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Rated R for drug and alcohol abuse, language, sexuality/nudity and an intense action sequence.Starring Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, James Badge Dale, Melissa Leo, Bruce Greenwood, Garcelle Beauvais, Brian Geraghty, Nadine Velazquez, Tamara Tunie, Adam TomeiDirected by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Cast Away and Forrest Gump)This movie could’ve been titled “Alcohol.”Flight tells the redemption...
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Argo (2/19/2013)

Rated R for language and some violent images.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Scoot McNairy, Clea DuVall, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishe, Michael Parks, Tate DonovanDirected by Ben Affleck (The Town and Gone, baby, Gone)This film lives up to all the award-buzz hype.Based on true events, Argo chronicles the life-or-death covert operation to...
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Dredd (1/8/2013)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, language, drug use and some sexual content.Starring Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby and Lena HeadeyDirected by Pete Travis (Vantage Point)This Dredd film is way more intense…and no one says, “I am the law.”The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its east coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One -...
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Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images and action.Starring Charlie Tahan (voice), Catherine O'Hara (voice), Martin Short (voice), Winona Ryder (voice) and Martin Landau (voice)Directed by Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Batman and Beetlejuice)Heartwarming, sweet and really creepy. Frankenweenie is a story about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly...
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Rated PG-13 for violence, language and some drug material.Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike and Robert DuvallDirected by Christopher McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun)Jack Reacher is one of the most compelling heroes to step from a novel to the big screen.In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest...
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Rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity.Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Walton GogginsDirected by Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill)Django Unchained is the “good,” the “bad,” and the “ugly” of movies. Set in the South two years before the Civil War,...
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Rated PG-13 for suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham CarterDirected by Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)I was looking forward to seeing Les Misérables. I was looking forward to seeing Hugh Jackman (a man who has my respect for playing an amazing Wolverine in X-Men)...
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