The King's Speech

"The King's Speech": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Simultaneously commoner and king, teacher and pupil, iconoclast and underdog, the meeting of the unstoppable force that is Geoffrey Rush's speech therapist and the immovable object that is Colin Firth's future English king is as good as one-on-one acting gets. Turan's review of "The King's Speech" at the LA Times

The King's Speech
England's Prince Albert (Colin Firth), soon to become King George VI, is plagued by a crippling speech impediment. With her husband soon to take over the throne, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) hires Lionel Logue, an Australian actor and speech therapist, to help Albert overcome his stammer. An extraordinary friendship develops between the pair as Logue uses unconventional means to teach Albert how to speak with confidence.

Opened November 26, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 51 min.
Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Derek Jacobi, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon
Director: Tom Hooper
Genres: Period Film, Drama, Historical Film, British Royalty,stuttering,speech therapy


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Unstoppable

"Unstoppable": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

"Unstoppable" is as good as its name. A runaway train drama that never slows down, it fashions familiarity into a virtue and shows why old-school professionalism and stars like Denzel Washington and Chris Pine never go out of style

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Unstoppable

Opened November 12, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 38 min.
PG-13

Denzel Washington and Star Trek's Chris Pine star in this action thriller from director Tony Scott. The plot surrounds two locomotive operators who team up to stop a runaway train filled with explosives.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn

Director: Tony Scott

Genres: Action Thriller, Action

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It's Kind of a Funny Story

"It's Kind of a Funny Story": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

"It's Kind of a Funny Story" is kind of a perfect coming-of-age comedy, with its bittersweet fun set loose in the adult psych ward of a Brooklyn hospital where this clever case of teenage depression, identity and self-esteem is examined.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
In this New York City-set comedy-drama, 16-year-old Craig (Keir Gilchrist of “United States of Tara”), stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, checks himself into a mental health clinic. There he learns that the youth ward is closed – and finds himself stuck in the adult ward. One of the patients, Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), soon becomes both Craig’s mentor and protégé. Craig is also drawn to another 16-year-old, Noelle (Emma Roberts). With a minimum five days’ stay imposed on him, Craig is sustained by friendships on both the inside and the outside as he learns more about life, love, and the pressures of growing up.

Opened October 8, 2010 (Limited 10/8)

Runtime:1 hr. 41 min.
Cast: Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, Viola Davis, Zoe Kravitz
Director: Ryan Fleck
Genres: Comedy, Coming-of-Age

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Inside Job

"Inside Job": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Charles Ferguson presents a clear-eyed, sobering, commendable account of how the global economic crisis developed.

How did things go so horribly wrong?

You have questions, "Inside Job" has answers. After watching Charles Ferguson's powerhouse documentary about the global economic crisis, you will more than understand what went down — you will be thunderstruck and boiling with rage.

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Inside Job

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Cast: Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Willem Buiter, John Campbell, Patrick Daniel, Satyajit Das, Kristin Davis, Martin Feldstein, Jerome Fons, Barney Frank, Robert Gnaizda, Michael Greenberger, Eric Halperin, Samuel Hayes, Glenn Hubbard, Simon Johnson, Christine Lagarde, Jeffrey Lane, Andrew Lo, Lee Hsien Loong, Andri Magnason, David McCormick, Lawrence McDonald, Harvey Miller, Frederic Mishkin, Charles Morris, Frank Partnoy, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Nouriel Roubini, Andrew Sheng, Allan Sloan, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Scott Talbott, Gillian Tett, Paul Volcker, Martin Wolf, Gylfi Zoega

Director: Charles Ferguson
Genres: Finance and Investing, Social History, Culture and Society, Tragedies and Catastrophes


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Budrus

"Budrus": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

As introduced in the surprisingly heartening documentary of the same name, Budrus is a small agricultural settlement in the West Bank, definitely not the kind of place you'd expect a popular movement encouraging nonviolent resistance to take root and grow. But that, as this Julia Bacha-directed film shows, is what took place.

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Budrus
Community organizer Ayed Morrar seeks help from Palestinian and Israeli activists to help his village mount nonviolent protests against Israel's expropriation of their West Bank land.


Director: Julia Bacha

Genres: Culture & Society, Race & Ethnicity, Social Issues

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Inception

"Inception": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

A mind-bending science-fiction extravaganza about the invasion of dreams directed by "The Dark Knight's" Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. If you're searching for smart and nervy popular entertainment, this is what it looks like.

Inception
Warner Bros. presents the new film by The Dark Knight's Christopher Nolan, this one taking on a sci-fi psychological spin for the serious-minded action auteur, with Leonardo DiCaprio spearheading the cast. Emma Thomas serves as producer, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, and Ellen Page rounding out the supporting roles.

