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I'm Not There

Rated: R (language, drugs, nudity, sexual content)
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw and Charlotte Gainsbourg
Time: 135 minutes
Summary: Six actors play characters who sort of represent different elements of Bob Dylan's mutable persona in this film/intellectual exercise from Todd Haynes. Plenty for Dylanphiles to latch onto, but even more to alienate viewers who wonder what the heck is going on here. It will be loved and loathed.
- CHRIS VOGNAR / The Dallas Morning News

Bella

Rated: PG-13 (thematic elements and brief disturbing images)
Starring: Eduardo Verastegui, Tammy Blanchard and Manny Perez
Time: 91 minutes
Summary: Girl meets boy at work. Girl is pregnant. She’s fired. He walks off the job and spends a day trying to talk her out of an abortion, maybe by sharing his "deep dark secret." Bella is an inversion of some New York movie clichιs, a sweet if incomplete movie about love with the proper stranger in the city that never sleeps.
- ROGER MOORE / The Orlando Sentinel

First Sunday

Rated: PG-13 (language, some sexual humor, and brief drug references)
Starring: Ice Cube, Regina Hall, P.J. Byrne, Katt Williams and Loretta Devine
Time: 96 minutes
Summary: Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan are larcenous, under-employed losers who find themselves in trouble with the law and decide to rob a local church to fix their cash problem. It's stuffed with funny throwaway bits, but the movie’s timeworn path goes flat after about 45 minutes.
- ROGER MOORE / The Orlando Sentinel

The Hottie and the Nottie

Rated: PG-13 (crude and sexual content)
Starring: Paris Hilton, Christine Lakin, Joel David Moore and Johann Urb
Time: 98 minutes
Summary: Paris Hilton stars as a woman who could have any man she wanted, but she refuses to date until her homely best friend from childhood, June (Christine Lakin), finds a boyfriend. The movie, which plays like a poor man's Farrelly brothers comedy, is as lazy and formulaic as they come.
- CHRISTY LEMIRE / Associated Press

Over Her Dead Body

Rated: PG-13 (sexual content and language)
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell and Jason Biggs
Time: 95 minutes
Summary: Wan, sad-eyed romantic comedy stars Eva Longoria Parker as a ghost who tries to keep a psychic from unscrupulously taking up with her fiancι. When writer-director Jeff Lowell runs out of things to recycle from other afterlife romances, he turns to the most generic romantic-comedy clichιs.
- ROGER MOORE / The Orlando Sentinel

P.S. I Love You

Rated: PG-13 (sexual references and brief nudity)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Kathy Bates, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, Harry Connick Jr., Jeffrey Dean Morgan and James Marsters
Time: 126 minutes
Summary: Before a man (Gerard Butler) dies, he writes a series of letters designed to help his wife (Hilary Swank) make it through her mourning period. P.S. I Love You is manipulative, too long and loaded with the bizarre stereotypes of so-called women's movies. Some tears were jerked, however, and there were a handful of nice moments.
- MARY F. POLS / McClatchy Newspapers

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