ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER. Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jimmi Simpson in Timur Bekmambetovs adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smiths novel about the secret life of our 16th president burying a silver-edged ax into nasty vampires. 105 minutes. (Rated R for lots and blood and beheadings and a wee bit of sex.) ???
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary and Sally Field. Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his fathers former partner. 136 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence.)
THE AVENGERS. Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johannson, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans in Joss Whedons Marvel Comics blockbuster about a comic book all-star team defending the universe against the depredations of Norse trickster god Loki. 155 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, and a mild drug reference.) ???
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry star in Benh Zeitlins award-winning magic realist fable about a 6-year-old in an impoverished Louisiana area called the bathtub whose ailing father tries to toughen her up for life without him. 91 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for intense weather and dramatic situations.) ???
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL. Starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson and Dev Patel. British retirees find things are not as they seem at a hotel in India. 124 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language.) ????
THE BOURNE LEGACY. Starring Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton. A black ops soldier in the Jason Bourne-mold is on the run and joined by the scientist who might be able to save his life. 135 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for violence and action sequences.) ???
BRAVE. Pixars latest cartoon about a tomboy whod rather gallop bareback through the forest on her horse than marry one of her doofus suitors. 100 minutes. (Rated G.) ???
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Christopher Nolans epic end to his trilogy Batman prequel in which the dark knight saves Gotham from vicious anarchists with a nuclear bomb. 164 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for violence, torture and intense, unremitting gloom.) ???
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS. Starring Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Peyton List and Steve Zahn. The third film based on Jeff Kinneys popular books finds young Greg getting into more trouble on his summer vacation. 94 minutes. (Rated PG for some rude humor.)
DR. SEUSS THE LORAX. The voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Danny De Vito and Betty White in animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss 1972 environmental fantasy about a town with no trees and tree substitutes that disco in the backyard. 94 minutes. (Rated PG for language.) ???
EEGA. Starring Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Sudeep and Santhanam. Directed by S.S. Rajamouli. A murdered man reborn as a housefly, seeks revenge for his death. 145 minutes. (Not rated. In Hindi with subtitles.)
HOPE springs. Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell and Elisabeth Shue in David Frankels dramedy about a troubled couple who take a trip to see a marriage counselor after 31 years of marriage. Rated PG-13 for adult sexual frankness in the dialogue. ???
THE HUNGER GAMES. Jennifer Lawrence in Gary Ross adaptation of Suzanne Collins blockbuster best-seller about a postapocalyptic future society that holds homicidal survival games by lottery. 142 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for intense sequences and violent imagery.) ???
THE INTOUCHABLES. Starring Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy and Anne Le Ny. A wealthy white man in Paris, recently paralyzed from an accident, hires a poor black immigrant to be his caretaker. 112 minutes. (Rated R for language and some drug use.) ??
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPES MOST WANTED. With the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith and Sacha Baron Cohen. The animals from Madagascar join a traveling circus while trying to return home to the Central Park Zoo. 95 minutes. (Rated PG for some mild action and rude humor.) ???
MAGIC MIKE. Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer, in Steven Soderberghs tale of a thirtysomething male stripper in Tampa who shows the ropes to an irresponsible and freedom-loving 19-year-old. 110 minutes. (Rated R for pervasive sex, graphic nudity and rough language.) ???
MEN IN BLACK III. Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Emma Thompson in Barry Sonnenfelds newest installment about cosmic cops in shades and black suits who keep Earth safe from a filthy extraterrestrial invasion. 106 minutes. (Rated PG for yucky creatures and incinerated people.) ???
MOONRISE KINGDOM. Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton and Bob Balaban in Wes Andersons ironic comedy about a couple of runaway 12-year-olds who fall into puppy love and throw their tiny island community into a tizzy. 94 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for language, smoking and sexual content.) ????
PEOPLE LIKE US. Starring Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde and Michelle Pfeiffer. When his estranged father dies unexpectedly, a fast-talking salesman discovers he has an older sister he never knew about. Directed by Alex Kurtzman. 115 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for language, some drug use and brief sexuality.)
PROMETHEUS. Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace in Sir Ridley Scotts much-awaited and much-hyped prequel to Alien about earthlings in the year 2093 who go to another galaxy to find the origins of humanity. 124 minutes. (Rated R for violence, gore very intense imagery and a lot of medical yuck.) ????
RUBY SPARKS. Starring Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan and Chris Messina. A struggling novelist finds inspiration when he starts writing about his perfect girl, who unexpectedly comes to life as his girlfriend. 104 min. (Rated R for language including sexual references, and for some drug use.) ???
SAVAGES. Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek and John Travolta in Oliver Stones film about a threesome of loving California drug dealers whose sensual idyll is destroyed by mean and mangy Mexican marijuana cartels muscling in on their territory. 130 minutes. (Rated R for whopping amounts of sex, nudity, violence, gore and rough language.) ???
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN. Charlize Theron in Rupert Sanders version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale that introduces war, epic size, power struggles and computer-graphic imagery to the classic old story. 127 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sensuality.) ???
STEP UP REVOLUTION. Starring Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman, Stephen Boss, Cleopatra Coleman and Misha Hamilton. A developer whose daughter has dance aspirations, threatens the neighborhood of a Miami dance crew. 97 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for some suggestive dancing and language.)
TED. Starring Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Joel McHale. In this first film from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, an 8-year-old boy wishes for his teddy bear to come to life, and must still cope with that wish 25 years later when the teddy bear is a foul-mouthed, hard-drinking friend. 106 minutes. (Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug use.) ??
THATS MY BOY. Starring Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, A father shows up uninvited on the eve of his sons estranged sons wedding. 115 minutes. (RatedR for crude sexual content throughout, nudity, pervasive language and some drug use.)
TO ROME WITH LOVE. Woody Allen, Judy Davis, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ellen Page in Allens latest tourist movie, this time about Americans seeing the sights, falling in love and doing business in Rome. 102 minutes. (Rated R for sexual references.) ???
TOTAL RECALL. Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston and Bokeem Woodbine in Len Wisemans remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi film about a man who tries to take his mind out for a vacation and discovers hes not who he thought he was. 113 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity and language.) ???
TRISHNA. Starring Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed and Roshan Seth. Written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. A retelling of Thomas Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles, set in contemporary India. (Rated R for sexuality, some violence, drug use and language.) ??
TYLER PERRYS MADEAS WITNESS PROTECTION. Starring Tyler Perry. After being set up as the fall guy for a mob-backed Ponzi scheme, a banker enters the federal witness protection program with his family and heads to the South. 114 minutes. (Rated PG-13 for some crude sexual remarks and brief drug references.)
THE WATCH. Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill. Suburban dads who form a neighborhood watch group to get out of their family routines, find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion. 102 minutes. (Rated R for some strong sexual content including references, pervasive language and violent images.)
on August 30, 2012 - 11:46 AM