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The Battle of Algiers [Reissue] A
dir. Gillo Pontecorvo; with Brahim Haggiag, Saadi Yacef, Jean Martin
The Corporation A
dirs. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott; documentary about history of corporations
★ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind A
dir. Michel Gondry; with Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst
★ Maria Full of Grace A
dir. Joshua Marston; with Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
Oasis A
dir. Lee Chang-dong. Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ahn Nae-sang
★ Before Sunset A
dir. Richard Linklater; with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
Birth A
dir. Jonathan Glazer; with Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Anne Heche
Blissfully Yours A
dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul; with Min Oo, Kanokporn Tongaram, Jenjira Jansuda
★ The Bourne Supremacy A
dir. Paul Greengrass; with Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Brian Cox
Code 46 A
dir. Michael Winterbottom; with Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri
★ Dawn of the Dead A
dir. Zack Snyder; with Sarah Polley, Jake Weber, Ving Rhames
★ Donnie Darko [The Director's
Cut] A
dir. Richard Kelly; with Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
I ♥ Huckabees A
dir. David O. Russell; with Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Dustin Hoffman
★ Million Dollar Baby A
dir. Clint Eastwood; with Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Notre musique A
dir. Jean-Luc Godard; with Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Jean-Luc Godard
★ Osama A
dir. Siddiq Barmak; with Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar, Arif Herati
Since Otar Left A
dir. Julie Bertucelli; with Esther Gorintin, Dinara Drukarova, Nino Khomasuridze
Time of the Wolf A
dir. Michael Haneke; with Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Lucas Biscombe
Brother to Brother B+
dir. Rodney Evans; with Anthony Mackie, Roger Robinson, Duane Boutte
Closer B+
dir. Mike Nichols; with Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts
★ Collateral B+
dir. Michael Mann; with Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith
★ Control Room B+
dir. Jehane Noujaim; documentary about al-Jazeera and CentCom news during Iraq War
Crimson Gold B+
dir. Jafar Panahi; with Hossein Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Ehsan Amani
Days of Being Wild [re-issue] B+
dir. Wong Kar-wai; with Leslie Cheung, Carina Lau, Maggie Cheung
★ Dogville B+
dir. Lars von Trier; with Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård
★ Enduring Love B+
dir. Roger Michell; with Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Rhys Ifans
Father and Son B+
dir. Aleksandr Sokurov; with Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Nejmyshev
★ Good bye, Lenin! B+
dir. Wolfgang Becker; with Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova
© Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban B+
dir. Alfonso Cuarón; with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
In Good Company B+
dir. Paul Weitz; with Topher Grace, Dennis Quaid, Scarlett Johansson
The Incredibles B+
dir. Brad Bird; animated; voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter
Infernal Affairs B+
dirs. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak; with Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Eric Tsang
Kill Bill, Vol. 2 B+
dir. Quentin Tarantino; with Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen
Proteus B+
dirs. John Greyson and Jack Lewis; with Rouxnet Brown, Neil Sandilands
The Return B+
dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev; with Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin
Sex Is Comedy B+
dir. Catherine Breillat; with Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
★ Shrek 2 B+
dirs. Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon; animated; voice of Mike Myers
Sideways B+
dir. Alexander Payne; with Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
★ Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...
