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Two Lovers (84%)
In this drama, a photographer named Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) is given the tough choice of choosing between two beauties. His neighbor Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also in the midst of an affair with a married man, while family friend Sandra (Vinessa Shaw, GARDEN PARTY) reveals she may be more than...[More]
What's Fresh In Theaters?
What else has the Critics talking? |
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97% |
Food, Inc. | 60 |
88% |
Moon | 82 |
95% |
The Hurt Locker | 61 |
78% |
The Hangover | 181 |
What's Fresh On DVD?
What else has the Critics talking? |
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88% |
Adventureland | 159 |
88% |
Coraline | 194 |
91% |
Gomorrah | 117 |
97% |
The Class | 129 |
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Adventureland
Critics' Consensus: Full of humor and nostalgia, Adventureland is a sweet, insightful coming-of-age comedy that will resonate with teens and adults alike.
Synopsis: SUPERBAD's Greg Mottola directs this comedy about a floundering college grad (Jesse Eisenberg) who decides to work at an amusement park when his post-graduation plans fall through. ADVENTURELAND's tal...[More]
Rated: R Runtime: 0 hrs 1 mins Release Date: August 25, 2009
Directed by: Greg Mottola Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart [More...]
The Class
Critics' Consensus: Energetic and bright, this hybrid of documentary style and dramatic plotting looks at the present and future of France through the interactions of a teacher and his students in an inner city high school.
Synopsis: Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, master French director Laurent Cantet's THE CLASS is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a scho...[More]
Rated: Not Rated Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins Release Date: August 11, 2009
Directed by: Laurent Cantet Starring: François Begaudeau, Nassim Amrabt [More...]
Katyn
Critics' Consensus: Masterfully crafted by an experienced directorial hand, Katyn is a powerful, personal depiction of wartime tragedy.
Synopsis: With KATYN, celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda delivers a sweeping drama that exposes an oft-overlooked moment in WWII history. After the Nazis stormed into Poland, Stalin ordered Russian soldie...[More]
Rated: Not Rated Runtime: 0 hrs 2 mins Release Date: August 11, 2009
Directed by: Andrzej Wajda Starring: Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski [More...]
Gomorrah
Critics' Consensus: Portraying organised crime with an unflinching realism, this gritty and searing Italian crime masterpiece pulls no punches.
Synopsis: Power, money and blood: these are the values that the residents of the province of Naples and Caserta confront every day. They have practically no choice, and are forced to obey the rules of the "Syst...[More]
Rated: Not Rated Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins Release Date: August 04, 2009
Directed by: Matteo Garrone Starring: Salvatore Abruzzese, Gianfelice Imparato [More...]
Coraline
Critics' Consensus: With its vivid stop-motion animation combined with Neil Gaiman's imaginative story, Coraline is a film that's both visually stunning and wondrously entertaining.
Synopsis: After creating a classic with THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, director Henry Selick crafts the first stop-motion animated feature to be filmed in three dimensions. Dakota Fanning voices a girl who fin...[More]
Rated: PG Runtime: 0 hrs 1 mins Release Date: July 21, 2009
Directed by: Henry Selick Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher [More...]
A Simple Plan
Critics' Consensus: A riveting crime thriller full of emotional tension.
Synopsis: Like the Coen brothers' FARGO, Sam Raimi's A SIMPLE PLAN is an ice-cold neo-noir as chilling and bleak as its snow-covered Minnesota locale. When two brothers, straightlaced family man Hank (Bill Paxt...[More]
Rated: Runtime: 2 hrs 1 mins Release Date: July 14, 2009
Directed by: Sam Raimi Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton [More...]
12
Critics' Consensus: Loosely based on 1957's 12 Angry Men, Nikita Mikhalkov's superbly acted 12 is clever and gripping like its predecessor, but with a distinctly Russian feel.
Synopsis: After winning the Foreign Language Film Oscar for 1995's BURNT BY THE SUN, Russian helmer Nikita Mikhalkov added another nod to his résumé with this Academy Award-nominated film. In 12, an 18-year-old...[More]
Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 0 hrs 2 mins Release Date: July 14, 2009
Directed by: Nikita Mikhalkov Starring: Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetsky [More...]
