Pierced to the Heart

The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Ji-woon, 2008)
I’m not sure if the term originated from Kim Ji-woon himself or from some publicist trying to market the film to international and genre audiences, but “kimchi western” has become the unofficial genre designation for The Good, The Bad, The Weird. But what, exactly, is a “kimchi western”? Well, if Kim’s film is any indication, then it’s [...]…

Ink (Jamin Winans, 2009)
One of my favorite movie review quotes comes from Chris Vognar’s review of Donnie Darko, in which he writes that Donnie Darko “may be too ambitious for a debut feature, but ambition and imagination still trump mediocrity any day of the week.” Over the years, that has become my “go-to” phrase to describe movies that [...]…

The Secret in Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009)
This year's Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is as thrilling for its romance as for its murder mystery. But while it thinks it ends on a triumphant major chord, it's actually rather dissonant.…

Days of Heaven (Malick, 1978)
“To dwell is to garden.” (Heidegger, “The Origin of the work of Art”) And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine [...]…

The Call of Cthulhu (Andrew Leman, 2005)
I don’t envy anyone who sets out to make an H.P. Lovecraft film. When people think of unfilmable — or at best, extremely difficult to film — authors, such luminaries as James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon usually top the list. However, I contend that Lovecraft is up there as well, and three reasons [...]…

Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone (Hideaki Anno, 2007)
Two things are certain about the legacy of Neon Genesis Evangelion. First, the fourteen years or so that have passed since its TV debut have done little, if anything, to diminish the shadow that it casts over the entire anime landscape. Indeed, nearly any anime title that involves giant robots, (young) characters struggling with psychological [...]…

Stumbling through the A&F Top 100: Au Hasard Balthazar
I was chastened horribly a few weeks ago when Image published its Arts & Faith Top 100 list. My grand total of films watched? Nine. I studied animation, not film in general, and that apparently has left me with severe gaps in my education. So to remedy that, I intend to take on two or [...]…

The Secret of Kells
The Secret of Kells is a movie full to bursting with the pure potential of animation, an aesthetic experience so impeccably designed that style and substance are indistinguishable.…

A Serious Man (Coen Brothers, 2009 – In The Manner of Tractate Berakoth IX)
If the central question of this film rotates on Schroedinger's cat, the religious implication is this: If the tradition is the box, is God alive or is he dead?…

Roberto Rossellini’s “War Trilogy”
Finally, the Criterion Collection has brought out Rossellini's World War II triptych in a lavish box set. …

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Inception (2010)
My review of Inception is published in two parts at Good Letters, the Image blog. Here’s Part One. And here’s Part Two. By the way… if you’re curious about my series of fantasy novels, but you don’t want to hand over 15 bucks to try one, here’s good news. You can now find out what all of [...]…

Fight Club (1999)
a review by Jeffrey Overstreet • UPDATE 2010: Looking back at my original review for Fight Club, I find my feelings haven’t changed about it… except in one significant way. The conclusion of the film is much, much more disheartening. It portrays a calamity that, at the time of the film’s release, seemed over-the-top and incredibly bleak. Apocalyptic, [...]…

The Secret of Kells (2009)
Here is a two-part conversation about The Secret of Kells, published in the Good Letters blog at Image journal: Part One and Part Two …

Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (2010)
My two-part review of Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky has been published at Image journal’s blog Good Letters. Part One. Part Two. …

Adaptation (2002)
A review of Jeffrey Overstreet reviewing Adaptation, by Jeffrey Overstreet • 2010 NOTE: This review is eight years old. It’s been off of the website for a while because it needed some slight revisions. My first encounter with the movie was very, very different from my second viewing. I’ve watched it several times since then and come [...]…

Days of Heaven (1978)
This brief review by Jeffrey Overstreet was written as a summary for the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films List. • Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s 1978 story of adultery on the Texas Panhandle, is set just before World War 1, but it resounds with echoes of Old Testament drama. In it, blast-furnace worker Bill (Richard Gere) [...]…

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
An abridged version of this review by Jeffrey Overstreet was published earlier as a summary for the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films List. • “Ponderous”? Yes. “Slow”? Indeed. But Robert Bresson’s 1951 film Diary of a Country Priest is an undisputed classic. It was the third of thirteen films by Bresson who, according to Francois Truffaut, is to [...]…

