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★ Synecdoche, New York A
dir. Charlie Kaufman; with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener
  • Trouble the Water A
    dirs. Tia Lessin & Carl Deal; documentary about Hurricane Katrina survivors
  • Hunger A–
    dir. Steve McQueen; with Michael Fassbender, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon
  • Up the Yangtze A–
    dir. Yung Chang; documentary about huge human impact of China's Three Gorges Dam
  • The Wrestler A–
    dir. Darren Aronofsky; with Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
  • Alexandra B+
    dir. Aleksandr Sokurov; with Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov
    ★ Ballast B+
    dir. Lance Hammer; with JimMyron Ross, Micheal J. Smith Sr., Tarra Riggs
  • Burn After Reading B+
    dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen; with George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt
  • Chicago 10 B+
    dir. Brett Morgen; documentary about protests at 1968 Democratic Convention
  • A Christmas Tale B+
    dir. Arnaud Desplechin; with Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussilon
  • The Class B+
    dir. Laurent Cantet; with François Bégaudeau, Rachel Régulier, Esméralda Ouertani
  • The Duchess of Langeais B+
    dir. Jacques Rivette; with Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
  • The Edge of Heaven B+
    dir. Fatih Akin; with Baki Davrak, Nurgül Yesilçay, Patrycia Ziolkowska
  • The Fall B+
    dir. Tarsem; with Catinca Untaru, Lee Pace, Justine Waddell, Robin Smith
  • Flight of the Red Balloon B+
    dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien; with Juliette Binoche, Fang Song, Simon Iteanu
  • Man on Wire B+
    dir. James Marsh; documentary about a tightrope walker and his surprise stunts
  • Milk B+
    dir. Gus Van Sant; with Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco
  • Rachel Getting Married B+
    dir. Jonathan Demme; with Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Debra Winger
  • Savage Grace B+
    dir. Tom Kalin; with Julianne Moore, Eddie Redmayne, Stephen Dillane
  • Still Life B+
    dir. Jia Zhang-ke; with Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Li Zhubin, Wang Hongwei
  • Taxi to the Dark Side B+
    dir. Alex Gibney; documentary about post-9/11 U.S. torture policies and practices
  • WALL•E B+
    dir. Andrew Stanton; animated; voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
  • Yella B+
    dir. Christian Petzold; with Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann
  • Boarding Gate B
    dir. Olivier Assayas; with Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng, Kelly Lin
  • Che B
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Benicio Del Toro, Demián Bichir, Catalina Sandino Moreno
  • The Counterfeiters B
    dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky; with Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow
  • The Dark Knight B
    dir. Christopher Nolan; with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
  • Elegy B
    dir. Isabel Coixet; with Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Dennis Hopper
  • Happy-Go-Lucky B
    dir. Mike Leigh; with Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin
  • Last Chance Harvey B
    dir. Joel Hopkins; with Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Eileen Atkins
  • Let the Right One In B
    dir. Tomas Alfredson; with Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Peter Carlberg
  • Married Life B
    dir. Ira Sachs; with Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson
    ★ Mister Foe B
    dir. David Mackenzie; with Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani
    ★ Quantum of Solace B
    dir. Marc Forster; with Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Judi Dench, Mathieu Amalric
  • Snow Angels B
    dir. David Gordon Green; with Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano
  • Stop-Loss B
    dir. Kimberly Peirce; with Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish
  • Surfwise B
    dir. Doug Pray; documentary about a zealous surfer, his wife, and their nine children
  • Tyler Perry's The Family
          That Preys     B
    dir. Tyler Perry; with Alfre Woodard, Kathy Bates, Sanaa Lathan, Rockmond Dunbar
    ★ Waltz with Bashir B
    dir. Ari Folman; animated; with the voices of Ari Folman, Mickey Leon, Dror Harazi
  • Wendy and Lucy B
    dir. Kelly Reichardt; with Michelle Williams, Walter Dalton, Will Patton
  • Young@Heart B
    dir. Stephen Walker; documentary about a senior citizens' chorus
  • The Band's Visit B–
    dir. Eran Kolirin; with Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour
  • The Bank Job B–
    dir. Roger Donaldson; with Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Daniel Mays
  • Blindness B–
    dir. Fernando Meirelles; with Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya
  • Frozen River B–
    dir. Courtney Hunt; with Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, James Reilly
  • Jellyfish B–
    dirs. Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen; with Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Noa Knoller
  • Paranoid Park B–
    dir. Gus Van Sant; with Gabe Nevins, Taylor Momsen, Lauren McKinney
  • The Reader B–
    dir. Stephen Daldry; with David Kross, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes
  • The Strangers B–
    dir. Bryan Bertino; with Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Glenn Howerton, Gemma Ward
  • Teeth B–
    dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein; with Jess Weixler, Hale Appleman, John Hensley
  • Then She Found Me B–
    dir. Helen Hunt; with Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick
    ★ Turn the River B–
    dir. Chris Eigeman; with Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Rip Torn, Matt Ross
  • The Visitor B–
    dir. Tom McCarthy; with Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Hiam Abbass, Danai Gurira
  • W. B–
