March 2012 Movies

Said to be an outrageous college-age high concept. The filmmakers are intent that every actor cast in the film will be losing their screen virginity on the project.

Miles Teller, Andrew Rona, Todd Phillips, Joel Silver, Thomas Mann, Steve Richards, Michael Bacall, Matt Drake

R Comedy Teen 1 hr, 28 mins

56% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

92%

4.1 / 5

(206)

Despite warnings from the tree-loving Lorax, a greedy entrepreneur strips a forest of its stock of Truffula trees to manufacture clothing. The results are catastrophic as all the animals leave and nothing's left.

Chris Meledandri, Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul, John Cohen

PG Adventure Family 1 hr, 34 mins

92% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

65%

2.7 / 5

(7)

The Snowtown Murders

Based on a true story involving Australian serial killer John Bunting, the film follows a 16-year-old who begins a friendship with a charismatic older man. As the relationship grows, the teen finds his world threatened by both his loyalty for, and fear of, his newfound father-figure.

Justin Kurzel, Shaun Grant, Anna McLeish, Sarah Shaw, Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris

Thriller 2 hrs, 0 mins

65% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

65%

3.8 / 5

(6)

Boy

The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand Thriller is changing kids lives.

Taika Waititi

Drama Comedy

65% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

78%

2.7 / 5

(6)

Being Flynn

A man's estranged con-man father's self-destruction eventually drives him onto the streets and ultimately into the homeless shelter where his son works.

Robert De Niro, Olivia Thirlby, Julianne Moore, Chris Weitz, Michael Costigan, Paul Weitz, Lili Taylor, Victor Rasuk

R Drama Comedy

78% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

Art Is...The Permanent Revolution Poster

36%

3.8 / 5

(4)

Art Is...The Permanent Revol...

Three contemporary American artists and a master printer help explain the dynamic sequences of social reality and protest. While their graphics sweep by, the making of an etching, a woodcut and a lithograph unfolds, as the contemporary artists join their illustrious predecessors in creating art of social engagement.

Manfred Kirchheimer

Documentary

36% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

Buy DVD On Amazon

67%

3.1 / 5

(13)

Let the Bullets Fly

In 1920s China, a notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor.

Jiang Wen

Action Comedy

67% WILL SEE

3.1 / 5

18%

3.8 / 5

(4)

Last Days Here

A raw touching portrait of cult metal legend Bobby Liebling, chronicling his bid to resurrect his life and career after decades wasting away in his parents' basement.

Don Argott, Demian Fenton

NR Documentary

18% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Poster

54%

2.1 / 5

(13)

Tim and Eric's Billion Dolla...

Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back.

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Zach Galifianakis, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte, Tim Heidecker, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

54% WILL SEE

2.1 / 5

36%

2.4 / 5

(7)

The Salt of Life

In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (played by Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life--with both hilarious and poignant results.

Gianni Di Gregorio

Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

36% WILL SEE

2.4 / 5

Released Friday, March 9th

72%

3.9 / 5

(226)

John Carter

A Civil War veteran retreats into a cave to avoid capture by Apache Indians. But this cave actually transports him via time portal to the planet of Barsoom and is taken prisoner by 12-foot-tall green men.

Willem Dafoe, James Purefoy, Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton, Bryan Cranston, Sean Daniel, Thomas Haden Church, Ciaran Hinds

PG-13 Action Adventure 2 hrs, 12 mins

72% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

88%

3.8 / 5

(72)

A Thousand Words

A man finds out hat he has only 1,000 words left to speak before he dies.

Nicolas Cage, Allison Janney, Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Brian Robbins, Stephanie Danan, Clark Duke, Kerry Washington

PG-13 Comedy

88% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

76%

3.1 / 5

(54)

Silent House

Trapped in a nightmare, a young woman descends into madness.

Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Kentis, Laura Lau, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Haley Murphy, Julia Taylor Ross, Adam Barnett

R Thriller Suspense

76% WILL SEE

3.1 / 5

69%

3 / 5

(18)

Playback

A group of high school students make a film about a grisly crime that took place in their town 17 years ago. As they dig deeper, an ongoing horror possesses their souls and tears their lives apart.

Michael A. Nickles, Randall Emmett, Brooke Smith, Alessandra Torresani, Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, John Bennett, Larry Robbins

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 35 mins

69% WILL SEE

3 / 5

72%

3.9 / 5

(14)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

About the ups and downs of a civil servant in the Middle Eastern country.