Two Lovers
Critics' Consensus: Two Lovers is a complex, intriguing, richly-acted romantic drama
Synopsis: In this drama, a photographer named Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) is given the tough choice of choosing between two beauties. His neighbor Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also in the midst of an affair with...[More]
Rated: R Runtime: 0 hrs 1 mins Release Date: June 30, 2009
Directed by: James Gray Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow [More...]
Miller's Crossing
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Synopsis: An Irish gangster (Albert Finney) and his trusted lieutenant (Gabriel Byrne) and counselor find their domination of the town threatened by an ambitious Italian underboss (Jon Polito). Just as this thr...[More]
Rated: Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins Release Date: June 23, 2009
Directed by: Joel Coen Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney [More...]
Waltz With Bashir
Critics' Consensus: A wholly innovative, original, and vital history lesson, with pioneering animation, Waltz With Bashir delivers its message about the Middle East in a mesmerizing fashion.
Synopsis: In reflecting upon his time spent in the Israeli army, filmmaker Ari Folman has produced WALTZ WITH BASHIR, a profoundly moving antiwar meditation that is equal parts personal memoir, history lesson, ...[More]
Rated: R Runtime: 1 hr 27 mins Release Date: June 23, 2009
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cherry Blossoms
Critics' Consensus: This mature and eloquent meditation on grief and loss sports measured performances and moments of humor.
Synopsis: Doris Dörrie (HOW TO COOK YOUR LIFE) directs this drama about an older married couple in love. Wife Trudi is the only one who knows that her husband, Rudi, has a disease that will kill him. In fact, e...[More]
Rated: Not Rated Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins Release Date: June 16, 2009
Directed by: Doris Dörrie Starring: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner [More...]
Gran Torino
Critics' Consensus: Though a minor entry in Eastwood's body of work, Gran Torino is nevertheless a humorous, touching, and intriguing old-school parable.
Synopsis: For his fourth directorial feature in the span of two years, Clint Eastwood tells the story of a grizzled Korean War vet's reluctant friendship with a Hmong teenage boy and his immigrant family. Set i...[More]
Rated: Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins Release Date: June 09, 2009
Directed by: Clint Eastwood Starring: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley [More...]
Garden State
Critics' Consensus: Charmingly warm-hearted and quirky.
Synopsis: Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's SCRUBS) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living...[More]
Rated: Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins Release Date: May 26, 2009
Directed by: Zach Braff Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman [More...]
No Man's Land
Critics' Consensus: Bleak and darkly humorous, No Man's Land vividly illustrates the absurdity of war.
Synopsis: Dani Tanovic's debut film about the futility of the Bosnian War stars Branko Duric as Ciki, a Bosnian soldier with really bad luck. When he and a few other relief soldiers try to join their Bosnian co...[More]
Rated: Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins Release Date: May 12, 2009
Directed by: Danis Tanovic Starring: Branko Djuric, Katrin Cartlidge [More...]
Fear(s) of the Dark
Critics' Consensus: This French animated horror portmanteau is monochrome and minimalist, visually stunning, but light on scares.
Synopsis: As a storyteller, H.P. Lovecraft might have felt a tad shortchanged by this film's relative lack of tentacled beasts. As a literary critic, he would've delighted in the superficially stark, effectivel...[More]
Rated: Not Rated Runtime: 1 hr 20 mins Release Date: May 12, 2009
Directed by: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou Starring: Aure Atika, François Creton [More...]
Of Time and the City
Critics' Consensus: Terrence Davies' heartfelt, sometimes funny new feature documentary is part scrapbook, part confessional.
Synopsis: Acclaimed British filmmaker Terence Davies revisits the city of his youth in the elegiac documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY. A deeply personal evocation of post-World War II Liverpool, the film is a pat...[More]
Rated: Not Rated Runtime: N/A Release Date: May 12, 2009
Directed by: Terence Davies
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