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Death By China
Martin Sheen narrates writer Peter Navarro's fear stoking documentary about China's economic and military power.
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Sparkle
In her final acting role, Whitney Houston portrays the imperious matriarch of a late '60s-era girl group featuring Jordin Sparks as an aspiring soul diva.
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True Wolf
Director Rob Whitehair focuses on one activist family, who found themselves caring for a newborn wolf in 1991, in his new documentary.
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A Monkey on my Shoulder
Juliette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez star in story of medics and the demon drink.
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The Expendables 2
Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his first significant post-political role, joins Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren in the action-filled sequel.
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The Bourne Legacy
Jeremy Renner, who takes over the franchise's leading role from Matt Damon, plays Aaron Cross, a new off-the-grid Operation Outcome field agent.
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Storm Surfers 3D
Australian surfing legends Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones unite and conquer some mighty big waves in this immersive 3D documentary.
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The Blindfold (Mata Tertutup)
Award-winning Indonesian actress Jajang C. Noer stars in veteran director Garin Nugroho's topical drama about topical drama about religious extremism.
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Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban)
Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike's cartoonishly fun legal drama, which stars Hiroki Narimiya, is based on a popular Nintendo DS game.
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Duck Beach to Eternity
The documentary focuses on Mormon singles looking for love in a North Carolina getaway.
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Assassin Bullet
A retired FBI agent goes after a mysterious killer in exotic Bulgaria in this pro forma action thriller.
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Deranged (Yeon-ga-si)
This engrossing Korean medical disaster is watchable by the young and squeamish and could make for exotic summer entertainment offshore.
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Ikland
Cevin Soling and David Hilbert's doc focuses on Uganda's Ik tribe, who have a reputation as the world's most evil people, without compassion even for their own children.
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Edinburgh
Toby Jones stars in the dark comedy following the misadventures of a sound-mixer in 1970s Italy
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ParaNorman
From the makers of "Coraline," the stop-motion animated comedy follows a young boy with the ability to communicate with the dead.
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Wallander
Charlotte Brändström's adaptation of Henning Mankell's crime fiction book stars Krister Henriksson as the titular chief inspector.
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Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan's Batman finale stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and features performances from series newcomers Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day
Blair Underwood, Sharon Leal and Nicole Beharie star in director Neema Barnette's faith-based kidnapping drama.
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Dark Shadows
The latest '60s/'70s TV show to get all dressed up as a fancy, big-budget feature film, Dark Shadows sinks its teeth half-way into its potentially meaty material but hesitates to go all the way.
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6 Month Rule
The generic goings-on are somewhat alleviated by the dryly funny if unfortunately brief appearances by comic veterans Dave Foley...
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Magic Mike
Inspired by Channing Tatum's stint at 18 as a male stripper, Steven Soderbergh's comedy-drama also stars Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn and a host of tasty It Boys and Girls.
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Man on a Ledge
Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) has been there (a super cop then) and done that (a super con man now).
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
A young boy finds a key after his father's death in 9/11. His endeavour to find its lock transforms his life
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John Carter
Director Andrew Stanton's Disney extravaganza is a rather charming pastiche, if perhaps not one with sufficient excitement...
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Radio Unnameable: BAMcinemaFest Review
Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson's documentary follows New Yorker Bob Fass, who hosted a TV radio show in New York City during the '60s.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Warner Bros. returns to the scene of the crime with this sequel to their wildly successful revamp of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character.
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The Cabin in the Woods
Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford star in this playful..
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The Hunger Games
In the evil nation of Panem are some twelve odd districts. And there are some twelve 'tributes' competing against one another in the Hunger Games.
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The Exam: Karlovy Vary
The Hungarian thriller from director Peter Bergendy follows two lovers living in 1957 Budapest, a city under surveillance by its Communist secret police.
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The Bottom Line
Two years ago Bulgaria made its first foray into the Oscar race when The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner was named to the shortlist of nine semi-finalists for best foreign language film.
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American Reunion
Can eight movies really have sprung from the lewd meeting of a horny teenager and a fresh-baked desert?
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The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a mad Middle Eastern autocrat in a film dedicated to the memory of Kim Jong-il.
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Supercapitalist
This would-be update of "Wall Street" moves the action to Hong Kong, but THR predicts that the box office outlook looks dim.
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The Bottom Line
It’s another steamy hot Brooklyn summer, but unlike “Do the Right Thing” two decades back, Spike Lee’s sermonizing new film is too chaotic to tap into that sizzle.
