I Am David
Life-affirming family adventure set in 1952 about a young Bulgarian boy (Ben Tibber) who escapes confinement in a brutal communist labor camp and must make his way across Europe in order to find refuge in Denmark. As directed by Paul Feig, the well-told, visually handsome tale is both engaging and edifying, ...
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I Am David
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I Am Legend
Grim but effective thriller has a brave scientist (Will Smith) as the last surviving person in New York battling ferocious animal and human mutants as he struggles to find a cure for the virus that has eliminated most of the world's population. Director Francis Lawrence's remake of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel ...
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I Am Legend
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I Am Number Four
The occasionally moving teen drama "I Am Number Four" (DreamWorks) can perhaps best be described as the UFO version of the "Twilight" franchise.
And indeed the alien-human romance at the heart of this story is—like the vampire-mortal relationship around which the "Twilight" saga revolves—innocent enough to be acceptable for targeted younger ...
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I Am Sam
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I Capture the Castle
Tender coming-of-age tale set in the 1930s and seen through the eyes of a 17-year-old English girl (Romola Garai), whose simple life, living in a dilapidated castle with her eccentric family, is complicated by the arrival of two dashing Americans, awakening feelings of both love and jealousy. Directed by Tim Fywell, ...
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I Capture the Castle (CNS)
I Don't Know How She Does It
NEW YORK (CNS) -- There's a small pro-life moment of sorts tucked inside "I Don't Know How She Does It" (Weinstein), but it's quickly swallowed up in the sentimental goo of this gentle film about a wife and mother struggling to succeed in high finance.
Momo Hahn (Olivia Munn), the super-efficient ...
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I Don't Know How She Does It (CNS)
I Heart Huckabees
Quirky comedy about an angst-ridden environmental activist (Jason Schwartzman) who hires a married team of existential detectives (Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin) to unravel the mystery behind the meaning of life. As eccentrically directed by David O. Russell, the film is a madcap mix of philosophy and slapstick, resulting in a ...
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I Heart Huckabees (CNS)
I Know Who Killed Me
Perfectly dreadful thriller about a college student (Lindsay Lohan in a big career misstep) abducted and tortured by a serial killer (who amputates several of her body parts), and how, when she finds herself waking up in a hospital, she must convince everyone she is not the young woman everyone thinks ...
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I Know Who Killed Me (CNS)
I Love You, Beth Cooper
A nerdy high school valedictorian (Paul Rust) uses his speech to declare his love for the head cheerleader (Hayden Panettiere) after which the unlikely pair have a series of graduation night adventures in the company of his sexually conflicted best friend (Jack T. Carpenter) and her two closest pompom pals (Lauren ...
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I Love You, Beth Cooper (CNS)
I Love You, Man
A socially awkward Los Angeles realty agent (Paul Rudd) becomes engaged to his live-in girlfriend (Rashida Jones) but lacks a male friend close enough to be his best man until a chance meeting with a crudely uninhibited slacker (Jason Segal) leads to almost obsessive bonding. A morally positive wrap-up and Rudd's ...
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I Love You, Man (CNS)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Brooklyn firefighters Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) and Larry Valentine (Kevin James) pose as a gay couple to qualify for domestic partnership benefits in a crude exercise that makes a mockery of comedy more than matrimony. Homophobic and yet pro-gay marriage, the harsh and raunchy movie is overly long and inadequately funny, ...
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (CNS)
I Spy
Noisy, charmless action-comedy in which a government spy (Owen Wilson) is forced to team with a cocky boxing champ (Eddie Murphy) in Budapest to recover a stolen U.S. superaircraft about to fall into enemy hands. As directed by Betty Thomas, motormouth Murphy and wimpy Wilson exemplify the tired odd-couple buddy formula ...
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I Spy (CNS)
I Think I Love My Wife
Director and co-writer Chris Rock plays a suburban husband tempted to stray in a comedy based on the 1972 French classic "Chloe in the Afternoon." This dubious remake offers little entertainment value, a torrent of four-letter words drowning out a few good jokes, and fails to offer any original insights into ...
