January 2012 Movies

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Best Movies Released January 2012

The Grey Movie Poster

Suspense

90%

3.9

The Iron Lady Movie Poster

Biography

68%

4

The Devil Inside Movie Poster

Horror

The Devil Inside

77%

3.1

The Ides of March Movie Poster

Drama

The Ides of March

82%

3.7

One for the Money Movie Poster

Action

One for the Money

97%

3.7

Joyful Noise Movie Poster

Comedy

85%

4

Beauty and the Beast 3D Movie Poster

3D

Beauty and the Beast 3...

87%

4.4

Haywire Movie Poster

Action

82%

3.2

Red Tails Movie Poster

Drama

94%

4.1

Don't Go in the Woods Movie Poster

Horror

Don't Go in the Woods

51%

2.5

The Divide Movie Poster

Action

77%

3.8

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Movie Poster

Action

Tinker, Tailor, Soldie...

86%

3.8

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The Ides of March Poster

The Ides of March

A young communications director works for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rival politicos.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Beau Willimon, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Grant Heslov, Marisa Tomei

R Drama Political

82% WILL SEE

3.7

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Released Friday, January 6th

The Devil Inside Poster

The Devil Inside

The story centers on a woman who has been led to believe her mother brutally murdered three people because she was clinically insane. After being told the murders occurred during an exorcism, she sets out to discover the truth. While documenting her experience with a film crew in Italy, she becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Matthew Peterman, William Brent Bell, Morris Paulson, Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth, Suzan Crowley

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 27 mins

77% WILL SEE

3.1

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Poster

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The story of a spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Jared Harris, Tim Bevan, Ralph Fiennes, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Ciaran Hinds

R Action Thriller

86% WILL SEE

3.8

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Roadie Poster

Roadie

After 20 years of touring, a roadie for a defunct 80s hair band returns home to live with his mother.

Michael Cuesta, Lois Smith, David Margulies, Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy, Ron Eldard

R Drama

28% WILL SEE

2.8

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Norwegian Wood Poster

Norwegian Wood

The story centers on the loves and losses of a sensitive college boy in the 1960s who is more interested in American literature than in the era's political upheavals.

Tran Anh Hung

Drama 2 hrs, 13 mins

55% WILL SEE

3

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Beneath the Darkness Poster

Beneath the Darkness

After the death of his best friend, a 15-year-old boy struggles to expose the grim secrets surrounding a haunted house.

Dennis Quaid, Ronnie Clemmer, Aimee Teegarden, Tony Oller, Brett Cullen, Martin Guigui, Scott Mednick, Bruce Wilkinson

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 38 mins

74% WILL SEE

3.2

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Released Wednesday, January 11th

Loosies Poster

Loosies

About a young, successful pickpocket in the New York subways living the fast, free, outlaw lifestyle until confronted with an old one-night stand who informs him that she is pregnant with his child.

Michael Madsen, Jaimie Alexander, William Forsythe, Peter Facinelli, Michael Corrente, Chad Verdi, Glenn Ciano, Vincent Gallo

PG-13 Comedy Romance 1 hr, 28 mins

70% WILL SEE

3.1

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Released Friday, January 13th

The Iron Lady Poster

The Iron Lady

Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.

Meryl Streep, Phyllida Lloyd, Jim Broadbent, Anthony Head, Damian Jones, Abi Morgan, Michael Hirst, Richard E. Grant

PG-13 Drama Biography 1 hr, 45 mins

68% WILL SEE

4

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Beauty and the Beast 3D Poster

Beauty and the Beast 3D

The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and beautiful young woman who's taken prisoner by a hideous beast in his castle. Despite her precarious situation, Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff -- a teapot, a candelabra and a mantel clock, among others -- and ultimately learns to see beneath the Beast's exterior to discover the heart and soul of a prince.

Robby Benson, Gary Trousdale, Richard White, Kirk Wise, Don Hahn, Linda Woolverton, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers

G Family Animation

87% WILL SEE

4.4

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Joyful Noise Poster

Joyful Noise

Story centers on an unlikely partnership between two strong-minded, polar-opposites, who are forced to work together to save a small town gospel choir after budget cuts threaten to shut them down.

Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Todd Graff, Michael Nathanson, Joe Farrell, Catherine Paura, Andrew Kosove

PG-13 Comedy Music 1 hr, 58 mins

85% WILL SEE

4

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Contraband

The plot centers on a security guard and former alcohol smuggler on the Iceland-Netherlands route who is tempted back into illicit business by a dubious friend after encountering financial problems.

Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Bevan, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Levinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Baltasar Kormakur, Eric Fellner

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 50 mins

92% WILL SEE

4

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Addiction Incorporated Poster

Addiction Incorporated

A documentary made over the course of 15 years telling the story of Victor DeNoble's journey from research scientist to star informant against the tobacco industry.