and Spring B+
dir. Kim Ki-duk; with Oh Yeong-su, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Young-min
Tarnation B+
dir. Jonathan Caouette; collage-style exploration of filmmaker's family history
★ Vera Drake B+
dir. Mike Leigh; with Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays
★ 13 Going on 30 B
dir. Gary Winick; with Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer
Bad Education B
dir. Pedro Almodóvar; with Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Lluís Homar
Born into Brothels B
dirs. Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski; documentary about poor children in Calcutta
Breakin' All the Rules B
dir. Daniel Taplitz; with Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union
★ The Clearing B
dir. Pieter Jan Brugge; with Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
★ De-Lovely B
dir. Irwin Winkler; with Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce
★ The Dreamers B
dir. Bernardo Bertolucci; with Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel
★ Fahrenheit 9/11 B
dir. Michael Moore; documentary/essay about the George W. Bush administration
Hero B
dir. Zhang Yimou; with Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung
Hotel Rwanda B
dir. Terry George; with Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte
House of Flying Daggers B
dir. Zhang Yimou; with Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau
In the Realms of the Unreal B
dir. Jessica Yu; documentary; speculative biography of artist Henry Darger
The Merchant of Venice B
dir. Michael Radford; with Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins
The Mother B
dir. Roger Michell; with Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Cathryn Bradshaw
★ The Motorcycle Diaries B
dir. Walter Salles; with Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Jorge Chiarella
★ Napoleon Dynamite B
dir. Jared Hess; with Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino
The Notebook B
dir. Nick Cassavetes; with Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner
Primer B
dir. Shane Carruth; with Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
Secret Things B
dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau; with Sabrina Seyvecou, Coralie Revel, Fabrice Deville
The Story of the Weeping
Camel B
dirs. Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni; documentary about rural Mongolian family
© Super Size Me B
dir. Morgan Spurlock; documentary; personal investigation into American obesity trends
A Thousand Clouds of Peace B
dir. Julián Hernández; with Juan Carlos Ortuño, Rosa María Gómez, Juan Carlos Torres
★ Twentynine Palms B
dir. Bruno Dumont; with David Wissak, Katerina Golubeva
Undertow B
dir. David Gordon Green; with Jamie Bell, Devon Alan, Josh Lucas
Aileen: Life and Death of a
Serial Killer B
dirs. Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill; documentary about notorious murderer
Alfie B
dir. Charles Shyer; with Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps
The Assassination of
Richard Nixon B
dir. Niels Mueller; with Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle
The Aviator B
dir. Martin Scorsese; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda
Cowards Bend the Knee B
dir. Guy Maddin; with Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle
The Cutting Edge: The Art of
Film Editing B
dir. Wendy Apple. Documentary on the craft of film editing
★ The Day After Tomorrow B
dir. Roland Emmerich; with Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
Facing Windows B
dir. Ferzan Ozpetek; with Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova
Friday Night Lights B
dir. Peter Berg; with Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Derek Luke
★ Going Upriver: The Long War
of John Kerry B
dir. George Butler. Profile of Kerry's military service and antiwar activism
Kinsey B
dir. Bill Condon; with Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Peter Sarsgaard
Last Life in the Universe B
dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang; with Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Laila Boonyasak
Lemony Snicket's A Series of
Unfortunate Events B
dir. Brad Silberling; with Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning
The Machinist B
dir. Brad Anderson; with Christian Bale, John Sharian, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mean Girls B
dir. Mark S. Waters; with Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert
★ Open Water B
dir. Chris Kentis; with Daniel Travis, Blanchard Ryan, Saul Stein
★ The Passion of the Christ B
dir. Mel Gibson; with Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci
The Twilight Samurai B
dir. Yoji Yamada; with Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Vanity Fair B
dir. Mira Nair; with Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai
The Yes Men B
dirs. Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, and Sarah Price; documentary about activist-impostors
Young Adam B
dir. David Mackenzie; with Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan
© Baadasssss! C+
dir. Mario Van Peebles; with Mario Van Peebles, Khleo Thomas, Nia Long
Distant C+
dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan; with Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya
The Five Obstructions C+
dirs. Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier; with Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
© The Forgotten C+
dir. Joseph Ruben; with Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Linus Roache
Latter Days C+
dir. C. Jay Cox; with Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, Rebekah Jordan