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I Think I Love My Wife (CNS)
I, Robot
Science fiction thriller set in 2035 about a technophobic Chicago cop (Will Smith) whose investigation into the apparent suicide of a renowned scientist leads him to suspect that the dead visionary was actually murdered by a member of the swelling robot population he helped create and which is supposed to be ...
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I, Robot (CNS)
I, Robot
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Ice Age
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Ice Age (EDC)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Mostly delightful animated sequel in which a mammoth couple (voices of Ray Romano and Queen Latifah), a tiger (voice of Denis Leary) and two possums (voices of Josh Peck and Seann William Scott) search for the missing sloth (voice of John Leguizamo) who rounds out their improvised herd, and discover the ...
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (CNS)
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Inferior, but still highly entertaining, sequel to the 2002 computer-animated hit which finds the prehistoric trio -- cranky mammoth Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), sarcastic saber-toothed tiger Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) and wise-cracking sloth Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) -- joined by a confused she-mammoth (voiced by Queen Latifah) and ...
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Ice Age: The Meltdown (CNS)
Ice Harvest, The
Rancid black comedy taking place all in one night about a crooked Kansas lawyer (John Cusack) and his sleazy accomplice (Billy Bob Thornton) who embezzle $2 million from a local mob boss (Randy Quaid), but whose plans to skip town are stymied by a Christmas Eve ice storm and a series ...
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Ice Harvest, The (CNS)
Ice Princess
Standard but not uninteresting tale of a high school honor student (Michelle Trachtenberg) whose heart is secretly set on professional skating, and after working on a science project about correlation between skating and physics decides to train for the championships with former champion Tina (Kim Cattrall), over the objections of her ...
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Ice Princess (CNS)
Ice Storm, The
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Identity
Absurd horror flick in which a raging storm traps random individuals (including John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet) in a seedy motel where one by one they are being murdered. Director James Mangold's hoary, derivative tale features assorted gruesome deaths before inventing a pathetically ridiculous solution to the gory whodunit. ...
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Identity (CNS)
Identity Thief
NEW YORK (CNS)—When Denver family man Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) discovers that his identity has been stolen—with huge credit card debts racked up in his name and criminal charges pending against him—it's not surprising that he expects the police to intervene on his behalf.
No such luck, at least in director ...
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Identity Thief (CNS)
The Ides of March
As recounted in the classic Shakespearean play that bears his name, the soon-to-be-assassinated Julius Caesar was warned by a soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March." In the case of director and co-writer George Clooney's savvy yet raw political drama, "The Ides of March" (Columbia), that's good advice for all but ...
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The Ides of March (CNS)
Idlewild
Prohibition-era musical drama set mostly in a Georgia speak-easy about a timid piano player (Andre Benjamin) who falls for the club's glamorous diva (Paula Patton) and his childhood friend (Antwan A. Patton), a brash bootlegger, who, when not cheating with showgirls on his long-suffering wife (Malinda Williams), is dodging the bullets ...
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Idlewild (CNS)
If I Didn't Care
Brisk if shallow neonoir about a Hamptons househusband (Bill Sage) whose adulterous affair with a real-estate agent (Susie Misner) leads to a murder plot against his well-to-do wife (Noelle Beck), and an investigation by the dogged, philosophical local police chief (Roy Scheider). Writer-director brothers Benjamin and Orson Cummings have made an ...
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If I Didn't Care (CNS)
Igor
Slight but entertaining animated horror spoof in which the titular character (voice of John Cusack), a hunchbacked assistant to an evil inventor (voice of John Cleese), aspires to become a mad scientist himself and, with the bungling help of two sidekicks, a brain in a jar (voice of Sean Hayes) and ...
