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Agnes at the Beach
French director Agnes Varda looks back at a life in flim

Amelia
Hilary Swank takes off in biopic

Good Hair
A new documentary looks at the state of African American styling

The Damned United
A docudrama follows the misadventures of a driven soccer coach

Astro Boy
The flying robot returns to Metro City

A Serious Man
The Coen brothers visit some Biblical trials on a suburban dad

New York, I Love You
Too many directors spoil the anthology

The Boys Are Back
Clive Owen plays an overindulgent father in Australian family drama

Paranormal Activity
The rumors are true—it's really, really scary

Coco Before Chanel
Audrey Tautou plays the fashion designer in her young years

Capitalism: A Love Story'
Michael Moore turns a harsh light on the money grubbers who got us where we are today

Whip It
Drew Barrymore makes her directing debut with a story about roller derby girlz

Zombieland
Just your routine killing zombs in the wasteland movie

Passing Strange
Spike Lee makes a play into a movie

No Impact Man
One family tries to live off the grid in downtown New York

Paris
Cedric Klapisch takes an unusual look at the City of Light

Bright Star
Jane Campion imagines what young love was like for John Keats

The Informant!
Matt Damon plays a globe-trotting whistle blower in Steven Soderbergh's sly new comedy

White on Rice
A new comedy is like 'Napoleon Dynamite' dipped in soy sauce

9
On a scale of 1 to 9, 9 is a 3

My One and Only
Renée Zellweger practices her squinch for a '50s-era road movie

Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee looks back at the the most famous festival of them all

It Might Get Loud
Three guitar gods swap stories and songs in new documentary

Inglourious Basterds
Brad Pitt and a team of misfits fight the Nazi's in smart, funny sendup of patriotic filmmaking

Thirst
Back from the dead, a priest discovers the joys of blood sucking

District 9
The aliens and the humans have a hard time getting along in sci-fi thriller

Ponyo
An animated tale follows a headstrong goldfish on an oceanic adventure

The Cove
A startling documentary investigates a dolphin massacre

Julie & Julia
Meryl Streep's half of biopic about Julia Childs is great—skip the blogger part

Lorna's Secret
The Dardennes Brothers sink to melodrama in latest features

In the Loop
A British comedy lays waste to the folly of rushing to war

Shrink
Hollywood's most neurotic seek advice on the couch in a tag-team drama

Humpday
Two guy pals cook up a plan for the ultimate sex video

(500) Days of Summer
Zooey Deschanel is the queen of alterna-date movies in '(500) Days of Summer'

Tetro
Francis Ford Coppola gets personal in Buenos Aires

Irene in Time
Irene (Tanna Frederick) has enough problems to keep most dates to one and done

Séraphine
A new biopic resurrects the life of an obscure French artist

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The new Harry Potter is one of the series' best entries

The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow looks at bravery of men in the Iraq war

Bruno
Sacha Baron Cohen takes on the homophobes in outrageous new comedy

Surveillance
Jennifer Lynch takes a page from her father's playbook in creepy crime drama

The Girl From Monaco
In an offbeat French comedy, a middle-aged lawyer loses his senses over a young beauty

Public Enemies
Michael Manna and Johnny Depp conjure up a context-free Depression-era gangster story

Whatever Works
Woody Allen finds a fellow crank in Larry David in tale of May-December romance

Cheri
Michelle Pfeiffer looks better than she sounds as an aging courtesan in Stephen Frears' new film

The Stoning of Soraya M.
The subject is harrowing but the treatment painfully overwrought in Iranian import

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The subject is harrowing but the treatment painfully overwrought in Iranian import

Away We Go
Pregnancy sitcom bogs down in Gen-X platitudes about parenting

Food, Inc.
A new documentary exposes the problems with our agricultural system

The Song of Sparrows
An Iranian feature shows a country man on the loose in the city

Pelham 1 2 3
Updated 'Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' is all action and no soul

Hangover
A stays-in-Vegas comedy is laugh filled

The Last Lullaby
Jeffrey Goodman's impressive indie showcases actor Tom Sizemore

My Life in Ruins
Nia Vardalos plays a love-struck tour guide in traveloque romantic comedy

Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi puts the fun back into fright



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