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Films satirizing the New York art scene are bound to inspire some haughty indifference, but Parker’s look at the interplay among two brothers—one’s an atonalist musician, the other churns out bland paintings for offices and hospitals—and a shrewd, sexy gallery owner is amusing (and occasionally thought-provoking) enough to transcend its somewhat tired premise.  —  (R)

2012

A group of survivors struggles in a postapocalyptic world.  —  (PG-13)

A Christmas Carol

"Disney's A Christmas Carol" captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3D motion picture event ...  —  (PG)

A Serious Man

A midwestern professor’s perfect life starts falling apart.  —  (R)

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani

Prem is an ajab kind of a guy. As life president of Happy Club, he's always trying to make everybody ...  —  (No Rating)

The Alps

In the thin air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about ...  —  (No Rating)

Amelia

Director Mira Nair’s take on the relationship between aviatrix Amelia Earhart and her husband.  —  (PG)

An Education

The Sundance hit, featuring Carey Mulligan as a middle-class teenager in sixties England being wooed by an older gentleman.  —  (PG-13)

Antichrist

Explosively divisive film has Dafoe and Gainsbourg (both excellent) as grieving parents who retreat to their woodland cabin to do horrible things to each other.  —  (No Rating)

Astro Boy

This adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s comic series about a young robot created in the image of its inventor’s dead son has us excited.  —  (PG)

Bad Lieutenant

The spiritual depravity of a New York City cop comes to a head when he is assigned to investigate the ...  —  (R)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Herzog’s insane, in-name-only remake of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 wild corrupt cop drama eschews the former’s operatic indulgences—for better or worse—in favor of a goofy Nicolas Cage fever dream.  —  (R)

Beavers

A look at the lifestyle and aquatic habitat of the beaver, one of nature's greatest engineers ...  —  (No Rating)

Beeswax

The mumblecore icon’s latest, an ambling, understated story revolving around twin sisters in Austin, Texas, is visually expansive and heartrendingly acted.  —  (No Rating)

The Blind Side

A homeless African-American teenager is taken in by a wealthy white family.  —  (PG-13)

The Boat That Rocked

"Pirate Radio" is the high-spirited story of how eight DJs' love affair with rock 'n' roll changed the world forever ...  —  (R)

Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

In the blood-soaked 2000 original, two Irish brothers took it upon themselves to rid Boston of the mob. Though little-seen at the time, it’s become enough of a cult item that now the brothers are back, in an unlikely sequel that promises to up the violence even more.  —  (R)

The Box

The "Donnie Darko" director’s latest, about an unhappy couple who find a mysterious little box on their doorstep, is set to come out this week after being pushed back several times. Finally!  —  (PG-13)

Bright Star

Intense, stripped-down look at the love between doomed Romantic poet John Keats and headstrong Fanny Brawne.  —  (PG)

Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos)

Surprisingly complex melodrama about vision, creativity, identity, and memory harks back to the wild narratives of Almodóvar’s earlier films in a way that his recent output hasn’t.  —  (R)

Burma VJ

Weaving together footage secretly shot by citizens during recent anti-government protests in the locked-down nation of Myanmar, this mesmerizing work is both a grim portrait of modern-day tyranny and a hopeful glimpse of how technology can combat it.  —  (No Rating)

Capitalism: A Love Story

Moore’s latest goes after corporate greed and the roots of the global economic meltdown.  —  (R)

Christmas Carol: An IMAX 3D Experience

"Disney's A Christmas Carol: An IMAX 3D Experience" will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of ...  —  (PG)

Citizen Kane

This is the labyrinthine study of the life of a newspaper tycoon ...  —  (No Rating)

Clair & Picabia and Bunuel

(No Rating)

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