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Igor (CNS)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Atmospheric suspense film set among the seedy London underworld in which a reformed underworld killer (Clive Owen) sets out to uncover the reasons behind his younger brother's (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) unaccountable suicide. Top-flight British cast and skillful direction by Mike Hodges make this an absorbing film, even if the script ultimately ...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (CNS)
Illegal Tender
The sins of a father (Manny Perez), who's been dead for 20 years, are visited on his widow (Wanda De Jesus), his son (Rick Gonzalez) and even his son's young stepbrother (Antonio Ortiz) as the gangster who once employed him (Gary Perez) pursues an apparently endless vendetta. This exhaustingly overacted and ...
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Illegal Tender (CNS)
I'm Not Scared
Enthralling thriller about a 10-year-old boy (Giuseppe Cristiano) living in a remote Sicilian village whose innocence is shattered when he makes a shocking discovery in an abandoned farmhouse and learns that the terrible truth behind it leads him closer to home than he ever would imagine. Masterfully told through the eyes ...
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I'm Not Scared (CNS)
I'm Not There
Artsy, impressionistic portrait of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with several top actors playing different aspects of his multifaceted character over the decades: Woody Guthrie acolyte (Marcus Carl Franklin), folksinger (Christian Bale), Arthur Rimbaud admirer (Ben Whishaw), plugged-in electric singer (Cate Blanchett), actor-husband (Heath Ledger), born-again Christian (Bale), and loner and "outlaw" (Richard ...
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I'm Not There (CNS)
Imaginary Heroes
Earnest, if uneven, domestic dysfunction drama about an upscale suburban couple (Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels) trying to come to terms with the sudden suicide of their eldest child (Kip Pardue), causing marital disintegration and sending them, along with their younger teenage son (Emile Hirsch), down separate but similarly self-destructive paths ...
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Imaginary Heroes (CNS)
Imagine That
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Imagine That
A work-obsessed investment adviser (Eddie Murphy) connects with his young daughter (Yara Shahidi) after accidentally discovering that the inhabitants of an imaginary kingdom she has created give accurate financial predictions, aiding him in his competition with a pretentious but popular rival (Thomas Haden Church). Director Karey Kirkpatrick's timely and charming comic ...
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Imagine That (CNS)
In America
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In America
An impoverished Irish couple and their two little daughters arrive in 1980s New York City in hopes of making a fresh start in this gritty and heartfelt immigrant story. A largely autobiographical labor of love from co-writer/director Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father), the movie is ...
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In America (CNS)
In and Out
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In and Out (SAM)
In the Bedroom
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In the Bedroom (SAM)
In Bruges
Playwright Martin McDonagh is writer and director of this film about a mobster (Ralph Fiennes) who, after a heinous murder, orders his two Irish hit men (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) to go into hiding in the medieval Belgian city -- an experience that proves transformative for both of them. Though ...
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In Bruges (CNS)
In the Company of Men
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In the Cut
Dull erotic thriller about a creative writing teacher (Meg Ryan) who becomes entangled in a sexually charged relationship with a New York City homicide detective (Mark Ruffalo) investigating a string of grisly serial murders. Mistaking sleaze for substance, director Jane Campion tries to justify the film's lewd banality under the false ...
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In the Cut (CNS)
In Good Company
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In Good Company (SAM)
In Her Shoes
Emotionally wounded sisters -- one a dowdy, inhibited lawyer (Toni Collette), the other a flashy, promiscuous alcoholic (Cameron Diaz) -- come to terms with the scars of the past when they reconnect with the grandmother they never knew (Shirley MacLaine) who is now living in a Florida retirement home. If the ...
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In Her Shoes (CNS)
In Her Shoes
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In Her Shoes (SAM)
In the Land of Women
Well-intentioned, sometimes touching, drama about a sensitive screenwriter (Adam Brody) of soft porn, who takes time off to care for his dying grandmother (Olympia Dukakis) and finds himself drawn into the lives of her unhappy neighbor (Meg Ryan) and the latter's daughter (Kristen Stewart). Writer-director Jon Kasdan's directorial debut is a ...
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In the Land of Women (CNS)
In the Mix
Lame romantic comedy about a New York disc jockey (hip-hop artist Usher) who, after taking a bullet for a mobster (Chazz Palminteri), is hired to keep a watchful eye on the Mafioso's grown daughter (Emmanuelle Chriqui), with whom he has an affair against her father's wishes. Director Ron Underwood's interracial romance ...