    dir. Oliver Stone; with Josh Brolin, James Cromwell, Elizabeth Banks
    ★ XXY B–
    dir. Lucía Puenzo; with Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Martín Piroyansky
  • Cadillac Records C+
    dir. Darnell Martin; with Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Columbus Short, Beyoncé Knowles
  • Cloverfield C+
    dir. Matt Reeves; with Michael Stahl-David, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller
  • Doubt C+
    dir. John Patrick Shanley; with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
    ★ In the City of Sylvia C+
    dir. José Luis Guerín; with Xavier Lafitte, Pilar López de Ayala, Gladys Deussner
  • Iron Man C+
    dir. Jon Favreau; with Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges
  • Kit Kittredge: An American
          Girl     C+
    dir. Patricia Rozema; with Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Zach Mills, Madison Davenport
  • My Blueberry Nights C+
    dir. Wong Kar-wai; with Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz
  • Never Forever C+
    dir. Gina Kim; with Vera Farmiga, David Lee McInnis, Ha Jung-woo
  • Reprise C+
    dir. Joachim Trier; with Espen Klouman-Høiner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Viktoria Winge
    ★ Smart People C+
    dir. Noam Murro; with Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Page
  • Summer Palace C+
    dir. Lou Ye; with Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong, Bai Xueyen, Hu Ling
  • Transsiberian C+
    dir. Brad Anderson; with Emily Mortimer, Woody Harrelson, Eduardo Noriega
  • The Witnesses C+
    dir. André Téchiné with Johan Libéreau, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila
  • Australia C
    dir. Baz Luhrmann; with Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, David Wenham
    ★ The Duchess C
    dir. Saul Dibb; with Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper
  • Encounters at the End of the
          World     C
    dir. Werner Herzog; documentary about Antarctica and its inhabitants
  • Frost/Nixon C
    dir. Ron Howard; with Michael Sheen, Frank Langella, Sam Rockwell, Oliver Platt
  • How She Move C
    dir. Ian Iqbal Rashid; with Rutina Wesley, Dwain Murphy, Tre Armstrong
  • Mongol C
    dir. Sergei Bodrov; with Tadanobu Asano, Sun Hong Ley, Ba Sen
  • Nothing But the Truth C
    dir. Rod Lurie; with Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga
  • The Signal C
    dirs. David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush; with Anessa Ramsey
    ★ Stuck C
    dir. Stuart Gordon; with Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby
  • Take C
    dir. Charles Oliver; with Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman
  • Tell No One C
    dir. Guillaume Canet; with François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas
    ★ Vicky Cristina Barcelona C
    dir. Woody Allen; with Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz
    ★ Changeling C–
    dir. Clint Eastwood; with Angelina Jolie, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin
          Button     C–
    dir. David Fincher; with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson
  • Gran Torino C–
    dir. Clint Eastwood; with Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley
  • In Bruges C–
    dir. Martin McDonagh; with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes
  • The Last Mistress C–
    dir. Catherine Breillat; with Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida
  • Miracle at St. Anna C–
    dir. Spike Lee; with Derek Luke, Laz Alonso, Michael Ealy, Omar Benson Miller
  • Quid Pro Quo C–
    dir. Carlos Brooks; with Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Jessica Hecht, Aimee Mullins
  • Revolutionary Road C–
    dir. Sam Mendes; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, David Harbour
  • Rogue C–
    dir. Greg McLean; with Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, Sam Worthington, Caroline Brazier
  • Sex and the City C–
    dir. Michael Patrick King; with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon
  • Standard Operating Procedure C–
    dir. Errol Morris; documentary about prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib prison
  • Tyler Perry's Meet the
          Browns     C–
    dir. Tyler Perry; with Angela Bassett, Rick Fox, Lance Gross, David Mann
  • Appaloosa D+
    dir. Ed Harris; with Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger
  • Beaufort D+
    dir. Joseph Cedar; with Oshri Cohen, Eli Eltonyo, Ohad Knoller, Itay Kiran
  • Brideshead Revisited D+
    dir. Julian Jarrold; with Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw
  • A Girl Cut in Two D+
    dir. Claude Chabrol; with Ludivine Sagnier, François Berléand, Benoît Magimel
  • Irina Palm D+
    dir. Sam Garbarski; with Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop
    ★ I've Loved You So Long D+
    dir. Philippe Claudel; with Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein
    ★ Mamma Mia! D+
    dir. Phyllida Lloyd; with Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan
    © Men in the Nude D+
    dir. Károly Esztergályos; with Lászlo Gálffi, Dávid Szabó, Éva Kerekes
  • Nights in Rodanthe D+
    dir. George C. Wolfe; with Diane Lane, Richard Gere, Mae Whitman, Viola Davis
  • Slumdog Millionaire D+
    dir. Danny Boyle; with Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor
  • Diary of the Dead D
    dir. George A. Romero; with Michelle Morgan, Josh Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde
    © Tropic Thunder D
    dir. Ben Stiller; with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black
  • Hamlet 2 D–
    dir. Andrew Fleming; with Steve Coogan, Skylar Astin, Phoebe Strole
  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
          of the Crystal Skull     D–
    dir. Steven Spielberg; with Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still F
    dir. Scott Derrickson; with Jennifer Connelly, Keanu Reeves, Jaden Smith
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