Best Soundtracks Released August 2009
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95%
Ratings
- 3.8 / 5
out of 5 stars
(88)
G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra
Paramount Pictures and Hasbro, whose previous collaboration was the worldwide blockbuster "Transformers," have reunited for another extraordinary action-adventure "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra." From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Marlon Wayans, Stephen Sommers, Sienna Miller, Brian Goldner, Stuart Beattie, Paul Lovett, Channing Tatum, Christopher Eccleston
85%
Ratings
- 4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(10)
The Ugly Truth
The battle of the sexes heats up in Columbia Pictures' comedy "The Ugly Truth." Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a romantically challenged morning show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left her hopelessly single. She's in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick.
Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl, Steven Reuther, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Kiwi Smith, John Michael Higgins, Robert Luketic, Tom Rosenberg
75%
Ratings
- 3.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(10)
Julie & Julia
A woman verging on thirty and frustrated in a temp secretary job takes on a yearlong culinary quest: cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd.
Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Dana Stevens, Linda Emond, Scott Rudin, Donald J. Lee
77%
Ratings
- 4.1 / 5
out of 5 stars
(16)
Bandslam
A high school outcast's bond with a popular girl over their shared love of music results in them assembling a rock group that looks to win their school's upcoming battle of the bands competition.
Vanessa Hudgens, Ron Schmidt, Gaelan Connell, Ryan Donowho, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Marisa Yeres, Todd Graff, Josh Cagan
72%
Ratings
- 3.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(45)
Aliens in the Attic
An adventure/comedy about kids on a family vacation who must fight off an attack by knee-high alien invaders with world-destroying ambitions—while the youngsters' parents remain clueless about the battle.
Adam F. Goldberg, Mark Burton, Robert Hoffman, Ashley Tisdale, Marc S. Fischer, John Schultz, Joe Hartwick Jr, Barry Josephson
41%
Ratings
- 3.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(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.
Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz, Chus Lampreave, Angela Molina, Blanca Portilla, Kiti Manver
89%
Ratings
- 4.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(13)
The Time Traveler's Wife
The love story focuses on a couple in which the man has a genetic disorder known as "chrono-impairment," a condition that causes him to involuntarily travel through time. Jeremy Leven wrote the adaptation.
Brad Pitt, Nick Wechsler, Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Robert Schwentke, Ron Livingston, Dede Gardner, Bruce Joel Rubin
89%
Ratings
- 4.2 / 5
out of 5 stars
(30)
Inglourious Basterds
A group of disgraced men in World War II manage to escape the execution squad by going on a daring mission to help the Allies in the fight against the Nazis.
Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Mike Myers, Til Schweiger, Lawrence Bender
87%
Ratings
- 3.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(5)
Post Grad
Eternal optimist Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has the most brutal of wake-up calls when she graduates from college and can't find a job, forcing her back home to live with her oddball family. Frustrated and confused about how her life is supposed to turn out, she soon realizes that her longtime platonic best friend is the only one who makes everything in her crazy life make sense.
Michael Keaton, Kelley Fremon, Rodrigo Santoro, Angel Oquendo, Vicky Jenson, Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Carol Burnett
59%
Ratings
- 3.5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(4)
World's Greatest Dad
Lance Clayton is a man who has learned to settle. He dreamed of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as a high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle is an insufferable jackass who won't give his father the time of day. He is dating Claire, the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to get serious -- or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating. Then, in the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of all the fame, fortune and popularity he ever dreamed of, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Tim Perell, Bob Goldthwait, Ted Hamm, Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick
86%
Ratings
- 3.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(43)
Drag Me to Hell
A morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse.
Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Justin Long, Josh Donen, Grant Curtis, Ivan Raimi, Jessica Lucas, Alison Lohman
67%
Ratings
- 3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(1)
Paper Heart
Described as part-documentary, part-scripted comedy about the real-life relationship between Michael Cera and his girlfriend, Charlyne Yi.
Nicholas Jasenovec, Sandra Murillo, Elise Salomon, Michael Cera, Charlyne Yi, Jake Johnson
95%
Ratings
- 5 / 5
out of 5 stars
(1)
What's Your Raashee?
A young man has only ten days to locate his soulmate as dictated by the stars, otherwise he could lose a fortune. He thus embarks on a journey through love, looking through twelve girls to find the one who fits his horoscope.
Ashutosh Gowariker, Naushil Mehta, Priyanka Chopra Jonas
33%
Aagey Se Right
Through a series of events which are beyond their control, a cop loses his gun and a terrorist loses his heart in Mumbai.
Indrajit Nattooji
89%
Ratings
- 3.7 / 5
out of 5 stars
(80)
The Final Destination
On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave...escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film marks the latest in the highly popular "Final Destination" series, and its first 3D installment, giving horror fans an especially visceral thrill ride.
Eric Bress, David R. Ellis, Warren Zide, Shantel VanSanten, Hayley Webb, Sheila Hanahan Taylor, Richard Brener, Craig Perry
87%
Ratings
- 4.3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(7)
Fame
Much like in the Oscar-winning original, directed by Alan Parker, the story will track the failures and fortunes of super-ambitious young performers and their teachers as they navigate a school year at the prestigious High School for the Performing Arts in New York.
Kelsey Grammer, Debbie Allen, Kevin Tancharoen, Mark Canton, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Allison Burnett, Aline Brosh McKenna
77%
Ratings
- 3 / 5
out of 5 stars
(32)
Jennifer's Body
When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never stood a chance with her, take on new luster in the light of Jennifer's insatiable appetite.
Amanda Seyfried, J.K. Simmons, Megan Fox, Mason Novick, Amy Sedaris, Jason Reitman, Johnny Simmons, Karyn Kusama
87%
Ratings
- 4.1 / 5
out of 5 stars
(50)
District 9
"District 9" depicts a fictional world where extraterrestrials have become refugees in South Africa.
Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Bill Block, Neill Blomkamp, Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham, Robert Hobbs, David James
55%
Ratings
- 2.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(11)
The Informant!
What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Scott Z. Burns, Scott Bakula, Greg Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Howard Braunstein
94%
Ratings
- 3.4 / 5
out of 5 stars
(57)
Halloween II
Picks up at the exact moment the first movie stopped and follow the aftermath of Michael Myers murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode.
Rob Zombie, Andy Gould, Sheri Moon, Malek Akkad, Bob Weinstein, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell
88%
Ratings
- 3.6 / 5
out of 5 stars
(64)
9
The surreal tale takes place in a world parallel to our own, a post-apocalyptic fantasy in which a band of courageous rag dolls battles for the survival of civilization.
Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Crispin Glover, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov, Jim Lemley, Dana Ginsburg, Shane Acker
84%
Ratings
- 3.8 / 5
out of 5 stars
(20)
Sorority Row
Focuses on a group of sorority sisters murdered at a party after they accidentally kill a teacher.
Jamie Chung, Stewart Hendler, Margo Harshman, Darrin Holender, Josh Stolberg, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Mike Karz
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