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  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil A–
    dir. Sacha Gervasi; documentary about the struggling heavy-metal band
  • Beeswax A–
    dir. Andrew Bujalski; with Tilly Hatcher, Maggie Hatcher, Alex Karpovsky
  • The Hurt Locker A–
    dir. Kathryn Bigelow; with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
    ★ Julia A–
    dir. Erick Zonca; with Tilda Swinton, Aidan Gould, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo
  • Lorna's Silence A–
    dirs. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne; with Arta Dobroshi, Fabrizio Rongione
  • You, the Living A–
    dir. Roy Andersson; with Elisabeth Helander, Jörgen Nohall, Jessika Lundberg
  • 35 Shots of Rum B+
    dir. Claire Denis; with Mati Diop, Alex Descas, Nicole Dogue, Grégoire Colin
  • Bright Star B+
    dir. Jane Campion; with Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider
  • La Danse: The Paris Opera
          Ballet     B+
    dir. Frederick Wiseman; documentary about the company and its rehearsals
  • Duplicity B+
    dir. Tony Gilroy; with Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti, Denis O'Hare
  • Gomorrah B+
    dir. Matteo Garrone; with Gianfelice Imparato, Salvatore Abruzzese, Ciro Patrone
  • In the Loop B+
    dir. Armando Iannucci; with Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison
  • The Limits of Control B+
    dir. Jim Jarmusch; with Isaach de Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Alex Descas
  • The Maid B+
    dir. Sebastián Silva; with Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola
    ★ Mary and Max B+
    dir. Adam Elliot; animated; voices of Barry Humphries, Toni Collette
  • Sin Nombre B+
    dir. Cary Fukunaga; with Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristian Ferrer
  • Summer Hours B+
    dir. Olivier Assayas; with Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche, Jérémie Renier
  • The Sun B+
    dir. Aleksandr Sokurov; with Issey Ogata, Robert Dawson, Shirô Sano
  • Thirst B+
    dir. Park Chan-wook; with Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-vin, Shin Ha-kyun, Kim Hae-sook
  • Whip It B+
    dir. Drew Barrymore; with Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden
  • Adventureland B
    dir. Greg Mottola; with Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr
  • Coraline B
    dir. Henry Selick; animated; voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman
  • The Cove B
    dir. Louie Psihoyos; documentary about activist work against dolphin slaughter
  • Crude B
    dir. Joe Berlinger; documentary about oil-industrial practices in Ecuador
  • Drag Me to Hell B
    dir. Sam Raimi; with Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, David Paymer
  • Everlasting Moments B
    dir. Jan Troell; with Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen
  • Funny People B
    dir. Judd Apatow; with Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann
  • Goodbye Solo B
    dir. Ramin Bahrani; with Souleymane Sy Savané, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo
  • The Headless Woman B
    dir. Lucrecia Martel; with María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Daniel Genoud
  • I Love You, Man B
    dir. John Hamburg; with Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones
  • Medicine for Melancholy B
    dir. Barry Jenkins; with Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins
  • The Messenger B
    dir. Oren Moverman; with Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton
    ★ Paranormal Activity B
    dir. Oren Peli; with Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Michael Bayouth
  • Police, Adjective B
    dir. Corneliu Porumboiu; with Dragos Bucur, Ion Stoica, Irina Saulescu
    ★ Precious B
    dir. Lee Daniels; with Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
  • Revanche B
    dir. Götz Spielmann; with Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula Strauss
  • The Road B
    dir. John Hillcoat; with Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron
  • Silent Light B
    dir. Carlos Reygadas; with Cornelio Wall, María Pankratz, Miriam Toews
  • The Soloist B
    dir. Joe Wright; with Robert Downey, Jr., Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener
  • Sugar B
    dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck; with Algenis Pérez Soto, Rayniel Rufino
  • Treeless Mountain B
    dir. So Yong Kim; with Hee-yeon Kim, Song-hee Kim, Mi-hyang Kim
  • Up B
    dir. Pete Docter; animated; with the voices of Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai
  • We Live in Public B
    dir. Ondi Timoner; documentary about Josh Harris's surveillance experiments
  • Where the Wild Things Are B
    dir. Spike Jonze; with Max Records, Catherine Keener, voice of James Gandolfini
    © 12 B–
    dir. Nikita Mikhalkov; with Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Makovetsky, Sergey Garmash
  • (500) Days of Summer B–
    dir. Marc Webb; with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend
    © Adoration B–
    dir. Atom Egoyan; with Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman, Arsinée Khanjian
  • The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call:
          New Orleans     B–
    dir. Werner Herzog; with Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer
  • Before Tomorrow B–
    dirs. Marie-Hélène Coisineau & Madeline Ivalu; with Madeline Ivalu
  • Big Fan B–
    dir. Robert Siegel; with Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz
  • Food, Inc. B–
    dir. Robert Kenner; documentary about megacorporatized U.S. food production
  • Grey Gardens B–
    dir. Michael Sucsy; TV movie; with Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Justin Louis
  • Humpday B–
    dir. Lynn Shelton; with Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore
  • It's Complicated B–
    dir. Nancy Meyers; with Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin
  • Lake Tahoe B–
    dir. Fernando Eimbcke; with Diego Cataño, Juan Carlos Lara II, Hector Herrera
  • Lemon Tree B–
    dir. Eran Riklis; with Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael
  • Of Time and the City B–
    dir. Terence Davies; documentary about the filmmaker's memories of Liverpool
  • The Princess and the Frog B–
    dirs. John Musker & Ron Clements; animated; voice of Anika Noni Rose
  • Public Enemies B–
    dir. Michael Mann; with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard
  • The September Issue B–
    dir. R.J. Cutler; documentary about U.S. Vogue and editor Anna Wintour
  • State of Play B–
