Cinema releases by week

, 1h48
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Allan Corduner, Daniel Benzali
Rating69%
The film opens in October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. A small group of Sonderkommandos, prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of other dead prisoners, are plotting an insurrection that, they hope, will destroy at least one of the camp's four crematoria and gas chambers. They are receiving firearms from Polish citizens in the nearby village and gunpowder from the UNIO munitions factory; the female prisoners who work in the UNIO are smuggling the powder to the men’s camp amid the bodies of their dead workers. When the women's activity is eventually discovered by the Germans they are savagely tortured, but they don't reveal the plot.

, 1h56
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Han Suk-kyu, Shim Eun-ha, Jang Hang-sun, Yoo Jun-sang, Yeom Jeong-a, Ahn Suk-hwan
Rating63%
Tell Me Something is a blood soaked film, although much of the violence occurs off screen. The story begins with a detective Jo returning to work after the death of his mother. He is accused of accepting money from a dubious source to pay for his mother’s medical treatment. He denies the accusation but his career is under a cloud and the film never definitely clears up whether he is innocent of this charge. (Although Jo does seem to allude to this to his friend, Detective Oh, which suggests he is willing to compromise legality in order to follow the higher morality of caring for a loved one.)

, 1h51
Directed by Tom McLoughlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about psychiatry
Actors Andy García, Vincent Kartheiser, Linda Cardellini, Chelsea Field, Trevor Blumas, Sam Bottoms
Rating66%
"A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past."

, 1h46
Directed by Daniel Sackheim
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker, Michael O'Keefe
Rating58%
Sixteen-year-old Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and 11-year-old Rhett (Morgan) lose their parents in a car accident. Their parents' will is not a recent one but, in accordance with its terms, the children are placed under the guardianship of family neighbors from some years back, the childless couple Erin (Diane Lane) and Terry (Stellan Skarsgård) Glass, who live in a large glass house in Malibu.

, 2h51
Directed by Santosh Sivan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about religion, Sports films, Martial arts films, Musical films, Political films, Films about Buddhism, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa, Milind Soman, Rahul Dev, Hrishitaa Bhatt
Rating64%
The film chronicles the early part of the life of Emperor Asoka. It begins with his career as a General in Takshashila (modern-day Punjab) and ends with the bloody conquest of the Kalinga country (modern day Odisha State)

, 1h59
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité, Children's films
Actors Walt Disney, Dick Van Dyke, Diane Disney Miller, Roy E. Disney
Rating79%
De Mickey Mouse à Mary Poppins, du cinéma à la télévision, en passant par le parc Disneyland, Walt Disney a touché le coeur de millions de spectateurs à travers le monde entier avec une seule et même recette : transporter les gens dans la magie. Sur l'initiative de sa fille, Diane Disney Miller, et présenté par la légende Disney, Dick Van Dike, un des acteurs de Mary Poppins, le film révèle, dans un instructif portrait, l'homme qui se cache derrière le mythe, en présentant non seulement une panoplie d'interviews de ses amis, de ses collaborateurs et d'experts en tous genres mais aussi des films privés de la famille Disney. Des périodes fastes aux périodes difficiles, mal-aimé ou reconnu, Walt Disney est toujours resté un homme non seulement, innovateur, dynamique et perfectionniste pour ses studios mais aussi profondément dévoué à sa famille.

, 1h46
Directed by Brian Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Baseball films, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, D. B. Sweeney, Michael B. Jordan, Bryan Hearne, John Hawkes
Rating64%
Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a gambler who secretly bets $6,000 on his (dead) father's account and is now severely in debt with two bookies. In order to repay the debts, he is told by a corporate friend that he must coach a baseball team of troubled fifth grade kids from Chicago's ABLA housing projects in exchange for $500 each week, for ten weeks.

, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Christian Slater, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Allen, Portia DeGeneres, RuPaul, Billy Connolly
Rating62%
The film is told primarily in flashback, as the film first follows a hitman, Critical Jim (Tim Allen), who follows and holds at gunpoint a man he believes is Cletis Tout - but who actually is Finch (Christian Slater). Because Critical Jim is so fond of film noir and other classic films (such as Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany's), he's willing to listen to Finch as he tells his story, imagining it as a film in progress. Finch obliges, explaining how he got to be mistaken for Cletis Tout.

