Shutter Island

"Shutter Island": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Betsy Sharkey:

In "Shutter Island," director Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease in the best noir tradition with its smarter-than-you'd-think cops, their-tougher-than-you'd-imagine cases to crack, and enough nods to the classic genre for an all-night parlor game. It's 1954 when Leonardo DiCaprio's U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, played by Mark Ruffalo, are dispatched to an asylum for the criminally insane to investigate a dicey disappearance. But there are deeper mysteries here and it turns out that Scorsese has a lot more on his mind than a crazy inmate on the loose. Meanwhile, Teddy has a few skeletons of his own. There are flaws, but none lethal and, in the end, Scorsese gives us a new noir classic with DiCaprio -- brilliant as Teddy -- racing to solve the case and hang onto his sanity at the same time. Read Sharkey's full review of "Shutter Island" at the LA Times

Shutter Island
The project centers on a U.S. marshal (Mark Ruffalo) who along with his new partner (Leonardo DiCaprio) travels to a Massachusetts island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. During their inquiry , the two encounter a web of deceit, experience a hurricane and become involved in a deadly inmate riot that leaves them trapped on the island. Ben Kingsley will play Dr. Cawley, the hospital's enigmatic chief physician who must reluctantly play host to the two U.S. marshals.

Opened February 19, 2010 Runtime:2 hr. 18 min.
Rdisturbing violent content, some nudity and language
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genres: Thriller


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The Ghost Writer

"The Ghost Writer": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Reviewer:

Made by a filmmaker suddenly returned to the height of his powers, this is a thriller wrapped around a roman à clef about contemporary politics wrapped around director Roman Polanski's trademark cynicism. An effortless blending of personal preoccupations with audience preferences that recalls the classic work of Alfred Hitchcock. Read Turan's full review of "The Ghost Writer" at the LA Times

The Ghost Writer
When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start-not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident. The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA-a war crime. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA-and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.

Opened February 19, 2010 Runtime:1 hr. 35 min.
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Roman Polanski
Genres: Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Thriller

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Ajami

"Ajami": LA Times Critics' Choice Award from Kenneth Turan:

One of the five foreign-language Oscar finalists, this look at cultures in conflict in today's Israel has a complex, elliptical structure and uses unconventional filming techniques to tell a bleak and fatalistic story that's conveyed with an unnerving sense of verisimilitude.
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Opened February 3, 2010
Director: Scandar Copti,Yaron Shani
Genres: Drama

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