisher (EDC)
Antwone Fisher
Inspirational true-life story of a troubled naval recruit (Derek Luke) who with the help of a Navy psychiatrist (Denzel Washington) learns to cope with the emotional devastation wreaked by childhood rejection and physical abuse. Despite a sometimes predictable narrative, Washington's directorial debut is a moving account of strength and survival, as ...
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Antwone Fisher (CNS)
Anything But Love
Modestly charming tale of a struggling cabaret singer (co-writer Isabel Rose) torn between her corporate lawyer fiance (Cameron Bancroft) and a destitute musician (Andrew McCarthy) who shares her love of a bygone musical era. Co-written and directed by Robert Cary, the film's romantic predictability is balanced by its low-budget plucky spirit, ...
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Anything But Love (CNS)
Anything Else
Romantic comedy about an aspiring New York writer's (Jason Biggs) rocky love affair with a sexually free-spirited ingenue (Christina Ricci). Though frequently funny, the film, written and directed by Woody Allen (who also appears in a supporting role), retreads material from many of Allen's earlier movies, and its observations about interpersonal ...
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Anything Else (CNS)
Apocalypse Now Redux
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Apocalypse Now Redux (EDC)
Apocalypto
Visually bold but extremely bloody action-adventure set in 15th-century Central America about the desperate odyssey of a jungle tribesman (Rudy Youngblood) to get back to his pregnant wife (Dalia Hernandez) and child after he and other members of his tribe are taken captive by the ruling Mayans following the massacre of ...
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Apocalypto (CNS)
Apostle, The
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Apostle, The (SAM)
Appaloosa
Well-acted throwback to the westerns of yore as a city marshal (Ed Harris) and his deputy (versatile Viggo Mortensen) try to bring order to the titular fictional New Mexico town by daring to take a powerful rancher and gang leader (Jeremy Irons) into custody, while the sheriff's fickle fiancee (Renee Zellweger) ...
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Appaloosa (CNS)
Apres Vous
Affecting and funny French comedy about a do-gooder (Daniel Auteuil) who rescues a suicidal sad sack (Jose Garcia) who's been dumped by his girlfriend (Sandrine Kiberlain), and attempts to secretly bring the couple back together, but finds himself falling in love with her instead. Director Pierre Salvadori's film, with perfectly judged ...
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Apres Vous (CNS)
Aquamarine
Sweetly told modern-day fairy tale about two 13-year-old best friends -- Claire (Emma Roberts) and Hailey (Joanna "JoJo" Levesque) -- who help a mermaid (Sara Paxton), washed ashore during a storm, experience true love in the hopes that the magic wish rewarded them will undo Hailey's impending move to Australia. With ...
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Aquamarine (CNS)
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
The cult TV cartoon about pointlessness becomes a highly uneven 86-minute feature film with series regulars Frylock, Master Shake and Meatwad involved in a surreal plot about an exercise machine that threatens civilization. Some of the gags are funny, but writer-directors Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis repeat them to death, and ...
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (CNS)
Ararat
Powerful tale of a contemporary Armenian family's journey from dysfunction to healing by facing the ghosts of their collective cultural past -- the genocidal extermination of Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces in 1915. Acclaimed Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan masterfully weaves past and present in this provocative exploration of the nature of ...
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Ararat (CNS)
Arctic Tale
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Arctic Tale (EDC)
Arctic Tale
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Arctic Tale (SAM)
Arctic Tale
Queen Latifah delightfully narrates an absorbing story charting the parallel journeys of a polar bear cub and a walrus pup in the Arctic Circle from birth to maturity, and showing how they manage to survive a changing environment with ever-decreasing ice seriously impeding both their natural habitat and their ability to ...
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Arctic Tale (CNS)
Are We Done Yet?
Only fairly amusing sequel to 2005's "Are We There Yet?" as a couple (Ice Cube and Nia Long), along with her two kids, relocate to the great outdoors and a huge house desperately in need of refurbishing. Director Steve Carr trots out every cliche imaginable and relies too heavily on slapstick ...
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Are We Done Yet? (CNS)
Are We There Yet?
