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December

377

7.9

8.1

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Plot: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realizing that they're falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Genre: Comedy | Romance | Drama
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan
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Coby's rating:

377

5.4

5.9

The Possession

Plot: A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Director: Ole Bornedal
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Natasha Calis, Kyra Sedgwick
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Coby's rating:

197

5.3

5.2

Silent House (2012)

Plot: Trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat, a young woman finds she is unable to contact the outside world as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house.
Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Director: Laura Lau, Chris Kentis
Stars: Elizabeth Olsen, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Adam Trese
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Coby's rating:

4.6

4.9

The Babymakers (2012)

Plot: After failing to get his wife pregnant, a guy (Schneider) recruits his pals to steal the deposit he left at a sperm bank years ago.
Genre: Adventure | Comedy
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Stars: Paul Schneider, Olivia Munn, Kevin Heffernan
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Coby's rating:

241

6.4

6.7

Liberal Arts

Plot: When 30-something Jesse returns to his alma mater for a professor's retirement party, he falls for Zibby, a college student, and is faced with a powerful attraction that springs up between them.
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Director: Josh Radnor
Stars: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins
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Coby's rating:

407

4.6

5.5

That's My Boy (2012)

Plot: While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Sean Anders
Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester
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Coby's rating:

430

6.2

6.4

Upside Down (2012)

Plot: A man searches an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth.
Genre: Drama | Romance
Director: Juan Diego Solanas
Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall
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Coby's rating:

517

5.8

6.2

This Is 40 (2012)

Plot: A look at the lives of Pete and Debbie a few years after the events of Knocked Up.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Judd Apatow
Stars: Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Megan Fox
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Coby's rating:

1202

6.6

6.9

Frankenweenie

Plot: Young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.
Genre: Animation | Comedy | Horror
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Martin Landau
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Coby's rating:

1425

7.2

7.4

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Plot: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Director: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving
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Coby's rating:

478

5.2

5.6

House at the End of the Street (2012)

Plot: A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Director: Mark Tonderai
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue
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Coby's rating:

1028

7.2

7.1

Dredd

Plot: In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
Genre: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi
Director: Pete Travis
Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey
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Coby's rating:

171

5.6

6.1

Hit and Run (2012)

Plot: Former getaway driver Charlie Bronson jeopardizes his Witness Protection Plan identity in order to help his girlfriend get to Los Angeles. The feds and Charlie's former gang chase them on the road.
Genre: Action | Comedy | Romance
Director: Dax Shepard, David Palmer
Stars: Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper
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Coby's rating:

867

5.8

6.2

Taken 2

Plot: In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Director: Olivier Megaton
Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
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Coby's rating:

329

5.7

5.4

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

Plot: On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers.
Genre: Action
Director: RZA
Stars: RZA, Russell Crowe, Rick Yune
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Coby's rating:

325

6.6

6.8

Trouble with the Curve (2012)

Plot: An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Lorenz
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake
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Coby's rating:

337

6.7

The Words (2012)

Plot: A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
Genre: Drama | Romance
Director: Lee Sternthal, Brian Klugman
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid
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Coby's rating:

164

4.8

5.1

Alex Cross (2012)

Plot: A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled serial killer who specializes in torture and pain.
Genre: Action | Crime | Mystery
Director: Rob Cohen
Stars: Tyler Perry, Edward Burns, Matthew Fox
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Coby's rating:

152

6.2

6.5

Big Miracle (2012)

Plot: In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend - a Greenpeace volunteer - on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
Genre: Drama | Romance
Director: Ken Kwapis
Stars: John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell
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Coby's rating:

301

5.2

[Rec] 3: Genesis

Plot: A couple's wedding day turns into a horrific events as some of the guests start showing signs of a strange illness.
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Director: Paco Plaza
Stars: Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín, Ismael Martínez
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Coby's rating:

213

4.4

4.1

The Apparition (2012)

Plot: A couple is haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment.
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Director: Todd Lincoln
Stars: Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton
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Coby's rating:

6.7

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

Plot: UNSC Cadet Thomas Lasky must conquer his inner fears and join forces with super-soldier John-117 to take down a massive faction of the Covenant.
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Director: Stewart Hendler
Stars: Tom Green, Anna Popplewell, Enisha Brewster
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Coby's rating:

162

5.7

Two Days in New York (2012)

Plot: Manhattan couple Marion and Mingus, who each have children from prior relationships, find their comfortable family dynamic jostled by a visit from Marion's relatives.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Julie Delpy
Stars: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Alexia Landeau
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Coby's rating:

186

6.2

Butter (2012)

Plot: In small-town Iowa, an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town's annual contest.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim Field Smith
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Yara Shahidi, Olivia Wilde
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Coby's rating:

305

6.2

6.3

Hope Springs

Plot: After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Director: David Frankel
Stars: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell
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Coby's rating:

527

6.2

6.5

Premium Rush (2012)

Plot: In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Genre: Action | Thriller
Director: David Koepp
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez
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Coby's rating:

171

6.8

6.9

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Plot: A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Genre: Biography | Drama | Music
Director: Joann Sfar
Stars: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta
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Coby's rating:

896

6.3

6.7

The Bourne Legacy (2012)

Plot: An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery
Director: Tony Gilroy
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton
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Coby's rating:

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November

870

5.4

5.3

Resident Evil: Retribution

Plot: Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.
Genre: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Bingbing Li
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Coby's rating:

100

6.9

7.1

The Spirit of St. Louis

Plot: Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Marc Connelly
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Coby's rating:

2053

7.3

7.6

Lolita (1962)

Plot: A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet.
Genre: Drama | Romance
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: James Mason, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters
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Coby's rating:

146

6.4

Charlotte Gray (2002)

Plot: A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Stars: Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Michael Gambon
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Coby's rating:

986

6.9

7.1

Becoming Jane (2007)

Plot: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance
Director: Julian Jarrold
Stars: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters
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Coby's rating:

857

6.3

6.8

Sinister (2012)

Plot: A true-crime writer finds a cache of 8mm "snuff" films that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose career dates back to the 1960s.
Genre: Horror | Mystery
Director: Scott Derrickson
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone
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Coby's rating:

6.8

7.5

Never Cry Wolf (1983)

Plot: A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Genre: Adventure | Drama
Director: Carroll Ballard
Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Samson Jorah
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Coby's rating:

430

6.7

6.6

New York, New York (1977)

Plot: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Genre: Drama | Music | Musical
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Barry Primus
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Coby's rating:

210

6.4

6.7

Seraphim Falls (2007)

Plot: At the end of the Civil War, a colonel hunts down a man with whom he has a grudge.
Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Director: David Von Ancken
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Michael Wincott
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Coby's rating:

625

7.1

7.3

Bound (1996)

Plot: Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet's crooked boyfriend Caeser.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Director: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano
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Coby's rating:

253

6.5

6.7

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010)

Plot: Two men fortify a nondescript British apartment so it can serve as a prison, and then kidnap a woman and tie her to a bed. Before there's even time to react, we're plunged into a very nasty situation, but not a simple one.
Genre: Crime | Thriller
Director: J Blakeson
Stars: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan
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Coby's rating:

333

6.8

6.9

The Monster Squad

Plot: Dracula is alive. In fact, he plans to rule the world and that is why he seeks the help of other legendary monsters.
Genre: Action | Comedy | Fantasy
Director: Fred Dekker
Stars: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht
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Coby's rating:

308

6.5

6.6

The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

Plot: A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Director: Peter Hedges
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Cameron 'CJ' Adams
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Coby's rating:

983

7.1

ParaNorman (2012)

Plot: A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy
Director: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck
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Coby's rating:

607

5.7

6.3

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)

Plot: Five kids are left home when their mother leaves town on a three-month vacation to Australia, only to have their geriatric babysitter die of a heart attack, leading to the eldest teen, Sue Ellen, to scam her way into taking a job at a hip Los Angeles fashion company to feed and support her needy siblings.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stephen Herek
Stars: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, Josh Charles
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Coby's rating:

3861

7.7

8.4

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Plot: Eight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham's finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Coby's rating:

1836

7.2

7.4

Looper (2012)

Plot: In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self.
Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt
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Coby's rating:

1769

7.6

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Plot: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
Genre: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Stars: Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall
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Coby's rating:

801

7.1

7.3

Lawless (2012)

Plot: Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by a new deputy and other authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Genre: Crime | Drama
Director: John Hillcoat
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce
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Coby's rating:

487

7.4

In the Loop (2009)

Plot: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing...
Genre: Comedy
Director: Armando Iannucci
Stars: Tom Hollander, Chris Addison, Peter Capaldi
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Coby's rating:

6.7

6.8

Rush (1992)

Plot: Two small town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.
Genre: Crime | Drama
Director: Lili Fini Zanuck
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Patric, Sam Elliott
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Coby's rating:

648

7.2

7.6

End of Watch (2012)

Plot: Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Director: David Ayer
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick
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Statistics

January: 65
February: 85
March: 87
April: 43
May: 70
June: 63
July: 21
August: 38
September: 56
October: 21
November: 35
December: 28

1920-1929: 4
1930-1939: 10
1940-1949: 9
1950-1959: 15
1960-1969: 21
1970-1979: 24
1980-1989: 83
1990-1999: 111
2000-2011: 233
New 2012: 102

1/10: 9
2/10: 5
3/10: 10
4/10: 23
5/10: 64
6/10: 180
7/10: 179
8/10: 108
9/10: 23
10/10: 10

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