Movie Reviews
All ratings are out of a total of five stars  .
Here are reviews of movies currently playing (see Showtimes) in Ottawa (from Kanata to Orleans) and Gatineau
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Lions for Lambs
Two former students (Derek Luke, Michael Pena) decide to join the fight in Afghanistan asArmy rangers, begins to involve a rising congressman (Tom Cruise), a journalist (Meryl Streep) and thier idealistic former professor (Robert Redford).
No Country for Old Men
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter (Tommy Lee Jones) stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.
Fred Claus
Fred Claus (Vince Vuaghn), Santa's (Paul Giamatti) bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole, causing mayhem among the elves and their toy production.
Into the Wild
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless *Emile Hirsch) gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
P2
A businesswoman (Rachel Nichols) is pursued by a psychopath after being locked in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.
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1408
A best-selling author(John Cusack), who specializes in debunking paranormal events, encounters genuine terror while staying in the Dolphin Hotel's legendary room 1408 (also starring Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack).
3:10 to Yuma
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw until his train to go to court in Yuma, and the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher to gain freedom.
30 Days of Night
A pack of vampires descend upon Barrow, Alaska just as the sun is about to set for 30 days in mid-winter. Two cops, a husband and wife team (Josh Hartnett, Melissa George), rise up to protect their town and its citizens.
Across the Universe
Set to Beatles music, a 1960s British dock worker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels to America in the 1960s searching for his estranged father and falls in love with an American teenager Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), who's brother Max (Joe Anderson) is drafted to fight in Vietnam, and they participate in peace marches.
American Gangster
A 1970s Harlem gangster (Denzel Washington) profitably imports heroin inside the coffins of dead Vietnam soldiers, but is caught by a detective (Russell Crowe) and turns informant, and the two go after law enforcement agents and foreign nationals who were part of his syndicate.
Balls of Fury
Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom (Dan Fogler) is sucked into a maelstrom when an FBI Agent (George Lopez) recruits him for a secret mission to play and smoke out his father's killer, an arch-fiend (Christopher Walken).
Bee Movie
[Animated] A bee (Jerry Seinfeld) who has just graduated from college, is rebelling against a career of making honey. Outside the hive, me meets a New York City florist (Rene Zellweger), and when he discovers people actually eat honey he files a lawsuit against humankind.
Becoming Jane
A look at pre-fame Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) and her romance with a young Irishman (James McAvoy).
Bratz: The Movie
During their first year of high school, four best girlfriends (Janel Parrish, Nathalia Ramos, Skyler Shaye, Logan Browning) face off against the domineering student body president who wants to split them up into different social cliques.
Control
A profile of Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
Daddy Day Camp
Charlie Hinton (Cuba Gooding Jr.) tries adding to his day care business by opening up a summer kids camp, taking over rather run-down facilities.
Dan in Real Life
Dan, a widower (Steve Carell) who dedicates his life to his children, and meets a woman (Juliet Binoche) at a bookstore and as they get to know each other, he finds out that she is already dating his brother (Dane Cook).
Death at a Funeral
Two brothers (Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves) look to stop a blackmailer from exposing a dark secret of dysfuntional British family's deceased patriarch, as their family gathers for his funeral.
Death Sentence
After an executive's son is brutalized by a gang, the father (Kevin Bacon) sets out on a mission to kill each thug involved with the crime.
Disturbia
A suburban teen (Shia LaBeouf)) living under house arrest, but his mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) works nights and is not providing supervision, and he becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.
Eastern Promises
A mysterious and ruthless London organized crime boss (Viggo Mortensen) crosses paths with a midwife (Naomi Watts) trying to right a wrong, but stumbles into potential evidence against the family, causing Nikolai to embark on murder, deceit, and retribution.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
England's First Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) struggles to maintain reign England in the face of domestic conspiracies, invasion threats by the Spanish Armada, and a budding relationship with explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen).
Evan Almighty
God (Morgan Freeman) tasks Congressman Evan Baxter (Steve Carrell) with building an ark in anticipation of a great flood, while dealing wtih his collegues and his family (Lauren Graham).
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Fantastic Four (Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis) face both the threat of the enigmatic Silver Surfer (Doug Jones), who has come to Earth to cause plenty of destruction, and the shocking return of their main nemesis Dr Doom (Julian McMahon).
Feel the Noise
A young South Bronx man (Omarion Grandberry) is trying to make it as a rapper, until local thugs force him to hide out in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew (Giancarlo Esposito).
Good Luck Chuck
Charlie Logan (Dane Cook) has a childhood curse that single women sleep with him and the very next man they meet will be their true love, but must break the curse to keep his true love (Jessica Alba) from falling for another guy.