, 1h12
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Rating87%

, 9minutes
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Rating70%
The disillusioned and disgruntled redshirt Crewman Averson is stuck on patrol on an unknown planet when he meets optimistic Crewman Leeds, who is new on board the USS Enterprise. As the two search for an energy field, Averson tells Leeds the true nature of redshirts as cannon fodder: "Redshirts die first" and goes on about his opinions on Captain Kirk, Spock, and other fixtures of the show. Leeds on the other hand says he is eager to serve in Starfleet, wants to learn to speak Klingon "just for fun" and his observation about how Qui-Gon Jinn doesn't disappear in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as does Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Eventually, the two encounter an alien resembling a floating orb. While Averson hides, Leeds is stuck admiring its beauty and is killed. Averson tries to contact the Enterprise with his communicator, which he finds is broken and replaces it with that of Leeds and moves on.

, 1h35
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Historical
Themes Ghost films, Political films
Actors Jason Flemyng, Andrew Tiernan, Christopher Fairbank, Andrew Lee Poots, Eddie Marsan, Jack Davenport
Rating54%
In late 1944, the remnants of a platoon of German Panzergrenadiers from the Großdeutschland Division are caught in an ambush by American troops. In their retreat, they find a German bunker manned by elderly Pvt. Mirus (John Carlisle) and young Pvt. Neumann (Andrew-Lee Potts) who had been left to defend the bunker under orders from Area Command to wait until relieved. Schenke confronts Heydrich about why the group didn't counter-attack the Americans, claiming that there couldn't have been that many of them. Mirus expands on the history of the area, revealing that victims of the Black Plague were massacred on the orders of a stranger, who influenced the townspeople to turn against one another. Low on ammunition, the men are haunted by bad dreams, memories and the feeling that something about the area just isn't right.

, 1h51
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Genres Comedy
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Bunta Sugawara, Tsurutaro Kataoka, Takashi Miike, Renji Ishibashi, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Rating66%
A new magistrate (played by Koji Yakusho) in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.

, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about suicide
Actors Selma Blair, Max Beesley, Brendan Fehr, O'Neal Compton, Keegan Connor Tracy, Lochlyn Munro
Rating60%
Blair plays Shawn, a suicidal loan officer at a bank. She is having an affair with the bank vice-president, who is married; after discovering that his wife is pregnant, she goes to the roof to kill herself.

, 1h30
Directed by William Phillips
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors David Hewlett, Aaron Ashmore, Kevin Duhaney, Carter Hayden, Julian Richings
Rating71%
During a routine walk home, advertising executive Murray (David Hewlett) runs into Carter (Kevin Duhaney), a would-be mugger. After a struggle, Murray strikes Carter in the face with his briefcase and proceeds to walk away. Murray notices that the mugger is part of a small gang, which begins to chase him. Fearing for his life, he climbs a tree to evade capture, but finds himself unable to leave when the gang decides to wait for him to come down.

, 1h49
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemmings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone
Rating68%
The title refers to both a pub landlord's last call and the final wishes of a dying man, in this instance Jack Dodds (Michael Caine), an east London butcher who greatly influenced four men over the course of his flawed but decent lifetime. The quartet gathers to scatter Jack's ashes in Margate, where he had hoped to retire to a small seaside cottage with his wife Amy (Helen Mirren), a dream that never was fulfilled.

, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Eric Roberts, Catherine Oxenberg, Rod Steiger, Scott Plank
Rating39%
Artiste doué et néanmoins dérangé, Sean (Eric Roberts) est un peintre morbide qui s'inspire du souvenir qu'il a du meurtre horrible de sa mère. Lacy (Catherine Oxenberg), une belle marchande d'œuvres, est si fascinée par le travail de Sean qu'elle décide de voyager à travers tout le pays pour lui rendre visite, dans sa petite ville déserte. Elle arrive dans une communauté angoissée par la crainte et la peur, où plusieurs jeunes femmes ont récemment disparu. Tombée sous le charme de l'artiste talentueux, Lacy découvre peu à peu le vrai caractère de Sean, et finit par mettre à jour le pire des secrets : une série de sculptures de glace dans des formes terrifiantes qui n'est autre que la clé des disparitions. Lacy doit alors s'échapper avant de devenir la prochaine victime de Sean.