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In the Mix (CNS)
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Ludicrously overblown fantasy adventure, based on a video game, in which a peaceable farmer (Jason Statham) is victimized by an invading army of mutant dogs who are being controlled by an evil wizard (Ray Liotta) and goes off in pursuit of his kidnapped wife (Claire Forlani), eventually having to choose whether ...
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (CNS)
In Plain Sight
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In Plain Sight (SAM)
In Search of Mozart
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In Search of Mozart (SAM)
In Time
The dystopia sketched out in the sci-fi thriller "In Time" (Fox) is intriguing and, theoretically at least, more than a little chilling. In the near future, each member of society has been genetically engineered to stop aging when they reach 25, after which they'll live for only one more year unless ...
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In Time (CNS)
In the Valley of Elah
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In the Valley of Elah
Inspired by true events, this is a powerfully understated drama about a patriotic ex-military man (Tommy Lee Jones) who, leaving his worried wife (Susan Sarandon) at home, searches for their missing son who's just returned from duty in Iraq, and who joins forces with a police detective (Charlize Theron) to break ...
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In the Valley of Elah (CNS)
Incantato
Handsomely designed and filmed but dramatically inert period piece about a shy, awkward 35-year-old schoolteacher falling in love for the first time with a beautiful young woman -- an incorrigible femme fatale who has recently been blinded. Set in 1920s Italy, Pupi Avati's film has the added interest of the hero's ...
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Incantato (CNS)
Inception
With "Inception" (Warner Bros.)—an action film resting on a science-fiction premise—writer-director Christopher Nolan achieves a tour de force of spectacle and suspense. But, like many a less-sophisticated offering in the action genre, this ingenious brainteaser is rife with explosions and gunplay.
The price of admission to this wild ride includes ...
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Inception (CNS)
Inconvenient Truth, An
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
By turns repellent and charming, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" (Warner Bros.) comically charts the rise and fall of dueling magicians on the famed Las Vegas Strip.
On the surface, the film, directed by television veteran Don Scardino ("30 Rock"), seeks its laughs the conventional Hollywood way, via sexual innuendo or gross-out ...
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Incredible Hulk, The
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Incredible Hulk, The
Intense live-action adventure about a fugitive scientist (Edward Norton) searching for a cure to the gamma poisoning that transforms him, when provoked, into a rampaging behemoth, with the help of his girlfriend and former colleague (Liv Tyler) and despite the efforts of her Army general father (William Hurt) and a British ...
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Incredible Hulk, The (CNS)
Incredibles, The
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Incredibles, The (EDC)
Incredibles, The
Amusing animated adventure about a family of superheroes -- headed by strongman Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) and his stretchable wife (voiced by Holly Hunter) -- living a "normal" suburban life as part of a witness protection program, when they are forced out of early retirement to save the ...
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Incredibles, The (CNS)
Independence Day
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Independence Day (SAM)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Welcome return of the iconic action adventure series -- nearly 20 years after the third installment -- as the intrepid archaeologist (Harrison Ford still in fine physical fettle) sets out to find and restore a mystical head to its rightful place in Peru assisted by an old flame (Karen Allen), her ...
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (CNS)
Infamous
Author Truman Capote (a bravura turn by Toby Jones) travels to Kansas with his friend, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), after the brutal murder of the wealthy Cutter family in 1959, and decides to write the nonfiction novel that became "In Cold Blood" by interviewing the ...
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Infamous (CNS)
Infernal Affairs
Arresting crime thriller set in Hong Kong about two double agents -- one a gangland mole (Andy Lau) embedded in the police force and the other an undercover cop (Tony Leung) who has infiltrated a crime ring, posing as a member of its inner circle -- locked in a game of ...
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Infernal Affairs (CNS)
The Informant!
The late radio broadcaster Paul Harvey might have
particularly appreciated director Steven Soderbergh's diverting comedy
"The Informant!" (Warner Bros.) because—to echo Harvey's famous
tagline—this fact-based tale is all about "the rest of the story."