Gone Baby Gone
A pair of private detectives (Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan) track down a missing four-year-old girl in one of Boston's toughest neighborhoods.
Hairspray
A pleasantly plump teenager (Nikki Blonsky) teaches a 1962 Baltimore about integration & acceptance after getting a spot on a local TV dance show (also with John Travolta, Michelle Pfieffer, Christopher Walken)
Halloween
A nental patient (Tyler Mane) committed as a 10 year old is released after 17 years and return to his Illinois home town endangering his sister, Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton) and everyone else crossing his path.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Though warned about Lord Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) return, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and friends are targeted by the Wizard authorities, as an authoritarian bureaucrat tries to seize control of Hogwarts.
Hostel II
Three American college students (Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips) studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.
Hot Rod
An accident-prone daredevil (Andy Samberg) plans to jump the Snake River on a moped, with the help of his budy (Jorma Taccone), in order to win over his emotionally distant stepfather (Ian McShane).
I Know Who Killed Me
A young woman (Lindsay Lohan) is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer, and manages to escape and ends up in a hospital.
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters (Adam Sandler, Kevin James) pretend to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic partner benefits
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Lars and the Real Girl
A delusional young guy (Brian Gosling) has an unconventional relationship with a realistic love doll, bought over the Internet.
La Vie en Rose (La Mome)
The story of French songstress Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) with English subtitles
License to Wed
An engaged couple (Mandy Moore and John Krasinski) is put through a grueling church-run marriage preparation course by a reverend (Robin Williams).
Live Free or Die Hard
John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization who, with the aid of a young hacker, is systematically shutting down the United States' entire computer and technological infrastructure
Lust, Caution
In Japanese-occupied WWII Shanghai, a young woman (Tang Wei)is involved in an emotional game of intrigue with a powerful politician (Tony Leung), who signs and supervises execution orders.
Martian Child
Two years after his wife's death, a writer (John Cusack) is rebuilding his life and adopts a troubled young boy (Bobby Coleman) who believes he's a Martian, with the help of his naysayer sister (John Cusack) and friend (Amdanda Peer).
Michael Clayton
A top New York law firm's "fixer" (George Clooney) risks his career to champion an already sabotaged class action lawsuit that pits him against a rival litigator (Tilda Swinton).
Mr. Bean's Holiday
A curious, bumbling Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) goes to the south of France on vacation, where his video diary has its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Mr Woodcock
When his mother (Susan Sarandon) announces she plans to marry his hellish high school gym teacher (Billy Bob Thornton), a young man (Sean William Scott) returns home to stop the wedding.
Nancy Drew
Teen detective Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts) tags along with her father on a business trip to L.A. where she happens upon clues to a murder mystery involving a movie star.
No Reservations
The life of a top chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) changes when she becomes the guardian of her young niece Abigail Breslin).
Ocean's Thirteen
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) rounds up the boys for a third heist, after a casino owner (Al Pacino) double-crosses one of the original eleven (Elliott Gould).
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
After rescuing Cptain Jack Sparrow (Johhny Depp) from the Kraken, Captain Barbossa (Geofrey Rush), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly) must sail off the edge of the map to ally with Sao Pen (Chow-Yun Fat) for one last decisive pirate battle against the East India Trading Company.
Ratatouille
Animated story of a young rat (voice: Patton Oswalt) living in the walls of a famous Paris bistro who wishes to become a chef, held back by his family's skepticism and the rat-despising staff and patrons (Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn, Peter O'Toole, Brad Garrett ).
Rescue Dawn
A US Fighter pilot's (CHristian Bale) epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Reservation Road
A father (Joachin Phoenix) falls apart after witnessing his son's death in a hit-and-run accident, while another man (Mark Ruffalo) struggles with accepting his responsibility for it.
Rendition
A CIA analyst questions (Douglas Freeman) his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation of an Egytian terrorism suspect (Omar Metwally) who has an American wife (Reese Witherspoon) at a secret detention facility outside the US.
Resident Evil: Extinction
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe (including Milla Jovovich) travel in caravan across Nevada through a destroyed Las Vegas, and fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Resurrecting the Champ
Searching for his big story, a young newspaper reporter (Josh Hartnett) meets a homeless man (Samuel L Jackson), whom he thinks is a long forgotten former champion boxer, whom some fans even thought dead years ago.
Rise: Blood Hunter
A reporter(Lucy Liu) wakes up in a morgue and discovers she's now one of the undead, and begins to hunt down the people responsible for her death and rebirth.
Rush Hour 3
Visiting Paris, fast-talking San Fransisco detective (Chris Tucker)and his favourite Hong Kong detective (Jackie Chan), end up facing-off against Chinese Triad gangsters.
