Movies Released October 12, 2012

A physics teacher's school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martial arts fighter, ultimately leading to brawling in the UFC.

Salma Hayek, Kevin James, Frank Coraci, Todd Garner, Henry Winkler, Allan Loeb, Marty Ewing, Joe Rogan

PG Action Comedy

63% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

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53%

4.3 / 5

(65)

Argo

Theaters

In 1979, CIA operative Tony Mendez, a master of disguise is put in charge of rescuing six Americans hiding out in Tehran. He comes up with the idea of using a bogus movie and contacts a Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers. Chambers and Bob Sidell, also a makeup artist, launch Studio Six Productions (an allusion to the six Americans awaiting rescue) and announce their first movie project, to be shot in Iran. Mendez travels to Tehran in January 1980 and tells the Americans to pretend they are Canadians on a scouting trip for a big-budget Hollywood epic. The ruse works.

John Goodman, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Chris Terrio, Bryan Cranston, Scoot McNairy, Alan Arkin, Michael Parks

R Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 0 mins

53% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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83%

3.8 / 5

(52)

Sinister

Limited

Follows a journalist who moves his family into a house where another family was murdered. After moving in, he uncovers found footage that leads to clues about the murders.

Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke, Jason Blum, Vincent D'Onofrio, James Ransone, C. Robert Cargill, Clare Foley, Michael Hall D'Addario

R Thriller Suspense

83% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

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33%

3.3 / 5

(3)

War of Buttons

Limited

Two rival gangs of kids from different French villages engage in a play war.

Guillaume Canet, Christophe Barratier, Laetitia Casta, Thomas Langmann, Jean Texier, Ilona Bachelier

PG-13 Adventure Family

33% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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77%

2.9 / 5

(23)

Smiley

Limited

After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named Smiley can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

Keith David, Melanie Papalia, Roger Bart, Caitlin Gerard, Andrew James Allen, Michael Traynor, Jana Winternitz, Michael Gallagher

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 30 mins

77% WILL SEE

2.9 / 5

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54%

2.8 / 5

(10)

Smashed

Limited

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter... and getting smashed. When Kate's partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something's got to give. But change isn't exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she's been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Mackenzie Davis, Aaron Paul, Kyle Gallner, James Ponsoldt, Nick Offerman, Bree Turner, Mary Kay Place

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 25 mins

54% WILL SEE

2.8 / 5

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31%

2 / 5

(4)

Gayby

NYC Only

Jenn (Jenn Harris) and Matt (Matthew Wilkas) are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together... the old-fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? Gayby is an irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.

Jonathan Lisecki, Jenn Harris, Matthew Wilkas

Comedy LGBTQIA+

31% WILL SEE

2 / 5

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66%

3.8 / 5

(19)

Seven Psychopaths

Limited

Story follows a screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken). Things take a turn for the worse when a gangster's (Mickey Rourke) mutt goes missing.

Olga Kurylenko, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

R Comedy

66% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

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38%

2.2 / 5

(5)

3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom

Limited

Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam) has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce (Chris O'Dowd) -usually on film- his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.

Ron Perlman, Lizzy Caplan, Jordan Roberts, Chris Noth, Chris O'Dowd, Whitney Cummings, Sam Anderson

Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

38% WILL SEE

2.2 / 5

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91%

3.5 / 5

(17)

Special Forces

Limited

A kidnapping drama set in Afghanistan.

Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Denis Menochet, Stephane Rybojad, Benoit Magimel, Raphael Personnaz

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 48 mins

91% WILL SEE

3.5 / 5

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87%

3.6 / 5

(18)

Atlas Shrugged Part II

Limited

The second part of a planned trilogy that continues the Ayn Rand story.

Samantha Mathis, Esai Morales, D.B. Sweeney, Harmon Kaslow, Patrick Fabian, John Putch, Richard T. Jones, Paul McCrane

PG-13 Drama Sequel

87% WILL SEE

3.6 / 5

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84%

3.4 / 5

(20)

Grave Encounters 2

Limited

Grave Encounters was a found-footage horror phenomenon that many people believed was just a movie. Film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong in Grave Encounters 2. Alex is as obsessed with the first film as the 20 million people who viewed its viral trailer on YouTube. While he and his friends research the events and visit the real psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film, they find themselves face-to-face with unspeakable evil, banking on the hope that their knowledge of the original film will help them survive the sequel.