As adapted from journalist Kurt Eichenwald's 2000 book, "The
Informant (A True Story)," Scott Z. Burns' script recounts the unlikely
adventures ...
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The Informant! (CNS)
Inglourious Basterds
“Inglourious Basterds" is a provocative World War II fantasy requiring careful
moral assessment from viewers well-educated in Catholic teaching and able to
withstand its occasional episodes of graphic bloodletting. In between those
incidents, writer-director Quentin Tarentino weaves a suspenseful, though
somewhat lurid, alternate history of a tragic epoch.
The opening scenes introduce ...
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Inglourious Basterds (CNS)
Inkheart
Lavish, though sometimes awkward, fantasy adventure about a bookbinder (Brendan Fraser) who accidentally brings a fictional juggler (Paul Bettany) and a villain (Andy Serkis) to life by reading aloud to his daughter (Eliza Hope Bennett) the novel in which they are characters and who teams with the author (Jim Broadbent) to ...
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Inkheart (CNS)
In-Laws, The
Leaden comedy about a mild-mannered podiatrist (Albert Brooks) who, while trying to plan his daughter's wedding, is shanghaied into an international arms deal by the groom's father (Michael Douglas), who happens to work for the CIA. Director Andrew Fleming's stale remake of the 1979 laugher is sabotaged by forced humor, a ...
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In-Laws, The (CNS)
Innocence
Strange but intriguing tale set within the curious confines of an all-girls boarding school cut off from the outside world. Students arrive as small children in coffins, are quickly indoctrinated into the school's strict rules -- including those forbidding escape -- instructed in natural science and dance in preparation for bizarre ...
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Innocence (CNS)
Innocent Voices
Gripping true-life story of an 11-year-old boy -- who together with his mother and siblings -- is caught up in the horrors of the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s, including a subplot involving a brave priest who tries to stand up to the brutal government troops. Luis Mandoki's ...
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Innocent Voices
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Inside Darkness
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Inside Darkness (SAM)
Inside Deep Throat
Serious-minded but visually explicit documentary detailing the history and legacy of the notorious 1972 porn film -- and the cultural and legal firestorm it ignited -- via a slickly edited mosaic of archival footage, hard-core clips from the film itself, interviews with its principal players and talking-head comments from cultural pundits ...
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Inside Man
Crime drama about a New York City police detective (Denzel Washington) who matches wits with a cunning armed robber (Clive Owen) holding hostages captive in a Wall Street bank, while a politically connected power broker (Jodie Foster) hired by the bank's owner (Christopher Plummer) muddies negotiations in trying to keep an ...
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Inside Man (CNS)
Insider, The
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Insider, The (SAM)
Insidious
An awful place, The Further is. The farther you go into this hellish territory that provides the setting for much of "Insidious" (FilmDistrict), the more it looks like a reasonably ambitious Halloween house, complete with garish zombies popping out of windows, closets and walls, a fog machine and a cackling old ...
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Insidious (CNS)
Insomnia
Grim tale of a sleep-deprived LA police detective (Al Pacino) on assignment in Alaska who is conflicted by his desire to nail a vicious killer (Robin Williams) while covering up his own shameful secrets. Pacino's performance as the morally flawed lawman carries director Christopher Nolan's atmospheric thriller with a strong assist ...
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Insomnia (CNS)
Insomnia
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Insomnia (SAM)
Inspector Mom
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Inspector Mom (SAM)
The International
Intense thriller in which a dogged Interpol agent (Clive Owen) and a New York assistant district attorney (Naomi Watts) investigate the elusive leaders (Ulrich Thomsen and Armin Mueller-Stahl, among others) of a global bank implicated in arms trading and murder. Director Tom Tykwer's sleek, skillfully crafted conspiracy yarn, which also features ...
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The International
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The International (SAM)
Interpreter
Glossy, reasonably suspenseful tale about a Secret Service agent (Sean Penn) who investigates the claim that an African-born interpreter at the United Nations (Nicole Kidman) has overheard a plot against an African dignitary accused of genocide, and though the agent begins to suspect the interpreter may, in fact, be part of ...
