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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Fact-based drama set in 1931 Australia where three aboriginal girls, ages 14, 10 and 8, forcibly taken from their mothers under the law and sent to an institution for "half-castes" 1,200 miles away, escape and begin their long walk home while evading the pursuing authorities. As directed by Philip Noyce and ...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (CNS)
Race to Witch Mountain
Engaging sci-fi adventure about a Las Vegas cab driver (Dwayne Johnson) and a UFO expert (Carla Gugino) who try to help two alien children (AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig) find their spaceship and return home to head off an alien invasion of earth, while relentlessly pursued by a federal UFO investigator ...
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Race to Witch Mountain (CNS)
Rachel Getting Married
Tumultuous drama about a young woman (a fine Anne Hathaway) who is released from a drug rehabilitation center for a weekend to attend her sister's (Rosemarie DeWitt) interracial wedding, resulting in a volatile reunion with friends and relatives, including her divorced parents (Bill Irwin and Debra Winger), and the groom's (Tunde ...
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Rachel Getting Married (CNS)
Rachel Getting Married
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Rachel Getting Married (SAM)
Racing Stripes
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Racing Stripes (SAM)
Racing Stripes
Delightful family comedy about an underdog zebra (voiced by Frankie Muniz) who grows up believing that he is a racehorse and proves he has the heart of a champion by finding his inner thoroughbred and -- with a little help from a former horse trainer (Bruce Greenwood), his young daughter (Hayden ...
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Racing Stripes (CNS)
Radio
Moving portrait of a friendship that develops between a respected high school football coach (Ed Harris) and a mentally challenged young man (Cuba Gooding Jr.) that changes their lives and transforms their small Southern town. Director Mike Tollin's touching film, set in 1976, emphasizes the great impact one person can make ...
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Radio (CNS)
Radio
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Radio (SAM)
Rails & Ties
Intimate, moving drama in which a terminally ill woman (Marcia Gay Harden) and her emotionally repressed railroad engineer-husband (Kevin Bacon) find their failing relationship revived when they surreptitiously shelter a boy (Miles Heizer) whose mentally ill single mother (Bonnie Root) committed suicide by parking in front of the husband's train. Director ...
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Rails & Ties (CNS)
Rainmaker
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Rainmaker (SAM)
Raise Your Voice
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Raise Your Voice (SAM)
Raise Your Voice
Uplifting 'tween drama about a small-town girl (Hilary Duff) who must overcome self-doubts when she is accepted into an ultracompetitive summer music program at a prestigious conservatory in Los Angeles. Directed by Sean McNamara, the film makes up for a lack of originality with its positive, heartfelt message and appealing performance ...
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Raise Your Voice (CNS)
Raising Helen
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Raising Helen (SAM)
Raising Helen
Pleasant enough story about a spirited single gal (Kate Hudson) who is given custody of her nieces and nephew when her sister unexpectedly dies in a car accident, forcing the career-minded young woman to re-evaluate her priorities. Despite some endearing, funny moments and a cast that charms…More
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Raising Helen (CNS)
Rambo
Toxically violent action flick in which the titular character (Sylvester Stallone), now operating a Thai longboat, reluctantly ferries a group of Christian missionaries, led by a married couple (Julie Benz and Paul Schulze), into Burma, then returns with a band of mercenaries under the direction of a foulmouthed Brit (Graham McTavish) ...
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Rambo (CNS)
Ransom
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Ransom (SAM)
Rape of Europa, The
Gripping documentary narrated by actress Joan Allen about Adolf Hitler's plunder and destruction of thousands of Europe's most famous artworks during World War II, and the subsequent efforts to find those which survived and restore them. Based on the book by Lynn H. Nicholas (who also appears), the film, written and ...
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Rape of Europa, The (CNS)
Ratatouille
Delectable animated tale of a cute rat (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who, inspired by the spirit of a famous late chef (Brad Garrett), develops his improbable passion for cooking by becoming the secret adviser to an esteemed Paris restaurant's hapless garbage boy (Lou Romano), turning the latter into a star chef, ...
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Ratatouille (CNS)
Ratatouille
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Ratatouille (EDC)
Ratatouille
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Ratatouille (SAM)
Ray
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Ray (SAM)
Ray
Jamie Foxx gives a bravura performance as Ray Charles, in this superior biographical film which traces the legendary singer's life, from childhood and early blindness in rural Florida to his rise from obscure pianist to chart-topping superstar, as he battles heroin addiction and navigates his solid home life with romantic liaisons ...
