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Last updated November 29, 2025
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(500) Days of Summer
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), unceremoniously dumps him, greeting-card copywriter and hopeless romantic Tom (Golden Globe nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt) begins sifting through the year-plus worth of days they spent together, looking for clues to what went awry. As he recalls the good and bad times he spent with the commitment-phobic girl, his heart reawakens to what it cherishes most. Marc Webb directs this uncommon love story.
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1000 Ways to Die: Season 1
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe first season of this tongue-in-cheek Spike TV series celebrates the stupidity of the human race by documenting real stories of death via unusual circumstances, such as a man who dies of heat exhaustion while trapped inside a fish suit.
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1000 Ways to Die: Season 2
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAlways amazing and often macabre, this documentary series re-creates some of the strangest fatal accidents ever recorded. In Season 2 that includes death by lava lamp, acupuncture, harmonica and more -- all illustrated via computer animation.
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1000 Ways to Die: Season 3
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWitness recreations of some truly bizarre deaths in the third season of this grim-humored documentary series, in which a sushi chef gets a raw deal, two stoners get bonged, an organ donor loses heart, and a surfer winds up board to death.
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1776
1972 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsPeter Stone's Pultizer Prize-winning musical (starring much of the original Broadway cast) about the internecine congressional squabbling that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence makes a glorious transition to the big screen. William Daniels is John Adams, Ken Howard is a statuesque Thomas Jefferson, and Howard Da Silva is hilarious as wit-cracker Ben Franklin. A very funny -- and poignant -- history lesson with a great score.
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8 Mile
2002 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe people of Detroit know 8 Mile as the city limit -- a boundary that also represents a psychological line separating aspiring hip-hop artist Jimmy from where and who he wants to be. This drama chronicles a critical week in Jimmy's life.
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9
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn a postapocalyptic world, a small community of rag-doll robots hides in fear from dangerous machines out to exterminate them. But when a brave newcomer named 9 joins the group, he inspires them to stand up and fight for their survival.
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsEric and his thirtysomething friends spend their summer weekends carousing at his family's house in the Hamptons. When Eric learns that his dad plans to sell the place, he proposes a party to end all parties: an orgy!
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A Man Apart
2003 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen a man known as Diablo takes over as the new leader of a drug cartel, the wife of a DEA agent devoted to ending the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border gets caught in the crossfire.
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Aaja Nachle
2007 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTheater actress Diya contemplates life and creativity with her director (and onetime lover) and a younger actress in this joyous musical from India. Meanwhile, Diya tries to brighten the lives of the people in her small town through dance and song.
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Accepted
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAfter receiving rejection letters from eight colleges, Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) and his slacker friends fool their parents into thinking they've been accepted at the South Harmon Institute of Technology, a university of their own invention. The only problem is, the boys have somehow managed to attract a freshman class of rejects just like them. Can the South Harmon coeds compete in a battle of wits with students from a neighboring college?
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Adam's Apples
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsUtopian clergyman Ivan finds his starry-eyed outlook challenged by neo-Nazi Adam Pedersen in this black comedy from director Anders Thomas Jensen. Just out of prison and ordered to perform community service at Ivan's rural church, the sullen Adam is tasked with tending the chapel's beloved apple tree. But he's determined to undercut Ivan's rosy worldview which proves harder than Adam ever imagined.
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Addams Family Values
1993 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn director Barry Sonnefeld's Oscar-nominated black comedy, siblings Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston). Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky (Joan Cusack), launches her plan to add Fester (Christopher Lloyd) to her collection of dead husbands...
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Addicted to Plastic
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFocusing on manufacturing, environmental effects and solutions, a documentarian journeys around the world to trace the life cycle of plastic. While plastic is the most versatile material ever invented, its ubiquity comes at a steep cost to mankind.
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Adopting Terror
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsTim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to finally adopt a beautiful baby girl. But when the baby's biological father starts stalking them, their world turns upside down. Through intimidation and violence, he's determined to take his daughter back.
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen his Uncle Ian dies mysteriously, 14-year-old Alex Rider learns Ian was a spy -- and now the British Secret Service wants Alex to go undercover as an average teen and thwart a billionaire's plot to take over the planet's supercomputers.
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Aliens in the Attic
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe Pearsons' summer rental house has it all: plenty of room, a swimming pool and a space alien camping out in the attic. The kids can't help but love the cute little guy, until they learn that he's not alone, and his buddies aren't as nice. Now, what started as a summer retreat has become a brave quest to save the planet. Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts and Andy Richter star in this comic family adventure.
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Amazing Stories: Season 1
1985 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSteven Spielberg created and produced this 1980s anthology series that picked up where "The Twilight Zone" left off. Each self-contained story stretched the boundaries of the believable, but Spielberg's deft touch (he directed some episodes as well) ensured that they never broke. Highlights from the first season include guest appearances by Kevin Costner, Keifer Sutherland, Gregory Hines, Anthony LaPaglia and many other well-known stars.
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Amazing Stories: Season 2
1986 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThe second season of creator-producer Steven Spielberg's "Twilight Zone"-style anthology series presents another selection of fantastic tales. Though it only lasted two seasons in the mid-1980s, the series has become a cult phenomenon. Season 2 highlights include the "Family Dog" episode that was spun off into its own short-lived series, as well as episodes directed by such luminaries as Danny DeVito and Robert Zemeckis.
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American Psycho
2000 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWith a chiseled chin and physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie -- and the ideal serial killer. Bateman takes pathological pride in his business card and his CD collection, all while plotting his next victim's vivisection.
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An Inconvenient Truth
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsFormer Vice President Al Gore wages a passionate campaign -- not for the White House, but for the environment -- in this Oscar-winning documentary. Laying out the facts of global warming, Gore urges audiences to act before it's too late.
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Anastasia
1956 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1928 Paris, a pair of Russian émigrés coaches a troubled girl to impersonate Anastasia, the presumed-dead daughter of Czar Nicholas II, in order to collect a reward. As the hoax unfolds, the conspirators suspect they've found the real Anastasia.
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Angela's Ashes
2000 | 14A | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis adaptation of Frank McCourt's best-selling memoir tells the grim story of the author's impoverished childhood in 1940s Ireland, a time of devastating deprivation spent alongside starving siblings, a long-suffering mother and an alcoholic father. Emily Watson and Robert Carlysle shine in the pivotal roles of McCourt's struggling parents in this captivating biographical drama from director Alan Parker (Fame, Midnight Express).
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Antz
1998 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this animated hit, a neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a parade, he ends up instead enlisted to fight against a termite army.
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Arena
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsKellan Lutz stars in this direct-to-video thriller about a young firefighter who's abducted, tortured and forced to fight for his life in a series of gladiatorial contests masterminded by a sadistic entrepreneur.
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