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Title Where? MC RT Me Genre Release Length Director Actors Blurb(s)

The American Wide 62 61% 7 Action 9/1/10 105 Anton Corbijn George Clooney Dutch director, largely non-American cast
Suspense Paolo Bonacelli A spy thriller but not a typical Clooney film
Drama Thekla Reuten Contemplative, I found time to let the movie sink
in, others might find it boring

Buried Limited 63 83% Mystery 9/24/10 94 Rodrigo Cortés Ryan Reynolds I have to reveal the premise to this one: it's about someone
Suspense Ivana Miño buried alive trying to find a way out
Stephen Tobolowsky Not for me but if the premise sounds interesting, sounds
like the film is well executed

Carlos NY 95 93% Drama 10/15/10 150 Olivier Assayas Édgar Ramírez Was shown in 3 parts on IFC's cable channel
Crime Alexander Scheer Shown in theaters in 2, 2:30 hour parts
It's the real life story of terrorist Carlos the Jackal

Conviction Limited 61 68% Drama 10/15/10 107 Tony Goldwyn Hilary Swank There won't be any ground broken but if you're in the mood
Sam Rockwell for a legal procedural, this will be a predictable but pretty
Minnie Driver good night at the theater.
Melissa Leo

Down Terrace NY/LA 70 83% Comedy 10/15/10 89 Ben Wheatley Robert Hill Entertaining intelligent British crime comedy
Crime Robin Hill Not too serious but not not too ridiculous either, well done
Julia Deakin

Easy A Wide 72 84% Romance 9/17/10 92 Will Gluck Emma Stone A witty, wiser than expected high school movie
Comedy Penn Badgley Loosely based on the Scarlet Letter
Amanda Bynes

Eat Pray Love Wide 51 38% 7 Drama 8/13/10 133 Ryan Murphy Julia Roberts Travelogue meets self help, better than expected
Romance Javier Bardem All about Julia Roberts character, others actors
are supporting.

Enter the Void NY/LA 64 74% Drama 9/24/10 163 Gaspar Noé Nathaniel Brown Director Noe (Irreversible) known as an excting artist
Thriller Paz de la Huerta This film is non linear, psychedelic, love or hate
French Cyril Roy RT users gave it lower marks than RT Reviewers
Note the running time of 163 minutes

Get Low NY 78 89% 8 Romance 7/30/10 100 Aaron Schneider Robert Duvall Based on a true story of a 1930's Tennessee hermit
Mystery Sissy Spacek Character study, Duval's exceptional
Drama Bill Murray

Heartbreaker Limited 63 79% Comedy 9/10/10 105 Pascal Chaumeil Romain Duris Slightly intelligent French Rom Com
Romance Vanessa Paradis Big hit in France featuring 2 big French stars
Light, fun entertainment

Hereafter Limited 57 71% Drama 10/15/10 129 Clint Eastwood Matt Damon Written by Peter Morgan (Frost Nixon, The Queen)
Mystery Cécile De France An intelligent pondering of what happens in the hereafter
Suspense Bryce Dallas Howard With Eastwood it's simple and solid

Howl Limited 61 48% 6 Drama 9/24/10 86 Rob Epstein James Franco Story about Allen Ginsberg's famous poem and life
Jeffrey Friedman Jon Hamm Part BioPic, part documentary, with elements of fiction
Jeff Daniels Interest in this film will be much higher if you're interested
David Strathairn in Howl
Mary-Louise Parker

I Am Love NY 78 81% 9 Drama 6/18/10 120 Luca Guadagnino Tilda Swinton Italian family dynamics, great character work
Italian Flavio Parenti Philosophical & moral exploration
English Subtitles Edoardo Gabbriellini Lovely milieu

Inception Wide 74 87% 7 Mystery 7/16/10 148 Christopher Nolan Leonardo DiCaprio I don't like sci fi, this is sci fi, even I found it watchable
SciFi/Thriller Joseph Gordon-Levitt It's an intricate puzzle, you'll have to think throughout
Suspense Ellen Page 8.2 out of 10 based on 768 metacritic users

Inside Job NY/LA 89 87% Documentary 10/8/10 120 Charles Ferguson Narrated by Matt Damon, it details the 2008 financial
meltdown in the U.S. If you want a credible explanation of
how it happened, don't miss this film.

It's Kind of a Funny Story Limited 63 59% Comedy 10/8/10 101 Anna Boden Keir Gilchrist This co-directing team has also done Half Nelson (which was
Drama Ryan Fleck Zach Galifianakis very solid), and Sugar.
Emma Roberts A smart comedy, not too heavy but not just silly either.

Jack Goes Boating NY 65 68% 10 Drama 9/17/10 89 Based on a Robert Glaudini play
Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman
Seattle Romance John Ortiz 4 Characters lives intersect, this film details what it feels
Limited Comedy Amy Ryan like for those characters giving the viewer the chance
Daphne Rubin-Vega to experience these things as though they were happening
in our own lives.
Most of the audience I saw it with clapped at the end!