Leaden road comedy about a smooth-talking skirt-chaser (Ice Cube) with no patience for kids who gets more than he bargained for when he falls for a pretty divorcee (Nia Long) and volunteers to taxi her two mischievous children (Philip Daniel Bolden and Aleisha Allen) from Portland, Ore., to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
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Are We There Yet? (CNS)
Arlington Road
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Arlington Road (SAM)
Armageddon
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Armageddon (SAM)
Around the Bend
Offbeat but appealing story of intergenerational bonding as ex-con grandfather (Christopher Walken), single dad (Josh Lucas), and young son (Jonah Bobo) travel to Albuquerque spreading the ashes of great-grandfather Henry (Michael Caine). Though writer-director Jordan Roberts's film -- which, at its core, is all about reconciliation and forgiveness -- is not ...
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Around the Bend (CNS)
Around the World in 80 Days
Entertaining extravaganza set in Victorian times about an eccentric English inventor (Steve Coogan) who, along with his trusty, chop-socky valet (Jackie Chan), embarks on a globetrotting steam-age adventure in order to win an outrageous wager that they can do what the title says. Based on the classic yarn by Jules Verne, ...
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Around the World in 80 Days (CNS)
As Good As It Gets
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As Good As It Gets (SAM)
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Unusual and compelling Western dramatizing the circumstances that lead up to the shooting of notorious outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt) by Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a member of his own gang, and the publicity generated afterward. Writer-director Andrew Dominik tells the story intelligently at a leisurely but controlled pace with penetrating ...
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Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (CNS)
Assassination of Richard Nixon, The
Fictionalized fact-based drama set in 1974 about a sad-sack salesman (Sean Penn), pushed over the edge by personal and professional failure, who decides to make his presence felt by attempting to do what the title says by hijacking an airplane and crashing it into the White House. Though many viewers may ...
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Assassination of Richard Nixon, The (CNS)
Assassination Tango
Disappointingly shallow tale of a Brooklyn hit man (Robert Duvall) on assignment in Buenos Aires where he becomes involved with an expert tango dancer (Luciana Pedraza). Also written and directed by Duvall, the tango dancing is entrancing in an otherwise bland and morally bankrupt exercise in which cold-blooded murders are treated ...
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Assassination Tango (CNS)
Assault on Precinct 13
Brutal and violent -- though reasonably gripping -- story of a desolate Detroit police precinct under siege by crooked police who are out to silence a criminal (Laurence Fishburne) incarcerated there, to cover up what he knows about corruption within their ranks, effecting an unusual alliance between the police and criminals ...
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Assault on Precinct 13 (CNS)
Assisted Living
Poignant docudrama that follows a 27-year-old, pot-smoking slacker (Michael Bonsignore) through his final day as a janitor at a nursing home, during which he gains deeper maturity through an unlikely friendship he develops with an elderly resident (Maggie Riley) suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease who mistakes him for ...
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Assisted Living (CNS)
Astro Boy
Apart from combat sequences and episodes of menace
that might disturb the very youngest viewers, the charming animated
adventure "Astro Boy" (Summit) makes for virtually unobjectionable
family entertainment.
With its exemplary titular hero (voice of Freddie Highmore)
embodying both innocence and altruism, as he struggles to discover his
place in the world, director and co-writer ...
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Astro Boy (CNS)
Astronaut Farmer, The
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Astronaut Farmer, The (SAM)
Astronaut Farmer, The
Sweet if improbable film about a Texas rancher (Billy Bob Thornton) with dreams of blasting off into space in a homemade rocket ship, while contending with the admiration and derision of the townsfolk, and his generally supportive but sometimes exasperated family (including Virginia Madsen as his wife) on the verge of ...
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Astronaut Farmer, The (CNS)
Asylum
Lurid and somber tale of mental hospital doctor's wife (Natasha Richardson) having heavy-breathing affair with one of the patients (Marton Csokas) who works as a handyman, eventually leaving her priggish husband (Hugh Bonneville) and child for a bohemian life in a London tenement circa 1960. Director David MacKenzie's film has tedious ...
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Asylum (CNS)
ATL
Familiar but satisfying coming-of-age-in-the-'hood drama set in Atlanta about a 17-year-old aspiring graphic artist (Tip Harris) forced to shoulder the load of raising himself and his wayward kid brother (Evan Ross) after their parents' death, a burden complicated by the younger boy's involvement with a local drug dealer and his own ...