Three Colors: Blue, White, and Red (1993)
This brief review by Jeffrey Overstreet was written as a summary for the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films List. • The great and final act of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s remarkable career was the production of a trilogy called Three Colors — Blue, White, and Red — that represents the colors of the French flag, and the values [...]…

Playtime (1967)
A review by Jeffrey Overstreet, written as a summary for the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films List. • The great French comedy director Jacques Tati starred in four of his own films, playing one of cinema’s most beloved comic figures, Monsieur Hulot. Hulot has a charming, Chaplin-esque presence, but the wonder of Tati’s films come from the [...]…

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
A review by Jeffrey Overstreet, written as a summary for the Arts and Faith Top 100 Films List. • The Wind Will Carry Us is often hailed as the masterpiece of Iran’s most celebrated filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami. Apparently lost, some men who claim to be treasure hunters drive their jeep through rugged country in what seems like Middle [...]…

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The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right is an odd little film to find in the middle of an over-stimulated Hollywood summer. Heartfelt and funny, the film is like a cool shower on an oppressively hot day—refreshing and invigorating, the sort of unexpected surprise that catches you off guard and sticks with you for days. Nic (Annette Bening) [...]…

Salt
I’m not ashamed to say I love these sorts of movies—espionage thrillers jammed to the gills with hairsbreadth escapes, gladiatorial bouts and death-defying stunts. So it was disappointing when Salt turned out to be little more than a larger budgeted episode of 24, a double agent concept that started out successfully enough but quickly flew [...]…

The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first film in the Millennium trilogy by the late, incandescently popular Swedish author Stieg Larsson, was a cross between the achingly forlorn films of Ingmar Bergman and another spine-chilling, suspenseful novel similarly adapted into a mesmerizing film, Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs. Bleached of color and at [...]…

Agora
Agora, extraordinarily ambitious and majestically cerebral, is a flawed film to be sure. Its reach—nothing short of celestial mechanics and the frequently violent intersection of science and religion—certainly exceeds its grasp. But the reach itself is worthy of praise. Religion is not alone in claiming martyrs; the secular has its fair share of fallen heroes [...]…

Inception
Do you remember how you first felt upon leaving the original The Matrix, that shell-shocked sense of having been given a heady glimpse into another fully formed world, that feeling of suddenly possessing dangerous and unearthly knowledge, that giddy realization that you’d just witnessed something intellectually breathtaking and truly original? Prepare for those sensations all [...]…

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Don’t tell my wife, but I love being wrong. At least when it comes to films. I’ll admit it, I came to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice prepared to hate it. It had all the hallmarks of a film that would rub me the wrong way—produced by explosive style over substance Jerry Bruckheimer and starring hammy overactor [...]…

Despicable Me
Despicable Me is the sort of movie about which it is the most difficult to write. It is not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand, it didn’t set my heart racing either. It is a sort of lukewarm winner, neither terrific nor terrible. While that hardly sounds like [...]…

The Last Airbender
Shortly before the release of his film Signs, Newsweek magazine heralded writer/director M. Night Shyamalan as “the next Spielberg,” a moniker that has proved to be something of a millstone about the neck of an artist whose films since then have met with nothing but exponentially mounting contempt. Taking a break from his twist-prone suspense [...]…

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is superior to its two predecessors in every possible way. The mythology finally feels comfortable in its own skin, aware of both its strengths and limitations, and appears to be striding confidently into the future. Like the Harry Potter franchise, it apparently took Twilight a few films to get up to [...]…

Grown Ups
It’s official sports fans; we have a formidable contender for worst film of the year! We first meet Lenny (Adam Sandler), Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), Marcus (David Spade) and Rob (Rob Schneider) as 12-year-old boys winning a middle school basketball championship. Flash-forward 30 years. Their beloved coach has died and the teammates, who have [...]…

I am Love
I am Love, easily one of the most sensual films I have ever seen, is ravishing, an operatic melodrama of stunning beauty and luxuriant texture. It is a thing elemental, a piece of art that works as pure, unadulterated hedonism, electrifying the senses with incandescent fire. It is a film out of time, donning the [...]…

Winter’s Bone
Winter’s Bone, a Sundance winner about what happens when a primal need for justice crashes violently into abiding and intractable tradition, is a gothic film noir set in the cold and cheerless Ozark mountains. Though it is a decidedly American tale, at its heart beats an almost Greek odyssey. The film also boasts one of [...]…