Opened July 16, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 22 min.
PG-13sequences of violence and sequences of action.
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine
Director: Christopher Nolan
Genres: Sci-Fi Action, Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi

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Hereafter

"Hereafter": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Death is the barrier we can't get around, an eternal void burdening those among the living who yearn for those who are gone. What would it mean if we could communicate with the other side, or even just be sure it existed?

That is the theme of the haunting "Hereafter," the latest work from Clint Eastwood, which presents a trio of stories having to do with what might be on that far side and how it relates to the world we know.

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Hereafter

An American laborer (Matt Damon), a French journalist (Cécile de France) and a London schoolboy set out on a spiritual journey after death touches their lives in different ways.

Opened October 15, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 6 min.
Cast: Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Jay Mohr, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genres: Psychological Drama, Drama, Supernatural Drama


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Waiting for Superman

"Waiting for Superman": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

In "Waiting for ' Superman' " a withering examination of the country's public school system, documentarian Davis Guggenheim, an Oscar winner for his incisive Al Gore-global warming treatise, "An Inconvenient Truth," proves as potent a storyteller and showman as activist filmmaker with a serious issue on his mind.

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Waiting for Superman

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim examines the breakdown of U.S. school systems and what can be done to fix them.

Opened September 24, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 42 min.
Cast: The Black Family, The Esparza Family, The Hill Family
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Genres: Education, Culture & Society, Social Issues

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The Town

"The Town": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall, the hedgehog and the fox, combine forces to excellent effect in "The Town," a fast-paced, character-driven heist movie that combines robberies with romance and solidifies Affleck's reputation as an actor with a genuine gift for directing.

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The Town

'Gone Baby Gone' director Ben Affleck adapts author Chuck Hogan's Hammett Prize-winning novel concerning four thieves who are hunted on the streets of Boston by a determined FBI agent and a woman with the power to bring them all to their knees.

Opened September 17, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 5 min.
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively
Director: Ben Affleck
Genres: Crime Drama, Crime Thriller, Crime

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The Social Network

"The Social Network": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Smartly written by Aaron Sorkin, directed to within an inch of its life by David Fincher and anchored by a perfectly pitched performance by Jesse Eisenberg, "The Social Network" is a barn-burner of a tale that unfolds at a splendid clip.


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The Social Network

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Opened October 1, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 1 min.
PG-13Language, drug and alcohol use and sexual content.
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer Jr., Max Minghella
Director: David Fincher
Genres: Psychological Drama, Biopic, Drama
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Prince of Broadway

"Prince of Broadway": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

"Prince of Broadway" thinks outside the box. It's an undeniably small yet almost indefinable film, warmhearted and bittersweet, laced with both humor and tough emotions. Plus it has a kind of bicoastal appeal.

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Prince of Broadway

Prince of Broadway is the story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district. Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off brand merchandise. Levon, an Armenian-Lebanese immigrant, operates an illegal storefront with a concealed back room where counterfeit goods are showcased to interested shoppers. Lucky's world is suddenly turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by a woman who insists the toddler is his son. While Lucky copes with his new domestic dilemma, Levon struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart. The seedy side of the wholesale district is revealed through a journey that continually confronts the interplay between what is fake and what is real.

Opened September 3, 2010 (Limited 9/3)

Runtime:1 hr. 40 min.
Cast: Prince Adu, Karren Karaguilian, Aiden Noesi, Kat Sanchez, Keyali Mayaga
Director: Sean Baker
Genres: Drama

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Never Let Me Go

"Never Let Me Go": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

 Going defiantly against the grain of a hyperbolic movie culture, "Never Let Me Go" is passionate about deliberation and restraint. Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley, the A Team of young British acting talent, this is a moving and provocative film that initially unsettles, then disturbs and finally haunts you well into the night.

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Never Let Me Go


Friends Kathy (Carey Mulligan), Tommy (Andrew Garfield) and Ruth (Keira Knightley) grow up together at a seemingly idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. When they leave the school and the horrible truth of their true purpose is revealed to them, they must simultaneously confront deep-seated feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to tear their friendship asunder.

Opened September 15, 2010

Runtime:1 hr. 43 min.
Cast: Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard
Director: Mark Romanek
Genres: Escape Film, Science Fiction, Psychological Sci-Fi
 
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Kings of Pastry

"Kings of Pastry": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

French pastry chefs battle it out to be named best in their profession in this intriguing, mouth-watering look at competitive baking artistry. Hegedus and Pennebaker often make docs, like 1993's "The War Room" about Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, that feature involved, passionate individuals. But the pastry chefs in their latest work take a back seat to no one in terms of focus and concentration.


