Elizabethtown
Comedy | 2:18 | PG-13
Elizabethtown, in which a sneaker designer wonders whether his dud of a product launch qualifies as a failure or a fiasco, is an unmitigated, inexplicable, unforgivable flop. Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst star.

The 40 Year-Old Virgin Comedy | 1:56 | R Although Judd Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin boasts the lewdness quotient of a losing-it sex comedy, the film (cowritten by the director and his star) provides the curious experience of watching a Porky's raunchfest morph into a Doris Day chastity comedy.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac Et La Petite Tailleuse) Drama | 1:51 | NR A meditation on memory and love about two friends sent to live with the peasants as part of the reeducation program of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a funny, sad and absolutely lovely film. Based on the memoir by Dai Sijie, and written and directed by Dai, Balzac is a celebration of the arts - literature, music, film - and their power to transform and inspire.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Family/Children's | 1:46 | PG There are terrific moments aplenty in Tim Burton's inspired adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but the squirrels take the cake. Cute, furry and intensely focused, the squirrels practically steal the movie from Johnny Depp, who adds another engagingly, um, nutty performance to his resume as the xenophobic candy baron.
The Constant Gardener Drama | 2:09 | R Simply the best adaptation of any John le Carré thriller to make it to the screen, The Constant Gardener - with Ralph Fiennes as a British diplomat and Rachel Weisz as his leftist, activist wife - brings a much-needed dose of intelligence and intrigue to the late-summer movie lineup.
Cry Wolf Suspense/Thriller | 1:30 | PG-13
Domino Drama | 2:00 | R Based (sort of - that's what it says in the credits) on the true story of Domino Harvey, the daughter of actor Laurence Harvey who somehow got it in her head to be a bounty hunter, Domino stars Keira Knightley - snarling, tattooed and not convincing for a nanosecond. The twiggy English actress deploys a posh accent and a purposeful swagger and spins her nunchuks like a really nasty baton twirler, but while her performance isn't hard to watch, it is hard to buy.
Doom Action/Adventure, SciFi/Horror, Suspense/Thriller | 1:40 | R
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story Drama | 1:38 | PG
Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'ýchafaud) Drama | 1:28 | NR
Elizabethtown Comedy | 2:18 | PG-13 Elizabethtown, in which a sneaker designer wonders whether his dud of a product launch qualifies as a failure or a fiasco, is an unmitigated, inexplicable, unforgivable flop. Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst star.

Emma Comedy | 2:00 | PG
Everything Is Illuminated Drama | 1:40 | PG-13 Everything Is Illuminated, Liev Schreiber's self-conscious adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-seller, whimsically conjures the magic-realist imagery of the novel while pruning the book of its narrative undergrowth. What results is a striking piece of topiary shorn of its vital branches.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose 1:54 | PG-13 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose" reveals that 3 a.m. is not just a popular bar closing time but also "demonic witching hour," when the devil's army attacks. Which, I think, makes 2:45 the demonic last call. -- Chris Hewitt
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Comedy | 1:38 | PG John (''The Breakfast Club'') Hughes returns with an ingenious, stylish portrait of a high school senior who's a master at cutting class and conning classmates. The usually annoying Matthew Broderick comes into his own as the title character, a Sammy Glick/Duddy Kravitz scam artist for the button-down '80s. Outrageous and exuberant! (Glenn Lovell, Mercury News.)
Flightplan Suspense/Thriller | 1:33 | PG-13 The line between genius and madness is as slender as a thread, and in Flightplan Jodie Foster treads it like a jittery tightrope walker. As Kyle Pratt, a widow whose daughter goes missing on a transatlantic flight, Foster teeters between tunnel vision and delusion.
Good Night, And Good Luck Drama | 1:30 | PG George Clooney's urgent and stunning movie palpably evokes another time (the Joseph McCarthy era) that has profound parallels with our own. David Strathairn gives a career-making performance as broadcast newsman Edward R. Murrow. As for McCarthy, he plays himself, Clooney using kinescopes and newsreels of the senator rather than hiring an actor.
The Gospel Drama | 1:43 | PG
The Greatest Game Ever Played Drama | 1:55 | PG Forgive it its unwieldy title. Both puttheads and the fairway-averse will be charmed by The Greatest Game Ever Played, an inconsistent and endearing sports inspirational that aims to be Chariots of Fire for golf.
Green Street Hooligans Drama | 1:48 | R Elijah Wood jettisons his hobbit-y ways and becomes a steel-toed, head-bashing thug in Green Street Hooligans, a silly melodrama about friendship and football (the European kind).
A History of Violence Drama, Suspense/Thriller | 1:35 | R Starring Viggo Mortensen as mild-mannered diner owner Tom Stall, and Maria Bello as his loving lawyer wife, Edie, this creepy gem of a thriller is ostensibly less extreme than previous David Cronenberg forays. That said, A History of Violence gets pretty freaky, as all the things we're led to believe about Tom Stall are cast in doubt - and all the things that his wife and children have been led to believe, too.