, 1h30
Directed by Larry Blamire
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Fay Masterson, Larry Blamire, Brian Howe, Andrew Parks
Rating67%
In 1961, scientist Dr. Paul Armstrong (Larry Blamire) and his wife Betty (Fay Masterson) drive into the mountains. Dr. Armstrong is searching for a meteorite that has fallen in the nearby woods, suspected to contain the rare element atmosphereum. Another scientist in the area, Dr. Roger Fleming (Brian Howe) questions Ranger Brad (Dan Conroy) about Cadavra Cave, a site rumored to contain a "Lost Skeleton."

, 2h15
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors David Hasselhoff, Barrie Ingham, George Merritt, John Treacy Egan, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Kelli O'Hara
Rating63%
Version musicale de l'histoire de Robert Louis Stevenson au sujet d'un médecin, le Dr. Henry Jekyll, qui effectue une expérience sur lui-même qui a pour conséquence l'émergence du côté sombre, meurtrier de son moi intérieur, «Mr. Hyde».

, 1h30
Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Tahj Mowry, Raquel Lee, Dawnn Lewis, Mark Curry (acteur américain), Olesya Rulin, Haley McCormick
Rating45%
Two scientists invent a time machine. A critical part (the "vector modulator") falls out of the time machine before they get into it to test it. Nothing seems to happen at first, but when they wake up the next day they are regressing in age (mentally, not physically). Their kids, Marie (Raquel Lee) and Eddie (Tahj Mowry) seem to notice something strange is going on, judging by their behavior. Soon enough, the children realize that it is the machine that has changed their parents. The parents gradually get younger and the kids notice that the fish that their parents were experimenting on earlier seemed to just disappear after growing younger in a "poof" of sorts. The point at which something ceases to exist thus becomes known as the "poof point". The kids know they have to get the parents in the machine and reverse the effect some way before their parents, too, just "poof" away.

, 1h46
Directed by George Hickenlooper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Andy García, Mick Jagger, Olivia Williams, Julianna Margulies, Michael Des Barres, James Coburn
Rating65%
After one book that ended up in the remainder bins, novelist Byron Tiller's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife. Desperate for any kind of income, he meets Luther Fox, an Englishman who runs an exclusive escort service called Elysian Fields, and is offered a job.

, 1h30
Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Aya Hirayama, Takatoshi Kaneko, Kaori Manabe, Tetta Sugimoto
Rating70%
Suzuki is a high-school student who aspires to become a great swimmer; however, he is the only person in the school's swimming team. Soon, a beautiful new swimming teacher starts work at the high school. Dozens of boys decide to join the swimming team, but when they realize that she teaches synchronized swimming (which is generally a women's sport), all but Suzuki and four other boys drop out. The teacher soon takes maternity leave, and for some time the team is on hiatus. However, when Suzuki watches a dolphin show he decides to ask the dolphin trainer to be their coach.

, 1h49
Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto, Ulrich Thomsen, Sibylle Canonica
Rating71%
Martha Klein (Martina Gedeck) is a chef at Lido, a gourmet restaurant in Hamburg, Germany. A perfectionist who lives only for her work, Martha has difficulty relating to the world other than through food. Her single-minded obsession with her culinary craft occasionally leads to unpleasant confrontations with customers. Consequently, the restaurant owner, Frida (Sibylle Canonica), requires her to see a therapist (August Zirner) to work out her poor interpersonal skills. Martha's therapy sessions, however, turn into monologues on food, and her approach to stress management usually involves briefly retreating to the restaurant's walk-in refrigerator.

, 1h51
Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Genres Documentary, Crime
Themes Documentary films about law, Documentary films about historical events
Rating78%
Brenton Butler, un adolescent noir âgé d'une quinzaine d'années, est accusé du meurtre d'une touriste blanche en mai 2000 à Jacksonville, en Floride. Ses avocats Patrick McGuiness et Ann Finnell vont se battre contre les méthodes quelque peu discutables de la police locale.