Knight and Day
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. One of the main characters in the new action-comedy Knight and Day gets knocked out so many times it feels like she spends half the movie unconscious. I don’t blame her. I wish I’d spent the entire [...]…

Toy Story 3
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. When I was a child, I had a large stuffed buffalo. At night, I’d imagine myself a big game hunter on the old frontier. By rubbing my hair on the fur, I generated enough static electricity to [...]…

The Karate Kid
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. The Karate Kid proves that a good enough story can be retold again and again and still have something to say to each successive generation (the truly great stories need only be told once). You will cheer [...]…

The A-Team
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. This weekend is one that the children of the 80s have either been salivating over for months, or are doing their very best to pretend does not exist. The two big films opening this weekend, The A-Team [...]…

Get Him to the Greek
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. Granted, it’s only June and there is still plenty of 2010 left, but if the world were to end tomorrow, Get Him to the Greek would easily go down as the funniest movie of the year. Borrowing [...]…

Splice
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. Both colleagues and lovers, Clive and Elsa (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, two indie actors not known for their genre work), are rock star scientists, genetic engineers who bump into their faces on magazine covers every time [...]…

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is the first popcorn hit of the summer, a mindless, high-fructose, high-octane adventure that demands very little of your intellect but is sure to get your heart racing. Like the [...]…

Shrek Forever After
This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Fish and guests stink after three days.” The same could be said of movie franchises that overstay their welcome and don’t know when to pack up gracefully. The good news is, Shrek Forever [...]…

Updated: 31 Jul 2010, 11:00 UTC

Countdown to Zero: Angel passes
When Lucy Walker’s documentary about the current global nuclear threat opens this weekend in Washington, DC and New York (and begins a national rollout next weekend),  interested citizens will have the opportunity to obtain free passes, courtesy of “angels” who are sponsoring tickets. Participant Media produced  Countdown to Zero and previously produced the Academy Award [...]…

The Twilight Saga: Basically a love story
For a film essay by Sr. Hosea Rupprecht and I, visit The Tidings or a slightly different version at Arkansas Catholic.…

The Labyrinth documentary to show at Arclight during DocuWeek
If you like documentaries, and live in New York or Los Angeles (or nearby) be sure to check out The Labyrinth during DocuWeek, July 30-August 19, 2010. For more information on the films and screening dates, visit DocuWeek 2010 The Labyrinth Director/Producer: Jason A. Schmidt Memory, art and hell collide as an Auschwitz survivor finally [...]…

Restrepo & Toy Story 3 reviews
Click here for my review of RESTREPO and TOY STORY 3…

The Joneses: covetousness has consequences
This most interesting film had a too brief run in theaters and will be out on DVD August 10. Here’s my review: The Joneses…

Sex and the City 2: Girls just wanna have fun
Back in 2008 I saw the first Sex in the City film I thought it actually had its moments. I objected on a Busted Halo Sirius Radio interview with Fr. Dave Dwyer, CSP, that it was not a “chick flick” but had a heart-felt theme of authentic forgiveness. I don’t like the term “chick flick” [...]…

Robin Hood: The Sword and Magna Carta
In “Robin Hood,” Ridley Scott’s and Russell Crowe epic foray into the time of the crusades, NCR media critic Sr. Rose Pacatte finds an examination of the meaning of our myths, our heroes, and our stories. This is important, she writes, “so we will never give up our passion for life and justice for all.” [...]…

Martyred monks film nabs second prize & Ecumenical Prize at Cannes festival “Of Gods and Men” Des hommes et des Dieux
At the Cannes Film Festival, the 2010 Ecumenical Jury awards its Prize to: Of Gods & Men by Xavier Beauvois (France, 2010) This movie of great artistic value benefits from a remarkable group of actors and follows the daily rhythm of work and liturgy. It depicts the sacrifice of the monks of Tibhirine (Algeria 1996) [...]…

Why Flannery O’Connor Matters Today
On the season finale last year of ABC’s hit drama “Lost,” alert viewers would have noticed that the mysterious character, Jacob (Mark Pellegrino), was reading the book Everything That Rises Must Converge. The tome is a collection of short stories by the American Catholic novelist, Flannery O’Connor who was born in Savannah, Ga. March 25, 1925 [...]…

Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”, restored, expanded version released
Restored, expanded version of film classic ‘Metropolis’ rereleased NEW YORK (CNS) — More than eight decades after its premiere, “Metropolis” — the German silent film that set the standard for science fiction on the silver screen — has returned to theaters (and, come November, will be available on DVD) following an extensive restoration. This new [...]…

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Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is as good as any movie Pixar Studios has made, and better than a few of them. But when you consistently achieve excellence, there’s this problem: people start expecting more. A merely excellent movie is not enough. Each one must be more suspenseful, surprising, original, hilarious, and emotionally satisfying than the last. Each success becomes a rack on which the next attempt is…

Letters to Juliet
This is the dilemma of movie reviewing: a critic who has honed professional discernment by studying the cinematic arts will not be as generous toward a film as a happy audience that is just looking for a good time. When I picked up my daughter for the screening, I said, “I don’t know why I wanted to review this; it looks awful.”   That opinion did not change—but while Meg…

Alice in Wonderland
This is not your grandmother’s Alice. Though the title is the same, director Tim Burton did not film a new version of the classic novels by British clergyman and logician Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass. Instead, Burton and screenwriter Linda Woolverton have moved the action forward 13 years. Now Alice, almost 20, is attending a garden party…

Avatar
[National Review; December 20, 2009] In Avatar’s opening moments, hero-to-be Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is waking up on the planet Pandora after a cryogenic journey, and reflecting on the twists of fate. Here he is, a paraplegic Marine, filling in for the twin brother who actually trained for this mission. But right before Tommy was due to ship out, “a guy with a gun put an end to his…

Fantastic Mr. Fox
It’s the little things that count. Director Wes Anderson has always been good with the little things, filling movies like Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tennenbaums (2001), and The Darjeeling Limited (2007) with extraordinary, eye-catching detail. In Fantastic Mr. Fox the things are littler than ever, as the tallest actor is only 18” high. This film is an example of stop-motion animation, in…

As We Forgive
I brought a handkerchief. The occasion was a screening of the documentary As We Forgive, slated to kick off American University’s Human Rights Film Series this fall. It is the first film by Laura Waters Hinson, an AU alumna, and in addition to numerous festival awards it won a Student Academy Award. The film’s topic is the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which Hutus killed…

The Invention of Lying
What would it be like to live in a world without lying? I expected the universe depicted in this film to present a reverse image of the Jim Carrey comedy “Liar Liar,” in which the main character finds himself uncomfortably compelled to tell the truth. I expected, that is, one more brash, noisy, agitated film, replete with insults and gross-out jokes. I wasn’t expecting the sweetness…

All About Steve
You expect certain things from a Sandra Bullock comedy, and if that’s what you’re looking for, “All About Steve” will not disappoint. She’s perky and quirky, slim and lovely, and a very good sport about looking unglamorous (here she survives both a tornado and a fall into an abandoned mine). You’ll be unsurprised to learn that romantic complications arise, followed…

Motherland
Does this sound like a good idea for a movie? I can’t decide. Take six women who have suffered the loss of a child. Send them together to South Africa, to work with impoverished children. In the security of each other’s company, with a genuine need set before them, their grief is mitigated and healing is begun. As therapy, it’s a great idea. …

(500) Days of Summer
Summer Finn, we’re told, is an average woman in many ways—like height and weight, though slightly above average shoe size. (The narrator telling us this, in a wryly amused way, sounds like James Earl Jones, though I can’t find a credit for him.) Yet something about her arrests men’s attention. She gets an average of 18.4 double-takes per day. This is, we are told, “the…

$9.99
[Christianity Today Movies; June 19, 2009] Stars: 2 Rated: R Cast: Geoffrey Rush (Angel), Anthony LaPaglia (Jim Peck), Joel Edgerton (Ron), Ben Mendelsohn (Lenny Peck), Claudia Karvan (Michelle) A movie is like a parade: before you see the fullness of its pomp and circumstance, you see forerunners, standard bearers, that serve to herald the procession and hint at what is to come. And before you see…

Up
I knew Up was one of those rare first-rate movies when I found myself really yearning to see it for a second time. Actually, that wouldn’t have been so unusual, except that I was still sitting in the theater and had only gotten through 20 minutes of seeing it for the first time. It’s that good. And that in itself isn’t so unusual, considering that this is a film from Pixar Studios,…