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Kings of Pastry


Witness 16 of the world's most talented pastry chefs in action as filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus showcase the intense preparations for the three-day competition known as the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France. Staged just once every four years, the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France represents the pinnacle of a pâtissier's career. Those who win the competition are awarded the prestigious "Collar," a distinctive red, white, and blue collar that singles them out as true masters of the culinary arts. As the harried chefs race to perfect their elaborate, delectable creations, judges study their every move with intense scrutiny.

Opened September 15, 2010

Runtime:1 hr. 24 min.
Cast: Jacque Pfeiffer, Sebastian Canonne, Philippe Rigollot
Director: Chris Hegedus
Genres: Biography, Cooking & Food, Culture & Society
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Heartbreaker

"Heartbreaker": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Slick entertainment is rarely as, yes, slickly entertaining as it is in "Heartbreaker," a French romantic farce that is commercial cinema at its most successful. Given that Hollywood has all but forgotten how to turn out adult amusements of this type, it's especially welcome.
Read Turan's full review of "Heartbreaker" at the LA Times

In French with English subtitles.
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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

"Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

The acclaimed Canadian pianist was a mass of contradictions, as this engrossing documentary reveals. Great geniuses can be terribly boring, and compelling individuals can be devoid of any gifts save charm. Glenn Gould, however, who lived his life on the balance point between genius and madness, was a virtuoso who couldn't have been more fascinating.
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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Opened September 10, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 49 min.

Appearances: Glenn Gould, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Frances Batchen, Kevin Bazzana, Petula Clark, Victor Feldbrill, Christopher Foss, Cornelia Foss, Eliza Foss, Don Hunstein, Mark Kingwell, Jaime Laredo, John P.L. Roberts, Ray Roberts, Roxolana Roslak, Fred Sherry, Lorne Tulk, Ruth Watson-Henderson, James Wright

Director: Peter Raymont

Genres: Biography, Music, Instrumental Music

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Fall 2010 Must-See Movies

Today's edition of the LA Times Calendar features up-coming fall movie releases. The following 6 up-coming releases fall into their "must-see" selections.

Never Let Me Go
The kids are not all right. And that's what makes "Never Let Me Go" so memorable. Read more...


The Town
Heist films can be distinguished by the original execution of any of the genre's essential staples: a riveting bank robbery, a pulse-quickening getaway, a gothic shootout. Ben Affleck's "The Town" has all that, but one sequence that sets it apart from many movies of its kind is something that unfolds far from the scene of a crime: an emotional jailhouse visit between Doug MacRay (Affleck, who directed himself in the starring role) and his incarcerated father, Mac ( Chris Cooper). Read more...


It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden may have set their new movie, "It's Kind of a Funny Story," amid the depressed and clinically insane of a psychiatric institution, but don't let the setting fool you. The movie is pure John Hughes. Read more...


Let Me In
Even though he decided to tackle the English-language remake of "Let the Right One In" long before the Swedish vampire movie became a cult favorite in the U.S., Matt Reeves was aware of the hurdle facing him. "It suddenly got very big, and I thought, 'There's going to be a lot more focus.' It was terrifying." Read more...


Monsters
The title suggests something like "Alien," and the guerrilla filmmaking style will be inevitably compared to "Cloverfield" and "District 9." Writer-director-cinematographer Gareth Edwards' "Monsters" is simultaneously all of those movies and none of them, a hard-to-categorize hybrid. Read more...



Hereafter
As a director, Clint Eastwood leans far more toward austere storytelling than pure spectacle -- in films such as "Unforgiven," "Gran Torino" and "Mystic River," the most memorable visuals are the emotions that play across the faces of actors.

It's interesting, then, to see that with his 32nd feature film, "Hereafter," the ultimate old-school director presents a massive natural disaster that required the sort of computer-generated effects and elaborate stunt work that are usually associated with contemporary popcorn movies. Read more...

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The Tillman Story

"The Tillman Story": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

It's devastating to watch the layers get peeled away in director Amir Bar-Lev's documentary of Pat Tillman, his death from friendly fire and his family's battle to rip the truth from the U.S. Army. Read Turan's full review of "The Tillman Story" at the LA Times

The Tillman Story

Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, “Dannie” Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death. Narrated by Josh Brolin and featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.

