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  Disney's A Christmas Carol (PG, 2009)

  Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn

  An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterio...[ read more ]us Christmas apparitions.

  View Trailer | 72% Liked it
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  The Men Who Stare at Goats (R, 2009)

  George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey

  The story of a secret unit within the US Army called the First Earth Battalion, whose paranormal military ideas mutated over the decades to influence ...[ read more ]interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

  View Trailer | 61% Liked it
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  The Box (PG-13, 2009)

  James Marsden, Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn

  A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't...[ read more ] know.

  View Trailer | 49% Liked it
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  The Fourth Kind (PG-13, 2009)

  Milla Jovovich, Alisha Seaton, Will Patton, Corey Johnson

  Fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances dur...[ read more ]ing the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.

  View Trailer | 63% Liked it

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  Michael Jackson's This Is It (PG, 2009)

  Michael Jackson, Kenny Ortega, Paul Gongaware, Randy Phillips

  "This Is It," features Michael Jackson in his final days rehearsing for a series of comeback concerts in London, shortly before his untimely death. Th...[ read more ]e movie will be drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage. Jackson was staging his rehearsals at Staples Center and The Forum. The film will also offer select sequences in 3D and will also have a career retrospective and interviews with some of Jackson's closest friends and collaborators.

  View Trailer | 87% Liked it
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  Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

  Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Michael Bayouth, Amber Armstrong

  Katie and Micah are enjoying a happy and carefree existence. Their future looks promising until bizarre events begin to occur at night. In order to ge...[ read more ]t to the bottom of things, Katie and Micah purchase a video camera to find out what happens at night while they sleep.

  View Trailer | 66% Liked it
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  Law Abiding Citizen (R, 2009)

  Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney

  An everyday guy decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family's killers free. His target: The district attorney who ...[ read more ]orchestrated the deal.

  View Trailer | 81% Liked it
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  Couples Retreat (PG-13, 2009)

  Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell

  A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marria...[ read more ]ge, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.

  View Trailer | 56% Liked it
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  Where the Wild Things Are (PG, 2009)

  Max Records, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano

  The adventures of a young boy named Max who, after being sent to bed for misbehaving, imagines that he sails away to where the wild things are. Max is...[ read more ] loved by the wild creatures who make him their King, though he soon longs to be back home with his family.

  View Trailer | 71% Liked it
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  Saw VI (R, 2009)

  Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith, Mark Rolston

  Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer ...[ read more ]to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

  View Trailer | 69% Liked it
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  Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (PG, 2009)

  Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy

  Astro Boy follows the adventures of a young-yet-powerful robot who, in the hopes of winning his inventor-father’s heart, sets off on a quest to...[ read more ] rid the world of evil. However, he soon discovers that his home, Metro City, stands on the brink of destruction, and it is up to him to save the day as well as his friends and family.

  View Trailer | 59% Liked it
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  The Stepfather (PG-13, 2009)

  Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Amber Heard, Sela Ward

  A seemingly normal man wants the perfect family. When they don't measure up, he eliminates them and moves on to find his next perfect family.

  View Trailer | 50% Liked it
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  Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (PG-13, 2009)

  John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia

  Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly...[ read more ] breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares. 16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That's the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty. Newly undead, he joins the Cirque Du Freak, a touring sideshow filled with monstrous creatures from a snakeboy and a wolfman to a bearded lady (Salma Hayek) and a gigantic barker (Ken Watanabe). As Darren flexes his newfound powers in this dark world, he becomes a treasured pawn between the vampires and their deadlier counterparts. And while trying to survive, one boy will struggle to keep their brewing war from devouring what's left of his humanity.

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  Amelia (PG, 2009)

  Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Mia Wasikowska, Ewan McGregor

  A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a fli...[ read more ]ght around the world.

  View Trailer | 48% Liked it

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  The Time Traveler's Wife (PG-13, 2009)

  Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Brooklynn Proulx

  A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage...[ read more ].

  View Trailer | 65% Liked it
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  District 9 (R, 2009)

  Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka

  An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their...[ read more ] biotechnology.

  View Trailer | 81% Liked it
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  Inglourious Basterds (R, 2009)

  Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent

  In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes an...[ read more ]d flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

  View Trailer | 87% Liked it
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  The Final Destination (R, 2009)

  Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb

  On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple...[ read more ] race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave… escaping seconds before Nick’s frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one — in increasingly gruesome ways — Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film marks the latest in the highly popular “Final Destination” series, and its first 3D installment, giving horror fans an especially visceral thrill ride.

  View Trailer | 52% Liked it
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  The Invention of Lying (PG-13, 2009)

  Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.

  Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

  View Trailer | 48% Liked it
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  Zombieland (R, 2009)

  Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

  Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick th...[ read more ]eir ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

  View Trailer | 88% Liked it
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  Whiteout (R, 2009)

  Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short

  Carrie Stetko, the lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, is investigating the continent’s first murder, which draws her into a shocking mystery. ...[ read more ]Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer.

  View Trailer | 36% Liked it
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  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (PG, 2009)

  Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell

  A scientist trying to solve world hunger encounters a problem of global proportions, as food begins to fall from the sky.

  View Trailer | 73% Liked it
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  All About Steve (PG-13, 2009)

  Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong

  Convinced that a CNN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler (Bullock) trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to con...[ read more ]vince him that they belong together.

  View Trailer | 43% Liked it
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  Sorority Row (R, 2009)

  Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung

  When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and...[ read more ] never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.

