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October 24, 2009

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DOOMSDAY
(MAX on Comcast) It’s 2035, and London is beset by people keeling over with bubbling chins. The government dispatches a crew of special agents to find a cure in quarantined Scotland. The movie is a violent, witty flying circus from the agile mind of Neil Marshall, who brings schlock as close to art as he can get it, failing that it’s infectiously kicky pop. With Rhona Mitra, Craig Conway, Adrian Lester, Bob Hoskins, and Malcolm McDowell (R; runs through Nov. 5) WESLEY MORRIS

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
(Starz on Comcast) Written by Quentin Tarantino, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring George Clooney, it starts out with the same kind of fireworks as “Pulp Fiction.’’ But then blood-soaked bank-robbing siblings Clooney and Tarantino slide downhill into empty special effects after they flee to Mexico and wind up in a vampire’s den fronting as a biker’s bar. (R; runs through Nov. 5)

NOBEL SON
(TMC on Comcast) Not flagrant enough to be vile, not original enough to be any good, this discombobulated crime thriller, with its plot about the kidnapped son (Bryan Greenberg) of a brand new Nobel Prize winner (Alan Rickman, at his worst), makes you a little nostalgic for the late 1990s and early 2000s when these scuzzy little movies were in vogue. (R; runs through Nov. 5)

WESLEY MORRIS

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