U-571
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U-571 (SAM)
The Ugly Truth
Low-minded relationship comedy in which a romantically inept TV producer (Katherine Heigl) enlists the help of the boorish new star (Gerard Butler) of her morning news program—a shock jock who proclaims the supposed ugly truth that all men are sex-obsessed animals—to inveigle her gentlemanly neighbor (Eric Winter) into a relationship. As ...
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The Ugly Truth (CNS)
Ulee's Gold
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Ulee's Gold (SAM)
Ultimate Gift, The
Modern-day parable about a self-absorbed young man (Drew Fuller) who, to inherit his tycoon grandfather's (James Garner) fortune, must first accomplish a series of tasks intended to teach him significant life lessons. His learning curve is accelerated by a plucky, terminally ill girl (Abigail Breslin) and her single mom (Ali Hillis), ...
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Ultimate Gift, The (CNS)
Ultimate Gift, The
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Ultimate Gift, The (SAM)
Ultraviolet
Excessively violent futuristic action adventure about a one-woman killing machine (Milla Jovovich) who must protect a young boy (Cameron Bright) who may hold the key to a cure for the plague that has given rise to a medical police state headed by a germaphobic dictator (Nick Chinlund) who is hot on ...
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Ultraviolet (CNS)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (SAM)
Unaccompanied Minors
Yuletide clunker about an early teen (Dyllan Christopher) and his little sister (Dominique Saldana) separated while waylaid at an airport during a Christmas Eve blizzard, with the former recruiting several other stranded juveniles (Gina Mantegna, Tyler James Williams, Brett Kelly and Quinn Shephard) to reunite them, while evading the airport's Scrooge-like ...
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Unaccompanied Minors (CNS)
The Unborn
Relatively restrained but mediocre chill fest in which a suburban Chicago college student (Odette Yustman) seeks the aid of a Holocaust survivor (Jane Alexander) and a rabbi (Gary Oldman) to battle the evil spirit that threatens her, her boyfriend (Cam Gigandet) and her best pal (Meagan Good). Though it eventually highlights ...
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The Unborn (CNS)
Unbreakable
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Unbreakable (SAM)
Uncle Nino
Big-hearted if formulaic comedy about a disconnected suburban family (headed by Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer) brought together by an elderly, eccentric relative visiting from Italy -- Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) -- who, through his love of food, flowers and music instills in his American kin Old World values and a ...
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Uncle Nino (CNS)
Uncovered: The War in Iraq
Candidly critical documentary which both chronicles and deconstructs the Bush administration's grounds for going to war with Iraq following the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, alleging that the president misled and deceived the American public in order to rally support through misinformation which exaggerated the threat Saddam Hussein's regime posed ...
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Uncovered: The War in Iraq (CNS)
Undefeated
Manassas High School in North Memphis, TN opened in 1899 and
for 110 years never made it to the playoffs, never mind a championship. When
the major employer closed, the neighborhood, if you could call it that, fell
into further decay. Abandoned decrepit houses dot the landscape.
The African-American families that sent their ...
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Undefeated (SRR)
Under the Same Moon
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Under the Same Moon (SAM)
Under the Same Moon ("La Misma Luna")
Touching story of a 9-year-old Mexican boy (Adrian Alonso) who, following the death of his grandmother and temporary guardian (Angelina Pelaez), pays two American siblings (America Ferrera and Jesse Garcia) to smuggle him across the border so that he can reunite with his mother (Kate del Castillo), working in the United ...
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Under the Same Moon ("La Misma Luna") (CNS)
Under the Tuscan Sun
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Under the Tuscan Sun (SAM)
Under the Tuscan Sun
Standard but enjoyable yarn about a recently divorced San Francisco author (Diane Lane) suffering from depression and writer's block who impulsively buys a Tuscan villa with the hopes of recharging her life. Based loosely on Frances Mayes' travel memoir, writer-director Audrey Wells' film is light on believable plot, but packed with ...
