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  • Traitor

    Traitor

    Traitor movie review: Samir Horn (Don Cheadle) is a former soldier, a devout Moslem, and U.S. citizen in the Middle East selling bomb detonators to Islamic radicals. He joins their cause as both the FBI and a rogue CIA agent track him. Horn escapes a Yemeni prison, goes underground... [more...]
     
  • Lakeview Terrace

    Lakeview Terrace

    Lakeview Terrace movie review: A young couple (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington) has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves... [more...]
     
  • Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

    Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

    Tetsuo: The Bullet Man movie synopsis: The third installment in the series, TETSUO III: THE BULLET MAN, and Tsukamoto’s first English-language film, stars Eric Bossick as Anthony, a young man who... [more...]
     
  • Seconds Apart

    Seconds Apart

    Seconds Apart movie synopsis: Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis – a power... [more...]
     
  • Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go

    Never Let Me Go movie review: Kathy (Mulligan), Tommy (Garfield) and Ruth (Knightley) live in a world and a time that feel familiar to us, but is not quite like anything we know. They spend their childhood... [more...]
     
  • Splice

    Splice

    Splice movie review: Romantically involved genetic engineers Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are scientific pioneers, creating new hybrid creatures by combining the DNA of various animals.... [more...]
     
  • Eagle Eye

    Eagle Eye

    Eagle Eye movie synopsis: "Eagle Eye" is a race-against-time thriller starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie and Billy Bob Thornton. Jerry Shaw (LaBeouf) and... [more...]
     
  • Green Zone

    Green Zone

    Green Zone movie synopsis: Following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his men are charged with finding the so-called weapons of mass destruction, whose existence... [more...]
     
  • RocknRolla

    RocknRolla

    RocknRolla movie synopsis: Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson), the rocknrolla of the title, is a crime boss who calls the shots in London's underworld and real estate market. We learn all about Lenny and his... [more...]
     
  • Blindness

    Blindness

    Blindness movie synopsis: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly... [more...]
     
  • Hanna

    Hanna

    Hanna movie synopsis: The title character of this adventure thriller, filmed in Europe, Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier;... [more...]
     
  • Body of Lies

    Body of Lies

    Body of Lies movie review: Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio), who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected... [more...]
     
  • Winters Bone

    Winters Bone

    Winter's Bone movie synopsis: 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) is the sole responsible "adult" in her impoverished Ozark family—with a younger brother and sister and an incapacitated... [more...]
     
  • Saw V

    Saw V

    Saw V movie synopsis: Jigsaw and his young apprentice, Amanda, are dead. But the grisly games continue. 5 supposed strangers find themselves in the midst of the big game, and believe they are in a survival... [more...]
     
  • Changeling

    Changeling

    Changeling movie synopsis: Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois... [more...]
     
  • Passengers

    Passengers

    Passengers movie review: After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire (Anne Hathaway), is assigned by her mentor (Andre Braugher) to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections... [more...]
     
  • Twilight

    Twilight

    Twilight movie synopsis: "Twilight" is an action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring... [more...]
     
  • Nobel Son

    Nobel Son

    Nobel Son movie synopsis: Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), a self-involved chemistry professor, learns he has been awarded the Nobel Prize. After verbally abusing his wife, son, colleagues, and nominal girlfriend,... [more...]
     
  • Timecrimes

    Timecrimes

    Timecrimes movie review: Hector (Karra Elejalde) is enjoying life at his new country home when he catches a glimpse of a nude woman (Barbara Goenaga) in the woods nearby. When he goes to investigate, he’s... [more...]
     
  • Nothing but the Truth

    Nothing but the Truth

    Nothing but the Truth movie synopsis: Thinking Pulitzer Prize and hoping to bring down a President, D.C. political columnist Rachel Armstrong writes that the President ignored the findings of a covert... [more...]
     
  • Vantage Point

    Vantage Point

    Vantage Point movie review: Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global... [more...]
     
  • Untraceable

    Untraceable

    Untraceable movie synopsis: Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special... [more...]
     
  • Teeth

    Teeth

    Teeth movie synopsis: High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group''s most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult... [more...]
     
  • Cloverfield

    Cloverfield

    Cloverfield movie review: A Manhattan farewell party for Robert (Michael Stahl-David), who is heading for a job in Japan is interrupted by a shattering noise and rumblings like an earthquake. Hud (T.J.... [more...]
     
  • The Resident

    The Resident

    The Resident movie synopsis: Every year, three million single women in America move into an apartment for the first time. They do not know who lived in the apartment before them, they do not know their... [more...]
     
  • Tenderness

    Tenderness

    Tenderness movie review: Lori (Sophie Traub) is a miserable teenager with a laundry list of troubles. To escape from her pain, she fantasizes about Eric (Jon Foster), a juvenile murderer about to be released... [more...]
     
  • The Road

    The Road

    The Road movie review: Society has broken down, plants and animals are a distant memory, and humans must find food and shelter if they have any chance of survival. (That many have turned to cannibalism... [more...]
     
  • Source Code

    Source Code

    Source Code movie synopsis: When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago... [more...]
     
  • Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood movie synopsis: Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure. Additional Notes: If you aren’t... [more...]
     
  • The Box

    The Box

    The Box movie synopsis: What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars...but simultaneously take the life of someone you don't know? Would you... [more...]
     