Opened August 20, 2010 (Limited)
Runtime:1 hr. 34 min.
Cast: Josh Brolin, Dannie Tillman, Richard Tillman, Patrick Tillman, Sr., Marie Tillman
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Genres: History, Military & War, Social Issues, Iraq War, Pat Tillman


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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Shareky:

Anyone worried about the fate of Bella, Edward, Jacob and the rest of the "Twilight" gang after the moody blues of movie No. 2 can breathe a sigh of relief. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" is back with all of the lethal and loving bite it was meant to have: The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse knows by now, life-changing. Read Sharkey's full review of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" at the LA Times

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

Opened June 30, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 4 min.
PG-13intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality.
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dakota Fanning
Director: David Slade
Genres: Teen Movie, Romantic Fantasy, Fantasy


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The Girl Who Played with Fire

"The Girl Who Played with Fire": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

Lisbeth Salander, the punked, pierced, dragon-tattooed heroine of Stieg Larsson's international bestselling Millennium trilogy, is back on the high wire in "The Girl Who Played With Fire," locked in an ever more treacherous game with villains more depraved, mysteries much murkier and family ties more dark keeping things twisted and taunt.
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The Girl Who Played With Fire


Two journalists on the verge of exposing their story in Millennium about an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden are brutally murdered. Lisbeth Salander's prints are on the weapon.

Mikael Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings which will implicate highly placed members of Swedish society, business and government. Knowing Salander to be fierce when fearful, he is desperate to get to her before she is cornered and alone but she is nowhere to be found. Digging deeper, Blomkvist also unearths some heart-wrenching facts about Salander's past life. Committed to psychiatric care at aged 12, declared legally incompetent at 18, she is the product of an unjust and corrupt system. Meanwhile, the elusive Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past.

Opened July 9, 2010 (Limited Only)

Runtime:2 hr. 9 min.
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Per Oscarsson, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Genres: Detective Film, Crime Thriller, Crime

Note: Brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language.

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Cairo Time

"Cairo Time": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

"Cairo Time" stars Patricia Clarkson in a lovely and languid flirtation with a foreign land, an exotic man and the possibility that, long after the future seems set in stone, it might not be quite so predictable after all. Canadian writer-director Ruba Nadda's new film feeds off the cool beauty of Clarkson and the dry heat of Alexander Siddig as strangers thrown together by circumstance. Also in play are the romantic notions that so often accompany travel, primarily those daydreams of chucking the life you have for the life you imagine you might have if only, if only, if only ... .


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Cairo Time


Juliette, a fashion magazine editor in her 50s, travels to Cairo to meet her husband, Mark, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq, who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. The last thing anyone expects is that they will fall in love.

Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig, Elena Anaya, Amina Annabi, Tom McCamus
Director: Ruba Nadda
Opened August 6, 2010 (Limited)

Runtime:1 hr. 26 min.
Genres: Romantic Drama, Marriage Drama, Drama


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Eat Pray Love

"Eat Pray Love": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

If there is one constant in "Eat Pray Love," the imperfect yet beautifully rendered adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir on a year of heartbreak and healing starring Julia Roberts — it is this: There will be tears.




Happy tears, sad tears, tears of relief, tears of regret, gut-wrenching sobs, really almost any variation imaginable — and that's just the guy in the next row who didn't think he'd need Kleenex in a movie, ever. So no need to blush if you find yourself getting teary, nearly everyone in the movie — Roberts, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, Viola Davis, Richard Jenkins — cries before it's over too.

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Eat Pray Love


A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in director Ryan Murphy's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Gilbert was a woman who had it all -- a loving husband, a great apartment, and a weekend home -- but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life. On the heels of a painful divorce, the woman who had previously looked forward to a contented life of domesticated bliss sets out to explore the world and seek out her true destiny. Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner produce a film starring Julia Roberts.

Cast: Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Richard Jenkins, Billy Crudup
Director: Ryan Murphy
Opened August 13, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 13 min.
PG-13brief strong language, some sexual references and male rear nudity.
Genres: Romantic Drama, Psychological Drama, Drama

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Winter's Bone

"Winter's Bone": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

In summer, when a raft of new movies floats into theaters each Friday, it's easy to miss the small indie films. So you might not have seen "Winter's Bone," a very un-summery sounding film, but try to catch it before it slips away. This finely wrought drama about a teenager's fight to take care of her family in the drug-infected and poverty-saturated Ozark Mountain back country is sure to be an Oscar contender. Director Debra Granik captures the beauty and the pain of the region, Jennifer Lawrence's performance as 17-year-old Ree Dolly is heartbreaking and John Hawkes' as her uncle, Teardrop, is fearsome, as is the deadly crystal meth culture — the making and dealing and dying. Read Turan's full review of "Winter's Bone" at the LA Times

Winter's Bone

Facing the loss of her home and siblings if she fails, a gutsy teenager (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out on a dangerous quest to learn the fate of her missing father.

Opened June 11, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 40 min.

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee
Director: Debra Granik
Genres: Detective Film, Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Drama, Family Drama
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I Am Love

"I Am Love": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

It is always such a treat to see the excellent Tilda Swinton, one of our finest contemporary actresses, with countless awards and an Oscar for her intensely drawn attorney in "Michael Clayton." Rare, though, that a movie is tailor-made to showcase her many talents, but that's exactly what director Luca Guadagnino has done with the sumptuous "I Am Love."