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Ray (CNS)
The Reader
Necessarily bleak but well-played and directed (by Stephen Daldry) adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's controversial best-seller set in postwar Germany about the morally complex relationship between a lawyer (Ralph Fiennes) and the older woman (superb Kate Winslet) with whom he had an affair when he was a teenager (18-year-old David Kross), and ...
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The Reader (CNS)
Real Cancun, The
Sixteen uninhibited college-aged students are given free rein of a beachfront resort in Cancun during spring break. Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray take the reality TV craze to the next level, resulting in a repellent orgy of drunken frat-house debauchery and hedonistic promiscuity. Glamorizing attitude toward casual sex, recurring raunchy sexual ...
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Real Cancun, The (CNS)
Real Women Have Curves
Credible coming-of-age story set in East Los Angeles where a heavyset 18-year-old Latina (America Ferrera) who is constantly criticized by her mother (Lupe Ontiveros) is torn between accepting a distant university scholarship or helping her older sister (Ingrid Oliu) keep her struggling sewing factory afloat. Director Patricia Cardoso captures the hardscrabble ...
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Real Women Have Curves (CNS)
Reaping, The
Former minister (Hilary Swank) whose family was killed several years before while doing missionary work in Africa is now a nonbelieving university professor called upon to investigate strange happenings mirroring biblical plagues in the Louisiana swamplands, after a river turns to blood and a strange child (AnnaSophia Robb) is blamed for ...
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Reaping, The (CNS)
Rebound
Diverting, if formulaic, comedy about a hotheaded, big-time college basketball coach (Martin Lawrence) who, after being banned from coaching on the collegiate level, finds redemption by turning a hapless junior high school hoop squad into winners and leading them to the state championship. Directed by Steve Carr, the warmed-over "Bad News ...
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Rebound (CNS)
Reckoning, The
Well-crafted medieval mystery about a fugitive priest (Paul Bettany) on the run for sins of the flesh who, after falling in with a traveling troupe of actors (led by Willem Dafoe), stages a play about an unspeakable crime in order to prove the innocence of the woman charged with the murder ...
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Reckoning, The (CNS)
Recruit, The
Engrossing espionage thriller in which a veteran CIA instructor (Al Pacino) orders his brightest recruit (Colin Farrell) to get the goods on a mole in their midst, a fellow recruit (Bridget Moynahan) the rookie is attracted to. Director Roger Donaldson maintains briskly paced suspense in peeling away layer after layer of ...
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Recruit, The (CNS)
Red Dragon
Chilling tale of an ex-FBI profiler (Edward Norton) who risks using calculated tips from imprisoned murderer "Hannibal the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to hunt down a serial killer (Ralph Fiennes). A prequel to 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" and remake of 1986's "Manhunter," director Brett Ratner's ice-cold thriller is anchored ...
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Red Dragon (CNS)
Red Eye
Uneven psychological thriller about a young air passenger (Rachel McAdams) en route to Miami who becomes an unwilling accomplice in a deadly assassination plot against a high-ranking government official orchestrated by the charming stranger (Cillian Murphy) sitting next to her on the plane, who coerces her cooperation by threatening to have ...
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Red Eye (CNS)
Red Lights
Taut, compelling and very creepy thriller based on a Georges Simenon novel about an insurance salesman (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his lawyer wife (Carole Bouquet) traveling on the highway to pick up their children from camp. Their bickering leads the wife to abandon her increasingly inebriated husband who then gives a lift ...
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Red Lights (CNS)
Redline
Over-the-top action movie about illegal road racing in which a war hero (Nathan Philips) avenges the racing death of his brother (Jesse Johnson) and rescues a race-car driver (Nadja Bjorlin) from his shady high-rolling uncle (Angus Macfadyen). Director Andy Cheng's style is halfway between a music video and a video game, ...
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Redline (CNS)
Reign Over Me
Singularly offbeat, albeit poignantly etched, buddy film about a successful dentist (Don Cheadle) who meets up with and tries to rehabilitate his college roommate (Adam Sandler), once a dentist himself and now sadly childlike, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his wife and children perishing Sept. 11, 2001, ...
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Reign Over Me (CNS)
Religulous
Comedian and TV host Bill Maher attacks spiritual beliefs and religion by traveling the globe interviewing officials and adherents of various faiths—Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Mormon, among them—subjecting all to ridicule. Ignoring both the good done by religious people and institutions and the millions murdered by militantly atheist regimes in the ...