O'Horten
How odd is Odd?  When we meet Odd Horten, he is driving the Oslo-Bergen express train through a blue-white snowy landscape. (This opening-credits sequence is gorgeous:  each dive into a tunnel, each returning plunge through a circle of searing white, is a cinematic marvel.) But a young railroad employee catching a ride up front with Odd finds that it’s very hard to draw him into conversation.…

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
[National Review Online: May, 1, 2009] I am not now, nor have I ever been, a fanboy. So why did I get such a kick out of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”? Because the title character is an interesting guy, with a complicated history and complicated feelings. Because the plot has some good twists, not all of which are straightened out before final credits roll. Because the story totes us around…

Earth
“Earth,” the first release from the Disneynature films, lives up to its publicity; this film is 85 minutes of jaw-droppingly beautiful clouds, waterfalls, icebergs, and savannahs; of graceful animals, scary animals, funny animals, and excruciatingly cute baby animals. James Earl Jones delivers a narration that is mild and accessible to children. (A typical line: after a shot of a penguin…

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The Films of 2010: Favorites So Far
I fear that I’ve given the wrong impression about the crop of films that have released so far in 2010. Readers of this blog are no doubt aware that I’ve written fewer film-related posts than ever before in the past six months, but that’s hardly a reflection on what’s been going on at the movies. [...]…

Film Break: “The Last Airbender”
My review of The Last Airbender is posted today at CT Movies. The biggest question it leaves me with: Will M. Night Shyamalan still have a career when the dust has settled on this one?…

Film Break: “Grown Ups”
My review of the new movie Grown Ups is posted at CT Movies. As you can probably guess, at least if you’ve seen the trailers or read any of the advance reviews, it’s a pretty big stinker. I chose the above still in honor of the luminous Maya Rudolph, who is probably the best part [...]…

Film Break: “Iron Man 2″
My review of the summer’s first big blockbuster movie is posted at CT. Spoiler alert: I liked it better than the first.…

CT’s Favorite Films of 2009 (Part I)
As is, by now, our custom, the staff of CT Movies is unveiling not one but two lists of the year’s best films. The first list– our “most redeeming” movies– highlights the ten films from 2009 that are, in some way, redemptive, whether explicitly or subtley so. The list is available here, and includes a [...]…

Film Break: “Edge of Darkness”
My review of Edge of Darkness– the latest film from Casino Royale director Martin Campbell, and the, er, “comeback” of Mel Gibson– is posted now at CT Movies.…

Josh’s Favorite Films of 2009
I’ll remember it as a landmark year for animation. I’ll remember it as a watershed for children’s literary adaptations. I’ll remember it as the year we finally got a good Iraq war film. I’ll remember 2009 fondly, and vividly, thanks in no small part to these ten films. 10. The Princess and the Frog (Ron [...]…

Josh’s Top Ten (or so) Films of the Decade, 2000-2009
Ten years, ten movies. I’m not sure how this process works for everyone else, but for me, it starts off very easy, then grows very difficult, and, in the end, becomes very easy again. When I first started thinking about which films I was going to honor as my favorites of the past decade, I [...]…

The Top Ten (or so) Films of the Decade: #3 The New World (Malick, 2006)
I remember the first time I read T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland for a college English class– not getting it, not wanting to get it, ultimately hating it. I remember reading it again, baffled and bewildered by the professor’s in-class comments that suggested a depth I hadn’t even begun to fathom– laboring over it, taking copious [...]…

The Top Ten (or so) Films of the Decade: #4 Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2002)
It was released in the same year as a Star Wars and a Lord of the Rings, and in a decade that gave us Pan’s Labyrinth and, uh, two more Lord of the Rings. But for me, Spirited Away is the defining work of fantasy on the big screen– a masterpiece of imagination that is [...]…

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Dinner for Schmucks opens July 30th, 2010 (wide)
Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Zach Galifianakis star in this remake of director Francis Veber's César award-winning 1998 comedy concerning a renowned publisher who encourages his friends to find the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party.…

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
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Get Low opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
Inspired by the true story of Tennessee recluse Felix "Bush" Breazeale, who planned his funeral while he was still alive, director Aaron Schneider's dramatic period thriller stars Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, and Lewis Black. Few folks have spoken with Felix Bush (Duvall) since he disappeared into the Tennessee woods 40 years ago, and the ones who have don't necessarily have the kindest…

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore opens July 30th, 2010 (wide)
In the age-old battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join…

