Win Win

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

"Win Win" is hard to pin to the mat but pure pleasure to experience. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy with an impeccable feel for off-center human comedy at its funniest and most heartfelt, its low-key qualities are so relaxed and unforced every moment feels like a gift.
Read Turan's full review of "Win Win" at the LA Times

Win Win
Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) is a struggling, though not overly ambitious, lawyer. As the court-appointed attorney of Leo Poplar (Burt Young), an old man afflicted with dementia, Mike sees an opportunity to take things easy for awhile by volunteering to become Leo's legal guardian and thereby gain control of the man's monthly stipend. The unexpected arrival of Leo's grandson complicates Mike's plans, until he learns that the youth is a champion wrestler who can help the team Mike coaches.

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Jeffrey Tambor, Alex Shaffer
Director: Tom McCarthy
Genres: Comedy Drama, Family Drama, Domestic Comedy

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Of Gods and Men

"Of Gods and Men": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

Monks who coexist peacefully with a Muslim community face a life-or-death crisis when Islamic fundamentalists encroach. "Of Gods and Men" is a thrilling adventure of the spirit. Austere yet provocative, this is not only a film about faith, it also has faith that the power generated by complex moral decisions can be as unstoppable as any runaway locomotive.

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Of Gods and Men
French monks trust in their faith to carry them through during the Algerian Civil War.

Opened February 25, 2011 Runtime:2 hr. 0 min.
Cast: Jean-Marie Frin, Jacques Herlin, Philippe Laudenbach, Michael Lonsdale, Xavier Maly
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Genres: Drama, Religious Drama


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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

"Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

This excellent documentary details the singer-songwriter's triumphs and then long descent to suicide. The short and tragic life of Phil Ochs is as involving as the music he wrote and played, and that is saying a great deal.

If you remember the 1960s, you more than likely remember the singer-songwriter who composed hundreds of songs, many of them, as can be heard on the strong and forceful documentary "Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune," beautiful and melodic as well as pointedly political.

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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
1960s folk singer comments on the ills of the society -- both of the right and of the left.

Opened January 5, 2011 

Cast: Phil Ochs
Director: Kenneth Bowser
Genres: BiographyMusicMusic History


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Rango

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

A marvelous mash-up of Old West and newfangled, "Rango" rewrites the animation playbook with its eye-popping critters and varmints, and its hero's tale (tail?) of a chameleon desperate for a SAG card and a town desperate for a sheriff. What fun.

In a world choked with animated films — the good, the bad and the ugly — it's hard to be either original or great. Yet director Gore Verbinski has done both — and without 3-D — breaking the rules and new ground in the town of Dirt. In this time-bending, mind-bending, just-go-with-it fable, the story shifts from overcrowded freeways, Hawaiian shirts and modern problems to covered wagons, chaps and long-running issues of water rights, land grabs and greed. And in a genuinely funny way, it all makes sense.

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Rango
A chameleon that aspires to be a swashbuckling hero finds himself in a Western town plagued by bandits and is forced to literally play the role in order to protect it.

Opened March 4, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 47 min. 

Cast: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Timothy Olyphant 

Director: Gore Verbinski
Genres: Hybrid Western, Family-Oriented Adventure, Children's/Family

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Unknown

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

"Unknown" is a nifty international thriller of the "what if?" variety. What if you came out of a coma after a car accident to find that no one knew you? Or, even worse, that someone had pilfered your identity, and everyone you thought you knew, especially your wife, insisted that that other person was you. In this strong follow-up to 'Taken,' Liam Neeson takes on the world again to regain his identity. 

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Unknown
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

Opened February 18, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 49 min.

PG-13 Some intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sexual content
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz, Frank Langella
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Genres: Psychological Thriller, Thriller

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Gnomeo and Juliet

"Gnomeo and Juliet": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

What's in a name, after all? Would "Gnomeo & Juliet" — that's right, "Gnomeo & Juliet" — be the surprise of the season if it had a title that wasn't quite so silly? Or is the wackiness of the concept the reason this gently amusing, genuinely sweet animated film makes you smile from start to finish?

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Gnomeo and Juliet
The greatest love story ever told, starring...garden gnomes? Shakespeare's revered tale gets a comical, off-the-wall makeover. Directed by Kelly Asbury and showcasing both classic and original songs by Elton John, the film features the voices of James McAvoy and Emily Blunt as Gnomeo and Juliet, who have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and thrilling lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?

Opened February 11, 2011 | Runtime:1 hr. 24 min.

Cast: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Ashley Jensen, Michael Caine, Jim Cummings, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham
Director: Kelly Asbury
Genres: Adventure Comedy, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy, Children/Family

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