Kings of Pastry SF/LA 63 78% Documentary 9/15/10 87 D.A. Pennebaker Jacquy Pfeiffer Tells the story behind the Meillieurs Ouvriers de France which
Chris Hegedus Nicolas Sarkozy is France's highest honor for a Pattiserie
Directors are well known having made The War Room to
Elaine Stritch: At Liberty and much in between

Last Train Home NY/SF 82 100% Documentary 9/3/10 85 Lixin Fan Suqin Chen
Philly Drama Changhua Zhan
Qin Zhang

Leaving (Partir) NY/LA 52 77% 6 Drama 10/1/10 85 Catherine Corsini Kristin Scott Thomas Respected french film maker
Romance Sergi López Solid, honest film but I suspect only fans of french cinema
Yvan Attal will enjoy this film. Kristin Scott Thomas is exceptional

Let Me In Wide 78 85% Romance 10/1/10 115 Matt Reeves Chloe Moretz Remake of respected 2008 Swedish film, Let the Right One In.
Drama Kodi Smit-McPhee Reviews suggest this is a very credible remake.
SciFi Richard Jenkins I tend not to enjoy sci-fi or horror so I'm going to pass
Horror Cara Buono for those who like the genre, sounds worth seeing.

Machete Wide 59 73% Action 105 Ethan Maniquis Danny Trejo Violent, grindhouse film, not for me but if you like
Mystery Robert Rodriguez Robert De Niro this style of film, user reviews are positive and critical
Jessica Alba reviews are positive.
Steven Seagal

Mao's Last Dancer Limited 58 59% Drama 8/20/10 127 Bruce Beresford Bruce Greenwood Period piece, political/personal drama
Musical & Kyle MacLachlan Beresford directed Tender Mercies & Driving Miss Daisy
Performing Joan Chen 2nd tier choice for me
Arts Amanda Schull

Mesrine: Killer Instinct NY 70 80% 8 Action 8/27/10 113 Jean-François Richet Vincent Cassel French gangster film based on a real person
Drama Ludivine Sagnier This is part 2, Part 1 isn't available on DVD in the U.S.
Biography Mathieu Amalric Part 1 also isn't necessary to enjoy the film
Violent, but ultimately it's a very solid character study

Nowhere Boy NY/LA 63 82% 10 Biography 10/8/10 100 Sam Taylor-Wood Aaron Johnson John Lennon BiPpic, exceptionally compelling, well told story
Drama Kristin Scott Thomas Worth seeing whether you care about Lennon or not
Music Broad appeal, I think most people will love this film.
Deserves more attention than it can afford to buy

Red Wide 60 69% Action 10/15/10 111 Robert Schwentke Bruce Willis No worries entertainment with very good acting
Mystery John Malkovich You know what you're going to get, if you're looking for a
Comedy Helen Mirren guilty pleasure, appears to be better than most of it's kind
Mary-Louise Parker

Samson and Delilah NY 73 97% Romance 10/15/10 101 Warwick Thornton Rowan McNamara Low budget, small scale, very well done Aussie made
Drama Marissa Gibson Gritty, not always pretty but well worth the effort
Comedy

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Limited 68 83% 8 Action 8/13/10 113 Edgar Wright Michael Cera Based on cult comic book series
Adventure Context, trappings are aimed at 20 somethings
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Comedy Kieran Culkin But the story and underpinnings are well enough done
Romance Chris Evans that anyone can enjoy this.

Secretariat Wide 60 64% Drama 10/8/10 116 Randall Wallace Diane Lane Based on the true story, it's on my list as a film the entire
Sports John Malkovich family can see. It's an amazing story with charismatic actors
Family Scott Glenn Don't expect new cinematic ground to be broken but it'll be
James Cromwell solid

The Social Network Wide 98 98% 8 Drama 10/1/10 120 David Fincher Jesse Eisenberg Simultaneously timely and timeless
Andrew Garfield Well enough done to engage the art film crowd, appealing
Justin Timberlake enough that it ought to find a large audience
One of the rare films I'd recommend to almost anyone

'Tamara Drewe' NY/LA 65 74% 7 Comedy 10/8/10 107 Stephen Frears Gemma Arterton Based on Posy Simmonds graphic novel which was based on
Drama Roger Allam a Thomas Hardy novel, this is a solidly British production
Bill Camp Frears directed Dangerous Liasons and The Queen
Dominic Cooper Farcical, silly, fun and wise but a bit schematic

The Town Wide 74 94% 8 Romance 9/17/10 123 Ben Affleck Ben Affleck Very solid cops & robbers, largely authentic, interesting
Mystery Rebecca Hall Avoids most of the easy stereotypes
Drama Jon Hamm Would seem to have very broad appeal, has elements of
Jeremy Renner action, romance as well as compelling acting

Waiting for 'Superman' Limited 85 93% 9 Documentary 9/24/10 102 Davis Guggenheim Michelle Rhee Director Guggenheim has directed An Inconvenient Truth and
Education Geoffrey Canada It Might Get Loud among other docs & episodic TV
Film is a great conversation starter about what needs to be
done to improve our public school system and it's interesting
in the process

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Wide 59 55% 8 Drama 9/24/10 127 Oliver Stone Michael Douglas Worthy follow up to Wall Street (1987)
Shia LaBeouf Some might find it long but the story's solid and it's
Josh Brolin probably worth the price of admission for the acting alone
Carey Mulligan
Susan Sarandon
Frank Langella

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Limited 57 49% 7 Comedy 9/22/10 98 Woody Allen Anthony Hopkins Not sure why reviews are so mixed, this is middle of the road
Romance Naomi Watts Woody, it's not wacky, it's not classic but it's still smart
Josh Brolin and the human condition is still well chronicled. It's largely
Gemma Jones the same turf Woody's been working on forever, just in London
Antonio Banderas instead of New York but the actors are all fun to watch.