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  Disney's A Christmas Carol (PG, 2009)

  Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Robin Wright Penn

  An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterio...[ read more ]us Christmas apparitions.

  View Trailer | 72% Liked it
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  The Men Who Stare at Goats (R, 2009)

  George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey

  The story of a secret unit within the US Army called the First Earth Battalion, whose paranormal military ideas mutated over the decades to influence ...[ read more ]interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

  View Trailer | 63% Liked it
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  The Box (PG-13, 2009)

  James Marsden, Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn

  A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't...[ read more ] know.

  View Trailer | 56% Liked it
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  The Fourth Kind (PG-13, 2009)

  Milla Jovovich, Alisha Seaton, Will Patton, Corey Johnson

  Fact-based thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances dur...[ read more ]ing the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.

  View Trailer | 64% Liked it

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  Michael Jackson's This Is It (PG, 2009)

  Michael Jackson, Kenny Ortega, Paul Gongaware, Randy Phillips

  "This Is It," features Michael Jackson in his final days rehearsing for a series of comeback concerts in London, shortly before his untimely death. Th...[ read more ]e movie will be drawn from hundreds of hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage. Jackson was staging his rehearsals at Staples Center and The Forum. The film will also offer select sequences in 3D and will also have a career retrospective and interviews with some of Jackson's closest friends and collaborators.

  View Trailer | 87% Liked it
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  Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

  Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Michael Bayouth, Amber Armstrong

  Katie and Micah are enjoying a happy and carefree existence. Their future looks promising until bizarre events begin to occur at night. In order to ge...[ read more ]t to the bottom of things, Katie and Micah purchase a video camera to find out what happens at night while they sleep.

  View Trailer | 66% Liked it
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  Law Abiding Citizen (R, 2009)

  Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney

  An everyday guy decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets his family's killers free. His target: The district attorney who ...[ read more ]orchestrated the deal.

  View Trailer | 81% Liked it
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  Couples Retreat (PG-13, 2009)

  Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristen Bell

  A comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marria...[ read more ]ge, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.

  View Trailer | 57% Liked it
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  Where the Wild Things Are (PG, 2009)

  Max Records, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Paul Dano

  The adventures of a young boy named Max who, after being sent to bed for misbehaving, imagines that he sails away to where the wild things are. Max is...[ read more ] loved by the wild creatures who make him their King, though he soon longs to be back home with his family.

  View Trailer | 71% Liked it
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  Saw VI (R, 2009)

  Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell, Shawnee Smith, Mark Rolston

  Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer ...[ read more ]to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

  View Trailer | 69% Liked it
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  Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (PG, 2009)

  Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Bill Nighy

  Astro Boy follows the adventures of a young-yet-powerful robot who, in the hopes of winning his inventor-father’s heart, sets off on a quest to...[ read more ] rid the world of evil. However, he soon discovers that his home, Metro City, stands on the brink of destruction, and it is up to him to save the day as well as his friends and family.

  View Trailer | 59% Liked it
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  The Stepfather (PG-13, 2009)

  Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Amber Heard, Sela Ward

  A seemingly normal man wants the perfect family. When they don't measure up, he eliminates them and moves on to find his next perfect family.

  View Trailer | 50% Liked it
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  Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (PG-13, 2009)

  John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia

  Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly...[ read more ] breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares. 16-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That's the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty. Newly undead, he joins the Cirque Du Freak, a touring sideshow filled with monstrous creatures from a snakeboy and a wolfman to a bearded lady (Salma Hayek) and a gigantic barker (Ken Watanabe). As Darren flexes his newfound powers in this dark world, he becomes a treasured pawn between the vampires and their deadlier counterparts. And while trying to survive, one boy will struggle to keep their brewing war from devouring what's left of his humanity.

  View Trailer | 62% Liked it
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  Amelia (PG, 2009)

  Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Mia Wasikowska, Ewan McGregor

  A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a fli...[ read more ]ght around the world.

  View Trailer | 48% Liked it

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  The Time Traveler's Wife (PG-13, 2009)

  Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston, Brooklynn Proulx

  A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage...[ read more ].

