K-19: The Widowmaker
Fact-based, Cold War submarine drama set in 1961 as the captain (a grim Harrison Ford) and executive officer (a convincing Liam Neeson) clash onboard a Russian sub whose malfunctioning core reactor could melt down with catastrophic results. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the tense tale of honor, courage and human drama is ...
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K-19: The Widowmaker (CNS)
Kangaroo Jack
Passable comedy in which two Brooklyn buddies (Jerry O'Connell and Anthony Anderson) end up being pursued in the Australian Outback after a kangaroo hops off with the envelope of mob money they were supposed to deliver. The scenic setting, animal antics and the leads' easygoing rapport make director David McNally's goofy ...
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Kangaroo Jack (CNS)
The Karate Kid
The ambitious desire to modernize a classic has led to many a debacle, as has the aim of cashing in on a past financial success. Fortunately, misgivings about this update of 1984's popular "The Karate Kid" dissipate once it begins to unreel.
No doubt, the producers of 2010's "The Karate ...
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The Karate Kid (CNS)
Keane
A schizophrenic and sometimes violent man (Damian Lewis) wanders a New York bus terminal looking for the daughter he claims was abducted, and later befriends a troubled mother (Amy Ryan) and her 7-year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin) at a transient motel. Writer-director Lodge Kerrigan's grainy, cinema-verite-style film has an ugly milieu, sordid ...
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Keane (CNS)
Keeping the Faith
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Keeping the Faith (SAM)
Keeping Mum
Picturesque, nicely acted, but rather muted English film about a world-weary country vicar (Rowan Atkinson), his boy-crazy daughter (Tamsin Egerton), bullied son (Toby Parkes) and frustrated wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) who's having a dalliance with a sleazy golf instructor (Patrick Swayze), all of whose lives are altered for the better by ...
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Keeping Mum (CNS)
Kick-Ass
The seemingly never-ending search, among some in Hollywood, for those rare screen taboos that have yet to be toppled results in the jaw-dropping spectacle of Mindy Macready, aka Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz).
She's the blithely murderous masked tween with a fondness for spouting such vulgarities as the C-word whose ...
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Kick-Ass (CNS)
Kickin' It Old Skool
During a school dance contest in 1986, a 5-year-old break dancer does a wrong move, ends up in a coma, and 20 years later, he wakes up as a man (Jamie Kennedy) still thinking he is a child. Harv Glazer directs with an inconsistent tone, going from sentimental to silly slapstick ...
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Kickin' It Old Skool (CNS)
Kicking & Screaming
Mostly funny, if formulaic, comedy about a timid suburban soccer dad (Will Ferrell), who seeks to redeem his unathletic childhood by coaching his 10-year-old son's last-place team and finds himself in the championship game going head-to-head with his own supercompetitive father (Robert Duvall), who coaches the league's best squad. Directed by ...
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Kicking & Screaming (CNS)
Kicking and Screaming
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Kicking and Screaming (SAM)
Kid & I, The
Well-intentioned but clumsy buddy comedy about a down-on-his-luck actor (Tom Arnold) who, after a failed suicide attempt, is hired to write and co-star in an action film with a physically challenged teenager (Eric Gores), to be financed by the boy's wealthy father (Joe Mantegna). Despite a heartfelt, life-affirming message and a ...
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Kid & I, The (CNS)
The Kid With a Bike
The Dardenne brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre are from Belgium
and they are wonderful storytellers.
They know how to create a prolonged moment in time, capture a very human
situation of strained or scarred relationships. From this they lead the
characters from alienation to amazing generosity, especially when a young
person is involved.
In “The ...
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The Kid With a Bike (SRR)
Kill Bill - Vol. 2
Violent and vapid continuation of director Quentin Tarantino's sanguinary saga about a former female assassin (Uma Thurman) gunned down at her wedding rehearsal and left for dead by the assassin circle she had once been a member of, led by her former boss-lover, Bill (David Carradine). Having already dispatched of two ...
