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Critics' Consensus: Imaginative but often preposterous...
Synopsis: What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars…but simultaneously take the life of someone you don’t know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma… [More...]
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Disney's A Christmas Carol
Critics' Consensus: Its dazzling special effects distract from an array of fine performances.
Synopsis: Director Robert Zemeckis (THE POLAR EXPRESS) continues to work his holiday magic with A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This 3-D adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic will use the motion capture technology previously seen in the filmmaker's BEOWULF.
Rated: PG
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Fourth Kind
Critics' Consensus: Hokey and clumsy and makes its close encounters seem eerily mundane.
Synopsis: The Alaskan town in this thriller from Olatunde Osunsanmi (THE CAVERN) might seem like any other small northern city at first glance. But over the last four decades, people have been disappearing, and a government conspiracy might be at the r… [More...]
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Men Who Stare at Goats
Critics' Consensus: Though The Men Who Stare at Goats is a mostly entertaining, farcical glimpse of men at war, some may find its satire and dark humor less than edgy.
Synopsis: A reporter (Ewan McGregor) delves into the world of psychic military regiments during the Iraq War in this adaptation of the Jon Ronson book THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS. George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges star in the Smoke House/BB… [More...]
Rated: R
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Wide)
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Critics' Consensus: N/A
Synopsis: Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain th… [More...]
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 82 mins
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: 82 mins
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Directed by: Chris Smith
Starring: N/A
Starring: N/A
Endgame
Critics' Consensus: N/A
Synopsis: It is 1985, and apartheid has begun its descent. But while South Africa is in turmoil, men--including future president Thabo Mbeki--secretly meet a continent away in England to discuss the future of the country. Though they are thousands of m… [More...]
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Four Seasons Lodge
Critics' Consensus: N/A
Synopsis: New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs directs this documentary about a summer colony of Holocaust survivors. Partially shot by legendary documentarian Albert Maysles, FOUR SEASONS LODGE looks at the last time these people gather together to… [More...]
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 11, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 11, 2009 (Limited)
Directed by: Andrew Jacobs
Starring: N/A
Starring: N/A
Good Soldier
Critics' Consensus: N/A
Synopsis: “The Good Soldier” follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different
generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their
minds about what it means to be a good soldier.
A film tha… [More...]
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 80 mins
Release Date: Nov 11, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: 80 mins
Release Date: Nov 11, 2009 (Limited)
Directed by: Lexy Lovell
Starring: N/A
Starring: N/A
Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire
Critics' Consensus: A grim yet triumphant film about abuse, featuring exceptional acting.
Synopsis: Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gab… [More...]
Rated: R
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Splinterheads
Critics' Consensus: N/A
Synopsis: For Justin Frost (newcomer Thomas Middleditch in a breakthrough role), a typical day is
rolling out of bed at one, practicing improvised karate, and mowing grass for his best
friend’s landscaping business. But when a traveling carnival land… [More...]
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
That Evening Sun
Critics' Consensus: N/A
Synopsis: Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old
folks' home and catches a ride back to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he
discovers that his son has … [More...]
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
Runtime: N/A
Release Date: Nov 6, 2009 (Limited)
















