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- 2012 12A (Contains sustained moderate threat and one use of strong language)
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Rating: 2/5
The ancient Mayan calendar, with its supposed prediction of a December 21, 2012 apocalypse, has long fascinated assorted fringe scholars, doomsday fetishists and George Noory acolytes. In 2012, the audacious new disaster epic from director Roland Emmerich (10,000 B.C., The Day After Tomorrow), it provides the inspiration for a $250 million orgy of destruction, the likes of which has never been seen on the big screen.
- Taking Woodstock 15 (Contains strong language and hard drug use)
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Rating: 2.5/5
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- Men Who Stare at Goats 15 (Contains strong language and comic drug references)
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Rating: 3.5/5
Journalist, Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) travels to Iraq to do some 'serious' reporting and get over the break-up of his marriage.
- The Fourth Kind 15 (Contains strong psychological horror)
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Rating: 2/5
Paranormal Activity's unlikely run atop the box office chart may have come to an end, but the moviegoing public's nascent fascination with otherworldly phenomena — the unfriendly variety, in particular — shows no signs of waning. The Fourth Kind, a supernatural thriller from writer-director Olatunde Osunsanmi, represents Hollywood's latest attempt to capitalize on this peculiar trend.
- Jennifer's Body 15 (Contains very strong language, bloody horror, sex references and drug use)
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Rating: 3/5
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- Disney's A Christmas Carol in Disney Digital 3D PG (Contains mild threat, scary scenes and mild language)
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Rating: 3/5
Not content to let the lifeless zombies of 2004's Polar Express define his legacy as a pioneer of 3-D Christmas movies (a genre to which, incidentally, he remains the sole contributor), director Robert Zemeckis is back for another go at it, and this time his inspiration isn't just some fly-by-night Caldecott Medal winner; it's Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, perhaps the most cherished piece of Christmas fiction of all time.
- Gentlemen Broncos (for some crude humor)
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Rating: 1/5
After making a sparkling debut in 2004 with his first feature film, the slacker comedy Napoleon Dynamite, offbeat writer-director Jared Hess seemed poised for a fruitful career as an earnest, more accessible alternative to hipster auteur Wes Anderson. But he stumbled a bit with his sophomore effort, the uneven Mexican wrestling flick Nacho Libre, despite Jack Black's desperate mugging for laughs. And he falls apart completely with his latest comedy, the crude, maddeningly insipid Gentlemen Broncos.
- Zombieland 15 (for horror violence/gore and language)
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Rating: 3/5
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- Michael Jackson's This Is It PG (Contains infrequent scary images)
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Rating: 3.5/5
When Sony and AEG announced in August that they were partnering to release a film chronicling Michael Jackson's final preparations for his ill-fated London tour, cynics expected little more than a ghoulish glimpse into the troubled pop star's last desperate days before his untimely death. But even the hardiest of cynics will find themselves tapping their feet, bobbing their heads and perhaps even clapping their hands at times during This Is It, an exuberant tribute to Jackson's unsurpassed musical legacy.
- Fantastic Mr. Fox PG (Contains mild violence and scary scenes)
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Rating: 4/5
Director Wes Anderson (The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou) was the subject of a minor controversy a few months ago when an L.A. Times profile alleged that the idiosyncratic auteur rarely visited the London set of Fantastic Mr. Fox, his stop-motion adaptation of the Road Dahl children's tale, preferring instead to issue orders to his crew via email. If the report is indeed true, Anderson's poor attendance record certainly didn't detract from the final result. Fantastic Mr. Fox is an utter delight: a lively, endearing comic caper that will appeal equally to both young and old, hipster and non-hipster alike.