Set in Italy at the beginning of the 21st century, the film serves up a feast of emotions, issues and choices for Swinton -- and she digs into all of them. As Emma, an upper-class wife and mother of a wealthy Milan textile merchant with three grown children, she's trying to figure out the rest of her life. To complicate things a bit more, she's a Russian emigre, which leaves Swinton speaking Italian with a slight Russian accent, no mean feat.

There to help her is a passionate and inventive young chef, Antonio, portrayed by Edoardo Gabbriellini, who proves he is more than up to the task of playing off the great force field of Swinton. He teases her taste buds with his exotic dishes, tempts her heart with his searing soul and makes the case that love should never be denied.

Suffering from an empty nest and very much at loose ends with her life, Emma's journey of self-rediscovery is filled with joy, passion, empathy and pain. It's a performance to savor in a film to remember. And it's expanding beyond just a handful of art houses to the multiplex this weekend to make the pleasure of consuming it all that much easier.

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Synopsis I Am Love


Set in Milan, I AM LOVE tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr., the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reigns of his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi, and grandson Edo. But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio, a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi’s wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo’s friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.

Opened June 18, 2010




Runtime:1 hr. 42 min.

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono, Maria Paiato, Diane Fleri, Mattia Zaccaro, Waris Ahluwalia, Gabriele Ferzetti, Marisa Berenson, Chiara Tomarelli

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Genres: Drama, Family Drama, Ensemble Film

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Mademoiselle Chambon

"Mademoiselle Chambon": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

People fall in love in every country, but nowhere is the experience put on film with the consistent style, empathy and emotion the French provide. "Mademoiselle Chambon" is the latest in that line of deeply moving romances, an exquisite chamber piece made with the kind of sensitivity and nuance that's become almost a lost art.


Starring the top-flight acting team of Vincent Landon and Sandrine Kiberlain, actors who were once married to each other but are now divorced, "Mademoiselle Chambon" is about the power of love to disturb as well as elevate, about the profoundly disconcerting experience of falling terribly in love when that's the last thing you want to do.

Impeccably directed by Stephane Brize, "Mademoiselle Chambon" is less concerned with the protagonists' ultimate resolution than with bringing us into the journey, showing us how it came to be that these people fell and how they reacted. This would be a welcome film any time of the year, but to have it during the dog days of summer is something like a miracle.

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Synopsis Mademoiselle Chambon
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain) leads a quiet, unassuming life in provincial town, earning her living by teaching primary school and seemingly spending much of her free time in the quiet of her rented apartment. Having asked the parents of her pupils to visit her classroom and talk about what they do, one day she meets Jean (Vincent Lindon), a class parent and home builder who somewhat shyly explains his daily routine. Somehow, a certain spark ignites between the reclusive teacher and the gruff contractor. Both sense that their budding attraction is impossible, yet neither will totally let it fade. Stéphane Brizé carefully constructs the elegant, moving tale of unexpected romance with enormous patience and delicacy, sensitive to the rhythms of this special relationship full of misconstrued signals and ambiguous feelings.

Opened May 28, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 41 min.
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, Aure Atika, Jean-Marc Thibault, Arthur Le Houérou
Director: Stéphane Brizé
Genres: Romantic Drama,Drama

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Eyes Wide Open

"Eyes Wide Open": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

A taboo love affair between two men in Jerusalem's ultra-Othodox community is made fresh and involving through a low key but confident directing style, convincing acting and, perhaps most surprising, an accurate and respectful treatment of the community that is making these men's lives so unendurable.  Read Turan's full review of title at the LA Times

Director: Haim Tabakman

Genres: Drama, Gay

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Shrek Forever After

"Shrek Forever After ": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

In the latest edition of DreamWorks' billion-dollar animated franchise, the much-domesticated ogre is in the midst of a major midlife meltdown and desperate to get his angry back. All the usual suspects are there with their celebrity voices, Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy in particularly good form. Meanwhile, middle-aged angst suits Shrek and the movie. After the deep dive of 2007's "Shrek the Third," "Forever After" comes back with more heart and much of the kick-in-the-pop-culture-keister cleverness that made the greenish brute such a breath of fresh air nearly a decade ago. 

Synopsis "Shrek Forever After"

After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. What’s happened to this ogre’s roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all he’s done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love.

