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The 11th Hour B
dirs. Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen; documentary on climate change
12:08 East of Bucharest B+
dir. Corneliu Porumboiu; with Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mircea Andreescu
2 Days in Paris B+
dir. Julie Delpy; with Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Albert Delpy
28 Weeks Later C+
dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo; with Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots
3:10 to Yuma C
dir. James Mangold; with Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Ben Foster
300 C+
dir. Zack Snyder; with Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Rodrigo Santoro
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and
2 Days A
dir. Cristian Mungiu; with Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Alexandru Potocean
Across the Universe D+
dir. Julie Taymor; with Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson
After the Wedding B
dir. Susanne Bier; with Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård, Sidse Babett Knudsen
© Alpha Dog F
dir. Nick Cassavetes; with Emile Hirsch, Anton Yelchin, Justin Timberlake
American Gangster C
dir. Ridley Scott; with Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin
The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford B
dir. Andrew Dominik; with Casey Affleck, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell
Atonement C+
dir. Joe Wright; with Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan
Away from Her B
dir. Sarah Polley; with Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis
Bamako B+
dir. Abderrahmane Sissako; with Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traore, Zégué Bamba
Becoming Jane C
dir. Julian Jarrold; with Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Laurence Fox
Before the Devil Knows You're
Dead B
dir. Sidney Lumet; with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei
Beowulf C
dir. Robert Zemeckis; animated; voices of Ray Winstone, Brendan Gleeson
Black Book C
dir. Paul Verhoeven; with Carice van Houten, Thom Hoffman, Sebastian Koch
★ Black Snake Moan B+
dir. Craig Brewer; with Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake
The Bourne Ultimatum B
dir. Paul Greengrass; with Matt Damon, Joan Allen, David Strathairn
The Brave One D+
dir. Neil Jordan; with Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews
★ Breach B
dir. Billy Ray; with Ryan Phillippe, Chris Cooper, Laura Linney
Broken English B
dir. Zoe Cassavetes; with Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo
The Bubble C
dir. Eytan Fox; with Ohad Knoller, Yousef Sweid, Daniela Virtzer
Bug B
dir. William Friedkin; with Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Harry Connick Jr.
Charlie Wilson's War C
dir. Mike Nichols; with Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman
© Control B
dir. Anton Corbijn; with Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara
★ Crazy Love B
dir. Dan Klores; documentary about a man who marries the woman he maimed
Dan in Real Life C
dir. Peter Hedges; with Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook
★ The Darjeeling Limited C
dir. Wes Anderson; with Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman
Day Night Day Night A
dir. Julia Loktev; with Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Tschi Hun Kim
Days of Glory (Indigènes) B
dir. Rachid Bouchareb; with Jamel Debbouze, Bernard Blancan, Sami Bouajila
Deep Water A
dirs. Louise Osmond & Jerry Rothwell; documentary about fateful sailing contest
The Devil Came on
Horseback B
dirs. Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg; documentary about genocide in Darfur
The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly B
dir. Julian Schnabel; with Mathieu Amalric, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Eastern Promises C+
dir. David Cronenberg; with Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel
★ Elizabeth: The Golden Age D+
dir. Shekhar Kapur; with Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Abbie Cornish
Enchanted B
dir. Kevin Lima; with Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden
Evening D+
dir. Lajos Koltai; with Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Dancy
The Exterminating Angels D+
dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau; with Frédéric van den Driessche, Lise Bellynck
★ Fay Grim B
dir. Hal Hartley; with Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak
Flanders D+
dir. Bruno Dumont; with Samuel Boidin, Adélaíde Leroux, Henri Cretel
For the Bible Tells Me So B
dir. Daniel Karslake; documentary about homosexuality and Christianity in the U.S.
Fracture C
dir. Gregory Hoblit; with Ryan Gosling, Anthony Hopkins, Rosamund Pike
★ Freedom Writers C
dir. Richard LaGravenese; with Hilary Swank, April Lee Hernandez, Jason Finn
The Golden Compass C
dir. Chris Weitz; with Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig
Gone Baby Gone C+
dir. Ben Affleck; with Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Ed Harris
Grbavica: The Land of My
Dreams B
dir. Jasmila Žbanić;
with Mirjana Karanović, Luna Mijović, Leon Lučev
Grindhouse B
dirs. Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino; with Rose McGowan
Hairspray B
dir. Adam Shankman; with Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer
Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix C+
dir. David Yates; with Daniel Radcliffe, Imelda Staunton, Emma Watson
Helvetica C
dir. Gary Hustwit; documentary about this ubiquitous sans-serif typeface
The Host B
dir. Bong Joon-ho; with Song Kang-ho, Bae Du-na, Park Hae-il
Hot Fuzz C
dir. Edgar Wright; with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent
I Am Legend B
dir. Francis Lawrence; with Will Smith, Alice Braga, Salli Richardson
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone B+
dir. Tsai Ming-liang; with Norman Atun, Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi
I'm Not There A
dir. Todd Haynes; with Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin
In the Shadow of the Moon C
dir. David Sington; documentary about U.S. missions to the moon
In the Valley of Elah C
dir. Paul Haggis; with Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon
Into Great Silence B
dir. Philip Groöning; documentary portrait of life inside a French monastery
Into the Wild B+
dir. Sean Penn; with Emile Hirsch, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener
Jindabyne A
dir. Ray Lawrence; with Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Sean Rees-Wemyss
Joshua C+
dir. George Ratliff; with Sam Rockwell, Jacob Kogan, Vera Farmiga
Juno B+
dir. Jason Reitman; with Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner
Killer of Sheep A