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Under the Tuscan Sun (CNS)
Underclassman
Lightweight action comedy set in Los Angeles about an impetuous, but streetwise, rookie cop (Nick Cannon) assigned to pose undercover as a student at a silver-spoon academy in order to investigate the murder of a student who uncovers a ring of car thieves and drug dealers operating on campus. Clumsily directed ...
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Underclassman (CNS)
Underdog
An ordinary dog is given extraordinary powers in this charming film adaptation of the classic 1960s television cartoon series. Director Frederik Du Chau's updated, live-action adventure combines the best of 21st-century special effects with a genuinely engaging story line, some wry humor and unimpeachable family values. Occasional crass language, some mild ...
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Underdog (CNS)
Undertow
Anxiety-provoking film about two brothers (Jamie Bell and Devon Alan) fleeing from their recently imprisoned uncle (Josh Lucas) who has just murdered their father (Dermot Mulroney). As they travel through the woods and swamps in the deep South, they encounter all sorts of colorful characters. David Gordon Green's thriller features good ...
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Undertow (CNS)
Underworld
Action-thriller about star-crossed lovers, one a vampire, one a mortal (Kate Beckinsale and Scott Speedman) caught in an ancient blood feud between warring clans of vampires and werewolves. Despite a visually stylish, neo-gothic moodiness, the film, directed by Len Wiseman, unravels into a bloodbath of glamorized carnage, undermining its cleverly disguised ...
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Underworld (CNS)
Underworld: Evolution
Loud and nonsensical sequel to the 2003 horror action film continuing the chronicles of the escalating war between vampire and werewolf clans, here finding the latex-clad bloodsucker Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and her newly fanged hybrid lover (Scott Speedman) teaming up to stop a supervampire (Tony Curran) from destroying both sides in ...
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Underworld: Evolution (CNS)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Relentlessly violent horror action prequel in which a part-human, part-werewolf Lycan (Michael Sheen) leads a slave revolt against a cruel vampire king (Bill Nighy) while romancing the sovereign's daughter (Rhona Mitra). Director Patrick Tatopoulos' grim feature debut uses the slaves' longing for freedom as an excuse for mindless bloodletting. Pervasive violence, ...
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (CNS)
Undiscovered
Contrived romance about a love-shy model (Pell James) who -- to pursue a career in acting -- relocates from New York to Los Angeles, where she meets an aspiring singer-songwriter (Steven Strait) with whom she had a fleeting flirtation back East, and tries to jump-start his career, while she -- having ...
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Undiscovered (CNS)
Undisputed
Obtuse drama in which a heavyweight boxing champion (Ving Rhames) is convicted of rape and an old-time gangster (Peter Falk) arranges a prison match between the champ and the penitentiary's reigning title-holder (Wesley Snipes). Director Walter Hill feebly attempts to inject gravitas into the ridiculous and tedious film with cardboard characters ...
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Undisputed (CNS)
Unfaithful
Unsettling romantic thriller in which a woman (Diane Lane), happily married to a loving husband (Richard Gere), recklessly enters into an obsessive affair with a stranger (Olivier Martinez). The arrogant belief that betrayal is possible without consequences is painfully disproved in director Adrian Lyne's moody cautionary tale, which leaves fear and ...
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Unfaithful (CNS)
Unfinished Life, An
Captivating story of embittered Wyoming rancher (Robert Redford in a career peak) -- caregiver to a ranch hand (Morgan Freeman) badly mauled by a bear -- who gives shelter to his son's widow (Jennifer Lopez) and the 11-year-old granddaughter (Becca Gardner) he never knew he had, when the woman flees her ...
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Unfinished Life, An (CNS)
Unfinished Life, An
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Unfinished Life, An (SAM)
The Uninvited
Restrained psychological thriller in which a mentally unstable teen girl (Emily Browning) and her sister (Arielle Kebbel) suspect their late mother's nurse (Elizabeth Banks) of murdering Mom to marry their father (David Strathairn). Directors Charles and Thomas Guard's mostly gore-free adaptation of a 2003 Korean film inspires a few chills the ...