Opened May 21, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 33 min.
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Walt Dohrn
Director: Mike Mitchell
Genres: Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy, Fairy Tales & Legends, Comedy,Fantasy, Children's/Family

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Cyrus

"Cyrus": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

"Cyrus" amuses and unnerves in equal measure. A comedy of discomfort that walks a wonderful line between reality-based emotional honesty and engaging humor, it demonstrates the good things that happen when quirky independent style combines with top-of-the-line acting skill. Read Turan's full review of title at the LA Times

Synopsis: Cyrus

Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John (John C. Reilly) has all but given up on romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie (Catherine Keener), John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim (Matt Walsh) at a party. To his and everyone else’s surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly (Marisa Tomei). Their chemistry is immediate. The relationship takes off quickly but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John’s house. Perplexed, he follows her home and discovers the other man in Molly’s life: her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill). A 21-year-old new age musician, Cyrus is his mom’s best friend and shares an unconventional relationship with her. Cyrus will go to any lengths to protect Molly and is definitely not ready to share her with anyone, especially John.

Opened June 18, 2010

Runtime:1 hr. 32 min.
Cast: John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener, Matt Walsh
Director: Jay Duplass
Genres: Romantic Comedy, Comedy Drama, Tragi-comedy

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Everyone Else

"Everyone Else": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

Don't let the warmth of the Sardinian sun, the caress of Mediterranean breezes, or the languor of oft-entwined limbs fool you. The bronzing young lovers on holiday in "Everyone Else" are headed for some dark and depressing times. Writer-director Maren Ade, one of German cinema's smart new voices, has tossed this tantalizing pair into that phase between falling in love and commitment when the sex is still hot, but a truer self is coming out of hiding — teasing, taunting, surprising, disappointing. The result is a film that unsettles as often as it seduces. Read Betsy Sharkey's full review of "Everyone Else" at the LA Times

Directed by Maren Ade
Official selection at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival
Cast
Birgit Minichmayr - Gitti
Lars Eidinger - Chris
Hans-Jochen Wagner - Hans
Nicole Marischka - Sana
Mira Partecke - Vacationing Woman
Atef Vogel - Vacationing Man
Paula Hartmann - Rebecca
Carina Wiese - Chris Schwester
Laura Zedda - Baby
Claudio Melis - Mann im Auto

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Breathless

"Breathless": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

The fatalistic romance that starred Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg and started a revolution, "Breathless" is that rare revival that, against noticeable odds, retains the elements that made it celebrated half a century in the past. In French with English subtitles. Read Turans's full review of "Breathless" at the LA Times

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Babies

"Babies": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

In the joyous and buoyant new documentary, "Babies," the filmmakers keep the baby — and the bathwater — and everything else about infants that makes them so appealing that the rest of us keep making more of them. Squalls are few, colic doesn't exist, neither does disease, diaper rash, or diapers at all for that matter as director Thomas Balmes traces the first year in the lives of four infants from four corners of the world. The sweet-smelling "Babies" is a very huggable movie experience, just not a primer on parenthood. Read Sharkey's full review of "Babies" at the LA Times

Babies
Capturing on film the earliest stages of the journey of humanity that are at once unique and universal to us all, this nonfiction feature from award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balmès simultaneously follows four babies, in Mongolia, Namibia, San Francisco, and Tokyo, respectively, from birth to first steps. Every shot tells a story, as the adventure of a lifetime begins.

Opened May 7, 2010

Runtime:1 hr. 20 min. PG cultural and maternal nudity throughout
Cast: Ponijao, Mari, Hattie, Bayarjargal
Director: Thomas Balmes
Genres: Culture and Society, Sociology

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Please Give

"Please Give": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

Director Nicole Holofcener tends to use ordinary encounters to examine what people value in life, and she's at it again in her incisive new comedy, "Please Give," a clever dissection of liberal guilt and the notion that money equals charity, which it does and it doesn't. Catherine Keener, a favorite of the filmmaker, is a New Yorker of some means who can't give away money fast enough to strangers but fails to see what her own daughter (Sarah Steele) needs. There are complicating and mitigating factors as the lives of two families intersect over the annexation of an apartment. The fine cast includes Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt portraying characters who help create and clean up the mess.


Read review of "Please Give" written by Kenneth Turan at the LA Times

Opened April 30, 2010

Runtime:1 hr. 30 min.
Cast: Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Steele
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Genres: Comedy, Ensemble Film, Domestic Comedy

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Vincere

"Vincere": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

One of the most surprising things about watching the wrenching "Vincere," the story of Ida Dalser, Mussolini's secret wife and his first-born son, Benito, is that when the relationship went sour and Ida just wouldn't let it rest, that Il Duce, the sweet one, just didn't have her killed. Though Ida's life would become a torturous hell spent locked away in an insane asylum, the legacy left by her letters has made for an intense and intriguing, if at times uneven, film with Italian director Marco Bellocchio wringing every drop of emotion out of his actors and his audience before it is over. Read Sharkey's full review of "Vincere" at the LA Times

Vincere

A vivid full-blooded political melodrama, VINCERE chronicles the largely unknown story of the secret marriage of Mussolini (Filippo Timi) to Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), a woman whom Il Duce met when he was a rising star in the Socialist movement. Inspired by the intensity of his beliefs and the ferocious attraction between them, Dalser sells off all of her belongings to fund the newspaper that would eventually launch his political career. After bearing him a son, Dalser discovers to her horror, that Mussolini already has another family --- and he will do anything in his power to keep her away from them.