Ewan McGregor, Paul Webster, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lasse Hallstrom, Simon Beaufoy, Steven Garrett, Amr Waked

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 47 mins

72% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

78%

3.7 / 5

(9)

Friends with Kids

No plot details have been announced yet.

Anne Hathaway, Megan Fox, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Jake Kasdan, Jennifer Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Mike Nichols

R Comedy 1 hr, 53 mins

78% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

73%

3.8 / 5

(6)

Footnote

Follows a great rivalry between a father and his son, their need for each other and their need for respect and recognition in the world.

Lior Ashkenazi, Joseph Cedar, David Mandill, Shlomo Bar Aba

PG Drama 1 hr, 43 mins

73% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

90%

4 / 5

(11)

The Decoy Bride

When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.

Alice Eve, Kelly MacDonald, Sally Phillips, David Tennant, Sheree Folkson, Neil Jaworski, Maureen Beattie, Federico Castelluccio

PG Comedy Romance

90% WILL SEE

4 / 5

50%

4.2 / 5

(5)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Follows Jiro Ono, the 85-year-old sushi chef at the tiny, prominent Tokyo restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro.

Matthew Weaver, Tom Pellegrini, David Gelb, Kevin Iwashina

PG Documentary 1 hr, 21 mins

50% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

37%

3.8 / 5

(5)

Sound of Noise

Police officer Amadeus Warnebring was born into a musical family with a long history of famous musicians. Ironically, he hates music. His life is thrown into chaos when a band of crazy musicians decides to perform a musical apocalypse using the city as their orchestra... Reluctantly, Warnebring embarks on his first musical investigation...

Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

R Comedy Crime 1 hr, 42 mins

37% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

53%

3.4 / 5

(5)

Apart

The journey of the tragically star-crossed Noah and Emily who are linked by a rare psychological disorder classified as ICD-10 F24, madness of two.

Olesya Rulin, Josh Danziger

NR Drama Thriller 1 hr, 25 mins

53% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

36%

2.4 / 5

(7)

The Salt of Life

Gianni Di Gregorio

Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

36% WILL SEE

2.4 / 5

Buy DVD On Amazon

Released Friday, March 16th

85%

4.3 / 5

(170)

21 Jump Street

An undercover police unit consisting of young looking officers infiltrate high schools to control youth crime.

Ice Cube, Jonah Hill, Dakota Johnson, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Chris Miller, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson

R Action Crime 1 hr, 49 mins

85% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

73%

3.8 / 5

(6)

Detachment

The tragic modern state of the human condition is explored through the eyes of students and teachers at a failing high school.

Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston, James Caan, Blythe Danner, Christina Hendricks, Nick Nolte, Marcia Gay Harden, Tony Kaye

Drama

73% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

87%

4.3 / 5

(14)

Seeking Justice

Described as being in the vein of "The Game" (1997).

Nicolas Cage, Tobey Maguire, Guy Pearce, Ram Bergman, Jenno Topping, Harold Perrineau, Roger Donaldson, January Jones

R Drama Thriller

87% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

70%

3.3 / 5

(6)

Jeff Who Lives at Home

An adventure-comedy about a stoner on a quest for a bottle of wood glue.

Ed Helms, Jason Segel, Susan Sarandon, Mark Duplass, Judy Greer, Jason Reitman, Helen Estabrook, Jay Duplass

R Comedy 1 hr, 23 mins

70% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

66%

5 / 5

(5)

Around June

June is living with her much adored Uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father Murry, when she meets a penniless illegal immigrant Juan Diego, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life.

Samaire Armstrong, Brad William Henke, Jon Gries, James Savoca, Oscar Guerrero

Drama Romance 1 hr, 33 mins

66% WILL SEE

5 / 5

67%

1.8 / 5

(5)

Reuniting The Rubins

An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a holiday gathering. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist (James Callis), an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause (Rhona Mitra), an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi! While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family.

Rhona Mitra, James Callis, Timothy Spall, Blake Harrison, Yoav Factor, Loo Brealey

PG Comedy Family 1 hr, 37 mins

67% WILL SEE

1.8 / 5

76%

2.7 / 5

(12)

Casa de Mi Padre

A Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell.

Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, Gael García Bernal, Jessica Elbaum, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Emilio Diez Barroso

Action Comedy 1 hr, 24 mins

76% WILL SEE

2.7 / 5

52%

4.3 / 5

(13)

Ranchero

After the death of his parents Rockabilly Tejano Jesse Torres leaves his childhood cattle ranch for the Bright Lights of the Big City. His childhood friend Tom sets Jesse up in a squalid neighborhood of drugs, gangs and broken dreams. Jesse quickly finds out Tom is in deep to the local gangs and struggles to help his friend break away. He finds solace in local girl, Lil' Bit, but as the romance blossoms Jesse finds himself confronted by the neighborhood mobster, Capone (Danny Trejo) who owns Lil' Bit. Now faced with a drug addicted best friend, an angry mobster and his girlfriend’s freedom, Jesse must make some hard choices.

Danny Trejo, Richard Kaponas, Roger Gutierrez, Christina Woods, Brian Eric Johnson

Drama 1 hr, 38 mins

52% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

50%

4.2 / 5

(5)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Follows Jiro Ono, the 85-year-old sushi chef at the tiny, prominent Tokyo restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro.

Matthew Weaver, Tom Pellegrini, David Gelb, Kevin Iwashina

PG Documentary 1 hr, 21 mins

50% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

Coming Soon On Amazon

61%

4.1 / 5

(8)

Delicacy

Audrey Tautou is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (Francois Damiens). At first stunned by Nathalie's unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else's judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.

Audrey Tautou, David Foenkinos, Stephane Foenkinos, Francois Damiens

PG-13 Comedy Romance

61% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

Released Friday, March 23rd

87%

4.5 / 5

(660)

The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year old from a poor territory that was once Appalachia, becomes a gladiator in a reality-show that is a battle to the death against other teens from the 12 districts of the former United States.

Amandla Stenberg, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Liam Hemsworth, Leven Rambin, Nina Jacobson, Elizabeth Banks

PG-13 Action Thriller 2 hrs, 22 mins

87% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

85%

4.6 / 5

(49)

The Raid: Redemption

As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows their cover, boss Tama (Ray Sahetaphy) offers lifelong sanctuary to every killer, rapist and thief in the building in exchange fortheir heads. Now Rama must stand in for the team's fallen leader (Joe Taslim) and use every iota of his fighting strength - winding through every floor and every room to complete the mission and escape with his life.

Gareth Evans, Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsyah

Action Thriller 1 hr, 41 mins

85% WILL SEE

4.6 / 5

65%

2.3 / 5

(3)

Musical Chairs

Set against the backdrop of competitive ballroom dancing, Musical Chairs is about Armando a Bronx-bred Latino who aspires to be a dancer but whose only way in is as handyman at a Manhattan dance studio, and Mia, an Upper East Side princess who is the studio's star performer.

Susan Seidelman, Laverne Cox, Leah Pipes, E.J. Bonilla, Priscilla Lopez, Jaime Tirelli

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins

65% WILL SEE

2.3 / 5

53%

3.5 / 5

(8)

The Deep Blue Sea

A woman leaves her husband, a high court judge, and falls in love with a pilot traumatized from the war.

Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Terance Davies

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

53% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

69%

3 / 5

(4)

The Trouble With Bliss

Tells the story of 35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall), who is clamped firmly in the jaws of New York City inertia. He wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; and he still shares an apartment with his widowed father (Peter Fonda), who treats Morris with a mix of disdain and exasperation. When he finds himself juggling a bizarre relationship with the sexually precocious 18-year-old daughter (Brie Larson) of a former classmate and the advances of his very forward neighbor (Lucy Liu), Morris realizes that even though his life is unraveling, it's also opening up in ways that are long overdue.

Brie Larson, Sarah Shahi, Lucy Liu, Michael Knowles, Peter Fonda, Rhea Perlman, Chris Messina, Michael C. Hall

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 37 mins

69% WILL SEE

3 / 5

52%

3.5 / 5

(15)

Brake

Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) is about to have a very bad day. He wakes up in total darkness, confused and disoriented. The only light comes from the blood-red digital numbers ticking away above his head. Jeremy quickly realizes he's in trouble. It's hard to breath. He can barely move. And no one will answer his cries for help. Then, he hears the sound of an engine and it all becomes clear...he's trapped in the trunk of a moving car. As his captors reveal themselves and their motives, Jeremy realizes he won't be set free until he gives up the whereabouts of "Roulette," a secret location where the U.S. President is taken in the event of a terrorist attack.