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Religulous (CNS)
Religulous
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Religulous (SAM)
Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi
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Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi (SAM)
Remember the Titans
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Remember the Titans (SAM)
Renaissance
Interesting animated film set in the Paris of 2054 about a kidnapped scientist (Romola Garai), the former protege of a renowned geneticist (Ian Holm), who works for a sinister megacompany promising eternal youth and beauty, and the cop (voiced by Daniel Craig) assigned to rescue her, assisted by the woman's older ...
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Renaissance (CNS)
Rendition
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Rendition (SAM)
Rendition
Quietly intense thriller about a wife's (Reese Witherspoon) efforts to discover the whereabouts of her Egyptian-born husband (Omar Metwally) who has been abducted by the U.S. government upon returning to the States from a business trip, and taken to an unspecified North African country where he is tortured and interrogated as ...
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Rendition (CNS)
Reno 911!: Miami
Ultraraunchy, big-screen version of the Comedy Central cable-TV series has the bumbling deputy sheriffs from Reno (Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver) traveling to Miami for a police convention. Due to an act of bioterrorism that confines all the real cops to the meeting hall, the eight hapless officers ...
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Reno 911!: Miami (CNS)
Rent
Imaginative expansion of the late Jonathan Larson's long-running Broadway musical -- an updating of "La Boheme" -- about the lives and loves of New York's East Village artists, several of them HIV-positive. Director Chris Columbus has remained largely faithful to the original -- and many of the original cast members reprise ...
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Rent (CNS)
Requiem
Truth-inspired, but fictionalized, drama set in Germany about a sheltered, devoutly Catholic, epileptic college student (Sandra Huller) who suffers increasingly severe episodes and comes to believe that she is possessed by demons, prompting conflicting responses from her religious parents (Burghart Klaussner and Imogen Kogge), parish priests (Walter Schmidinger and Jens Harzer) ...
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Requiem (CNS)
Rescue Dawn
Uplifting film salutes the valor of rank-and-file military personnel by chronicling the real-life ordeal of German-born U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), who was shot down over Laos in 1966 and taken prisoner by soldiers allied with the North Vietnamese. Without hyperbole of any kind, German writer-director Werner Herzog presents ...
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Rescue Dawn (CNS)
Reservation Road
Riveting drama about the efforts of an increasingly obsessive father (Joaquin Phoenix) to identify the driver (Mark Ruffalo) who killed his son in a hit-and-run accident, while the guilt-racked offender, a father with a boy the same age, struggles to do the right thing. Director and co-writer Terry George's film -- ...
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Reservation Road (CNS)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Mindless action/horror sequel taking up where the first film left off, as a ragtag handful of survivors (led by Milla Jovovich, genetically enhanced with superhuman powers this time around) fight their way to safety after the deadly virus unleashed in the first film escapes underground containment, turning the infected surface population ...
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (CNS)
Resident Evil: Extinction
When an international conglomerate unleashes a virus on the world, most people are turned into flesh-eating zombies and the earth into a desert, leaving a band of survivors, led by two men (Oded Fehr and Mike Epps) and two women (Ali Larter and Ashanti), to form a convoy in search of ...
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Resident Evil: Extinction (CNS)
Restoration
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Restoration (SAM)
Resurrecting the Champ
Compelling film, based on true events, about the evolving friendship between a young sportswriter (Josh Hartnett) and a homeless former boxing champ (Samuel L. Jackson) which forces the writer to take a fresh look at himself and to re-evaluate his basic relationships, including those with his wife (Kathryn Morris) and son ...
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Resurrecting the Champ (CNS)
Return of the Exorcists, The
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Return of the Exorcists, The (SAM)
Return, The
Melancholy Russian production about a terse father who suddenly returns to his family after an unexplained absence of 12 years, taking his young sons on an apparent fishing trip that takes a dramatic turn when the boys object to his callous treatment. The gloom of director Andrey Zvyagintsev's odd, thriller-like tale ...
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Return, The (CNS)
Return, The
Bland supernatural thriller about a young woman (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who returns home to Texas where she is tormented by fragmented memories of a brutal crime that took place years earlier. It involved a town loner's (Peter O'Brien) murdered wife with whose restless spirit she is somehow connected. Director Asif Kapadia ...