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Interpreter (CNS)
Interpreter, The
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Interpreter, The (SAM)
Intimate Strangers
Talky but compelling film about a woman who enters into a doctor-patient relationship with a tax accountant whom she mistakes for a psychiatrist. An impeccably acted character study of two misfits -- a lonely bureaucrat and an unhappy wife -- reaching out to each becomes a little tedious toward the end. ...
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Intimate Strangers (CNS)
Into the Abyss
On October 24,
2001, Jason Burkett and Michael Perry, both 19, murdered Sandra Stoler, her son
Adam, and his friend Jeremy Richardson in Conroe, TX, so they could steal
Sandra Stoler’s red Camaro.
Both Burkett and
Perry were found guilty; Burkett got life in prison and Perry was sentenced to
death. Perry exhausted all of ...
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Into the Abyss (SRR)
Into the Blue
Good-looking but empty-headed underwater action film set in the Bahamas about a diving instructor (Paul Walker) and his bikini-clad girlfriend (Jessica Alba) who wind up in deep trouble when they discover a downed plane full of cocaine while searching for a storied shipwreck loaded with pirate treasure. Despite an attractive cast, ...
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Into the Blue (CNS)
Into Great Silence
Sleekly shot thriller in which a daytime executive/nighttime serial killer (a subtle Kevin Costner), being blackmailed by a blood-lusting photographer (Dane Cook), suspects his own daughter (Danielle Panabaker) of homicidal tendencies while a gritty police detective (Demi Moore) doggedly seeks to nail the guilty party. Co-writer and director Bruce A. Evans ...
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Into Great Silence (EDC)
Into Great Silence
Poetically filmed documentary about a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, which follows the cloistered monks in their daily -- mostly silent and solitary -- routines. German filmmaker Philip Groning's respectful no-frills approach utilizes no narration or background music, but by combining alternately a painterly formality and a verite intimacy, skillfully ...
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Into Great Silence (CNS)
Into the Wild
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Into the Wild
Episodic but absorbing road movie, based on Jon Krakauer's 1998 biography of idealistic 22-year-old Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) who abandoned his home, troubled parents (Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt) and sister (Jena Malone) after college graduation to avoid the "poison" of civilization and get back to nature, embarking on an ...
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Into the Wild (CNS)
Intolerable Cruelty
Screwball romantic comedy about a gold-digging divorcee (Catherine Zeta-Jones) seeking revenge on the slick Beverly Hills divorce attorney (George Clooney) who got her philandering millionaire husband off the hook scot-free, only to end up falling in love with him. Full of dark humor, whip-smart repartee and eccentric characters, Joel and Ethan ...
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Intolerable Cruelty (CNS)
Invasion, The
Effective, frequently exciting remake of the 1950s science fiction classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," centers on a Washington-based psychiatrist (a tense Nicole Kidman) who, aided by her doctor boyfriend (Daniel Craig), must rescue her young son (Jackson Bond) from her ex-husband (Jeremy Northam), whose body -- like that of much ...
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Invasion, The (CNS)
The Invention of Lying
The fashionable "new atheism"—popularized in book
form by such authors as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens—unexpectedly slithers its way into the neighborhood cineplex with the
arrival of "The Invention of Lying" (Warner Bros.).
Though its trailer gives no clue as to its true agenda, this
venomous supposed comedy is set in a world ...
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The Invention of Lying (CNS)
Invictus
"Forgiveness liberates the soul." So says South African President Nelson Mandela, as adeptly impersonated by Morgan Freeman, in the uplifting sports drama "Invictus" (Warner Bros.).
Director Clint Eastwood's account, based on actual events and adapted from John Carlin's book "Playing the Enemy," effectively chronicles how Mandela transformed the race for a rugby ...