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ATL (CNS)
Atonement
Moving World War II romance of a well-to-do young Englishwoman (Keira Knightley) serving as a nurse and the working-class soldier (James McAvoy) she has loved for years, but from whom she had been separated years before when her kid sister (Saoirse Ronan) wrongly accused him of a crime, an injustice that ...
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Atonement (CNS)
August Rush
Unabashedly romantic fable in which an 11-year-old musical prodigy (Freddie Highmore) embarks on a search for the cellist mother (Keri Russell) and rock-singer father (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) from whom he was separated at birth through the machinations of his grandfather (William Sadler), encountering along the way a Fagin-like ex-musician (Robin Williams) ...
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August Rush (CNS)
Aurora Borealis
Overly long tale of unmotivated Minnesota man (an appealing Joshua Jackson) who takes on a maintenance job at an assisted living facility to be near his ailing grandfather (Donald Sutherland) and falls in love with his granddad's home health aide (Juliette Lewis), while allowing his philandering brother (Steven Pasquale) to use ...
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Aurora Borealis (CNS)
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Daft spy spoof in which a British secret agent (Mike Myers) tries to rescue his father (Michael Caine) from the clutches of an evil madman who has teamed up with a new villain (both played by Myers as well) with plans for world domination. The third installment of the series, which ...
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Austin Powers in Goldmember (CNS)
Australia
Sprawling, generally entertaining three-hour epic set just before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor as a starchy English widow (Nicole Kidman) takes over her late husband's cattle station down under, and falls in love with a rough-hewn drover (Hugh Jackman) whom she hires to help drive cattle to sale ahead ...
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Australia (CNS)
Auto Focus
Shallow drama chronicles how "Hogan's Heroes" TV sitcom star Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) documented his rampant sexual promiscuities on camera and videotape alongside a sinister and equally promiscuous friend (Willem Dafoe) until Crane's still-unsolved murder in 1978. Director Paul Schrader conveys how Crane's sexual compulsions gradually ruined his career and marriages ...
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Auto Focus (CNS)
Autumn Spring
Tender, bittersweet comedy about an old man (famed Czech actor Vlastimil Brodsky) who invents various colorful personalities in order to come to terms with his own mortality. Despite its at times heavy-handed fatalism, director Vladimir Michalek elicits virtuoso performances from his cast in this minor gem, resulting in a poignant meditation ...
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Autumn Spring (CNS)
Autumn Tale
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Autumn Tale (SAM)
Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils D'Orchestre)
Bittersweet, colorful French comedy-drama about a waitress (Cecile de France) in a popular theater bistro in Paris who proves a catalyst for several of the regular customers: a classical pianist (Albert Dupontel) facing a midlife crisis in his career and marriage; a young man (Christopher Thompson, the director's son and the ...
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Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils D'Orchestre) (CNS)
Aviator, The
Absorbing and entertaining epic detailing the dramatic glory days of legendary billionaire Howard Hughes, in his myriad roles as aviation innovator and visionary, daredevil pilot, Hollywood producer and airline tycoon, while charting his well-publicized relationships with Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner, and ultimately his appearance before the Senate on charges of ...
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Aviator, The (CNS)
Awake
Softheaded, slightly sordid if effective thriller about a billionaire heart transplant patient (Hayden Christensen) torn between his possessive mother (Lena Olin) and the fiancee (Jessica Alba) he marries on an impulse. Writer-director Joby Harold builds this improbably twisty plot on a rare medical phenomenon in which anesthetized patients are awake during ...
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Awake (CNS)
Away From Her
Poignant story about a husband (Gordon Pinsent) coping with his wife's (Julie Christie) gradual decline from Alzheimer's disease, and his separation from her when she enters an assisted-living facility where she forms an emotional attachment to another patient (Michael Murphy). The luminous Christie in one of her finest performances makes an ...
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Away From Her (CNS)
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U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' ratings
A-I General patronage
A-II Adults and adolescents
A-III Adults
A-IV Adults, with reservations
L Limited adult audience
O Morally offensive
Motion Picture Association of America ratings
G General audiences
PG Parental guidance suggested
PG-13 Parents strongly cautioned
R Restricted
NC-17 No one 17 and under admitted
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