Saw IV
Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's (Dina Meyer) murder, two seasoned FBI profilers (Scott Patterson, Athena Karkanis) seek the killer.
September Dawn
A wagon train of settlers (led by Shaun Johnston) en route to California encounter a renegade Mormon sect in southern Utah (led by Jon Voight), with a brief romance leading to a massacre of 120 people which is covered up by prominent religious leaders.
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
The story of Canadian Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire (as himself), and his controversial command of the United Nations mission to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
Shoot 'Em Up
A man named Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
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Shrek the Third
After his new father-in-law, King Harold (John Cleese) falls ill, Shrek the ogre (Myers) is looked at as the royal heir, but Shrek recruits his friends Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss (Antonio Banderas) to install the rebellious Artie (Justin Timberlake) as the new king. Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and her royal girlfriends fend off a coup d'etat by Prince Charming (Rupert Everett).
Sicko
A Michael Moore exposé on the inner workings of America's health-care system, and the politics therof.
Silk
A married (Keira Knightly) 19th century French silkworm merchant (Michael Pitt) travels to Japan to smuggle back a supply of silkworms (after a disease wipes out his town's African supply) and becomes obsessed with the concubine of a local baron.
Sleuth
An aging writer (Michael Caine) has a sprawling country estate on which he matches wits with the struggling young actor (Jude Law) who has stolen his wife's (Eve Channing) heart
Superbad
On one of their last nights as high schoolers, two best friends and nerdy social outcasts (Michael Cera, Jonah Hill) have a legendary evening, trying to buy booze for a party full of the coolest kids.
Sydney White
A modern version of Snow White (Amanda Bynes) amongst freshman college students in the greek system.
Talk to Me
The story of and ex-con Washington D.C. radio personality (Don Cheadle), who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.
The 11th Hour
Leonardo DiCaprio looks at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) joins legendary outlaw Jesse James's (Brad Pitt) gang (also: Mary-Louise Parker, Dustin Bollinger, Sam Shepard) only to become resentful and hatches a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West.
The Brave One
A woman (Jodie Foster) struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
The Brothers Solomon
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers (Saturday Night Live's Will Arnett & Will Forte) try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
The Comebacks
A college football coach (David Koechner) with the worst record in the history of football vows to turn things around with his new team of ragtag recruits.
The Darjeeling Limited
Three American brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman )who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India in a Beatles-style spritual quest, but it rapdley goes downhill.
The Feast of Love
Friends in an Oregon community (Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke, Selma Blair, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Jane Alexander) explore the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
The Game Plan
An NFL quarterback (The Rock) living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 7-year-old daughter (Madison Pettis) from a previous relationship, while working with a hard-edged mega-agent (Kyra Sedgewick).
The Heartbreak Kid
A newlywed (Ben Stiller) regrets marrying his wife and ends up meeting the girl of his dreams (Michelle Monaghan) while on his honeymoon, but finds she has a surprising side.
The Jane Austen Book Club
Six Californians (Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Maggie Grace, Jimmy Smits) start a club to discuss the books of Jane Austen, only to realize their relationships are 21st century versions of her novels.
The Kingdom
An FBI agent (Jamie Foxx) and his team are dispatched to a Middle Eastern kingdom to to track a bomber who killed American workers in Riyadh.
The Invasion
A Washington psychiatrist (Nicole Kidman) discovers the origin of an alien epidemic, to realize her son might be the only way it can be stopped.
The Nanny Diaries
A college student (Scarlett Johansson) works as a nanny for a rich New York family, wher she juggles their dysfunction, her studies, a new romance, and the spoiled brat she nannies.
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
The life of young Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors (also Ian McShane, Christopher Eccleston ) who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.
The Simpsons Movie
In the movie version of the animated TV show, Homer's toxic slip-up causes the city to be evacuated.
Things We Lost in the Fire
New widow (Halle Berry) invites her husband's troubled best friend (Benicio Del Toro) to live with her and her two children, and he helps the family cope with their loss.
Underdog
A lab accident gives a humble dog (voiced by Jason Lee) superhero abilities, and he takes on a mad scientist (Peter Dinklage) to protect his love, Polly Purebred, and the other residents of Capitol City.
We Own the Night
The owner of a popular nightclub (Joachim Phoenix) and his police officer brother (Mark Wahlberg) unite after a near-fatal incident to confront the mobsters who run Bobby's club.
Why Did I Get Married?
An adulterous incident during four couples's (including Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, and Jill Scott) annual week-long vacation in the Colorado mountains, causes them to take a hard look at their respective marriages.
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