Charles Evans Jr

PG Documentary

68% WILL SEE

4

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The Divide Poster

The Divide

A thriller that combines elements of’Assault on Precinct 13 with Lord of the Flies in a story of survival.

Milo Ventimiglia, Tony Krantz, Eron Sheean, Michael Biehn, Rosanna Arquette, Xavier Gens, Ross Dinerstein, Darryn Welch

R Action

77% WILL SEE

3.8

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Don't Go in the Woods Poster

Don't Go in the Woods

A young band heads to the woods to get away from their everyday lives in order to focus on writing new songs. Hoping to walk away from the trip with new tunes that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension.

Vincent D'Onofrio, Sam Bisbee, Joe Vinciguerra, Eric Bogosian, Gwynn Galitzer, Jorgen Jorgensen, Tim Lajcik, Soomin Lee

Suspense Horror 1 hr, 47 mins

51% WILL SEE

2.5

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Albatross Poster

Albatross

The story of Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay), a cheeky force of nature and the 17 year old heir to the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle. Harboring an ambition to follow in the literary footsteps of her grandfather, Emelia writes while working at a stuffy seaside hotel populated by another blocked novelist Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), his put-upon wife (Julia Ormond) and their daughter Beth (Felicity Jones). Befriending Beth, Emelia begins to inch her way into their family life before casually seducing the sexually-frustrated Jonathan, forcing all involved to confront some uncomfortable truths about their situation.

Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond

Comedy Romance

47% WILL SEE

2.9

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Man on a Mission Poster

Man on a Mission

Richard Garriott's quest to become the first second-generation astronaut, from making his fortune to spending $30 million to reach the International Space Station via Russian rocket.

Mike Woolf

Documentary

67% WILL SEE

3.6

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Sing Your Song Poster

Sing Your Song

Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.

Susanne Rostock, Harry Belafonte

Documentary 1 hr, 44 mins

3.8

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Released Wednesday, January 18th

The City Dark Poster

The City Dark

Ian Cheney moves from Maine to New York City and discovers an urban sky almost completely devoid of stars. The film poses a deceptively simple question, "What do we lose, when we lose the night?" and leads viewers on a quest to understand how light pollution affects people and the planet.

Ian Cheney

Documentary

100% WILL SEE

3.2

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Crazy Horse Poster

Crazy Horse

A documentary that looks behind the curtain on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, a landmark that has prided itself as "the best nude dancing show in the world" since 1951.

Frederick Wiseman

Documentary

86% WILL SEE

3.9

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Released Friday, January 20th

Red Tails Poster

Red Tails

A group of young WWII pilots overcome racism to form the Tuskegee Airmen, a distinguished group of fliers who broke the aviation color barrier to become the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. military history.

Michael B. Jordan, Bryan Cranston, John Ridley, Charles Floyd Johnson, Kevin Phillips, Anthony Hemingway, Rick McCallum, Rick Otto

PG-13 Drama War 2 hrs, 5 mins

94% WILL SEE

4.1

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Haywire Poster

Haywire

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is given a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes.

Michael Angarano, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Steven Soderbergh, Ryan Kavanaugh

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 33 mins

82% WILL SEE

3.2

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Poster

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Cl...

Oskar Schell, a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist, searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks.

Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Scott Rudin, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Stephen Daldry, Eric Roth

PG-13 Drama Adaptation

86% WILL SEE

3.8

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Underworld: Awakening Poster

Underworld: Awakening

No plot details have been announced. However, it is rumored this fourth installment will actually be the start of a new trilogy and that the studio, Screen Gems, is looking at reprising the story of the world’s sexiest vampire, Selene (Kate Beckinsale).

Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Bjorn Stein, Tom Rosenberg, Scott Speedman, Charles Dance, Mans Marlind, Len Wiseman

R Action Sequel 1 hr, 29 mins

96% WILL SEE

4.2

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The Flowers of War Poster

The Flowers of War

The story of China's Nanjing Massacre, which involved Japanese troops killing thousands of Chinese citizens in what was then the nation's capital in 1937. Christian Bale will play an American priest called John who helps a great number of Chinese escape certain death.

Christian Bale, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Weiping, Liu Heng

R Action Adventure

92% WILL SEE

4.1

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Coriolanus Poster

Coriolanus

Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, is manipulated and out-maneuvered by politicians and even his own mother Volumnia, resulting in his banishment. He subsequently offers himself to his sworn enemy, and together they march on Rome intending to destroy the city.

