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07/30
Entertainment Weekly says the latest flick from scare-master M. Night Shyamalan "offers genuine surprises and a few haunting images, thanks primarily to his exquisitely precise sense of pace, mood, and framing."

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Opening: July 2


07/02

Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' found Jesse (Ethan Hawke) falling in love with Celine (Julie Delpy), a passenger on a European train. Now nine years later, Jesse is an author, back in Europe for a book reading. He reunites with Celine, and they stroll through Paris, wondering what might have been.
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Opening: July 7 - 9

07/07
EW Grade: B-

Clive Owen ('Croupier') plays the title role with Keira Knightley as Guinevere in this retelling of the classic legend. Director Antoine Fuqua ('Training Day') strives for historical accuracy -- the film is set in the early fifth century, amidst the ruins of the fallen Roman empire and feuding warlords -- all of whom eventually swear fealty to King Arthur.
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07/09
EW Grade: C+

It's the 1970s, and TV anchorman Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is a local star, a hit with the ladies, and a total airhead. An ambitious reporter (Christina Applegate), who begins to do some actual journalism, seriously threatens Burgundy and even makes him doubt his abilities.
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07/09

In the summer before their freshman year of high school, four friends have a slumber party at Julie's (Alex Vega) house - which turns into quite an adventure. To prove they can be cool, the friends undertake an all-night scavenger hunt against the "popular girls," which leads to sneaking into clubs, hijacking dad's car, and even experience first kisses. But can they keep Julie's mom from finding out?
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07/09

For more than two years, the directors of this music documentary followed the members of the legendary heavy metal group Metallica, capturing one band member's departure, chronicling other's entry into rehab and filming the group's stab a group psychotherapy, all while they struggle to produce their album 'St. Anger.'
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Opening: July 16
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07/16
EW Grade: B-

Inspired by the short stories of Isaac Asimov, a detective (Will Smith) and a psychologist (Bridget Moynahan) investigate the death of a brilliant robotics scientist, convinced that one of the scientist's creations--a lifelike robot names Sonny--may be the murderer. From the director of 'The Crow' and 'Dark City.'
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07/16
EW Grade: C-

Nerdy Sam Martin (Hilary Duff) plays the Cinderella role here, with her misplaced cell phone standing in for the glass slipper. After a mysterious stranger finds the phone, he promises, through notes and e-mails, to meet her at the big Halloween school dance. But before all that, Martin must deal with snobby cheerleaders, mean stepsisters, and her own fragile ego.
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07/16

A young Colombian woman, desperate to leave her job as a rose trimmer, agrees to become a drug "mule," transporting packets of heroin that she has swallowed -- and that will certainly kill if her they rupture, or land her in prison if detected.
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Opening: July 23
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07/23

'The Bourne Supremacy' re-enters the shadowy world of expert assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), who continues to find himself plagued by splintered nightmares from his former life. The stakes are now even higher for the agent as he coolly maneuvers through the dangerous waters of international espionage.
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07/23
EW Grade: B-

Inspired by the Batman comic book character, Halle Berry stars as Patience Prince, a woman who pays a heavy price after discovering a nefarious criminal scheme. A mysterious force gives Prince a new identity: Catwoman, a dark hero with a burning desire for vengeance. Benjamin Bratt plays a cop fascinated by both of Prince's identities.
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07/23
EW Grade: C+

Two childhood friends from Cleveland reunite in 1980s New York City. Bobby (Colin Farrell) is a dark, heterosexual hipster, while gay Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) is planning on having a baby with roommate Clare (Robin Wright Penn). But things grow tense when Bobby and Clare start to fall in love.
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Opening: July 30
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07/30
EW Grade: B-

In M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller, Covington is a 19th-century Pennsylvania village that has a "gentle understanding" with the mystical creatures of the surrounding woods: no villager steps into the forest, and the creatures stay outside the village. But even as a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) questions the wisdom of this policy, there are signs the truce is coming to an end.
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07/30
EW Grade: B-

Director Jonathan Demme remakes the 1962 thriller in which two soldiers returning from war (then in Korea; in this version, from Iraq) have been brainwashed to kill the president. Capt. Marco (Denzel Washington), reprising Frank Sinatra's performance, wakes up to the plot and tries to stop his Army buddy, now entrenched in politics. Meryl Streep reprises Angela Lansbury's Oscar-nominated 1962 role.
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07/30
EW Grade: C+

Based on the 1960s TV series, the film follows Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), an ex-astronaut, who forms the Thunderbirds, an international rescue team, with his five sons. But after Aristotle Spode (Ben Kingsley) tries to hijack their high-tech rescue vehicles, all hope falls on 12-year-old Thunderbird Alan and his young friends for a rescue.
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07/30
EW Grade: B+

Two twentysomething roommates, Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn), set out on a Friday night to get stoned and eat White Castle hamburgers, and end up on a mind-altering road trip that includes amusing romps with the police, muggers and a cheetah.
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07/30

Following his mother's death, Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff, of TV's "Scrubs"), a Los Angeles waiter/actor, returns to New Jersey for her funeral. There, he confronts his estranged family and visits old friends -- and discovers a tentative love affair blooming between himself and one them (Natalie Portman).
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