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The Uninvited (CNS)
United 93
Tense, well-acted documentary-style drama about the hijacking of an aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001, when passengers fought back, downing the plane in the ensuing melee and preventing destruction of a probable Washington target, while air traffic controllers on the ground struggled to make sense of what was happening. Director Paul Greengrass ...
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United 93 (CNS)
Unknown Woman, The (La Sconosciuta)
Intriguing though often sordid mystery story of a Ukrainian immigrant (a fine Xenia Rappoport) -- haunted by her past sexual enslavement to a brutish pimp (Michele Placido) -- who, for reasons that only gradually unfold, contrives to become the housekeeper to wealthy jewelers (Claudia Gerini and Pierfrancesco Favino) and their child ...
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Unknown Woman, The (La Sconosciuta) (CNS)
Unleashed
Surprisingly engaging action drama centering on a lethal man-child (Jet Li), who is raised by a ruthless gangster (Bob Hoskins) and conditioned to kill on cue like an attack dog, and who experiences kindness and compassion for the first time when he is taken in by a blind piano tuner (Morgan ...
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Unleashed (CNS)
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
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Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (SAM)
Unstoppable
In a 2001 incident that rail enthusiasts call the "Crazy Eights," an unmanned train carrying, along with other cargo, thousands of gallons of a highly toxic compound called molten phenol hurtled through the Ohio countryside for two hours before finally being brought to a halt. That episode provides the factual basis ...
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Unstoppable (CNS)
Untraceable
Grimly unpleasant thriller set in Portland, Ore., about an Internet killer torturing his kidnapped victims on a Web site rigged so that the more people who log on the faster the victim will die, while a dedicated FBI cybercrime agent (Diane Lane) races to identify and capture the criminal. The seen-it-all-before ...
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Untraceable (CNS)
Up
Off we go into the wild blue yonder—literally—with this instant classic, the story of Carl Frederickson (voice of Ed Asner), a grumpy septuagenarian who decides to get away from it all by relocating his home to South America with the help of thousands of colorful balloons. Joined by an earnest 8-year-old ...
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Up (CNS)
Up and Down
Absorbing kaleidoscopic interweaving of several plot strands which combine to create a vivid picture of the present-day, post-communist Czech Republic: black-market smugglers who inadvertently steal a baby; a likable but loutish ex-soccer hooligan now on probation (Jiri Machacek) whose partner (Natasa Burger) is obsessed with having a child and "buys" the ...
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Up and Down (CNS)
Up Close & Personal
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Up Close & Personal (SAM)
Up in the Air
Though a polished comic drama, "Up in the Air" (Paramount) also is an abortive conversion story with a morally ambivalent conclusion.
As soon as we're introduced to emotionally isolated, yet strangely contented, single businessman Ryan Bingham (a predictably deft George Clooney), we know he's ripe for change.
Ryan spends ...
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Up in the Air (CNS)
Upside of Anger, The
Beautifully acted, droll, and, ultimately, profoundly moving comedy-drama set in a Detroit suburb about an embittered alcoholic upper-class wife (the superb Joan Allen) deserted by her husband and left to raise their four daughters (Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell and Alicia Witt) who enters into a relationship with her ...
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Upside of Anger, The (CNS)
Upside of Anger, The
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Upside of Anger, The (SAM)
Uptown Girls
Contemporary fairy tale about a spoiled rock 'n' roll heiress (Brittany Murphy), who, after having her inheritance stolen, takes a job as a nanny for a precocious 8-year-old (Dakota Fanning), only to find out they are both in need of emotional healing. Seesawing awkwardly between light-hearted comedy and drama, the film, ...
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Uptown Girls (CNS)
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