The story: This animated adventure comedy turns the tables on the historic myth, when an American astronaut lands on a planet full of little green people who have lived in fear of being invaded by monsters who look like him.
The story: When the love of her young life, Edward Cullen, leaves town, Bella Swan deepens her friendship with Jacob, introducing her to another netherworldly tribe.
A psychologist attempts to investigate recurring cases in which people are reported missing in an Alaska town, and uncovers evidence of alien abduction.
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an honorable family man, until the day his wife and daughter are murdered in a home invasion. He hopes for justice, but a rising prosecutor named Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) cuts a deal with one of the killers in exchange for testimony. Ten years later, that man is found dead and Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he hands Rice an ultimatum: Fix the broken legal system, or suffer the consequences.
Prompted by a question from his young daughter, comic Chris Rock sets out to explore the importance of hair in black culture. Rock interviews celebrities such as Ice-T and Raven Symone, and visits hair salons, stylist competitions and an Indian temple to learn about hair culture.
Based on the children's book, this animated adventure tells the story of an inventor who makes food fall from the sky like rain, a prospect that sounds wonderful until he realizes his food-producing machine is out of control.
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults set out to get their hands on it.
In this sequel to the cult hit "The Boondock Saints," the MacManus brothers attempt to avenge the murder of a priest. This movie was not screened in advance for critics.
The story: A overweight teenager in 1980s Harlem battles psychological and physical violence at the hands of her toxically abusive mother and searches for redemption in a literacy program.
Based on a true story, this drama focuses on the relationship between a victimized German woman and a Russian soldier during the Red Army invasion of Berlin.
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts, which would have taken place in London's O2 Arena.
Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, in which Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world -- a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
The Coen brothers direct this 1960s-set comedy about a physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) who seeks guidance from three rabbis when his life begins to fall apart.
Aaron Eckhart stars as a self-help guru still struggling with the loss of his wife who finds himself falling for a new woman (Jennifer Aniston) equally concerned about letting go of her own baggage.
The story of both Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a government employee who decides to cook her way through Julia Child's classic French cookbook, and Julia Child (Meryl Streep), as she begins to find her own way in the culinary world.
The first Imax movie ever to be shown at the Air and Space Museum takes viewers up in a balloon, into space and more as it simulates the feeling of flight.
The story: Civil rights lawyer William Kunstler was one of the most valorized and hated men of the 20th century as he took on the era's most controversial cases, including representing the "Chicago 8" after the 1968 Democratic convention and helping the inmates of Attica prison after their uprising.
The story: This comedy is based on the real-life exploits of a group of DJs who rocked 1960s Britain when they took to the high seas with their bootleg radio broadcasts.
The true story of a black girl -- born to a pair of white South Africans with black ancestry, during the era of apartheid -- and the journey she takes when her skin color begins to have a negative impact on her life.
In futuristic Metro City, a brilliant scientist named Tenma (Nicolas Cage) builds Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore), a robotic child with super strength, x-ray vision and the ability to fly. Upon learning that his friends and family in Metro City are in danger, Astro Boy must utilize his incredible powers to save everyone and everything he loves.
A look at the early life of designer Coco Chanel (Audrey Tautou) at the point when she meets a wealthy heir (Benot Poelvoorde) who makes her his lover and fashion consultant.
Steven Soderbergh directs this film, based on the true story of a whistle blower (Matt Damon) who works with the government to prove the existence of price fixing at agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland.
A guinea pig named Darwin (Sam Rockwell) and his team of specially trained rodents are shut down by the government and shipped off to a pet shop where they must find a way to break out and prevent a mad billionaire (Bill Nighy) from taking over the world.
The story: Nicolas Cage plays a rogue police detective in post-Katrina New Orleans, where he shakes down drug dealers and murderers while scrounging coke, heroin and other illicit goodies on the side. Mendes plays his girlfriend, a hooker with -- what else? -- a heart of gold.
The story: A recently returned Iraq war veteran is assigned to the Casualty Notification Service, where he confronts his own buried feelings about his experience.
Richard Kelly directs this thriller about a suburban couple who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. This movie did not screen in time for review.
A reporter (Ewan McGregor) meets a man (George Clooney) who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit that trains soldiers to harness their psychic powers.
In the summer of 1937, famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) journeys into history in her attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
Quentin Tarantino's long awaited WWII drama revolving around a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" who are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich.
Jim Henson directed this 1986 feature about a girl (played by a young Jennifer Connelly) who must enter a mysterious world to rescue her brother from a goblin king (David Bowie).
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