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  • A household pet goes on an adventure to discover its true self.

    88% want to see it
    19,613 ratings
    PG, 1 hr. 47 min.
    Directed by: Gore Verbinski
    Release Date: March 4, 2011
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  • Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? Matt Damon stars in the thriller The Adjustment Bureau as a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue the only woman he's ever loved across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt)--a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself--the men of The Adjustment Bureau--who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path...or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her. The Adjustment Bureau is written for the screen and directed by George Nolfi (writer of Ocean's Twelve, co-writer of The Bourne Ultimatum). It is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick ("Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "Blade R
    87% want to see it
    17,152 ratings

    Critics

    78% liked it
    9 critics
    PG-13, 1 hr. 39 min.
    Directed by: George Nolfi
    Release Date: March 4, 2011
  • Beastly is an edgy teen romance about learning how to see past false surfaces to discover true inner beauty. Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) has it all - looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity - and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating "aggressively unattractive" classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen), inviting her to the school's extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is - a task he considers impossible. Repulsed by his appearance, Kyle's callous father (Peter Krause) banishes him to Brooklyn with a sympathetic housekeeper (LisaGay Hamilton) and blind tutor (Neil Patrick Harris). As Kyle ponders how to overcome the curse and get his old life back, he chances upon a drug addict in the act of killing a threatening dealer. Seizing the opportunity, Kyle promises the addict freedom and safety for his daughter Lindy (Vanessa Hudgens) if she will consent to live in Kyle's Brooklyn home. Thus begins Kyle's journey to discover true love in this hyper-modern retelling of the classic "Beauty and the Beast" story. Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) and Alex Pettyfer (Wild Child, Stormbreaker) star in Beastly for CBS Films, the film division within CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS). Daniel Barnz (Phoebe In Wonderland) directed the project which completed principal photography in Montreal in August 2009. The film will be released in theaters in July 2010. Susan Cartsonis (No Reservations, What Women Want) is producing through her company, Storefront Pictures. Roz Weisberg is co-producing. In addition to his role as director, Barnz wrote the screenplay, which is based on the Alex Flinn novel of the same name. --© Disney

    80% want to see it
    15,090 ratings
    PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.
    Directed by: Daniel Barnz
    Release Date: March 4, 2011
  • Take Me Home Tonight is a raunchy, romantic and ultimately touching blast from the past set to an awesome soundtrack of timeless rock and hip-hop hits. Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin (Topher Grace) should be working for a Fortune 500 company and starting his upward climb to full-fledged yuppie-hood. Instead, the directionless 23-year-old confounds family and friends by taking a part-time job behind the counter of a video store at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. But Matt's silent protest against maturity comes to a screeching halt once his unrequited high school crush, Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer), walks into the store. When she invites him to an epic, end-of-summer party, Matt thinks he finally might have a chance with the girl of his dreams. With his cynical twin sister Wendy (Anna Faris) and best friend Barry (Dan Fogler), Matt embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime evening. From stealing a car to a marriage proposal to an indescribable, no-holds-barred dance-off, these friends share experiences that will change the course of their lives on one unforgettable night in the Go-Go 80s. -- (C) Relativity

    70% want to see it
    13,839 ratings
    R, 1 hr. 54 min.
    Directed by: Michael Dowse
    Release Date: March 4, 2011
  • I SAW THE DEVIL is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge from Korean genre master KIM Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad, The Weird and A Tale of Two Sisters). Oldboy's CHOI Min-sik plays Kyung-chul, a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. The embodiment of pure evil, he has committed horrifying and senselessly cruel serial murders on defenseless victims, successfully eluding capture by the police. On a freezing, snowy night, his latest victim is the beautiful Ju-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief and pregnant fiancée of elite special agent Soo-hyun (The Good, The Bad, The Weird's LEE Byung-hyun). Obsessed with revenge, Soo-hyun decides to track down the murderer, even if doing so means becoming a monster himself. And when he finds Kyung-chul, turning him in to the authorities is the last thing on his mind. The lines between good and evil fall away in this diabolically twisted game of cat and mouse. Pushing the concept of revenge to its most extreme limits, KIM Jee-woon brilliantly transcends the police procedural and serial killer genres in surprising and thrilling new ways. -- (C) Magnet

