February 2011 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Dec. 29, 2012

Best Movies Released February 2011

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New York

Every day, nuclear power plants place large amounts of high-level radioactive waste in interim storage that is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and societal changes. In Finland, the world’s first permanent repository is hewn out of solid rock. It is a huge system of underground tunnels that must last 100,000 years.

Michael Madsen, Lise Lense-Møller, Jesper Bergmann

Documentary 1 hr, 15 mins

33%

  • 3.5
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Sara and Rebecca are assigned to be roomates in their freshman dorm. Things start off great but turn deadly as Rebecca begins to target people in Sara's life.

Minka Kelly, Doug Davison, Sonny Mallhi, Aly Michalka, Matt Lanter, Christian E. Christiansen, Roy Lee, Irene Young

PG-13 Thriller Suspense Teen 1 hr, 33 mins

78%

  • 3.8
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A father and son lead a diving team to uncharted depths and a life-threatening crisis occurs.

James Cameron, Ioan Gruffudd, Ryan Kavanaugh, Alister Grierson, Andrew Wight, John Garvin, Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield

R Drama Adventure Epic 3D Shot-In-3D 1 hr, 43 mins

74%

  • 3.9
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New York / Los Angeles

Emilia (Natalie Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss — and married — when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan), but is finding it hard to connect with this precocious child. Perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow).

Lisa Kudrow, Natalie Portman, Don Roos, Lauren Ambrose, Anthony Rapp, Charlie Tahan, Scott Cohen

R Drama 1 hr, 59 mins

75%

  • 3.7
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New York

Doug (Cris Lankenau) has just moved back to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, to move in with his sister (Trieste KellyDunn), hoping for another chance at jumpstarting their grown up lives. When Doug’s ex-girlfriend comes to town unexpectedly, only to disappear shortly after, Doug, Gail, and their new friend Carlos (Raul Castillo) appoint themselves as detectives in what they see as a real life Sherlock Holmes situation.

Aaron Katz, Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raul Castillo

Drama 1 hr, 36 mins

38%

  • 4.2
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New York / Los Angeles

Tom Sturridge plays a wanderer who tries to reconnect with his childhood love, an actress in Hollywood (played by the Rachel Bilson).

James Keach, Steve Adams, Tom Sturridge, Blythe Danner, Richard Jenkins, Rachel Bilson, Jaime King, Nikki Blonsky

PG-13 Comedy Romance 1 hr, 34 mins

92%

  • 3.7
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An animated adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tale set in the world of tacky garden gnomes.

Emily Blunt, David Furnish, Kevin Cecil, Michael Caine, Kelly Asbury, James McAvoy, Igor Khait, Steve Hamilton-Shaw

G Comedy Fantasy Family Animation 3D 1 hr, 24 mins

65%

  • 4
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After telling his girlfriend that he's married so that he never has to fully commit to their relationship, a plastic surgeon must recruit a fake family to prove his honesty.

Nicole Kidman, Brooklyn Decker, Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Jennifer Aniston, Barry Bernardi, Dennis Dugan, Heather Parry

PG-13 Comedy Romance 1 hr, 50 mins

88%

  • 3.9
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Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

Jon M. Chu, Scooter Braun, L.A. Reid, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Usher, Justin Bieber

G Biography Documentary Music 3D 1 hr, 45 mins

61%

  • 2.9
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The story revolves around a wounded Roman soldier and his loyal Celtic slave try to solve the mystery of the Ninth Legion, a brigade of Roman soldiers that vanished after heading into the untamed Highlands of Scotland 15 years earlier.

Mark Strong, Kevin Macdonald, Duncan Kenworthy, Jeremy Brock, Jamie Bell, Channing Tatum, Donald Sutherland, Paul Ritter

PG-13 Drama War 1 hr, 54 mins

85%

  • 3.8
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New York

An optimistic, solutions-based, non-preachy, non-partisan, big tent film that shows tackling climate change boosts the economy, increases national and energy security and promotes health and a clean environment.

Peter Byck

Documentary

33%

  • 5
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New York / Los Angeles

This love story begins the night Lujan and Sosa meet, on the street. She is fighting to save a car accident victim's life. He wants the victim to be his client. Together they will try to change the course of their lives, but Sosa's turbulent past will come up against them.

Pablo Trapero

Drama Romance Crime

0%

  • 5
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A wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin insurance agent goes to an industry convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to try to save the jobs of his colleagues.

Ed Helms, Miguel Arteta, Alexander Payne, Jim Burke, Jim Taylor, Phil Johnston, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche

R Comedy 1 hr, 26 mins

80%

  • 3.9
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New York

The documentary traces the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of hairdressing.

Craig Teper

PG Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

33%

  • 5
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Limited

A young Muslim man enrolls in college against the politically charged 9/11 backdrop, with deep personal and familial traumas to overcome.

Qasim Basir, Dana Offenbach, Danny Glover, Nia Long, Summer Bishil, Evan Ross

Drama 1 hr, 39 mins

67%

  • 3.9
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New York

Mercedes Alvarez was three years old when her parents left La Aldea, a village in the barren Northern Spanish Soria region. She was the last child born in La Aldea. Now, only fourteen people live there. Soon this village, like so many other rural communities all over the world, will be deserted. Alvarez returns for the first time to her ancestral home and makes a film about memory and the terrifying passing of time.

Mercedes Álvarez, Arturo Redin

Documentary 1 hr, 55 mins

33%

  • 2.9
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The "Four" story line involves nine alien teens assimilating to high school on Earth after their planet is destroyed by an enemy species. The fourth of the group discovers that the enemy is now after him on Earth.