Richard Harmon, The Vicious Brothers, John Poliquin, Sean Rogerson, Stephanie Bennett, Howard Lai, Dylan Playfair, Leanne Lapp

Sequel Thriller

84% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

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46%

3.3 / 5

(4)

Simon and the Oaks

NYC/LA

Set in rural Sweden in the 1940s and tells the story of a boy from a working class family who befriends a Jewish boy whose family has fled from Germany.

Bill Skarsgard, Lisa Ohlin, Helen Sjoholm, Jan Josef Liefers

NR Drama 2 hrs, 2 mins

46% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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17%

4 / 5

(3)

Nobody Walks

Limited

Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife. Martine innocently enters the seemingly idyllic life of this open-minded family with two kids and a relaxed Southern California vibe. Like a bolt of lightning, her arrival sparks a surge of energy that awakens suppressed impulses in everyone and forces them to confront their own fears and desires.

John Krasinski, Rhys Wakefield, Olivia Thirlby, Jane Levy, Rosemarie DeWitt, Dylan McDermott, Lena Dunham, Ry Russo-Young

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 23 mins

17% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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50%

3.9 / 5

(7)

The Thieves

Limited

It's the score of their lives--if they can pull it off. Five thieves at the top of their game, and the crew is assembling for their biggest job yet. Popie's the muscle and brains, Pepsee's the safecracker. Yenicall climbs walls, Zampano is the strategy man, and Chewingum is the master of disguise. But this new score--it's hot. Maybe too hot. But who can resist the Tear of The Sun: a 318-carat diamond, worth 20 million dollars, and locked away in a casino. The vault is impenetrable, the location covered in cops, and everyone knows there's no honor among thieves--especially not the crew Macao Park, Popie's old partner, has forced their team to work with. As they gear up and stroll into the casino with a plan, skills, and a whole lot of nerve, they quickly learn that avoiding the cops may not be their toughest problem. What's Macao Park's real motive? Who will betray them all? And who will walk away with the diamond?

Dong-hoo Choi, Yun-seok Kim, Gianna Jun, Hae-suk Kim

NR Action Crime 2 hrs, 15 mins

50% WILL SEE

3.9 / 5

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45%

3 / 5

(2)

Least Among Saints

Limited

Returning home to a broken marriage and an uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Martin Papazian) believes there is no hope for himself. Yet when a troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), calls out for help, Anthony cannot turn away. To the dismay of the boy's social worker (Laura San Giacomo), Anthony sets out on a fool's quest to help this heartbroken and hard-to-reach child find his long-lost father. In the midst of this new mission--the first that seems to matter since his return--Anthony begins to come to grips with both the costs of war and the universal power of human connection. Papazian finds both the gravity and the grace in ordinary, flawed characters pushed to extraordinary acts of compassion and decency.

Charles S. Dutton, Laura San Giacomo, Audrey Marie Anderson, A.J. Cook, Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Azura Skye

R Drama

45% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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100%

Art Machine

Limited

A 18-year-old prodigy painter, suffering from bipolar disorder, needs to come up with an art show to end all art shows, but when he meets a group of artist-anarchists, his world turns upside down.

Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr, Joey Lauren Adams, Doug Karr

NR Drama Comedy

100% WILL SEE

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36%

2.2 / 5

(5)

Middle of Nowhere

Limited

A drama chronicling a woman’s separation from her incarcerated husband and her journey to maintain her marriage and her identity.

Ava DuVernay

R Drama

36% WILL SEE

2.2 / 5

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20%

1 / 5

(1)

A Whisper to a Roar

Limited

A Whisper to a Roar tells the heroic stories of courageous democracy activists in five countries around the world – Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. From student leaders to prime ministers and heads of state, these activists share their compelling personal stories of struggle, past and present, with their countries’ oppressive regimes.

Alfred Molina, Ben Moses

Documentary

20% WILL SEE

1 / 5

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