Opened March 19, 2010

Runtime:2 hr. 8 min. N
Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fabrizio Costella, Michela Cescon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Filippo Timi
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Genres: Biopic [feature], Historical Epic, Historical Film

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

Everyone has secrets in the "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," a mind-bending and mesmerizing thriller that takes its time unlocking one mystery only to uncover another all to chilling and immensely satisfying effect. The film is based on the first crime novel in Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, and Danish director Niels Arden Oplev has somehow found a way to adapt one of Europe's most popular contemporary books, a bestselling sensation here as well, and still infuse it with surprise.  Read Sharkey's full review of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" at the LA Times

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her beloved uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and the tattooed and troubled but resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to investigate. When the pair link the disappearance of Harriet to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. The Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

Opened March 19, 2010
Runtime:2 hr. 32 min. NR
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber, Peter Andersson, Marika Lagercrantz, Ingvar Hirdwall
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Genres: Detective Film, Thriller
In Swedish with English subtitles.

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The Exploding Girl

"The Exploding Girl": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Writer-director Bradley Rust Gray and star Zoe Kazan are so committed to a minimalist aesthetic, and apply it with such craft and skill, that this very careful character study of a young woman's quiet emotional crisis over spring break holds our interest almost without our knowing how it's done.  Read Turan's full review of "The Exploding Girl" at the LA Times

The Exploding Girl

A college student (Zoe Kazan) considers a romance with her longtime best friend (Mark Rendall) .

Opened March 12, 2010 NR
Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Genres: Drama, Romance
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Breaking Upwards

"Breaking Upwards": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

Daryl Wein's clever "Breaking Upwards" comes knocking at the door like a wolf in sheep's clothing, draping reality in a fictional romantic comedy about a twentysomething NYC couple named Daryl and Zoe whose relationship is coming apart. The film stars Wein and girlfriend Zoe Lister-Jones (as Daryl and Zoe) and is based on their experience trying to build themselves a better break-up. They also wrote (with Peter Duchan), produced and, in Lister-Jones' case, handled catering and wrote all the lyrics for the film's original soundtrack by composer Kyle Forester. All of which works to give "Breaking Upwards" a DIY mumblecore vibe, including its very engaging conversational style, but thanks to Wein, there is less mumble, more core from the story and the cast. Read Sharkey's full review of "Breaking Upwards"at the LA Times

Breaking Upwards

Based on the filmmakers’ actual experience, and starring the filmmakers themselves, “Breaking Upwards” explores a young, real life New York couple who, four years into their relationship and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. The film loosely interprets a year in their lives exploring alternatives to monogamy and the madness that ensues.

Opened April 2, 2010

Runtime:1 hr. 29 min. NR
Cast: Daryl Wein, Zoe Lister-Jones, Julie White, Olivia Thirlby, Peter Friedman
Director: Daryl Wein
Genres: Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Romance, Urban Comedy

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Waking Sleeping Beauty

"Waking Sleeping Beauty": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

The decade between 1984 and 1994 saw animation at Disney go from an afterthought to a powerhouse. This tale of artistic reincarnation is a classic show business story, not lacking in temper tantrums and clashing egos, and this documentary tells it with a terrific inside-Hollywood sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the chips fall where they should.  Read Kenneth Turan's full review of "Waking Sleeping Beauty" at the LA Times

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Opened March 26, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 26 min.
Director: Don Hahn

Genres: Film, TV & Radio, Film & Television History
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Green Zone

"Green Zone": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

As created by director Paul Greengrass, screenwriter Brian Helgeland and star Matt Damon, this risk-taking endeavor takes the narrative skills and drive Greengrass honed to perfection on "The Bourne Ultimatum" and "The Bourne Supremacy" and marries them to reality-based political concerns. More specifically, this is a red-hot action thriller that deals quite candidly and unapologetically with the situation in Iraq. Read Turans's full review of "Green Zone" at the LA Times

Green Zone
In 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) and his team of inspectors are on a mission to find Iraq's reported stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Traveling from one dangerous site to the other, Miller and his team fail to find any chemical agents or other weapons. Instead, they discover an elaborate cover-up in which the most elusive weapon of all is the truth.

