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Posted on Thu, Nov. 05, 2009 10:15 PM
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| MOVIES | HOW IS IT? | WHO’S IN IT? | WHAT’S IT ABOUT? | WHERE? | RATING | RUN TIME | ||||||
| AMELIA | ★★ 1/2 | Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor | Biopic about Atchison native and aviator Amelia Earhart. (10/23) | Wide | PG for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking | 1:41 | ||||||
| AMREEKA | ★★★ 1/2 | Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass | Immigrant mother and her teenage son end up in Illinois. (10/30) | Glenwood | PG-13 for brief drug use involving teens, and some language; some Arabic with subtitles | 1:36 | ||||||
| ASTRO BOY | ★★ | Voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Lane | Animated story about a robot boy with superpowers. (10/23) | Wide | PG for some action and peril, and brief mild language | 1:33 | ||||||
| THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX | ★★★ | Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek | Oscar-nominated dramatization of lives of notorious German anarchists of the 1970s. (10/30) | Tivoli | R for strong bloody violence, sexual content, graphic nudity and profanity; German with subtitles | 2:30 | ||||||
| THE BOX | Not screened for critics | Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella | Magic box grants young couple’s dreams of wealth … but claims a human life. | Wide | PG-13 for thematic elements, some violence and disturbing images | 1:55 | ||||||
| CAPITALISM:A LOVE STORY | ★★★ | Michael Moore | Gadfly Michael Moore takes on greed. (10/2) | Leawood, Regal | R for language | 2:07 | ||||||
| A CHRISTMAS CAROL | ★★★ | Voices of Jim Carrey, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Hoskins | Animated 3-D version of Dickens’ holiday classic. REVIEW ON C1 | Wide and IMAX | PG for scary sequences and images | 1:36 | ||||||
| CIRQUEDU FREAK | ★ 1/2 | John C. Reilly, Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson | Teen joins traveling freak show, becomes apprentice to a real vampire. (10/23) | Wide | PG-13 for intense supernatural violence and action, disturbing images, some language | 1:49 | ||||||
| CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OFMEATBALLS | ★★ | Voices of Bill Hader, Anna Ferris, James Caan | Animated yarn about a town where food falls from the sky. (9/18) | Wide | PG for brief mild language | 1:21 | ||||||
| COCO BEFORE CHANEL | ★★ 1/2 | Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola | Young Frenchwoman faces love and loss on her way to fashion fame. REVIEW ON C2 | Wide | PG-13 for sexual content and smoking; French with subtitles | 1:45 | ||||||
| COUPLES RETREAT | ★★ | Vince Vaughn, Kristen Bell, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, Jason Bateman | Vacationing friends are stuck in couples counseling. (10/9) | Wide | PG-13 for sexual content and language | 1:47 | ||||||
| THE FOURTH KIND | ★★ | Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton | Faux documentary footage captures eerie happenings in an isolated Alaska town. REVIEW ON C2 | Wide | PG-13 for violent/disturbing images, some terror, thematic elements and brief sexuality | 1:38 | ||||||
| GOOD HAIR | ★★★ | Chris Rock, Raven-Symone, Ice-T, Nia Long | Chris Rock’s doc looks at black women’s love/hate relationship with hair. (10/23) | Palace | PG-13 for some language including sex and drug references, and brief partial nudity | 1:35 | ||||||
| HALLOWEEN II | ★ | Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie | Director Rob Zombie continues his remakes of the Michael Myers franchise. (8/28) | I-70 Drive-in | R for brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, language, nudity | 1:41 | ||||||
| I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF | ★★ | Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez | Madea puts miscreant kids into the hands of their nightclub singer aunt. (9/11) | Regal | PG-13 for a sexual assault on a minor, violence, drug references and smoking | 1:53 | ||||||
| THEINFORMANT! | ★★★ | Matt Damon, Scott Bakula | Corporate whistle-blower misleads government investigators. (9/18) | Wide | R for language | 1:48 | ||||||
| INGLOURIOUSBASTERDS | ★★★ 1/2 | Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Melanie Laurent | Tarantino’s revenge fantasy has savage Jewish commandos terrorizing Nazis. (8/21) | Regal, Westglen | R for graphic violence, language, brief sexuality; some subtitles | 2:33 | ||||||
| INVENTION OF LYING | ★★★ | Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe | In a world where everyone tells the truth, one man learns how to lie. (10/2) | Wide | PG-13 for language, some sexual material, drug reference | 1:39 | ||||||
| LAW ABIDINGCITIZEN | ★★ | Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx | When his family’s killers get a sweet deal, vigilante decides to cleanse the justice system.(10/16) | Wide | R for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a rape, pervasive language | 1:48 | ||||||
| THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS | ★★ 1/2 | George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey | Comedy about wacky military unit training to use psychic powers. REVIEW ON C2 | Wide | R for language, some drug content and brief nudity | 1:33 | ||||||
| MY ONEAND ONLY | ★★★ | Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, Chris Noth | In the 1950s a woman tours the country looking for a suitable rich husband. (9/11) | Rio | PG-13 for sexual content and language | 1:48 | ||||||
| PARANORMALACTIVITY | ★★★ | Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat | Couple’s struggle with ghost is revealed in surveillance tapes shot in their bedroom. (10/9) | Wide | R for language | 1:39 | ||||||
| SAW VI | ★★ | Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor | More death and dismemberment, courtesy of Jigsaw. (10/23) | Wide | R for grisly bloody violence and torture, and language | 1:30 | ||||||
| A SERIOUS MAN | ★★★ | Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick | Coen brothers retell the story of Job in a ’60s Minneapolis suburb. (10/30) | Wide | R for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence | 1:45 | ||||||
| THESTEPFATHER | ★★ | Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley | Serial killer marries divorcee and contends with her suspicious son. (10/16) | Wide | PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, brief sensuality | 1:45 | ||||||
| SURROGATES | ★★ | Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell | In a future where recluses interact via robots, a cop must solve a murder. (9/25) | Barrywoods, Regal | PG-13 for violence, language, sexuality and a drug-related scene | 1:28 | ||||||
| THIS IS IT | ★★★ 1/2 | Michael Jackson | Final film of the King of Pop is based on concert rehearsal footage. (10/28) | Wide | PG for some suggestive choreography and scary images | 1:52 | ||||||
| WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | ★★ | Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo | Troublesome boy has adventure in an imaginary wild place. (10/16) | Wide | PG for some adventure action and brief language | 1:41 | ||||||
| ZOMBIELAND | ★★★ | Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone | After a zombie uprising, misfits discover they’re at the top of the food chain. (10/2) | Wide | R for horror violence/gore and language | 1:28 |
★★★★■Above the rest ★★★ See it soon ★★ It’s a rental ★ Life’s too short
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