    76% want to see it
    1,643 ratings

    Critics

    75% liked it
    8 critics
    Unrated, 2 hr. 24 min.
    Directed by: Ji-woon Kim
    Release Date: March 4, 2011
  • Josh Radnor (CBS' Emmy-nominated How I Met Your Mother) wrote, directed and stars in happythankyoumoreplease, a sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives and their loves. On his way to a meeting with a publisher, aspiring novelist Sam Wexler (Radnor) finds Rasheen, a young boy separated from his family on the subway. When the quiet Rasheen refuses to be left alone with social services, Sam learns the boy has already been placed in six previous foster homes and impulsively agrees to let the boy stay with him for a couple days. Dropped into Sam's chaotic, bachelor lifestyle, Rasheen is introduced to Sam's circle of friends; Annie (Malin Akerman) who has an unhealthy pattern of dating the wrong men, as well as an auto-immune disorder which has rendered her hairless, Mary-Catherine (Zoe Kazan) and Charlie (Pablo Schreiber) whose potential move to Los Angeles threatens their relationship, and Mississippi (Kate Mara), an aspiring singer/waitress who tests Sam's fear of commitment. When Sam's unexpected friendship with Rasheen develops, he realizes adulthood is not about waiting for the right answers to get the life you want, but simply stumbling ahead and figuring them out in the process. Featuring a brilliant young cast and music from breaking indie musicians, happythankyoumoreplease deftly captures the uncertainty and angst of what it is to be young, vulnerable, and desperate to find out who you are - or perhaps more importantly, who you want to be. -- (C) Hannover House

    76% want to see it
    1,360 ratings

    Critics

    63% liked it
    8 critics
    R, 1 hr. 40 min.
    Directed by: Josh Radnor
    Release Date: March 4, 2011
  • n 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan (Michael Biehn). While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed. -- (C) Official Site

    55% want to see it
    645 ratings
    R, 1 hr. 43 min.
    Directed by: Stevan Mena
    Release Date: March 4, 2011

OPENING THIS WEEK...

Drive Angry (2011)

A vengeful father chases after the men who killed his daughter.

69% want to see it
13,147 ratings

Critics

57% liked it
14 critics
R, 1 hr. 44 min.
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Release Date: February 25, 2011 

Hall Pass (2011)

Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their marriages: granting them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever they want...no questions asked. At first, it sounds like a dream come true for Rick and Fred. But it isn't long before they discover that their expectations of the single life-and themselves-are completely, and hilariously, out of sync with reality.-- (C) Warner Bros

78% want to see it
11,148 ratings

Critics

19% liked it
17 critics
R, 1 hr. 38 min.
Release Date: February 25, 2011

MORE OPENING...

An Army Ranger discovers a clan of nightclubbing vampires while investigating the murder of his parents.

40% want to see it
221 ratings
R, 1 hr. 23 min.
Directed by: Charlie Picerni
Release Date: February 25, 2011 



The Grace Card (2011)

In racially charged Memphis, Tennessee, a searing personal tragedy has left police officer Mac McDonald a bitter, angry soul, blaming a long downward spiral on minorities, "the system" and God Himself.