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I, Anna: Berlin Film Review
A modern film noir love story blooms between mature protags Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne, in a narratively distanced feature debut
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Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle: Sundance London Review
Rufus and Martha Wainwright host an all-star tribute concert for their late mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle, in this old-fashioned but engrossing rock-doc
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Brave
Pixar's 13th film, which follows an adventurous Scottish princess, is visually stunning and strongly voiced, but doesn't take any real risks.
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Yogi Bear
Jellystone Park has been losing business, so greedy Mayor Brown decides to shut it down and sell the land.
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Over 80 years after the Belgian artist Herge first conceived him, Tintin, the plucky journalist-adventurer whose stories have sold over 350 million books worldwide, has finally got his own big-budget Hollywood movie.
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Elizabeth Banks star in the film revolving around five expectant couples in Atlanta.
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Noseland
Writer-director Aleksey Igudesman's haphazard, improv-heavy film is a classical music mock-documentary...
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No Strings Attached
Emma and Adam are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning.
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The Eagle
In 2nd-Century Britain, two men - master and slave - venture beyond the edge of the known world on a dangerous and obsessive quest that will push them beyond the boundaries of loyalty and betrayal, friendship and hatred, deceit and heroism.
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The Adjustment Bureau
David Norris is a charismatic politician running for the United States Senate.
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The Muppets
The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954–55. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference to the original characters created by Henson.
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Paris By Night (Une Nuit)
PARIS -- Although it certainly lives up to the promise of its title, Paris by Night (Une Nuit) offers up little more than a low-key...
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Paziraie Sadeh (Modest Reception)
Mani Haghighi stars and directs a cinematic tale about a strange duo make their way through Iran distributing bags of cash to needy people.
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30 Beats
Alexis Lloyd's film starring Paz de la Huerta follows ten New Yorkers as they engage in various sexual liaisons during a summer heatwave.
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The Roommate
College student Sara find's that her new roommate Rebecca has an obsession with her, which quickly turns violent
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Just Go with It
In Just Go With It, a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie.
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The Lincoln Lawyer
The Lincoln Lawyer, directed by Brad Furman and based on the bestseller by Michael Connelly, is a victim of ambition
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The Descendants
Matt King (George Clooney) has two problems to deal with: his ancestral virgin property at Hawaii and a dying wife.
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Starlet
Dree Hemingway stars as a 21 year old who has an unlikely friendship with an octogenarian in Sean Baker's drama.
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Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Teen pop idol Justin Bieber toplines his own biographical film, which reinacts his rise to stardom alongside real-life concert footage in this 3D Paramount Pictures production. Jon Chu (STEP UP 3D) directs
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‘Rango’ Corrals
A sheltered chameleon, living as an ordinary family pet, faces a major identity crisis..
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I Am Number Four
I Am Number Four, a sci-fi action drama from D.J. Caruso (Disturbia, Eagle Eye) about a teenage alien’s earthly travails, has the look and feel of a CW series
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Final Destination 5
Though ostensibly successful, 2009’s The Final Destination represented to many a horror franchise on its last hackneyed legs.
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Safe
Jason Statham stars in director-writer Boaz Yakin's fast-moving New York gangland thriller.
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The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets.
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Gnomeo & Juliet
Two garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, try to avoid tragedy and find a happy ending to their star-crossed love affair when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors.
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Thor
The storyline is a solid one which starts off with Thor and his brother Loki as children following around Odin (daddy) and learning about the once immense war..
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Contagion
Contagion, a sharp thriller from writer/director/cinematographer/editor/do-all Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s 11, The Informant!), is like an adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel that never was.
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Over 80 years after the Belgian artist Herge first conceived him, Tintin, the plucky journalist-adventurer whose stories have sold over 350 million books worldwide, has finally got his own big-budget Hollywood movie.
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Sofia Last Ambulance
On one level, Ilian Metev's movie is a study of workplace relations but it also provides indirect commentary on the state of the nation.
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Toy Story 3
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and the the all-star casts of TOY STORY and its sequel return for a third outing as the voices of Pixar's beloved toys.
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The Rite (2011)
An American seminary student who attends exorcism school at the Vatican finds faith through encounters with demonic forces.
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Fast Five
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker lead a reunion of returning all-stars from every chapter of the explosive franchise built on speed in Fast Five...
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The Lorax
Green trumps greed in this pleasant, spirited take on the Seussian save-the-planet fable.
