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Title | Director | Cast | Synopsis | What we said | MPAA rating | Running time |
| The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mike Starr, Mia Kirshner | About the unsolved 1947 murder of a 22-year-old would-be actor named Elizabeth Short , whose mutilated corpse was found on a Los Angeles roadside. | The St. Petersburg Times gave the movie a D. | R; strong violence, gruesome images, sexual content, profanity | 125 min. |
| The Descent | Neil Marshall | Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayll | Six women encounter subterranean cannibals during a cave-exploring adventure. | The Times gave the movie a B. | R; graphic violence, strong profanity | 99 min. |
| The Last Kiss | Tony Goldwyn | Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Casey Affleck, Michael Weston, Eric Christian Olsen, Rachel Bilson, Blythe Danner, Tom Wilkinson, Lauren Lee Smith, Marley Shelton | Braff plays a man cheating on his pregnant lover (Barrett), one of several unlucky-in-love stories in this contemporary comedy-drama about life, love, infidelity, forgiveness, marriage, friendship . . . and coming to grips with turning 30. Adapted from Gabriele Muccino's Italian film L'Ultimo Bacio. | The Times gave the movie an A-. | R; profanity, nudity, sexual situations | 105 min. |
| Haven | Frank E. Flowers | Orlando Bloom, Bill Paxton, Agnes Bruckner, Anthony Mackie, Zoe Saldana, Joy Bryant, Stephen Dillane, Victor Rasuk, Bobby Cannavale | Paxton and Dillane are criminals on the lam in the Cayman Islands, where a shy British native (Bloom) gets involved. | The Times did not review this movie. | R; language, drug use, sexual content and some violence | 115 min. |
| Factotum | Bent Hamer | Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Marisa Tomei, Didier Flamand, Adrienne Shelly, Karen Young, Tom Lyons | Dillon (Crash) plays a barfly trying to prevent employment from interfering with his passion for writing. Based on the confessional novel by Charles Bukowski. | The Times did not review this movie. | R; harsh profanity, sexual content, substance abuse | 94 min. |
| Jackass Number Two | Jeff Tremaine | Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, Dave England, Ehren McGhehey | The original creators and cast of the MTV series Jackass and Jackass: the Movie are back for another assortment of gross and dangerous stunts. | The Times did not review this movie. | R; harsh profanity, sexuality and nudity | 95 min. |
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