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Return, The (CNS)
Revolutionary Road
Impeccably filmed and acted adaptation of Richard Yates' greatly lauded 1961 novel about an unhappy suburban Connecticut couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) torn between middle-class inertia and fulfilling their youthful aspirations by uprooting to Paris. Director Sam Mendes takes a strikingly stylized approach to the repressed 1950s milieu, and the ...
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Revolutionary Road (CNS)
Righteous Kill
Ludicrous police drama involving longtime partner cops (Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino) who, amid growing suspicion that the killer may be someone within the force, are on the trail of a serial killer who's bumping off felons who have eluded just punishment. Fans of the charismatic stars may welcome this chance ...
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Righteous Kill (CNS)
Ring Two, The
Stylish and scary, but less than satisfying, sequel to the 2002 sleeper horror hit, which finds investigative reporter Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her young son, Aidan (David Dorfman), relocating from Seattle to a coastal Oregon community only to have their hopes of a fresh start shattered when a "cursed" videotape ...
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Ring Two, The (CNS)
Ring, The
Garbled thriller about a reporter (Naomi Watts) trying to ascertain why four teen-agers, including her niece (Amber Tamblyn), died seven days to the minute after watching a surrealistic horror video. Director Gore Verbinski's primarily American remake of the 1998 Japanese film "Ringu" squanders a promising premise on illogical developments, foolish behavior ...
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Ring, The (CNS)
Ringer, The
Audacious but surprisingly sweet comedy about an office worker (Johnny Knoxville) who reluctantly conspires with his sleazy uncle (Brian Cox) to "fix" the Special Olympics by posing as a mentally challenged athlete in order to pay the medical expenses of an injured man he was forced to fire. Though some may ...
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Ringer, The (CNS)
Road to Guantanamo, The
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Road to Guantanamo, The (SAM)
Road to Perdition
Gripping drama set in Depression-era Chicago in which a hit man (Tom Hanks) working for the leader of the Irish mob (Paul Newman) embarks on a journey to protect his 12-year-old son and avenge the death of the rest of his family. Examining complicated father-son relationships, director Sam Mendes' evocative moral ...
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Road to Perdition (CNS)
Robots
Technically dazzling but disappointingly formulaic animated feature about would-be inventor robot Rodney's (Ewan McGregor) coming of age, as he leaves his parents to make his mark in far-off Robot City and joins forces with master inventor Bigweld (Mel Brooks) and some misfit robot friends to help defeat the evil Madame Gasket ...
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Robots (CNS)
Rock, The
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Rock, The (SAM)
Rocker, The
Musical adventures of a likable lunkhead (Rainn Wilson) who, 20 years after being dumped by his band mates just before they catapulted to stardom, gets a second chance at fame when he joins a group made up of his socially challenged nephew (Josh Gad), a too-cool-to-smile guitarist (Emma Stone) and an ...
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Rocker, The (CNS)
Rocky Balboa
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Rocky Balboa (EDC)
Rocky Balboa
Sixth and ostensibly final round in the "Rocky" saga, in which former heavyweight champ Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), now a widower, estranged from his son (Milo Ventimiglia) and running a restaurant, comes out of retirement, stepping into the ring against the current champ (Antonio Tarver) to prove he has plenty of ...
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Rocky Balboa (CNS)
Role Models
A carefree salesman (Seann William Scott) and his caustic partner (Paul Rudd), sentenced to community service, ineptly mentor a tough-talking fifth-grader (Bobb'e J. Thompson) and a socially awkward teen (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). Despite a redemptive story line and some solid performances, director and co-writer David Wain's buddy ...
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Role Models (CNS)
Roll Bounce
Cute but contrived coming-of age comedy set in Chicago during the roller-disco craze of the 1970s about a roller-skating-obsessed teen (Bow Wow) who, together with his buddies, enters a skating contest against their crosstown rivals, while dealing with unresolved emotions over the recent loss of his mother and strained relationship with ...
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Roll Bounce (CNS)
Romance & Cigarettes
Disjointed, extremely raunchy blue-collar comedy-drama, with songs, about an adulterous construction worker (James Gandolfini) torn between his wife (Susan Sarandon) and foul-mouthed mistress (Kate Winslet). Writer-director John Turturro has assembled a blue-chip cast (also including Christopher Walken, Mandy Moore, Steve Buscemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Eddie Izzard and Elaine Stritch) but their good ...