    dir. Kevin Macdonald; with Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck
  • Tetro B–
    dir. Francis Ford Coppola; with Alden Ehrenreich, Vincent Gallo, Maribel Verdú
  • Valentino: The Last Emperor B–
    dir. Matt Tyrnauer; documentary about the legendary fashion designer
    ★ The White Ribbon B–
    dir. Michael Haneke; with Christian Friedel, Burghart Klaußner, Rainer Bock
  • A Woman in Berlin B–
    dir. Max Färberböck; with Nina Hoss, Yevgeni Sidikhin, Roman Gribkov
  • Amreeka C+
    dir. Cherien Dabis; with Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass
  • Ask Not C+
    dir. Johnny Symons; documentary about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" U.S. military policy
  • Away We Go C+
    dir. Sam Mendes; with Maya Rudolph, John Krasinski, Catherine O'Hara
  • Bronson C+
    dir. Nicolas Winding Refn; with Tom Hardy, Matt King, Amanda Burton
  • District 9 C+
    dir. Neill Blomkamp; with Sharlto Copley, David James, Louis Minnaar
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox C+
    dir. Wes Anderson; animated; voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep
  • The Girlfriend Experience C+
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Mark Jacobson, David Levien
  • Jerichow C+
    dir. Christian Petzold; with Benno Fürmann, Hilmi Sözer, Nina Hoss
  • Julie & Julia C+
    dir. Nora Ephron; with Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
  • Moon C+
    dir. Duncan Jones; with Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, voice of Kevin Spacey
  • Orphan C+
    dir. Jaume Collet-Serra; with Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard
  • Outrage C+
    dir. Kirby Dick; documentary about closeted, homophobic U.S. politicians
  • Ponyo C+
    dir. Hayao Miyazaki; animated; voices of Frankie Jonas, Noah Cyrus, Tina Fey
    © Three Monkeys C+
    dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan; with Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Şungar, Yavuz Bingöl
  • Tyson C+
    dir. James Toback; documentary about the controversial boxing champ
  • World's Greatest Dad C+
    dir. Bobcat Goldthwait; with Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Daryl Sabara
  • Avatar C
    dir. James Cameron; with Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
  • Broken Embraces C
    dir. Pedro Almodóvar; with Lluís Homar, Penélope Cruz, Tamar Novas
  • The Brothers Bloom C
    dir. Rian Johnson; with Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, Rinko Kikuchi
  • Coco Before Chanel C
    dir. Anne Fontaine; with Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola
    ★ Crazy Heart C
    dir. Scott Cooper; with Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall
  • An Education C
    dir. Lone Scherfig; with Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina
  • Good Hair C
    dir. Jeff Stilson; documentary about black women's relationship to hair
  • He's Just Not That Into You C
    dir. Ken Kwapis; with Ginnifer Goodwin, Justin Long, Kevin Connolly, Jennifer Aniston
  • The International C
    dir. Tom Tykwer; with Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl
  • Invictus C
    dir. Clint Eastwood; with Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Adjoa Andoh
  • Notorious C
    dir. George Tillman, Jr.; with Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, Anthony Mackie
  • Taking Woodstock C
    dir. Ang Lee; with Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman
    © Two Lovers C
    dir. James Gray; with Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw
  • Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All
          by Myself     C
    dir. Tyler Perry; with Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Hope Olaide Wilson
  • The Young Victoria C
    dir. Jean-Marc Vallée; with Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany
  • Brüno C–
    dir. Larry Charles; with Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale
    ★ Give Me Your Hand C–
    dir. Pascal-Alex Vincent; with Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier
  • Gospel Hill C–
    dir. Giancarlo Esposito; with Taylor Kitsch, Danny Glover, Angela Bassett
  • The Informant! C–
    dir. Steven Soderbergh; with Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale
  • Inglourious Basterds C–
    dir. Quentin Tarantino; with Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Brad Pitt
  • A Serious Man C–
    dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen; with Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed
  • Skin C–
    dir. Anthony Fabian; with Sophie Okonedo, Alice Krige, Sam Neill, Tony Kgoroge
  • Star Trek C–
    dir. J.J. Abrams; with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoë Saldana
  • Sunshine Cleaning C–
    dir. Christine Jeffs; with Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Jason Spevack
  • Tokyo! C–
    dirs. Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon-ho; with Ayako Fujitani
  • Up in the Air C–
    dir. Jason Reitman; with George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
  • American Violet D+
    dir. Tim Disney; with Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Alfre Woodard
  • The Blind Side D+
    dir. John Lee Hancock; with Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw
    ★ Chéri D+
    dir. Stephen Frears; with Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates
  • Life Is Hot in Cracktown D+
    dir. Buddy Giovinazzo; with Evan Ross, Victor Rasuk, Kerry Washington
  • Me and Orson Welles D+
    dir. Richard Linklater; with Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes
  • Nine D+
    dir. Rob Marshall; with Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Judi Dench
  • A Single Man D+
    dir. Tom Ford; with Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
  • Spread D+
    dir. David Mackenzie; with Ashton Kutcher, Margarita Levieva, Anne Heche
  • Watchmen D+
    dir. Zack Snyder; with Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman
  • Antichrist D
    dir. Lars von Trier; with Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Disgrace D
    dir. Steve Jacobs; with John Malkovich, Jessica Haines, Eriq Ebouaney
  • The Hangover D
    dir. Todd Phillips; with Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper
  • The Last Station D
    dir. Michael Hoffman; with James McAvoy, Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer
  • The Lovely Bones D–
    dir. Peter Jackson; with Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci
    ★ Sherlock Holmes F
    dir. Guy Ritchie; with Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams
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