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The Last Exorcism
When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The film series has been an able adaptation of the extraordinary novels by JK Rowling..
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Apollo 18 (2011)
Apollo 18, a low-budget, “found footage” sci-fi thriller directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, is built around a tantalizing, if far-fetched, revisionist-history premise.
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Resident Evil: Afterlife
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
A Michael Bay movie cannot be measured by the same standards as a normal movie. A Bay movie cares not for compelling characters, narrative cohesion, or realistic emotions.
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Easy A
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is re-imagined as a contemporary high school comedy in this tale of a scheming student who plots to give her popularity a boost by painting herself the easiest lay in school
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The Town
Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) was born and raised in Charlestown, a blue-collar neighborhood in Boston, where crime is a part of life.
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Emerging from a lengthy prison stint, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside of a world he once dominated.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga Hoole
Soren, is a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owl kind from the evil Pure Ones.
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The Social Network
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrade and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea.
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Life as We Know It
Holly Berenson is an up-and-coming caterer and Eric Messer is a promising network sports director.
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Jackass 3DKills It with $50 million!
Paramount’s 'Jackass 3D' catapulted itself like a port-a-potty into outer space with an unbelievable $50 million for the weekend
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Red
Frank, Joe, Marvin, and Victoria used to be the CIA's top agents
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Hereafter
Making an earnest cinematic argument for the immortality of the soul and the existence of an afterlife without delving into mushy sentimentality is a difficult task
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Saw 3D (2010)
Is it a bang or a whimper? The Saw series allegedly comes to an end with this movie, even though the original killer died a few films ago.
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Skyline
“Skyline”, from the brothers Strause, is the second alien invasion movie to come down the pipe this year, following in the footsteps of Gareth Edwards’ “Monsters”.
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Unstoppable
Tony Scott's runaway train thriller, Unstoppable, is the closest thing to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2010 has had to offer.
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Megamind
Megamind would be a terrific case study to determine just how many films it either knowingly, or unknowingly, cribs from to make up its duration
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Cowboys & Aliens
1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution.
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Tangled (2010)
When the kingdom's most wanted..
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Black Swan
I was interested to read in a recent interview with director Darren Aronofsky that his latest film, the ballet thriller Black Swan, originated as a companion piece to his 2008 hit, The Wrestler.
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia and the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past and he's not sure if it's love or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
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Fast Five
Since Brian O'Conner and Mia Toretto broke Dom Toretto out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities.
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Tron: Legacy (2010)
The Master Control Program is booted back up in this revamped Tron continuation that sees the return of original star Jeff Bridges.
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The Other Guy
Detective Allen Gamble is a forensic accountant who's more interested in paperwork than hitting the streets
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Iron Man 2 (2010)
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the highly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster film based on the legendary Marvel Super Hero “Iron Man,”...
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Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010)
A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin...
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Clash of the Titans (2010)
In Clash of the Titans, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods.
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Piranha 3D Review: Plenty Of Skin And Blood
Piranha 3D provides laughable horror and plenty of skin to give us our three dimensional and totally fun horror film to end the summer with.
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Let Me In, review
Let Me In, directed by American Matt Reeves, is a remake of one of the loveliest films of recent years, Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In (2008).
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction -- the Horcruxes.
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Burlesque (2010)
Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA.
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The Tourist (2010)
American tourist Frank (Johnny Depp) meets a mysterious beauty who drags...
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The Warrior Way
With a main character uninterested in verbal communication, a narrator who uses phrases like “learn stuff” and strange background changes mid-scene,
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Grown Ups
Grown Ups, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade, is a comedy about five friends and former teammates who reunite years later to honor the passing of their...
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Machete
After a violent shakedown from a notorious drug lord nearly kills him, Machete, a renegade Mexican Federale
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Zombieland
Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him.
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer’s TWILIGHT series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as BELLA SWAN (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the...
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Alice in Wonderland
Director and subject matter make for a perfect marriage in Tim Burton’s version of the Lewis Carroll classic.
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Edge of Darkness
CASINO ROYALE filmmaker Martin Campbell directs a remake of his own BBC miniseries with this thriller.
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger.
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Avatar
A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran is unwillingly sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet's indigenous Na'vi race in this ambitious, digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron....
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Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram's comic book series by writer/director Guy Ritchie...
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Friends With Benefits
Attractive twentysomethings Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis) first meet as business associates
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Kenneth Branagh Thor Gets an Official Teaser Poster
Thor spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is the mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war.
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