Stephen Dorff, Tom Berenger, Chyler Leigh, Gabe Torres, Timothy Mannion, JR Bourne

R Action Thriller 1 hr, 32 mins

52% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

77%

4.1 / 5

(15)

October Baby

A beautiful and naive college freshman discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip to discover herself and the answers she craves.

Jon Erwin, Andrew Erwin

Drama

77% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

73%

2.8 / 5

(31)

4:44 Last Day On Earth

In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They're in love. She's a painter, he's a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon - except that this isn't a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined.

Willem Dafoe, Natasha Lyonne, Abel Ferrara, Paul Hipp

R Drama Sci-Fi 1 hr, 25 mins

73% WILL SEE

2.8 / 5

Released Wednesday, March 28th

59%

4.3 / 5

(7)

The Island President

Jon Shenk's The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced--the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable. The Island President captures Nasheed's first year of office, culminating in his trip to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the film provides a rare glimpse of the political horse-trading that goes on at such a top-level global assembly. Nasheed is unusually candid about revealing his strategies--leveraging the Maldives' underdog position as a tiny country, harnessing the power of media, and overcoming deadlocks through an appeal to unity with other developing nations. When hope fades for a written accord to be signed, Nasheed makes a stirring speech which salvages an agreement. Despite the modest size of his country, Mohamed Nasheed has become one of the leading international voices for urgent action on climate change.

Jon Shenk

Documentary

59% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

Released Friday, March 30th

86%

3.7 / 5

(60)

Mirror Mirror

Story is pitched as an edgy and modernized take on the classic fairy tale.

Armie Hammer, Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, Brett Ratner, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jason Keller, Martin Klebba, Sean Bean

PG Drama Adventure 1 hr, 46 mins

86% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

83%

4.1 / 5

(196)

Wrath of the Titans

A follow up adventure to the 2010 Greek-mythology action movie. Expect more adventures for Perseus, the mortal son of the god Zeus.

Louis Leterrier, Rosamund Pike, Ralph Fiennes, Sam Worthington, Edgar Ramirez, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson, Jonathan Liebesman

PG-13 Action Adventure 1 hr, 39 mins

83% WILL SEE

4.1 / 5

89%

4.3 / 5

(76)

Bully

Follows "a year in the life" of America's bullying crisis through five kids and their families.

Lee Hirsch, Cynthia Lowen

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 40 mins

89% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

84%

4.2 / 5

(20)

Goon

The story centers on the world of semi-professional ice hockey.

Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Michael Dowse, Jay Baruchel, Evan Goldberg, David Gross, Eugene Levy, Don Carmody

R Comedy Sports

84% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

86%

3 / 5

(7)

Womb

A woman gives birth to a clone of her dead lover.

Eva Green, Benedek Fliegauf

Drama 1 hr, 47 mins

86% WILL SEE

3 / 5

82%

3.1 / 5

(22)

Intruders

An 11-year-old girl is forced to confront childhood demons.

Clive Owen, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Belen Atienza, Daniel Bruhl, Carice van Houten, Ella Purnell, Kerry Fox, Enrique Lopez Lavigne

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 40 mins

82% WILL SEE

3.1 / 5

82%

4.2 / 5

(43)

Dark Tide

A female diving instructor returns to the deep after a near-fatal incident with a Great White shark.

Clark Johnson, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Halle Berry, Celine Rattray, Sukee Chew, Christopher Tuffin, Martin Shore

PG-13 Action Thriller 1 hr, 34 mins

82% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

66%

3.6 / 5

(10)

Turn Me On, Dammit!

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Comedy

66% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

54%

3.2 / 5

(33)

I Kissed a Vampire

A desperate teen tries to save himself and the girl he loves after discovering he's transforming into a vampire.

Chris Nolan, Lucas Grabeel, Drew Seeley, Adrian Slade

Musical Teen 1 hr, 31 mins

54% WILL SEE

3.2 / 5

14%

3.7 / 5

(3)

The Beat Hotel

The legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the freedom that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.

Alan Govenar

Documentary

14% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5