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Raising Richmond: That’s a pretty good meatball

In Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, Sony Pictures Animation offers up a second helping of the adventures of Flint Lockwood and the rest of the ol’ Chewandswallow gang.

Prisoners: Might as well just give up on life

When two girls go missing a father does whatever it takes to get them back–including things that made me curl up in a ball, terrified and shivering.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints: If not them bodies, then no bodies

True love waits–through prison, through Texas, and maybe even through mustaches.

Blue Jasmine: Bloom, baby, bloom!

A Park Avenue socialite falls from grace and ends up in a seedier part of San Francisco with her semi-estranged sister. Everyone’s lives are changed, and one person is Louis C.K.

The Spectacular Now: Youth is wasted

Somewhere between Rebel Without a Cause and Can’t Hardly Wait, this film will hit you in all your soft spots.

The World’s End: Dudes, beers, and body-snatching space alien robots

Funny British people do funny things while being chased by body-snatching space alien robots.

Jobs: Is this real life?

Steve Jobs is a jerk. There, you just saved $10.

Elysium: Poor old Earth

Wouldn’t you know it, the world has ended yet again. This time it’s Matt Damon who saves us all with a mixture of violence, technology, and a whole lot of heart. Zzzzz.

Only God Forgives: Style for style’s sake

Only God has time to forgive, the rest of us lowly humans spend our time chopping off the limbs of those who’ve wronged us.

The Wolverine: Darren Aronofsky didn’t direct this film

We’re living in the Dark and Serious(ly boring) Age of comic book movies.

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