  View Trailer | 47% Liked it

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• Amelia (PG, 2009)

  - by cenzano38

  Ahh. If only a movie about Amelia Earhart could be half as exciting as her life seemed to be.
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  Amelia was just boring. Sometimes flashing back and forth is good, sometimes not so much. Amelia is the later. Flat.
  
  The movie, even with this spectacular cast, doesn't allow for attachment to the characters. Not even actors like Swank, Gere and McGregor can make the audience any more attached to the characters when a movie is edited this poorly. There are a couple of minutes where the director allows us in, but for only a moment. Then it's back to the grind of watching this scene and then the next. Mira Nair, the director of this..... thing, doesn't really have any great films in her library, and don't think she would have been my choice for something that they had so much to work with.
  
  This isn't a movie I'm going to sit through again, and if you're expecting an Oscar caliber film, keep searching. This isn't one.

• Saw VI (R, 2009)

  - by recruiter89

  This one was better then number 5 but at some point these need to end. The good thing about these mo...[ read more ]vies is the traps and puzzles put together. Plus these are linked together pretty well and it is pretty gruesome stuff to see the killing. I happen to enjoy Tobin Bells performance and it was good to see Shawnee Smith again. Not a bad twist and it will be interesting to see how they piece this to the next one that comes out.

• Where the Wild Things Are (PG, 2009)

  - by phubbs1

  If you cross Labyrinth's escapism and large creatures with maybe a hint of The Dark Crystal and some...[ read more ] Muppet lunacy here and there you may have an idea of what to expect in this film. The huge 'wild things' are actually designed and made by the fantastic Henson company and you can see it through and through :) lovely to look at and charming in every way. Each one looks exactly as they should and move pretty well too, even though they are all pretty much like Sweetums or Big Bird from the Muppets they all work so well and look realistic, this could of been a huge cgi mess so I'm really happy they went with this option, Henson's boys are fudging gods in their field, excellent.
  
  After numerous false starts and problems with bad previews etc..I can see why its a mixed bag but still worthy of recognition. The look is lovely and original much like the classic children's book, sure its kinda drab, rough and maybe plain looking but that's just the outback wilderness feel of the book which is kept perfectly. Much of the beloved book is right there on the screen making a great adaptation with some (not too many) nice ideas to beef up the plot (the book had virtually no text) and a very artistic approach with filming making this almost as lovely as the drawings by Maurice Sendak, a nice knarley fairytale of sorts. I think the extra time Jonze spent with his view on this was time well spent as its a beautiful film in simplicity, colour and view points.
  
  One problem of course comes with the minimalistic story, as there was only about ten sentences in the book new or extented story was needed to flesh out the film, its very 'primeval' and simple which unfortunately does become alittle dull and boring midway through. The film feels stretched for ideas and you can see everything slowly running out of steam due to the very basic plotline, its very very basic, almost non existent hehe
  That's the other problem, I feel kids will bore of this very quickly and may even fear some of it as its alittle dark in places and not as light or glorious as the book, they may not even follow the story much either as its alittle off the wall haha basic but weird. Kudos on the voice work here too, everyone really fits their 'wild thing' well and brings a true sense of feeling and soul to their character.
  
  I think folks of about 25 upwards will really like this, many will have been brought up with this children's book and like me have fond memories come flooding back :) I since have checked out the book and it almost brought a lump to my throat as I looked over the images which I recalled instantly.
  Its not a stunning film but its a lovely well made film from a classic much loved source, a must see.

• Michael Jackson's This Is It (PG, 2009)

  - by flditems1

  Was unsure what to think when I heard of the idea. So I went in expecting it to either suck or be gr...[ read more ]eat. It was closer to great than suck.
  I was impressed to see how well he looked in his rehearsals.
  Makes his death really seem that much more shocking when you see how alive he looked in rehearsals.

• The Stepfather (PG-13, 2009)

  - by jimmc

  The step fater will walk all over you. No where near as predictable as "Paranormal Activity". Better...[ read more ] than most of the previews I have seen this year, but I still won't remember it 5 years from now.

• Michael Jackson's This Is It (PG, 2009)

  - by irisheyes686

  Such a good movie! Lots of great dancing, and of course, music. It would've been awesome to see the ...[ read more ]real concert.

• Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (PG-13, 2009)

  - by hobster1

  Scattered fantasy about a sideshow vampire who turns a teenager into one of the undead. Film adapta...[ read more ]tion unwisely crams the first three books of Darren Shan's book series into one film. As a result the film's narrative lacks structure. The plot fluctuates throughout the course of the film. Is it horror, comedy, drama, or adventure? Unfortunately we are never sure. Apparently neither was the cast. The main characters behave in frustratingly illogical ways, and numerous supporting cameos by famous actors are an annoying distraction. In short, the film is a confusing mess.

• Saw VI (R, 2009)

  - by Mrbishi

  Bringing the franchise bang upto date cant wait for saw 7 so long as its not 3D as rumored...

• Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

  - by Mrbishi

  Dont see this at the pictures because the ending sucks imo, the best version though Ive heard there ...[ read more ]was 4 alternate endings to this would be the 2007 cannes version, I wont spoil it but by far more realisic and much better, tbh I want to now see the 2 endings I cant find lol just to compare them all

• Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (PG, 2009)

  - by sanjurosamurai

  what a fun movie. the flick contained a few logical flaws in the script and nicholas cage's voice d...[ read more ]idnt fit his character all that well, but i liked every other thing about this film quite a bit. the movie was fun, the script was concieved well, and the characters all fit into the story well. this is about as good as one can expect from an animated film.