An American Carol (PG-13, 83 minutes) Director David Zucker of Airplane! fame and Scary Movie 3 infamy helms this tale of a Michael Moore-ish filmmaker (Kevin Farley) who crusades to abolish our July 4 holiday and is visited by spirits who try to persuade him that he’s an idiot. With Jon Voigt as George Washington and Kelsey Grammer as George Patton. Seriously. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Appaloosa (R, 108 minutes) Ed Harris, Jeremy Irons and Viggo Mortensen seek out the roots of American Western cinema with this flick about men hired to wrest control of a town from a controlling rancher. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 85 minutes) A pampered pooch finds herself lost in Mexico and far from home. Disney provides the funding and Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez and Salma Hayek provide the voices. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Blindness (R, 120 minutes) After a contagious blindness sweeps through a city, a group of strangers bands together to survive. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Body of Lies (R, 128 minutes) Dude-tastic director Ridley Scott’s dude-heavy drama, based on the 2007 novel by David Ignatius, of a couple of CIA dudes (Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe) trying to out-dude a terrorist network and maybe each other. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Burn After Reading (R, 95 minutes) In the latest Coen Brothers romp, a CIA agent’s tell-all falls into the hands of folks who want to sell it, but aren’t publishers. Starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
City of Embers (PG, 95 minutes) Based on Jeanne Duprau’s book, this is the adventure of two tweens trying to save their possibly doomed underground city, whose power is running out. With Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau and an enormous, elaborate set. Opening Friday
The Duchess (PG-13, 105 minutes) Who’s cheating who? Keira Knightley stays classy and frilly in this period drama about the Duchess of Devonshire, who answers her husband’s promiscuity with an affair of her own. That’ll end well. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Eagle Eye (PG-13, 118 minutes) Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan follow the bidding of a voice over the phone. Why? You’ll find out. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
The Express (PG, 129 minutes) Director Gary Fleder’s film could be just another college-football drama, except it’s about Ernie Davis (Rob Brown), the first black man to win the Heisman Trophy. Dennis Quaid plays the coach. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Flash of Genius (PG-13, 119 minutes) A docudrama about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper, played by Greg Kinnear, who got screwed by the system but then—well, you’ll see. Clearly, through your windshield, eh? Eh? Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (R, 110 minutes) Simon Pegg is a downscale British writer not fitting in at all at an upscale magazine in New York. It’s reasonable to hope that veteran “Curb Your Enthusiasm” director Robert B. Weide’s film won’t water down the vinegar of Toby Young’s memoir, from which it’s adapted. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Lakeview Terrace (PG-13, 106 minutes) In director Neil Labute’s thriller, Samuel L. Jackson plays a veteran L.A. cop disapproving of and harassing his nextdoor neighbors, an interracial newlywed couple (Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington). Remember when they remade and race-swapped Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner into Guess Who? This is sort of like that meets Unlawful Entry. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Max Payne (PG-13, 100 minutes) After fining his family murdered, a rogue cop (Mark Wahlberg) descends into a nocturnal underworld on a quest for revenge. Yes, it’s based on a video game, but the concept is, well, timeless, really. Opening Friday
Miracle at St. Anna (R, 166 minutes) The story of members of the 92nd Infantry Division who were trapped in Italy following an attempt to rescue a child. Also, a Spike Lee joint. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (PG-13, 90 minutes) Michael Cera and Kat Dennings play two cute proto-hipster high schoolers—apparently no relation whatsoever to Nick and Nora Charles of the Thin Man movies of the ’30s—who hang out all night in New York and go to shows and get into each other. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Nights in Rodanthe (PG-13, 97 minutes) Diane Lane and Richard Gere star in this tale about two people who find unlikely love during their respective romantic crises. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Quarantine (R, 92 minutes) This horror remake takes its lead from The Blair Witch Project, as a news crew is quarantined inside a building while covering a story and, presumably, terrorized. The only evidence of their disappearance is their footage. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Sex Drive (R, 109 minutes) A teen road-trip sex comedy. Or maybe a teen sex-trip road comedy. See, it works on many levels. Josh Zuckerman plays a virgin donut-shop worker who drives 500 miles to score, he hopes, with a dream girl he met on line. Opening Friday
W. (PG-13, 110 minutes) Why, it’s never too soon for a new dispatch from American cinema’s unauthorized presidential biographer, Oliver Stone! This one surveys the outgoing POTUS’ life, with Josh Brolin, James Cromwell and Ellen Burstyn as George W., George H.W. and Barbara Bush, respectively. Also featuring Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, Toby Jones as Karl Rove, and many more. Don’t misunderestimate it. Opening Friday