Concert opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
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Extra Man opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
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I Killed My Mother opens
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Dry Land opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
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Charlie St. Cloud opens July 30th, 2010 (wide)
A young man forms a unique connection to the afterlife after surviving the tragic car accident that claimed his younger brother in this supernatural drama starring Zac Efron, based on the best-selling book by author Ben Sherwood. Charlie St. Cloud (Efron) is an experienced sailor from the Pacific Northwest who has just earned a scholarship that will take him far from home. The light of his mother's…

Twelve opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
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Enemies of the People opens July 30th, 2010 (limited)
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Now & Later opens
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Sicilian Girl opens August 4th, 2010 (NY)
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Other Guys opens August 6th, 2010 (wide)
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Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest opens
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Cairo Time opens August 6th, 2010 (limited)
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Middle Men opens August 6th, 2010 (limited)
Like BOOGIE NIGHTS for the internet age, MIDDLE MEN is a comic look at the origins of the porn boom on the web. The oh-so-prescient Jack sees dollar signs when he imagines the combination of the newly popular internet and the pornography industry, and he starts a lucrative business. But while Jack just wants to hold on to his normal life, he finds his existence invaded by F.B.I. agents, terrorists,…

Step Up 3D opens August 6th, 2010 (wide)
A tight-knit group of street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.…

Flipped opens August 6th, 2010 (wide)
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Disappearance of Alice Creed opens August 6th, 2010 (limited)
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Chain Letter opens
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Expendables opens August 13th, 2010 (wide)
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Tales from Earthsea opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
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Eat Pray Love opens August 13th, 2010 (wide)
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having -- a husband, a house, a successful career -- yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest…

Neshoba: The Price of Freedom opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
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Lebanon opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
Like the anti-hero of a French New Wave film, real-life Gallic gangster Jacques Mesrine spent much of his life running from the law. In the first section of this two-part film directed by Jean-Francois Richet (ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13), Vincent Cassel (EASTERN PROMISES) stars as the titular criminal. Cécile de France (A SECRET) costars as a prostitute who joins him on the lam, while Gérard Depardieu…

Down Terrace opens
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World opens August 13th, 2010 (wide)
Scott Pilgrim has never had a problem getting a girlfriend. It's getting rid of them that proves difficult. From the girl who kicked his heart's ass -- and now is back in town -- to the teenage distraction he's trying to shake when Ramona rollerblades into his world, love hasn't been easy. He soon discovers, however, his new crush has the most unusual baggage of all: a nefarious league of exes controls…

Peepli Live opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
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White Wedding opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
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Animal Kingdom opens August 13th, 2010 (limited)
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Vampires Suck opens August 18th, 2010 (wide)
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Film Unfinished opens August 18th, 2010 (limited)
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Soul Kitchen opens August 20th, 2010 (limited)
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Nanny McPhee Returns opens August 20th, 2010 (wide)
A struggling mother receives some much-needed assistance tending to the family farm and raising a group of spirited children while her military husband is fighting overseas in this sequel to the whimsical 2005 fantasy comedy NANNY MCPHEE. Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) lives in a scenic valley with her two daughters and one son. They each understand the importance of working together as a family,…

Altiplano opens August 20th, 2010 (limited)
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Tillman Story opens August 20th, 2010 (limited)
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Switch opens August 20th, 2010 (limited)
From a short story by VIRGIN SUICIDES writer Jeffrey Eugenides comes a comedy about a middle-aged woman (Jennifer Aniston) who takes conceiving a child into her own hands by using a turkey baster to inseminate herself with a sample of a married friend's (Jason Bateman) sperm. BLADES OF GLORY's Josh Gordon and Will Speck direct this Columbia Pictures film from a script by Allan Loeb.…

Mao's Last Dancer opens August 20th, 2010 (limited)
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Lottery Ticket opens August 20th, 2010 (wide)
A kid from the projects scores the jackpot in the lottery and fights to protect his ticket over the course of a treacherous holiday weekend in this all-star comedy featuring Ice Cube, Charlie Murphy, Terry Crews, and Loretta Devine. With the Fourth of July fast approaching, Kevin Carson (Bow Wow) purchases a pair of lottery tickets and settles down in front of the television to catch the winning numbers.…

Piranha 3D opens August 20th, 2010 (wide)
Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break, a riot of sun and drunken fun. But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria. After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group…

Updated: 31 Jul 2010, 11:00 UTC