Steven Spielberg, D.J. Caruso, Michael Bay, Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, JC Spink, Al Gough, Mils Millar

PG-13 Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi 1 hr, 44 mins

78%

  • 4.2
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Continuing adventures of Big Momma (as played by Martin Lawrence).

Martin Lawrence, Portia Doubleday, John Whitesell, Randi Mayem Singer, Don Rhymer, Matthew Fogel, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas

PG-13 Comedy Sequel 1 hr, 47 mins

90%

  • 4
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After a car accident, a doctor awakes from a coma to discover that another man has assumed his identity.

Aidan Quinn, Liam Neeson, Andrew Rona, Stephen Cornwell, Oliver Butcher, January Jones, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Silver

PG-13 Thriller Suspense 1 hr, 49 mins

86%

  • 3.9
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Limited

A first person documentary of Tom Shadyac (helmer of bigscreen comedies including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "Bruce Almighty") on his unusual journey of self-discovery. Film includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Desmond Tutu, among others.

Tom Shadyac

Documentary 1 hr, 16 mins

30%

  • 3.7
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New York

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.

Philippe Diaz

Drama 1 hr, 37 mins

89%

  • 4.3
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Limited

Hilary Swank will play a doctor who moves into a Brooklyn loft. Becoming suspicious that she's not alone in her new home, she discovers her landlord is a stalker.

Christopher Lee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace, Antti J. Jokinen, Erin Cressida, Robert Orr, Hilary Swank

R Thriller Suspense

87%

  • 3.7
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An American couple and a foreign couple test the limits of friendship and love when they switch partners and get married for green cards.

David Burton Morris, Elika Portnoy

R Comedy 1 hr, 32 mins

64%

  • 3.3
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College freshman Adam Buckley sits blindfolded in the back of a van outside of a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi fraternity. Minutes later a fellow pledge is shot. The senior fraternity brother is able to get the injured pledge out of the store alive, but the fraternity's troubles are just beginning.

Will Canon

R Drama 1 hr, 21 mins

77%

  • 4.3
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An ex-con tries to rekindle his relationship with his daughter by being a chaperone on her class trip.

Michael Pavone, Billy Slaughter, Jake Austin Walker, Kevin Corrigan, Stephen Herek, S.J. Roth, Paul Levesque, Ariel Winter

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 43 mins

90%

  • 3.8
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Dereck and Beverly Joubert examine the dramatic decline in the number of lions in Africa and the moral duty to protect them.

Jeremy Irons, Dereck Joubert

PG Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

91%

  • 4.3
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Chronicles some of Christopher Columbus' exploits with the indigenous people he encountered in the Americas, circa 1492.

Iciar Bollain, Carlos Aduviri, Paul Laverty, Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar

Drama Historical

52%

  • 4.2
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New York

The story centers on a once-thriving city where shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear. Five survivors fight to stay alive while grappling with the meaning of existence.

Thandiwe Newton, Lawrence Mattis, Norton Herrick, Hayden Christensen, Brad Anderson, Celine Rattray, Tove Christensen, Anthony Jaswinski

R Thriller Suspense Horror 1 hr, 33 mins

86%

  • 3.5
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New York

At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life.

Matthew Porterfield

Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

New York

Features Fran Lebowitz expressing insights on social issues in an onstage discussion with longtime friend Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York.

Martin Scorsese, Graydon Carter, Fran Lebowitz

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

36%

  • 3.8
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A married couple find themselves going through the motions. The wife gives her husband a "hall pass," which means permission to engage in extracurriculars. Complications ensue.

Alexandra Daddario, Owen Wilson, Christina Applegate, Tyler Hoechlin, Bradley Thomas, Jason Sudeikis, J.B. Smoove, Richard Jenkins

R Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

82%

  • 3.8
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The story centers on an enraged man who is out for revenge, chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby.

Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, David Morse, Boaz Davidson, Patrick Lussier, Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short

R Thriller Suspense 3D Shot-In-3D 1 hr, 44 mins

85%

  • 4
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Los Angeles

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.

Philippe Diaz

Drama 1 hr, 37 mins

89%

  • 4.3
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Justin Bieber will play himself in his life story. The pic will be sprinkled with performances from his current concert tour.

Jon M. Chu, Scooter Braun, L.A. Reid, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Usher, Justin Bieber

G Biography Documentary Music 3D 1 hr, 45 mins

61%

  • 2.9
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When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about everyone else. Mac's rage stonewalls his career in the police department and makes for a combustible situation when he's partnered with Sam Wright, a rising star on the force-who happens to be a part-time pastor and a loving family man. Can they somehow join forces to help one another when it's impossible for either of them to look past their differences-especially the most obvious one?

Louis Gossett Jr., Howard Klausner, Joy Moore, David G. Evans, John Saunders, John Nasraway, Michael Joiner, Michael Higgenbottom

Drama Faith

93%

  • 4.7
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New York / Los Angeles

Eight French monks live peacefully in a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria until post-colonial tensions escalate.

Lambert Wilson, Xavier Beauvois, Michael Lonsdale

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 0 mins

50%

  • 4.4
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New York

Francis and Marie are close friends and one day they meet Nicolas. As one rendezvous leads to another, whether real or imagined, the two friends slide deeper into obsessive fantasies around Nicolas.

Xavier Dolan

Drama Romance 1 hr, 37 mins

23%

  • 4.8
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Top February 2011 Movie Trailers

Now & Later Unrated Trailer
The Resident Theatrical Trailer
The Other Woman Theatrical Trailer
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