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Kill Bill - Vol. 2 (CNS)
Kill Bill -- Vol. I
Ultraviolent tale about a female former assassin (Uma Thurman) gunned down and left for dead on her wedding day, who wakes up from a four-year coma revved up to exact revenge on her would-be killers -- the same hit squad which had previously employed her services. Buckets of blood flow in ...
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Kill Bill -- Vol. I (CNS)
Kill to Remember, A
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Kill to Remember, A (SAM)
Killer Elite
NEW YORK (CNS) -- There's no greater disillusionment, according to "Killer Elite" (Open Road), than to think you're on the side of right in this world, only to find out you've been battling over cheap oil.
That clumsy moral alone might be enough to make this a thoughtful film, but instead ...
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Killer Elite (CNS)
Killers
NEW YORK (CNS)—"Killers" (Lionsgate) is very much the definition of mindless fun, if you enjoy virtually any of Ashton Kutcher's antics.
Director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin play explosions, gunfire and car crashes by rote in this lightweight combination of marital comedy and espionage thriller, which ...
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Killers (CNS)
King Arthur
Bold but brooding retelling of the Arthurian legend in which the once and future king (Clive Owen) is a Roman commanding an elite cavalry unit during the closing days of the Empire, who, along with Guinevere (Keira Knightley), reimagined here as a feisty female warrior, must fend off the savage barbarian ...
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King Arthur (CNS)
King Kong
Visually staggering remake of the 1933 classic about a giant ape smitten by a blonde-haired beauty (Naomi Watts), captured from his lost world island home by a maverick filmmaker (Jack Black) and taken in captivity to New York where, breaking free, his rampage climaxes atop the Empire State Building. Though the ...
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King Kong (CNS)
Kingdom of Heaven
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Kingdom of Heaven (SAM)
Kingdom of Heaven
Sweeping, if bloody and somewhat revisionist, historical drama set in the time of the Crusades about a disillusioned blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) elevated to knighthood who journeys to Jerusalem in search of redemption and becomes embroiled in the power struggle between the tolerance-advocating Latin king and a war-mongering would-be usurper, who threatens ...
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Kingdom of Heaven (CNS)
Kingdom, The
Riveting but disturbingly violent drama in which a team of four FBI agents (Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) is dispatched to Saudi Arabia to investigate a major terrorist attack on Americans living there, a hunt they must pursue under the watchful and initially suspicious eye of a ...
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Kingdom, The (CNS)
King's Ransom
Dreadful comedy about a wealthy Chicago marketing mogul (Anthony Anderson) whose plan to fake his own abduction to avoid a costly divorce settlement hits a snag when it turns out that several others -- including his gold-digging soon-to-be ex-wife (Kellita Smith), a disgruntled employee (Nicole Parker) and a sad-sack slacker (Jay ...
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King's Ransom (CNS)
The King's Speech
Did an obscure London speech therapist contribute—indirectly but significantly—to Britain's victory in World War II? The stirring historical drama "The King's Speech" (Weinstein) certainly suggests he did.
With its opening scenes set in the 1920s and '30s, this is the story of the unlikely but fruitful relationship between Albert, Duke of ...
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The King's Speech (CNS)
Kinky Boots
Slickly made, well-acted tale set in central England of a stodgy young man (Joel Edgerton) who, to save his inherited shoe factory from ruin and keep its workers employed, cultivates a more profitable niche market by hiring a transvestite (the versatile Chiwetel Ejiofor) to design boots sturdy enough to be worn ...
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Kinky Boots (CNS)
Kinsey
Sober biopic about controversial sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson), chronicling his life from his strict Methodist upbringing, to an obscure post teaching biology, to the publication of his landmark study on human sexual behavior in 1948 and his subsequent fall from grace during the 1950s. The movie will generate strong ...
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Kinsey (CNS)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Stylish but problematic retro-noir satire set in Los Angeles about a petty thief posing as an actor (Robert Downey Jr.) and the gay gumshoe (Val Kilmer) hired to prepare him for a role as a private eye, who become entangled in a real-life murder mystery, involving two seemingly unrelated cases. Blending ...