Gerard Butler, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Tana, Vanessa Redgrave, William Hurt

R Drama 2 hrs, 2 mins

86% WILL SEE

3.4

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16-Love Poster

16-Love

When the number one junior player in the country is injured, she begins to discover the teenage life she never got to live… and find the love she never thought she’d have.

Adam Lipsius, Leigh Dunlap, Lindsey Shaw, Chandler Massey, Keith Coulouris, Susie Abromeit, Lindsey Black, Mark Elias

PG Comedy Romance

75% WILL SEE

3.9

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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life Poster

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

Chronicles the 90-year-old icon - both onstage and off...past and present. The film is both an intimate love story and a rarefied journey inside Broadway's most glamorous era.

Dori Berinstein

Documentary

21% WILL SEE

4

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Miss Bala Poster

Miss Bala

An aspiring beauty queen finds her dream corrupted when she unwillingly gets involved with a criminal group at war in Mexico.

Gerardo Naranjo

Drama Action

67% WILL SEE

3.8

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Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Poster

Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred ...

In the lost holy land of Milos, the Elrics search for the truth behind an unknown form of alchemy.

Kazuya Murata

Action Sci-Fi

87% WILL SEE

4.4

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Watching TV with the Red Chinese Poster

Watching TV with the Red Chinese

In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.

Shimon Dotan, Ryan O'Nan

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 45 mins

75% WILL SEE

2.2

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Released Wednesday, January 25th

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? Poster

How Much Does Your Building Weig...

The film traces the rise of one of the world’s premier architects, Norman Foster and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. Portrayed are Foster’s origins and how his dreams and influences inspired the design of emblematic projects such as the largest building in the world Beijing Airport, the Reichstag, the Hearst Building in New York and works such as the tallest bridge ever in Millau France.

Carlos Carcas, Norberto López Amado

Biography Documentary

30% WILL SEE

2.1

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Released Friday, January 27th

The Grey Poster

The Grey

Story centers on a group of plane crash survivors who are stranded in the desolate forest, and are being hunted by a pack of wolves.

Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Joe Carnahan, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Ian Jeffers, Dallas Roberts

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 57 mins

90% WILL SEE

3.9

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One for the Money Poster

One for the Money

Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), an unemployed lingerie buyer, convinces her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop, Joe Morelli (Jason O'Mara), on the run for murder -- the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.

Other cast members include John Leguizamo as Jimmy Alpha, Ana Reeder as Connie Rossoli, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Jackie and Sherri Shepherd as dual roles playing two hookers with hearts of gold. There are no details about Shepherd's dual roles but one of them is confirmed to be Lula. Grandma Mazur will be played by Debbie Reynolds.

John Leguizamo, Tom Rosenberg, Karen McCullah Lutz, Jason O'Mara, Nancy Heigl, Jim Tauber, James 'Jim' Whitaker, Julie Anne Robinson

PG-13 Action Comedy 1 hr, 46 mins

97% WILL SEE

3.7

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Man on a Ledge Poster

Man on a Ledge

An ex-cop-turned-con (Sam Worthington) threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatches a female police psychologist to talk him down but, unbeknownst to the cops on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for a massive diamond heist.

Sam Worthington, Anthony Mackie, Genesis Rodriguez, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Asger Leth, Elizabeth Banks, Ed Harris, Mark Vahradian

PG-13 Action Adventure 1 hr, 42 mins

91% WILL SEE

4.1

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Lula, the Son of Brazil Poster

Lula, the Son of Brazil

A working class boy moves to the financial capital of Brazil and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history.

Marcelo Santiago, Fabio Barreto

Drama 2 hrs, 10 mins

50% WILL SEE

3.6

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We Need to Talk About Kevin Poster

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The movie, based on Lionel Shriver's novel, tells the story of a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. He turns out to be extremely difficult and is at the center of the woman's marital breakdown before going on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.

John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer Fox, Robert Salerno, Luc Roeg, Rory Stewart Kinnear, Tilda Swinton

R Drama

72% WILL SEE

3.5

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Declaration of War Poster

Declaration of War

Follows a couple, their child, his illness and their battle.

Valrie Donzelli, Edouard Weil, Jeremie Elkaim

NR Drama Romance 1 hr, 50 mins

36% WILL SEE

3.3

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The Wicker Tree Poster

The Wicker Tree

Follows two evangelists from Texas who visit Scotland to spread the gospel. They encounter a local man practicing ancient magic with sinister motives.

Robin Hardy, Peter Watson-Wood, Peter Snell, Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett, Graham McTavish, Christopher Lee

R Sequel Horror

50% WILL SEE

3.4

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Amador Poster

Amador

A portrait of a young immigrant woman living in Spain.

Fernando León de Aranoa

Drama

45% WILL SEE

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