November 2009 Movies

An Israeli director travels the world to find out what anti-Semitism means in the modern world.

Yoav Shamir

NR Documentary 1 hr, 31 mins

37% WILL SEE

Based on the book by the Guardian columnist Jon Ronson, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is set in Iraq and centers on Bob Wilton (McGregor), a desperate reporter who stumbles upon the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (Clooney), who claims to be a former secret U.S. military psychic soldier who was re¬activated post-9/11. "Goats" chronicles the two men's travels through Iraq and offers glimpses into the supposedly real secret Army unit tasked with creating soldiers with paranormal powers.

Peter Straughan, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Grant Heslov, Paul Lister, Rebecca Mader

R Drama Comedy

78% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

91%

4.2 / 5

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Disney's A Christmas Carol

The story centers on Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts that haunt him on Christmas Eve. Jim Carrey will star as Scrooge as well as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

Colin Firth, Jim Carrey, Cary Elwes, Robert Zemeckis, Robin Wright, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Bob Hoskins

PG Comedy Family 1 hr, 16 mins

91% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

76%

3 / 5

(30)

The Box

Norma and Arthur Lewis (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) are a suburban couple with a young child who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world...someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and face the true nature of their humanity.

Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Terry Dougas, Richard Kelly, Gillian Jacobs, Ted Field, Richard Matheson

PG-13 Drama Thriller 1 hr, 55 mins

76% WILL SEE

3 / 5

80%

3.6 / 5

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The Fourth Kind

A woman investigates an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances from one small town in Alaska.

Joe Carnahan, Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Enzo Cilenti, Paul Brooks, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Corey Johnson, Jeff Levine

PG-13 Thriller Suspense

80% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

91%

3.9 / 5

(63)

Precious

In 1980s Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teenager who is abused by her parent and pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Damien Paul, Paula Patton, Sherri Shepherd, Gary Magness, Lenny Kravitz

R Drama Teen 1 hr, 49 mins

91% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

39%

The Flying Scissors

Thirty-two regional winners meet in a Rock-Paper-Scissors championship.

Jonah Tulis, Blake J. Harris

Comedy

39% WILL SEE

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56%

That Evening Sun

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.

Hal Holbrook, Scott Teems, Ray McKinnon

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 50 mins

56% WILL SEE

Released Friday, November 13th

89%

3.8 / 5

(174)

2012

Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. "2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Danny Glover, Thandiwe Newton, John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Roland Emmerich, Oliver Platt, Woody Harrelson, Mark Gordon

PG-13 Drama Action 2 hrs, 38 mins

89% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

66%

4.5 / 5

(11)

Pirate Radio

Set in the 1960s, a band of rogue DJs captivate the British people and anger the British government by playing unheard before poptastic tunes.

Richard Curtis, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Chris O'Dowd, Tim Bevan, Hilary Bevan-Jones, Rhys Ifans

R Comedy 2 hrs, 15 mins

66% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

57%

3.3 / 5

(7)

The Messenger

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.

Oren Moverman, Ben Foster, Jena Malone, Alessandro Camon, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton

R Drama 1 hr, 45 mins

57% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

91%

3.9 / 5

(63)

Precious

Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Damien Paul, Paula Patton, Sherri Shepherd, Gary Magness, Lenny Kravitz

R Drama Teen 1 hr, 49 mins

91% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

72%

3.9 / 5

(30)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

NYC/LA

A fox uses its wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the fox and resort to a shock-and-awe offensive

Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Scott Rudin, George Clooney, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Wally Wolodarsky

PG Comedy Kids 1 hr, 27 mins

72% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

55%

3.4 / 5

(37)

Women in Trouble

A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

Carla Gugino, Sebastian Gutierrez, Adrianne Palicki

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

55% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

42%

4 / 5

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Dare

NYC/LA

Three very different teenagers discover that, even in the safe world of a suburban prep school, no one is who she or he appears to be.

Emmy Rossum, Rooney Mara, Ana Gasteyer, Alan Cumming, Mary Jane Skalski, Zach Gilford, Adam Salky, Jason Orans

R Drama

42% WILL SEE

4 / 5

40%

Uncertainty

A young couple find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Scott McGehee, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, David Siegel (II)

Drama Thriller

40% WILL SEE

Released Wednesday, November 18th

78%

4 / 5

(6)

Red Cliff

The film is based on historical events which transpired 1,700 years ago as told in a chapter of the popular 600-year-old novel 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'.

Chow Yun-Fat, John Woo, Tony Leung, Chang Chen, Zhang Fengyi

R Drama Action

78% WILL SEE

4 / 5

Released Thursday, November 19th

89%

3.9 / 5

(221)

Twilight

Twilight" is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she's ever met. Intelligent and witty, he sees straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands – and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. But he doesn't have fangs, and he doesn't drink human blood; Edward and his family are unique among vampires in their lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward and Bella do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre), the Cullens' mortal vampire enemies, come to town, looking for her?

