Movies Released October 8, 2010

Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."

John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Diane Lane, Scott Glenn, Randall Wallace, Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray, Mike Rich

PG Drama Historical 1 hr, 56 mins

84% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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85%

4 / 5

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Life As We Know It

Theaters

Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.

Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Paul Brooks, Greg Berlanti, Barry Josephson, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Faizon Love

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 52 mins

85% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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85%

3.3 / 5

(62)

My Soul to Take

Theaters

The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.

Anthony Katagas, Denzel Whitaker, Emily Meade, Wes Craven, Shareeka Epps, Raul Esparza, Paulina Olszyinski, Iya Labunka

R Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 28 mins

85% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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89%

4.3 / 5

(20)

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Theaters

A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.

Emma Roberts, Lauren Graham, Anna Boden, Zoe Kravitz, Zach Galifianakis, Viola Davis, Pam Abdy, Ryan Fleck

PG-13 Drama Teen 1 hr, 41 mins

89% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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84%

4.2 / 5

(20)

I Spit On Your Grave

Limited

A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

Daniel Franzese, Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Steven R. Monroe, Jeff Branson, Chad Lindberg

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 48 mins

84% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

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75%

4.3 / 5

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Inside Job

NYC Only

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.

Matt Damon, Jeffrey Lurie, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins

75% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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83%

3.8 / 5

(24)

Buried

Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Ryan Reynolds, Rodrigo Cortés, Chris Sparling, Samantha Mathis, Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin

R Drama War 1 hr, 40 mins

83% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

Buy DVD On Amazon

25%

4 / 5

(1)

Down Terrace

NYC/LA

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.

Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

25% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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71%

3.2 / 5

(20)

Never Let Me Go

Limited

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

Keira Knightley, Mark Romanek, Alex Garland, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan, Allon Reich, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins

R Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 44 mins

71% WILL SEE

3.2 / 5

Coming Soon On Amazon

27%

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

Limited

A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.

Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges

Comedy Horror 1 hr, 40 mins

27% WILL SEE

Rent or buy On Amazon

64%

3.7 / 5

(10)

Nowhere Boy

NYC/LA

A biopic of a young John Lennon.

Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Aaron Johnson, Ophelia Lovibond, Matt Greenhalgh, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Sangster, Sam Taylor Wood

R Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

64% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

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88%

4 / 5

(10)

Stone

NYC/LA

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.

Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, Edward Norton, Angus MacLachlan, Frances Conroy, John Curran

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 45 mins

88% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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61%

3.3 / 5

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Tamara Drewe

Limited

The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Gemma Arterton, Luke Evans, Bill Camp, Tracey Seaward, Dominic Cooper, Stephen Frears, Alison Owen, Moira Buffini

R Comedy 1 hr, 49 mins

61% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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29%

3.2 / 5

(5)

As Good as Dead

NYC Only

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.

Andie MacDowell, Cary Elwes, Brian Cox, Frank Whaley, Jonathan Mossek, Matt Dallas

R Thriller

29% WILL SEE

3.2 / 5

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