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (CNS)
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Charming chronicle of a 10-year-old aspiring reporter's (Abigail Breslin) experiences during the Great Depression, as her father (Chris O'Donnell) leaves home to seek work, her mother (Julia Ormond) takes in a collection of colorful boarders (Joan Cusack, Glenne Headly, Zach Mills and Colin Mochrie, among others) and she endeavors to sell ...
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (CNS)
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
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Kitchen Stories
Wryly poignant tale set in a remote 1950s Norwegian town where a Swedish loner (Tomas Norstrom) is hired to silently observe the movements of a taciturn bachelor (Joachim Calmeyer) in his stark kitchen for a government research study, but gradually the two men enjoy conversing, jeopardizing the project and sparking jealousy ...
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Kitchen Stories (CNS)
Kite Runner, The
Superb adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's bestseller about an Afghan writer (Khalid Abdalla) now living in the U.S. who recalls how as a boy (played by Zekiria Ebrahimi) in his native homeland, he failed to help and subsequently betrayed his best friend (Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada), and now finds he has a chance ...
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Kite Runner, The (CNS)
Kite Runner, The
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Kite Runner, The (SAM)
Knight and Day
Adults in search of escapist summer fare will likely be pleased with the good-natured action-and-romance combo "Knight and Day" (Fox). But intermittent stylized violence and a smattering of crude and profane dialogue preclude endorsement for adolescents or younger viewers.
As the female half of the blockbuster couple at the heart ...
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Knight and Day (CNS)
Knight's Tale, A
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Knight's Tale, A (EDC)
Knight's Tale, A
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Knight's Tale, A (SAM)
Knockaround Guys
Cautionary tale in which four young Brooklyn mob toughs (including Barry Pepper and Vin Diesel) end up in Montana where one has lost a bag of mob money, drawing the greedy, deadly interest of the local sheriff (Tom Noonan) and mob higher-ups (including John Malkovich). Written and directed by Brian Koppelman ...
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Knockaround Guys (CNS)
Knocked Up
Extremely raunchy romantic comedy about a slacker (Seth Rogen) and a fetching blonde (Katherine Heigl) who meet at a Los Angeles nightclub and then try to deal responsibly with the consequences. Director-writer Judd Apatow pushes the envelope on a number of fronts and while his beauty-and-the-geek story contains some genuine wit ...
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Knocked Up (CNS)
Knowing
A Boston astrophysicist (Nicolas Cage) discovers that a time-capsule document buried 50 years ago at his son's (Chandler Canterbury) school accurately predicted all the major disasters of the intervening decades, and sets out to prevent the three calamities, one of them potentially global, it warns will transpire in the near future, ...
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Knowing (CNS)
Koyla
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Koyla (SAM)
K-Pax
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K-Pax (SAM)
Kung Fu Hustle
Stylish but unnecessarily violent martial arts movie set in China in the 1940s about a small-time crook (Stephen Chow) who transforms from street hustler to hero after one of his shakedown schemes inadvertently unleashes the wrath of a ruthless gang on the residents of a shantytown, triggering an all-out war between ...
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Kung Fu Hustle (CNS)
Kung Fu Panda 2
The summer movie season for kids begins with the lackluster animated sequel "Kung Fu Panda 2" (DreamWorks).
Perfunctory if unobjectionable, this follow-up to 2008's hit about a rotund bear with martial-arts prowess moves at a brisk pace. Adults have that to be thankful for, along with the absence of inappropriate material. ...
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Kung Fu Panda 2 (CNS)
Kung Fu Panda
Winning animated fable about an out-of-shape, awkward bear (voice of Jack Black), the son of a humble noodle maker (James Hong) in ancient China, whose martial arts dreams come true when he is identified by the inventor of kung fu (Randall Duk Kim) as the prophesied "Dragon Warrior" but who must ...
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Kung Fu Panda (CNS)
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