Opened March 12, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 55 min.
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Khalid Abdalla, Jason Isaacs
Director: Paul Greengrass
Genres: War Drama, Political Thriller, Thriller

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Cop Out

"Cop Out": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

There really is no good reason to recommend "Cop Out"; there are, however, about a dozen bad ones, starting with the fact that it's the first gross-out comedy to come along since "The Hangover" that is actually a comedy and not just gross, although make no mistake, gross it is -- this is a Kevin Smith film after all -- so don't say you weren't warned. But there is enough ridiculous fun in the Tracy Morgan-Bruce Willis pairing as two of Brooklyn's "finest" to get many of you past the squirm-inducing stuff. After some rough sledding, Smith seems like he's come home in "Cop Out," with his loose, easy style helping to take the edge off the R rating. It's in the execution of high-concepts that Smith sometimes gets lost, but that doesn't happen here. There isn't a high concept in sight. Read reviewer's full review of "Cop Out" at the LA Times

Cop Out
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul is his "partner-against-crime" whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.

Opened February 26, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 50 min.
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott, Adam Brody, Kevin Pollak, Guillermo Diaz
Director: Kevin Smith
Genres: Detective Film, Buddy Film, Comedy, Police Comedy


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The Art of the Steal

"The Art of the Steal": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

An energetically entertaining if a bit one-sided documentary that shows how the Philadelphia establishment committed an act of cultural vandalism by engineering a move of the Barnes collection from its iconic home in suburban Merion, Penn., to a proposed new museum in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. It's a move that illustrates as few other things how art and culture have become commodified into big money industries. Read Turan's full review of "The Art of the Steal" at the LA Times

The Art of the Steal
Don Argott’s documentary investigation into the long tug-of-war over the multi-billion dollar Barnes collection of paintings suggests that what may be the biggest art heist of the century is happening right now, with public money and in plain sight. Industrialist and visionary art collector Albert C. Barnes created an educational institution—which he located in Merion, PA—based on his unparalleled collection of masterworks by the likes of Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse. When he died, the Barnes Foundation carried on as his will stipulated for fifty years—until a powerful group of moneyed interests plotted to relocate the art to a new museum in Philadelphia. With the Governor, the Mayor, and several of the country’s most powerful charitable organizations on the verge of moving the Barnes, a loyal group of former students has gone to court to stop them.

Opened February 26, 2010 | Runtime:1 hr. 41 min.
Director: Don Argott
Genres: Visual Arts
Opened February 26, 2010
Runtime:1 hr. 41 min.

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Shutter Island

"Shutter Island": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

In "Shutter Island," director Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease in the best noir tradition with its smarter-than-you'd-think cops, their-tougher-than-you'd-imagine cases to crack, and enough nods to the classic genre for an all-night parlor game. It's 1954 when Leonardo DiCaprio's U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, played by Mark Ruffalo, are dispatched to an asylum for the criminally insane to investigate a dicey disappearance. But there are deeper mysteries here and it turns out that Scorsese has a lot more on his mind than a crazy inmate on the loose. Meanwhile, Teddy has a few skeletons of his own. There are flaws, but none lethal and, in the end, Scorsese gives us a new noir classic with DiCaprio -- brilliant as Teddy -- racing to solve the case and hang onto his sanity at the same time. Read Sharkey's full review of "Shutter Island" at the LA Times

Shutter Island
The project centers on a U.S. marshal (Mark Ruffalo) who along with his new partner (Leonardo DiCaprio) travels to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. During their inquiry , the two encounter a web of deceit, experience a hurricane and become involved in a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island. Ben Kingsley will play Dr. Cawley, the hospital's enigmatic chief physician who must reluctantly play host to the two U.S. marshals.

Opened February 19, 2010 Runtime:2 hr. 18 min.
Rdisturbing violent content, some nudity and language
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genres: Thriller


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The Ghost Writer

"The Ghost Writer": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Reviewer:

Made by a filmmaker suddenly returned to the height of his powers, this is a thriller wrapped around a roman à clef about contemporary politics wrapped around director Roman Polanski's trademark cynicism. An effortless blending of personal preoccupations with audience preferences that recalls the classic work of Alfred Hitchcock. Read Turan's full review of "The Ghost Writer" at the LA Times

The Ghost Writer
When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start-not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident. The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA-a war crime. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA-and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.

Opened February 19, 2010 Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Roman Polanski
Genres: Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Thriller

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Ajami

"Ajami": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

One of the five foreign-language Oscar finalists, this look at cultures in conflict in today's Israel has a complex, elliptical structure and uses unconventional filming techniques to tell a bleak and fatalistic story that's conveyed with an unnerving sense of verisimilitude.
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Opened February 3, 2010
Director: Scandar Copti,Yaron Shani
Genres: Drama

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