  View Trailer | 65% Liked it
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  District 9 (R, 2009)

  Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Mandla Gaduka

  An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly find a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their...[ read more ] biotechnology.

  View Trailer | 81% Liked it
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  Inglourious Basterds (R, 2009)

  Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent

  In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes an...[ read more ]d flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

  View Trailer | 87% Liked it
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  The Final Destination (R, 2009)

  Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb

  On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O’Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple...[ read more ] race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave… escaping seconds before Nick’s frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they’ve cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one — in increasingly gruesome ways — Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination. The film marks the latest in the highly popular “Final Destination” series, and its first 3D installment, giving horror fans an especially visceral thrill ride.

  View Trailer | 52% Liked it
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  The Invention of Lying (PG-13, 2009)

  Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.

  Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

  View Trailer | 48% Liked it
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  Zombieland (R, 2009)

  Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin

  Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn’t have fears. If he did, he’d kick th...[ read more ]eir ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they’re about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

  View Trailer | 88% Liked it
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  Whiteout (R, 2009)

  Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short

  Carrie Stetko, the lone U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, is investigating the continent’s first murder, which draws her into a shocking mystery. ...[ read more ]Now, with only three days until winter, Carrie must solve the crime before Antarctica is plunged into darkness and she is stranded with the killer.

  View Trailer | 36% Liked it
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  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (PG, 2009)

  Andy Samberg, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Bruce Campbell

  A scientist trying to solve world hunger encounters a problem of global proportions, as food begins to fall from the sky.

  View Trailer | 73% Liked it
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  All About Steve (PG-13, 2009)

  Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong

  Convinced that a CNN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler (Bullock) trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to con...[ read more ]vince him that they belong together.

  View Trailer | 43% Liked it
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  Sorority Row (R, 2009)

  Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung

  When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and...[ read more ] never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.

  View Trailer | 47% Liked it

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• Law Abiding Citizen (R, 2009)

  - by allan913

  An unforgettably powerful and adreniline-fuelled edge of your seat thriller. A bone-chilling revenge...[ read more ] classic. An unbeliveably exhilerating, mind-blowing and shocking film that shakes you to the core like you wouldnt belive. It packs plenty of twist, turns and explosive excitement around every corner all the way to it's amasing conclusion. A fearless and very intelligent cat and mouse thriller thats solidly character driven, taunt, riveting and loaded with pulse-pounding suspense and explosive action. It takes the revenge film to new heights and shows us something new, dark and tremendously exhilerating movie that you wont forget. A smart, compelling, nail-biting and heart-pounding thrill-machine. Director, F. Gary Grey crafts a superb and thrilling masterwork that takes his _b_style to new places. Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler have never been better. Foxx is excellent in every scene he's in. Butler is incrediable, he gives a memorable, tortured, brilliant and electrifying performance. Butler and Foxx are a tour de force. Top-notch acting, clever writing and well-constructed by its filmmaker. An amasing, shattering, razor-sharp and breathtaking film thats an assualt on the senses. It's nerve-frying, grippingly tense and flat-out brilliant.

• Saw VI (R, 2009)

  - by stopitgoaway

  Saw VI
  
  Expected: 23 October
  
  One of the very best horror films for a long time,...[ read more ] Saw VI really delivers on all fronts. It serves up victims we want to see punished, more history to Jigsaw, more intrigue as Hoffman runs the risk of being found out, and best of all (and I don't apologise for saying this), some fantastic visual horror. The opening sequence had me turning away from the cinema screen, its an achievement that the sixth instalment still has the ability to shock. Midway through, there is a torture carousel scene, which had me glued to the screen, its one of the most effective sequences in the entire series. When the film switched from gore to backstory, it held my attention as more and more pieces of the jigsaw (pun fully intended!) are put into place. Critics will moan that the continued inclusion of Tobin Bell's character is a sign of desperation, but the makers go to great lengths, for the fans, to ground it into the story and I found it compelling.
  
  Roll on many more sequels, if they can match this standard.
  
  Look out for: A surprised twist.

