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Want to find a movie to see this weekend? Browse through for a look at some of the major flicks currently in theaters.
Singing actresses bond while making 'Nine'
The "Nine" women on what's it's like to play a wife, a muse, a mistress — and a whore.
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Best and worst
holiday films
Film critics Ty Burr and Wesley Morris have made their lists and checked them twice. Check out which movies they've deemed naughty and nice.
Holiday movies quiz
What fictional town is the center of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Test your knowledge of these memorable seasonal films.
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Know alien movies?
Do you remember these onscreen aliens from yesteryear? Test your knowledge of the films in which these otherworldly beings star.
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Hollywood invades Boston
As more movie studios use Boston as their set, the Hub increases its star power.
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Weekend box office report: What recession?
Hollywood got the Christmas present it was hoping for with...
New releases
'A Single Man'
'Broken Embraces'
- 'It's Complicated'
- 'Le Combat Dans L'ile'
- 'Sherlock Holmes'
'The Young Victoria'
'Nine'
‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’
Last week's releases
- ‘Avatar’
- 'Bloody Mondays and Strawberry Pies'
- ‘Amarcord’
- 'Araya'
- ‘New Daughter’
‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’
Globe critics
Weekend box office
(Week of Dec. 18/Source: IMDB)
| 1. 'Avatar' |
$73M |
| 2. 'The Princess and the Frog' | $12.2M |
| 3. 'The Blind Side' |
$10M |
| 4. 'Did You Hear About the Morgans?' |
$7M |
| 5. 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' |
$4.37M |
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Top films of the decade
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67th Golden Globe nominees
"Inglourious Basterds" makes this year's list along with these other films.
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10 memorable Boston films
Critics Ty Burr and Mark Feeney offer up contenders for the best Boston flick ever.
highlights
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Featured reviews
'Sherlock Holmes'
Robert Downey Jr. brings his brain, his wit, and his gift for intelligent underplaying, even as he understands he has been hired to play Sherlock Holmes, action hero. 
'Nine'
While “Chicago’’ won the best-picture Oscar and rekindled enthusiasm for movie musicals, “Nine’’ is full of the director's same mistakes.
'It's Complicated'
“It’s Complicated’’ unleashes an unabashedly, desperately romantic side of Alec Baldwin that we haven’t seen before. 
'Le Combat Dans L'ile'
The combat in Alain Cavalier’s 1962 “Le Combat Dans L’ile’’ involves a gun duel on a country marsh. It’s long in arriving but worth the wait.
'Broken Embraces'
The film’s emotional climax involves two hands caressing a projected image. It’s both ridiculous and ridiculously romantic, which is an apt description of a work shaped like a heart and structured like a pretzel.
'A Single Man'
There are three professionals and one amateur at work in “A Single Man,’’ but only one of the four really matters. The first professional is the late Christopher Isherwood, upon whose novel the movie is based.
'The Young Victoria'
This film's lavishly appointed tosh that very effectively dramatizes the growing love between Victoria and her first cousin and eventual husband, and turns distracted and busy whenever it deals with history.
‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel’
'Squeakquel' offers the same mixture as before: live-action humans and computer-animated chipmunks.
‘Avatar’
Out of body experience: It’s easy to get lost in the visually spectacular world of director James Cameron’s movie.- Will viewers see 3-D ‘Avatar’ as it was meant to be seen?
- Discuss Did you see 'Avatar' in 3-D? What did you think?
- Photos Top 50 science fiction TV shows
‘Did You Hear About the Morgans?’
Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker stand around as if they're waiting for someone to yell, "Cut." He's in one movie. She's in another. Neither is any good.
‘The Princess and the Frog’
The movie forces Princess Tiana into the same conundrum that every Disney heroine faces: the marriage fantasy. She puts up a fuss, but it's no use.
‘Up in the Air’
George Clooney stars in Jason Reitman's movie about corporate downsizing and luxury business travel.- Photos Cold-hearted corporate execs redeemed on screen
- Blog NBR picks 'Up in the Air' best of 2009
- From travel Readers' photos of views from 'up in the air'
Latest news
- Capsule reviews: `White Ribbon' and others (AP, 8 a.m.)
- Review: `The White Ribbon' is grim but gorgeous (AP, 8:50 a.m.)
- Waits goes to the devil in Gilliam's `Parnassus' (AP, 7:40 a.m.)
- '2012' sets box office record in China (AP, 8:31 a.m.)
- Polanski thanks supporters for their solidarity (AP, 6:51 a.m.)
- Merry Xmas in Hollywood: Box-office record falls (AP, 12/27/09)
- Merry Xmas in Hollywood: Box-office record falls (AP, 12/27/09)
- Perry to take 'Madea' play on the road in 2010 (AP, 12/27/09)
- Small, private funeral held for Brittany Murphy (AP, 12/25/09)
- Small, private funeral held for Brittany Murphy (AP, 12/24/09)
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