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Invictus (CNS)
Invincible
Inspirational sports drama based on the true-life story of unlikely football star Vince Papale (Mark Wahlberg), a bartender who, falling on hard luck, tries out for his hometown Philadelphia Eagles and makes the team, winning over the coach (Greg Kinnear) and eventually the entire city. Director Ericson Core follows a generic ...
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Invincible (CNS)
Invisible Chapel, The
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Invisible, The
Ghostlike teen (Justin Chatwin) wanders ineffectively through his town after a near-death beating, unable to communicate with anyone and generally moping behind the tough girl (Margarita Levieva) who had jumped him with two henchmen. Director David S. Goyer offers unconvincing plot points, inconsistent internal logic, a somnambulistic leading man and a ...
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Invisible, The (CNS)
Iris
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Iris (SAM)
The Iron Lady
Is there anyone the multi-nominated and Oscar winning
actress Meryl Streep cannot portray? As I was leaving the theater after
watching this most watchable film I asked a woman if she came for a movie about
Margaret Thatcher or to see Meryl Streep perform? She smiled and said, “If I
have to tell the truth ...
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The Iron Lady (SRR)
Iron Man 2
Some viewers will be perfectly happy to accept the stylish sci-fi follow-up "Iron Man 2" (Paramount/Marvel) at face value, looking for nothing more than diversion from this almost entirely gore-free, though steadily clash-laden, action story. Yet below the glossy surface of director Jon Favreau's second adaptation of a popular comic book ...
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Iron Man 2 (CNS)
Iron Man 3
Given that his first appearance in print dates back to 1963, the comics-based superhero of "Iron Man 3" (Disney) may be said to be turning 50 this year. Perhaps a midlife crisis is to blame for the lack of freshness and charm that mark the latest addition to this blockbuster screen ...
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Iron Man 3 (CNS)
Iron Man
Sleekly effective science-fiction tale about a devil-may-care playboy weapons manufacturer (Robert Downey Jr.) who, after being captured by an ambitious Afghanistan-based warlord (Faran Tahir) and ordered to build a replica of his most advanced product, with the help of another captive and scientist (Shaun Toub), instead constructs an impregnable suit of ...
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Iron Man (CNS)
Iron Man
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Iron Man (SAM)
Island, The
Suspenseful, thought-provoking sci-fi thriller about two clones (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) on the run from a private detective (Djimon Hounsou) hired by their ruthless creator (Sean Bean) who manufactures "product" for rich people needing spare body parts. Director Michael Bay's thriller has the usual mind-numbing explosions and car crashes but, ...
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Island, The (CNS)
It Runs in the Family
Pleasantly affecting serio-comedy about three dysfunctional generations of fathers and sons exploring the foibles and follies of life, love and parenting. Directed by Fred Schepisi, the on-screen chemistry of Tinseltown father-son combo Kirk and Michael Douglas facilitates the theme of reconciliation and family unity to emerge with emotional honesty despite the ...
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It Runs in the Family (CNS)
Italian Job, The
High-octane caper flick about a gang of professional thieves (including Mark Wahlberg and Edward Norton) who must track down and outfox one of their own who double-crosses them after they steal millions in Italian gold and makes off to Los Angeles with the loot. A formulaic revamping of the Michael Caine-Noel ...
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Italian Job, The (CNS)
Italian Job, The
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Italian Job, The (SAM)
It's Complicated
The aptly titled "It's Complicated" (Universal/Relativity) features an ethically tangled story demanding careful evaluation by mature viewers. Indeed, to quote the perplexed monarch of Siam in Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical "The King and I," from a Catholic moral perspective, "Is a puzzlement."
That's because writer-director Nancy Meyers' aesthetically smooth-running ...
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It's Complicated (CNS)
It's a Wonderful Life
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It's a Wonderful Life (EDC)
I've Loved You So Long
Moving drama about a broken woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) who has been released from prison after many years for having inexplicably murdered her 6-year-old child. She is taken in by her younger sister (Elsa Zylberstein) and wary brother-in-law (Serge Hazanavicius), where gradually, embraced by the loving atmosphere of the household, including ...
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I've Loved You So Long (CNS)
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