Amelia (PG, 111 minutes) Hilary Swank embodies airborne Earhart in this fall’s hot historical epic. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Opening Friday
Capitalism: A Love Story (R, 127 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Vinegar Hill Theatre
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (PG-13, 108 minutes) Suddenly, freak is chic. A young boy decides to become a vampire and tour with a traveling freak show. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (PG, 81 minutes) An animated adaptation of the popular children’s book by Judi and Ron Barrett, in which all sorts of food falls from the sky. With the voices of James Caan, Anna Faris, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, Andy Samberg and Mr. T. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Couples Retreat (PG-13, 107 minutes) Four couples come to a tropical resort, where vacation time turns into much-needed marriage-repair therapy. Stars include Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn (who co-wrote, with Dana Fox), Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Kristin Davis, Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell and Kali Hawk, and the director is none other than Peter "A Christmas Story" Billingsley. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
District 9 (R, 113 minutes) Peter Jackson produces South African native director Neill Blomkamp’s science-fiction parable of extra-terrestrial refugees quarantined in Apartheid-era Johannesburg. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
The Informant! (R, 108 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Inglourious Basterds (R, 153 minutes) Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and a band of Jewish military renegades (including Eli Roth, B.J. Novak and Samm Levine) put a pretty gruesome hurting on Nazis. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
The Invention of Lying (PG-13, 99 minutes) In a world where everyone always tells the truth, Ricky Gervais decides not to. Mayhem ensues, and Jeffrey Tambor, Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill and Louis C.K. co-star. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Julie & Julia (PG-13, 123 minutes) A movie about a cookbook and a memoir. Like, totally metatextual! Amy Adams and Meryl Streep star, Nora Ephron directs…do they cook? Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Law Abiding Citizen (R, 108 minutes) A grieving and apparently sociopathic widower (Gerard Butler) goes rather brutally out of his way to demonstrate legal-system loopholes to the district attorney (Jamie Foxx) who let his family’s killers go unpunished. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Michael Jackson: This Is It (PG, 112 minutes) The documentary of the infamous Moonwalker’s preparation for a London concert series hits the screens after his death. Opening Friday
Paranormal Activity (R, 86 minutes) A terrifying trailer, to be sure, rich with audience screams. Is the film itself as terrifying? Check it out and let us know; we’ll be hiding under our covers. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Saw VI (R, 90 minutes) Six of one, half-dozen of the other. Who would’ve thought snuff films would become so boring? Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
Spookley the Square Pumpkin (G, 45 minutes) This 2004 children’s Halloween film proves that it’s hard out there for a gourd of a different shape. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
The Stepfather (PG-13, 89 minutes) A remake of a 1987 movie of the same name, loosely based on a true story: A dude comes home from military school to discover that his mother’s new lover is just not cool. And is probably a serial killer. Penn Badgley, Sela Ward and Dylan Walsh star. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6
Where the Wild Things Are (PG, 94 minutes) Dave Eggers wrote and Spike Jonze directed the movie version of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book about a willful boy who escapes his life to a fantastical island of strange beasts who make him their king. Stars include Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O’Hara and Paul Dano. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4
Zombieland (R, 81 minutes) In this horror comedy, a coward (Jesse Eisenberg) and a badass crackpot (Woody Harrelson) do battle with armies of the undead. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star. Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6
