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Last updated November 29, 2025
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The Butterfly Effect
2004 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIf you could go back in time and undo a horrible childhood, would you? This thriller poses that complex question when college student Evan Treborn, who's besieged by tragic memories, discovers a way to alter his past. But will it make a difference?
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The Chronicles of Riddick
2004 | 14A | 3.7 out of 5 StarsFive years after the events in sci-fi film Pitch Black, escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) finds himself caught in the middle of a galactic war waged by Lord Marshal (Colm Feore), the leader of a sect called the Necromongers. Riddick is charged with stopping the Necromonger army from its evil grip, meanwhile rescuing an old friend from a prison planet and evading capture by bounty hunters. Dame Judi Dench and Thandie Newton co-star.
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The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA documentary film crew follows veteran stand-up comic Patton Oswalt (of "The King of Queens" fame) and fellow "alternative comics" Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford and Zach Galifianakis on the Comedians of Comedy Tour. Along with performance clips, the film offers a behind-the-scenes look at the comedians and the challenges of presenting material that isn't necessarily for the masses -- and of playing rock venues rather than the usual comedy clubs.
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The Damned United
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsDirector Tom Hooper's fictionalized biopic chronicles the colorful career of Brian Clough, the fiercely strong-willed and outspoken soccer manager who served a famously short tenure at the helm of England's reigning champs, Leeds United, in 1974.
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The Day of the Jackal
1973 | PG | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA French paramilitary group disgusted with Pres. Charles de Gaulle's decision to free French Algeria plans De Gaulle's assassination in this taut political thriller, based on Frederick Forsyth's novel. To carry out their task, the group hires a British hit man known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox). But soon the plan is uncovered by French police, who send investigator Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) to sniff out the Jackal's trail.
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The Descendants
2011 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWith his wife on life support in the wake of an accident, an affluent landowner tries to mend his broken relationships with his daughters. All the while, he's weighing his marriage -- and the decision to sell land his family has owned for decades.
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The Drummer
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAfter offending a powerful triad boss, young Hong Kong rebel Sid (Jaycee Chan) is sent by his father to hide out in Taiwan. Under the protection of Chiu (Roy Cheung) and in rural isolation, Sid encounters a group of Zen drummers, whose powerful art speaks to him. But to become a member of this inspiring ensemble, the cocky and selfish Sid must learn the important values of discipline and hard work.
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The Experiment
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn this gripping thriller, a group of men volunteers to take on the roles of guards and inmates at a mock prison as part of a controversial psychological study. But when the guards abuse their power in alarming ways, the prisoners stage a revolt.
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The Fairly OddParents: Season 5
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis year, Timmy teams up with Wanda to help Cosmo look good at his high school reunion, lends Cosmo and Wanda to Tootie to make up for a rotten birthday and makes Dimmsdale's citizens so fat that Earth changes its orbit.
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The Fairly OddParents: Season 6
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA baby is born in Fairy World for the first time in thousands of years! Then, candy striper Vicky wants Timmy's hospital stay to be as painful as possible, and Timmy's dad quits his job to make sock monkeys.
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The Fall of Fujimori
2006 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsEllen Perry's true-life political thriller documents the reign of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, a man who ran on a ticket to fight poverty but whose rule was ultimately marked by violence, corruption and controversy. With promises to restore stability and crush terrorist insurgents, Fujimori won popular support -- and the 1990 election -- but his administration eventually dissolved under the weight of political abuses and scandal.
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The Fog of War
2003 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis Oscar-winning documentary traces former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's career from government to the World Bank; but his work during the Vietnam War -- examined through archival footage and interviews -- is the real highlight.
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The Four
2012 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsDuring the Song dynasty, four constables with special powers must do battle with a rival law enforcement agency, spies, a sinister villain and the undead to thwart a counterfeit currency plot that threatens to bring down the empire.
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The Ghost and the Darkness
1996 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhile working for a railroad baron in colonial Uganda, engineer John Patterson finds his construction efforts stymied by a series of lion attacks. Grizzled hunter Charles Remington is called in to head the desperate effort to kill the animals.
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The Great Raid
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn World War II, a battalion goes on a daring rescue mission to liberate the Americans and Filipinos who've been captured by the Japanese and thrown into brutal POW camps in the city of Cabanatuan.
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The Green Rush
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThis sympathetic documentary looks at the issues confronting one group of Northern California pot growers and articulates the frustrations they face in a unique business that many regard as the most practical way to feed their families. For decades, outlaw marijuana cultivation has been a huge "hidden" industry fueling much of the region's economy, but pot farmers have remained subject to harassment and arrest by federal law-enforcement agencies.
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The Horse Boy
2009 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsWhen conventional therapies fail to help their autistic son, Rupert and Kristin Isaacson travel with Rowan to Mongolia in the hopes that a combination of traditional shamanic healing and horseback riding will benefit him.
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The Kingdom
2007 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAn FBI squad travels to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to probe a deadly al-Qaida terrorist bombing targeting Americans, but local government bureaucracy and the possibility of another attack threaten the investigators' work.
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The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
1994 | G | 3.7 out of 5 StarsLittlefoot and his pals are back in this sequel to animator Don Bluth's opus about warm and caring dinosaurs. Now living in the Great Valley, the pint-size reptiles spot a pair of egg thieves from a secret hideaway they've made. Eager to prove themselves, the dinos track down the missing eggs. But in the process, they open up their valley to evil outsiders and Littlefoot ends up lost in the frightening Great Beyond.
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The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
1995 | G | 3.7 out of 5 StarsUh-oh! Trouble comes to the Great Valley in the form of a crashed meteorite that now blocks the main water supply. As the land dries up and the animals begin to go thirsty, the different dinosaurs who once coexisted peacefully become contentious. When bigotry and bickering increase, Littlefoot and his gang decide that it's up to them to save the day -- but first, they must face down Tyrannosauruses and other carnivores.
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The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
2002 | G | 3.7 out of 5 StarsLittlefoot and his lovable friends are back in this all-new animated adventure in which they explore the wonders of the Great Valley while testing the boundaries of their friendship. This installment of the popular animated series about dinosaurs introduces Mo, a playful dolphin-like swimming creature, to The Land Before Time family.
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The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
1997 | G | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn this fifth installment in the animated series, the Great Valley is taken over by creatures feasting on leaves, forcing Littlefoot, his family and neighbors to leave their beloved home and their adventure begins.
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The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
2003 | G | 3.7 out of 5 StarsLittlefoot takes his grandparents on a journey to a land inhabited by creatures just like them, but the little dinosaur must make a big choice when he finds his long-lost father. Should he stay or go home to the friends and family that love him?
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The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsJackie Chan returns in the sequel to the film that made him famous. To battle a group of smugglers, dutiful son Fei-Hung must use his patented "Drunken Boxing" fighting style, in which a swig of alcohol empowers him to kick some baddie butt.
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The Mask of Zorro
1998 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsIn this smashing revival of the iconic masked hero, an aging Zorro passes the torch to young successor Alejandro Murrieta, schooling him in discipline and training him to take up the sword against unscrupulous officials.
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