Anna Kendrick, Ashley Greene, Robert Pattinson, Catherine Hardwicke, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Rosenberg, Elizabeth Reaser, Sarah Clarke

PG-13 Action Adventure 2 hrs, 0 mins

89% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

Released Friday, November 20th

57%

3.3 / 5

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The Messenger

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.

Oren Moverman, Ben Foster, Jena Malone, Alessandro Camon, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton

R Drama 1 hr, 45 mins

57% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

94%

3.9 / 5

(145)

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

In "New Moon", Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.

Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, Robert Pattinson, Wyck Godfrey, Cam Gigandet, Cameron Bright, Kristen Stewart, Patrick Wachsberger

PG-13 Drama Sequel 2 hrs, 10 mins

94% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

83%

3.4 / 5

(44)

Planet 51

The inhabitants of Planet 51 live in fear of alien invasion. Their paranoia is realized when an astronaut arrives from Earth. Befriended by a young resident, he has to avoid capture in order to recover his spaceship and try to return home.

Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Gary Oldman, Joe Stillman, Seann William Scott, Jorge Blanco, Ignacio Pérez Dolset, John Cleese

PG Adventure Animation 1 hr, 30 mins

83% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

91%

3.9 / 5

(63)

Precious

Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Damien Paul, Paula Patton, Sherri Shepherd, Gary Magness, Lenny Kravitz

R Drama Teen 1 hr, 49 mins

91% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

92%

4.5 / 5

(67)

The Blind Side

The true story of football player Michael Oher who was a homeless black teen from a broken home. He was taken in by a well-to-do white family that saw extraordinary promise in him.

Sandra Bullock, John Lee Hancock, Lily Collins, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Gil Netter, Tim McGraw, Molly Smith

PG-13 Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 6 mins

92% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Poster

71%

3.3 / 5

(4)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call...

In the movie, a re-imagining of the original movie starring Harvey Keitel, Nicolas Cage stars as a "cop on the edge". Val Kilmer will play his partner while Xzibit will play a baddie named "Big Fade".

Val Kilmer, Nicolas Cage, Edward R. Pressman, Boaz Davidson, Eva Mendes, Danny Dimbort, Avi Lerner, Werner Herzog

R Action Adventure 2 hrs, 1 min

71% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

41%

3.5 / 5

(4)

Broken Embraces

"Broken Embraces" is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's "In a Lonely Place" and Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful," with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers.

Penelope Cruz, Pedro Almodovar, Angela Molina, Kiti Manver, Blanca Portilla, Chus Lampreave

R Drama Thriller 2 hrs, 8 mins

41% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

Released Wednesday, November 25th

72%

3.9 / 5

(30)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

A fox uses its wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the fox and resort to a shock-and-awe offensive

Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Scott Rudin, George Clooney, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Wally Wolodarsky

PG Comedy Kids 1 hr, 27 mins

72% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

85%

3.9 / 5

(88)

Old Dogs

The story centers on best friends and business partners seeing their lives turned upside down when they find themselves in the care of 7-year-old twins.

Walt Becker, John Travolta, Seth Green, Robin Williams, Andrew Panay, David Diamond, Matt Dillon, Robert Levy

PG Action Adventure 1 hr, 28 mins

85% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

89%

4.1 / 5

(32)

Ninja Assassin

Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them...and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow, Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi, to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive...and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.

James McTeigue, Grant HIll, Lana Wachowski, Naomie Harris, Joel Silver, J. Michael Straczynski, Rick Yune, Matthew Sand

R Action Adventure 1 hr, 39 mins

89% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

88%

4.7 / 5

(195)

The Princess and the Frog

NYC/LA

A musical set in the greatest city of them all, New Orleans, "The Princess and the Frog" marks Disney's return to the timeless art form of traditional animation. The film teams Ron Clements and John Musker, creators of "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin," with Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman to tell the most beautiful love story ever told ... with frogs, voodoo, and a singing alligator.

Anika Noni Rose, Jason Oremland, John Goodman, John Lasseter, Rob Edwards, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis, Jim Cummings

G Comedy Family

88% WILL SEE

4.7 / 5

83%

3.8 / 5

(15)

The Road

Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Road" – the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world.

Nick Wechsler, Robert Duvall, Joe Penhall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, John Hillcoat, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 48 mins

83% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

81%

3 / 5

(5)

Me and Orson Welles

Zac Efron will star as high school senior Richard Samuels—an age and grade level the actor knows well—who, while walking the streets of Manhattan one day, comes across Orson Welles' still unopened Mercury Theater, where the Shakespearean auteur, pre-Citizen Kane, is staging a production of Julius Caesar. Richard lands a bit part in the play and does a lot of growing up during his brief time under Welles' tutelage.

Zac Efron, Ben Chaplin, Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Richard Linklater, James Tupper, George Coulouris

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 47 mins

81% WILL SEE

3 / 5

Released Friday, November 27th

63%

1.7 / 5

(3)

Cry of the Owl

A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend ends up dead, leaving the new arrival as a suspect.

Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Jamie Thraves

Drama Thriller 1 hr, 42 mins

63% WILL SEE

1.7 / 5