• Couples Retreat (PG-13, 2009)

  - by irisheyes686

  It was funny, but the ending was just kinda...blah. Not really sure what I was expecting, but it kin...[ read more ]da just ended!

• Michael Jackson's This Is It (PG, 2009)

  - by Jules1st

  Watching "This Is It' is a one of a kind experience. Makes you cry for the fact that Michael Jackson...[ read more ] didn't live to perform at least one show so that the world would witness the genius work he prepared. A must see for everyone, if they were fans or not

• Where the Wild Things Are (PG, 2009)

  - by YLOWBSTARDreturns

  Far from a children's film... WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is one of the most visually arresting, uniqu...[ read more ]e, and original films I've seen in quite some time... and though I loved it, it definately isn't for everyone (my theatre was nearly full, and by the end credits, more than half of the audience became VERY vocal about how much it "SUCKED.").
  
  Definately deserves more than a single viewing. I think I'll like it even more the second time around.

• Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

  - by rebvodka042099

  Throughout the whole duration of the film I was expecting something to happen. And sure, something h...[ read more ]appens, but the slow building up to it and the stationary camera direction don't really allow you to get scared. Yeah, congratulations on the low-budget film-making, but there are no-budget horror films far exceeding this one. It does earn several realism points, but ultimately, it's not believable, it's not horrifying, it's persistently continual and it left me with zero empathy. Yet another overly hyped movie of 2009 that is nothing if you remove the hype.

• Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

  - by 366weirdmovies

  A cinéma vérité _b_style examination of the demonic haunting of a young couple. THE BLAIR WITCH PRO...[ read more ]JECT meets POLTERGEIST, and not quite as good or original as either; slow to get started and lacking a satisfying climax, although there are truly nervewracking haunting scenes in the middle portion. As all the action takes place in a single house, it may be scarier to watch at home on DVD just before going to sleep than it was in the theater.

• Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (PG, 2009)

  - by moonrivers

  nicky cage and donny sutherland endeavor mightily but cannot save this from tired mediocre writing.....[ read more ].

• Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

  - by shiftyeyeddog

  Don't believe the hype! There is not one SINGLE scary moment in this entire film. It is 100 minute...[ read more ]s of watching a couple hang out at home, with an occasional slamming door or knocking. So if that's all it takes to terrify you, then more power to ya, but otherwise this is just another case of manufactured (and wholly undeserved) hype. How anyone thought this was a) a good film or b) scary at all is completely beyond me.

• Law Abiding Citizen (R, 2009)

  - by johnd62

  As a budding film critic its quite difficult to review a movie like "Law Abiding Citizen", on one ha...[ read more ]nd its one of the funniest films of the year which in that case I'd give it a 4 star review but the problem is that I'm fairly sure that it was suppose to be a highly dramatic, intense action drama and a statement on the shambles on the American justice system. In that case you have your 1.5 stars right here. Which is a shame considering the talent that no one ever considered the logic behind any of this.
  Take for example at the beginning from Gerard Butler's family is killed, I mean I get it he's angry that his family has been killed and wants justice. Problem is that both the script and Butler's performance is so one-sided that it takes everything to a one giant level of stupidity. The change from family man to blood thirsty mass murderer is so drastic and considering there is not a single moment of doubt or moral conflict that it left me with two questions.
  1. Are we suppose to root for him?
  2. If the mobs dudes didn't take the little girl out, would this guy have done it once, she hits the teen years?
  Its this type of lazy writing and zany over the top "Saw-esque" killing scenes that make "Law Abiding Citizen" difficult to understand what its trying to do.
  Sadly despite these flaws at least Butler is interesting and looks like he's at least having fun blowing sh*t up. Everyone else, particularly Jamie Foxx and Viola Davis just look as though they are totally going to switch to Philip Seymour Hoffman's agent once shooting is done. Hell I don't think I've ever seen extras look this embarrassed to be in a film.
  Though credit should go to F. Gary Gary for making a well shot piece of junk and its a film I'd go see for in no other reason there is a lot to laugh at in "Law Abiding Citizen" Just don't expect anything like logic, a brain or a point.