★ The Life and Death of Peter
Sellers C+
dir. Stephen Hopkins; with Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Miriam Margolyes
The Life Aquatic with
Steve Zissou C+
dir. Wes Anderson; with Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston
★ The Manchurian Candidate C+
dir. Jonathan Demme; with Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep
Monsieur Ibrahim C+
dir. François Dupeyron; with Pierre Boulanger, Omar Sharif, Gilbert Melki
★ OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch's
War on Journalism C+
dir. Robert Greenwald; documentary/essay about corporate control of FoxNews outlet
★ Shaun of the Dead C+
dir. Edgar Wright; with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
★ Spider-Man 2 C+
dir. Sam Raimi; with Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina
Springtime in a Small Town C+
dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang; with Jun Wu, Jingfan Hu, Bai Qing Xin
This So-Called Disaster C+
dir. Michael Almereyda; documentary of rehearsals for a play by Sam Shepard
★ Touching the Void C+
dir. Kevin Macdonald. Docudrama; with Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Richard Hawking
Being Julia C
dir. István Szábo; with Annette Bening, Shaun Evans, Jeremy Irons
Les Choristes C
dir. Christophe Barratier; with Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier
Meet the Fockers C
dir. Jay Roach; with Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman
★ Ocean's Twelve C
dir. Steven Soderbergh; with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon
★ Ray C
dir. Taylor Hackford; with Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King
The Saddest Music in the
World C
dir. Guy Maddin; with Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros
A Very Long Engagement C
dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet; with Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon
★ Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! C
dir. Robert Luketic; with Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace
Zhou Yu's Train C
dir. Zhou Sun; with Gong Li, Honglei Sun, Tony Leung Ka Fai
The Brown Bunny C
dir. Vincent Gallo; with Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Cheryl Tiegs
Cavedweller C
dir. Lisa Cholodenko; with Kyra Sedgwick, Regan Arnold, Aidan Quinn
★ Coffee and Cigarettes C
dir. Jim Jarmusch; with Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Steve Buscemi
I, Robot C
dir. Alex Proyas; with Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, James Cromwell
The Intended C
dir. Kristian Levring; with Janet McTeer, JJ Feild, Tony Maudsley
Silver City C
dir. John Sayles; with Danny Huston, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss
Spanglish C
dir. James L. Brooks; with Paz Vega, Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni
★ Stage Beauty C
dir. Richard Eyre; with Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett
Team America: World Police C
dir. Trey Parker; voices of Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller
★ The Village C
dir. M. Night Shyamalan; with Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, William Hurt
★ We Don't Live Here Anymore C
dir. John Curran; with Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Laura Dern
The Woodsman C
dir. Nicole Kassell; with Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Benjamin Bratt
★ The Door in the Floor D+
dir. Tod Williams; with Jeff Bridges, Jon Foster, Kim Basinger
Grande école D+
dir. Robert Salis; with Gregori Baquet, Jocelyn Quivrin, Alice Taglioni
★ A Home at the End of
the World D+
dir. Michael Mayer; with Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Wright Penn
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead D+
dir. Mike Hodges; with Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlotte Rampling
A Love Song for Bobby Long D+
dir. Shainee Gabel; with John Travolta, Scarlett Johansson, Gabriel Macht
The Phantom of the Opera D+
dir. Joel Schumacher; with Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, Patrick Wilson
p.s. D+
dir. Dylan Kidd; with Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Marcia Gay Harden
Saw D+
dir. James Wan; with Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover
The Sea Inside D+
dir. Alejandro Amenábar; with Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas
★ The Stepford Wives D+
dir. Frank Oz; with Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler
★ Troy D+
dir. Wolfgang Petersen; with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom
Zatôichi: The Blind
Swordsman D+
dir. Takeshi Kitano; with Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Gadarukanaru Taka
Anatomy of Hell D
dir. Catherine Breillat; with Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Jacques Monge
Finding Neverland D
dir. Marc Forster; with Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Freddie Highmore
★ Garden State D
dir. Zach Braff; with Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard
★ The Ladykillers D
dirs. Joel & Ethan Coen; with Tom Hanks, Irma P. Hall, Marlon Wayans
Sky Captain and the World
of Tomorrow D
dir. Kerry Conran; with Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Giovanni Ribisi
★ Alexander D
dir. Oliver Stone; with Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer
★ Bridget Jones: The Edge
of Reason F
dir. Beeban Kidron; with Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
★ The Terminal F
dir. Steven Spielberg; with Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci, Catherine Zeta-Jones
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