dir. Charles Burnett; reissue; with Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore
The King of Kong: A Fistful
of Quarters B+
dir. Seth Gordon; documentary about arcade-game world record rivalry
The Kingdom C
dir. Peter Berg; with Jamie Foxx, Ashraf Barhom, Jennifer Garner
Knocked Up B
dir. Judd Apatow; with Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann
Lady Chatterley B+
dir. Pascale Ferran; with Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Hippolyte Girardot
Lake of Fire B+
dir. Tony Kaye; documentary about abortion debates in the United States
Lars and the Real Girl C+
dir. Craig Gillespie; with Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Lions for Lambs D+
dir. Robert Redford; with Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
★ The Lives of Others C
dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; with Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Mühe
The Lookout C
dir. Scott Frank; with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode, Jeff Daniels
Love in the Time of Cholera C
dir. Mike Newell; with Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt
Lust, Caution B+
dir. Ang Lee; with Tang Wei, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wang Lee-hom
Margot at the Wedding B
dir. Noah Baumbach; with Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zane Pais
★ Michael Clayton B
dir. Tony Gilroy; with George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
A Mighty Heart B+
dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi
The Mist B
dir. Frank Darabont; with Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Marcia Gay Harden
My Kid Could Paint That B
dir. Amir Bar-Lev; documentary about 4-year-old artist Marla Olmstead
The Namesake C+
dir. Mira Nair; with Tabu, Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett
No Country for Old Men B
dir. Joel Coen; with Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem
No End in Sight B+
dir. Charles Ferguson; documentary; anatomy of U.S. failures in Iraq War
Ocean's Thirteen B
dir. Steven Soderbergh; with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
Once A
dir. John Carney; with Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Geoff Minogue
The Orphanage C+
dir. Juan Antonio Bayona; with Belén Rueda, Roger Príncep, Fernando Cayo
The Page Turner C
dir. Denis Dercourt; with Déborah François, Catherine Frot, Pascal Greggory
Paris, je t'aime C
dirs. Podalydès, Chadha, Van Sant, Coen & Coen, Salles & Thomas, Doyle, Coixet, Suwa, Chomet, Cuarón, Assayas, Schmitz, LaGravenese, Natali, Craven, Tykwer, Dépardieu & Auburtin, and Payne
Persepolis B
dirs. Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi; animated; voice of Chiara Mastroianni
The Price of Sugar B
dir. Bill Haney; documentary about justice struggle for Haitian migrant workers
Private Property C+
dir. Joachim LaFosse; with Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier
Ratatouille B
dir. Brad Bird; animated; with the voices of Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm
Red Road B+
dir. Andrea Arnold; with Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston
Redacted B
dir. Brian De Palma; with Izzy Diaz, Rob Devaney, Patrick Carroll
Rendition C
dir. Gavin Hood; with Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zineb Oukach
Rescue Dawn B
dir. Werner Herzog; with Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
Reservation Road C
dir. Terry George; with Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Connelly
The Savages B
dir. Tamara Jenkins; with Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco
Save Me C
dir. Robert Cary; with Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Judith Light, Stephen Lang
Show Business: The Road to
Broadway C
dir. Dori Berinstein; documentary about mounting four big Broadway musicals
Sicko B
dir. Michael Moore; polemic critique of U.S. health care system
The Simpsons Movie B
dir. David Silverman; animated; voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner
Sleuth D+
dir. Kenneth Branagh; with Michael Caine, Jude Law
Southland Tales B
dir. Richard Kelly; with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Seann William Scott
Starting Out in the Evening C
dir. Andrew Wagner; with Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor
Stephanie Daley B
dir. Hilary Brougher; with Amber Tamblyn, Tilda Swinton, Timothy Hutton
Sunshine B
dir. Danny Boyle; with Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne
Superbad C
dir. Greg Mottola; with Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street B
dir. Tim Burton; with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Syndromes and a Century A
dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul; with Nantarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram
Talk to Me B
dir. Kasi Lemmons; with Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen
Ten Canoes B
dir. Rolf de Heer; with Crusoe Kurddal, Peter Minygululu, Richard Birrinbirrin
Terror's Advocate B
dir. Barbet Schroeder; documentary about controversial defense lawyer Jacques Vergès
There Will Be Blood B+
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson; with Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier
Things We Lost in the Fire B
dir. Susanne Bier; with Benicio Del Toro, Halle Berry, David Duchovny
This Is England B
dir. Shane Meadows; with Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham
Transformers C+
dir. Michael Bay; with Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Rachael Taylor
An Unreasonable Man B
dirs. Henriette Mantel & Steve Skrovan; documentary; with Ralph Nader
★ Vacancy D
dir. Nimród Antal; with Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley
The Valet C
dir. Francis Veber; with Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil
La Vie en rose B
dir. Olivier Dahan; with Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Gérard Depardieu
Waitress F
dir. Adrienne Shelly; with Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Jeremy Sisto
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox
Story D+
dir. Jake Kasdan; with John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Tim Meadows
We Own the Night A
dir. James Gray; with Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
The Wind That Shakes the
Barley B
dir. Ken Loach; with Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald
★ Year of the Dog C
dir. Mike White; with Molly Shannon, Peter Sarsgaard, Josh Pais
Youth without Youth C
dir. Francis Ford Coppola; with Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
★ Zodiac B
dir. David Fincher; with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr.
Zoo A
dir. Robinson Devor; with John Paulsen, Russell Hodgkinson, Jenny Edwards
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