78% want to see it
175 ratings
PG-13
Directed by: David G. Evans
Release Date: February 25, 2011 

Martin Scorsese's Public Speaking, the director's acclaimed new portrait of author, social critic, and acerbic wit Fran Lebowitz, will have its American theatrical premiere at Film Forum, beginning Wednesday, February 23, for a limited engagement. Showtimes daily are 1:30, 3:30, 5:40, 7:30 & 9:20. Made in the energetic style of Scorsese's early documentaries Italian American and American Boy, Public Speaking captures Lebowitz in conversation at New York's Waverly Inn, in an onstage discussion with longtime pal Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York, with the author offering insights on social issues including gender, race, and gay rights, as well pet peeves like celebrity culture, smoking bans, tourists and strollers. Gender, she says, is "a very big piece of luck... Any white gentile straight male who is not President of the United States failed." Reflecting on Barack Obama's election, she calls racism a "fantasy of superiority." Of aging, she says, "At a certain point, the worst picture taken of you when you were 25 is better than the best picture taken of you when you're 45." Expelled from her high school in Morristown, New Jersey, Fran first hit the NYC literary scene in the early 1970s, when Andy Warhol hired her to write a column for his Interview magazine. "New York was not better then because there was more crime," she says. "It was better because it was cheaper." Despite a decades-long bout of writer's block, which she calls a "writer's blockade," Lebowitz's eclectic career has included stints writing for Interview and Mademoiselle magazines and serving as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She is also the author of two bestselling collections of essays, Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), and the children's book Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas (1994). -- (C) Film Forum

67% want to see it
124 ratings
Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Release Date: February 23, 2011

Already bent by the demands of his home life - fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage - a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. "Everything Strange and New" is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times.Wayne is a carpenter, no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood. Aimless hours spent with Leo, his newly-divorced drinking buddy, offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home, where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife. Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone else's story. Ultimately, a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream. -- (C) Official Site

18% want to see it
122 ratings
Unrated, 1 hr. 24 min.
Directed by: Frazer Bradshaw
Release Date: February 25, 2011

A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues.

11% want to see it
121 ratings
Unrated, 2 hr. 14 min.
Directed by: Yousry Nasrallah
Release Date: February 25, 2011

OPENING THIS WEEK...

Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are best friends who have a lot in common, including the fact that they have each been married for many years. But when the two men begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) take a bold approach to revitalizing their marriages: granting them a "hall pass," one week of freedom to do whatever they want...no questions asked. At first, it sounds like a dream come true for Rick and Fred. But it isn't long before they discover that their expectations of the single life-and themselves-are completely, and hilariously, out of sync with reality.-- (C) Warner Bros

78% want to see it
8,940 ratings
R, 1 hr. 38 min.
Release Date: February 25, 2011 

A vengeful father chases after the men who killed his daughter.

71% want to see it
9,679 ratings
R, 1 hr. 44 min.
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Release Date: February 25,

A female psychiatrist comes to some discoveries in her latest case that puts her and her daughter in grave danger.

50% want to see it
9,255 ratings
R, 1 hr. 52 min.
Release Date: February 25, 2011

Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics

54% want to see it
3,101 ratings

Critics

87% liked it
23 critics
PG-13, 2 hr.
Directed by: Xavier Beauvois
Release Date: February 25, 2011

Part gleaming farce, part-tough-minded exploration of the inherent insanity of love and desire, HEARTBEATS centers on two close friends: Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri). At a dinner party one evening they meet Nicolas (Niels Schneider), a striking young man from the country who has just recently arrived in town. His boyish charm and classical good looks create an irresistible mystique that neither of the two friends can shake. The threesome begins to spend more and more time together. But the more intimate they get, the more remote and unattainable Nico becomes, sending Francis and Marie's comic obsession into overdrive. And as their hunger for Nicolas' affections grow, the more their once cast-iron friendship begins to crack and shift to rivalry. Wunderkind Xavier Dolan's directorial follow-up to the acclaimed I KILLED MY MOTHER (in which he also starred alongside Niels Schneider), HEARTBEATS is a study of the descent into poetically passionate love and the complexities of young human emotions. HEARTBEATS premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and was the recipient of the Youth Prize. -- (C) IFC Films

47% want to see it
1,791 ratings

Critics

82% liked it
11 critics
Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed by: Xavier Dolan
Release Date: February 25, 2011