  • The Fourth Kind

    The Fourth Kind

    The Fourth Kind movie synopsis: In 1972, a scale of measurement was established for alien encounters. When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it... [more...]
     
  • The Stepfather

    The Stepfather

    The Stepfather movie synopsis: Dylan Walsh stars as David Harris, very much a "family values" man who mysteriously comes into the lives of single mothers with children and becomes the  dream... [more...]
     
  • Whiteout

    Whiteout

    Whiteout movie synopsis -A U.S. marshall tracking a vicious murderer through the Antarctic must locate the killer before the sun sets for six months, or risk being trapped in the dark with the madman for... [more...]
     
  • Sanctum

    Sanctum

    Sanctum movie synopsis: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When... [more...]
     
  • Vanishing on Seventh Street

    Vanishing on Seventh Street

    Vanishing on Seventh Street movie review - Directed by Brad Anderson, Vanishing on 7th Street follows four strangers (Hayden Christensen's Luke, John Leguizamo's Paul, Thandie Newton's Rosemary,... [more...]
     
  • Red Hill

    Red Hill

    Red Hill movie synopsis: A young policeman is the only thing that stands between a small town and a pack of vicious outlaws in this western drama from Australia. Shane Cooper (Ryan Kwanten) is a lawman... [more...]
     
  • Kalamity

    Kalamity

    Kalamity movie synopsis - Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice (Beau Garrett), a heartbroken Billy (Nick Stahl) returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what... [more...]
     
  • Scream 4

    Scream 4

    Scream 4 movie synopsis: Ten years after the brutal killings in Woodsboro, survivor Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) returns home to promote her self-help book. Journalist Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox)... [more...]
     
  • Revanche

    Revanche

    Revanche movie review - A happily married couple becomes unlikely friends with a man whose life has been marked by chaos and violence in this drama from Austria. Alex (Johannes Krisch) is a small-time... [more...]
     
  • The Informers

    The Informers

    A collection of Bret Easton Ellis' short stories are adapted for the screen by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and helmed by Gregor Jordan in The Informers, a Senator Entertainment ensemble film featuring... [more...]
     
  • The Tourist

    The Tourist

    The Tourist movie review: Formally labeled as a thriller, the film revolves around Frank (Depp), an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise (Jolie) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately... [more...]
     
  • 12

    12

    When a Russian youth is put on trial for the murder of his adoptive father, it's up to a room full of jurors divided by racism and prejudice to determine the boy's ultimate fate in director Nikita... [more...]
     
  • Taken

    Taken

    Former government operative Bryan Mills begins the longest 96-hours of his life--and the hunt for the fearsome organization that has taken his daughter Kim. Mills had only recently given up his government... [more...]
     
  • The Uninvited

    The Uninvited

    Filmmaking duo Thomas and Charles Guard make their feature directorial debuts as the co-directors of this remake of Kim Jee-woon's 2003 Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters. Produced by Asian horror... [more...]
     
  • Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

    Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

    The Underworld series gets the prequel treatment with this third outing that fleshes out the story of the ancient war between the vampiric Death Dealers and their wolfman counterparts, the Lycans. F/X... [more...]
     
  • Black Swan

    Black Swan

    Black Swan movie synopsis: Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive... [more...]
     
  • Possession

    Possession

    An adaptation of the 2002 Korean film Addicted, this thriller stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a young woman whose husband and brother-in-law each fall into comas. When the brother-in-law comes back to... [more...]
     
  • Predators

    Predators

    Predators movie synopsis: Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers, some trained and some who are not, must endeavour the alien race of predators that have set out to target... [more...]
     
  • The Eclipse

    The Eclipse

    Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds of Munich) is a depressed widower who teaches shop in the small seaside town of Cobh, in County Cork, Ireland, where he lives with his two children. While he continues... [more...]
     
  • The Crazies

    The Crazies

    The Crazies movie synopsis: Sahara director Breck Eisner teams with screenwriters Ray Wright (Pulse) and Scott Kosar (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) to give George A. Romero's underrated 1973 shocker... [more...]
     
  • The Wolfman

    The Wolfman

    The Wolfman movie synopsis: Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of a man who experiences an unsettling transformation after he returns to his ancestral home in Victorian-era... [more...]
     
  • Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness

    Edge of Darkness movie synopsis: Casino Royale's Martin Campbell returns to familiar territory with this adaptation of his own 1985 BBC miniseries -- a mystery starring Mel Gibson as a detective... [more...]
     
  • Legion

    Legion

    Legion movie review: In the supernatural action thriller "Legion", an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race.When God loses faith in Mankind,... [more...]
     
  • The American

    The American

    The American movie synopsis: Jack (George Clooney), an assassin and custom arms maker, is relaxing in a remote cabin in Sweden with his lover, Ingrid (Irina Björklund). As they walk on a frozen lake,... [more...]
     
  • Skyline

    Skyline

    Skyline movie synopsis: After a late night party, a group of friends are awoken in the dead of the night by an eerie light beaming through the window. Like moths to a flame, the light source is drawing... [more...]
     
  • Piranha 3D

    Piranha 3D

    Piranha 3D movie synopsis: From director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) comes the new action thriller PIRANHA 3D. Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for... [more...]