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Romance & Cigarettes (CNS)
Roman de Gare
Impeccably crafted suspense tale from great director Claude Lelouch in which a young woman (Audrey Dana) abandoned at a gas station after a fierce argument with her fiance accepts a lift from an ominous stranger (Dominique Pinon) who agrees to drive her to her parents' farm and pose as her fiance. ...
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Roman de Gare (CNS)
Ronin
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Ronin (SAM)
Rookie, The
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Rookie, The (EDC)
Rookie, The
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Rookie, The (SAM)
Rory O'Shea Was Here
Elevating drama set in Ireland about a young resident at a home for the disabled (Steven Robertson) suffering from severe cerebral palsy whose life is changed when he befriends a rebellious new arrival (James McAvoy) -- also confined to a wheelchair -- who teaches him about friendship, love and independence and ...
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Rory O'Shea Was Here (CNS)
Rosewood
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Rosewood (SAM)
Rugrats Go Wild
Entertaining animated sequel pairing the characters of Nickelodeon's two most popular TV series -- "Rugrats " and "The Wild Thornberrys" -- who find themselves marooned together on a deserted tropical island full of adventure and danger. Directed by Norton Virgien and John Eng, and imparting a strong message about family values, ...
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Rugrats Go Wild (CNS)
Ruins, The
Dreary, gruesome horror tale in which four young American tourists in Mexico (Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore and Laura Ramsey) join up with a German visitor (Joe Anderson) to explore a little-known ancient temple, are trapped there by a group of armed locals, and gradually discover what it is their ...
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Ruins, The (CNS)
Rule of Engagement
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Rule of Engagement (SAM)
Rumor Has It…
Good cast wasted in mostly distasteful story of woman (Jennifer Aniston) who believes the 1967 film "The Graduate" was modeled on her family, and tracks down the man (Kevin Costner) once involved with both her late mother and her grandmother (Shirley MacLaine), and then falls for him herself. Director Rob Reiner ...
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Rumor Has It… (CNS)
Run Fatboy Run
Quirky romantic comedy in which a likeable British twit (Simon Pegg), despite being out of shape, must complete a marathon in order to regain the respect of his ex-fiancee (Thandie Newton), thwart her obnoxious boyfriend (Hank Azaria), vindicate the confidence shown by his trusting landlord (Harish Patel) and safeguard a friend ...
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Run Fatboy Run (CNS)
Runaway Bride
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Runaway Jury
Middling courtroom drama based on the John Grisham novel in which a juror (John Cusack) and his girlfriend (Rachel Weisz) conspire with both sides (as played by Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman), offering to buy the verdict in a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer. Despite director Gary Fleder's fast-paced visuals, the ...
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Runaway Jury (CNS)
Rundown, The
Sporadically entertaining action comedy about a brawny bounty hunter (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) with a conscience, who signs up to bring his kingpin boss' son (Seann William Scott) back from the Amazon, and along the way gets entangled in a search for a priceless ancient Mayan artifact. Despite the on-screen buddy ...
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Rundown, The (CNS)
Running Scared
Excessively brutal crime drama about a low-level member of New Jersey Mafia crew (Paul Walker) whose ill-fated decision not to dispose of an incriminating gun has disastrous consequences when his son's best friend (Cameron Bright) steals it, touching off a frantic search for the weapon and setting in motion a cycle ...
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Running Scared (CNS)
Running With Scissors
Author Augusten Burroughs' best-selling memoirs about his wildly unconventional adolescence during which his mentally fragile mother (Annette Bening), estranged from her husband (Alec Baldwin), sent the boy (Joseph Cross) to be raised by her quack psychiatrist (Brian Cox) and his extremely dysfunctional family (Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Evan Rachel Wood, Joseph ...
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Running With Scissors (CNS)
Rush Hour 3
The third installment of the action comedy franchise puts the dour Jackie Chan and frantic, wisecracking Chris Tucker in Paris on the trail of a secret crime syndicate called the Triads. Director Brett Ratner and screenwriter Jeff Nathanson, who both made "Rush Hour 2," keep the car chases taut and lovingly ...
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Rush Hour 3 (CNS)
Rushmore
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Rushmore (SAM)
RV
Intermittently funny road comedy about an overworked executive (Robin Williams) who, for job-related reasons, cancels a long-planned family holiday in Hawaii and instead loads his wife (Cheryl Hines) and kids (Joanna "JoJo" Levesque and Josh Hutcherson) into a malfunctioning motor home and drives from Los Angeles to Colorado, with much comic ...
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RV (CNS)
RV
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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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