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Street Kings

Director: David Ayer
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie (Full Cast)
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

The Plot: Tom Ludlow (Reeves) is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

THE BUZZ: Even though this story of serious drama inside the LAPD is a custom fit for David Ayer (Harsh Times), the project went through a series of overhauls before he was brought in to direct. David Fincher, Spike Lee, and Oliver Stone were all ready to make it at one point or the other, but script and financing changes over a two-year period ultimately led to the screenplay being dropped at Ayer's door. At least the project is at Fox Searchlight, who should have no difficulty marketing another intense Forest Whitaker performance -- remember their enduring awards campaign for The Last King of Scotland? Look for Ayer to be completely in his element here, telling a sort of years-later story he so expertly created with Training Day.

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The Visitor [limited]

Director: Thomas McCarthy
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira (Full Cast)
Studio: Overture Films

The Plot: College professor Walter Vale (Jenkins) travels to New York to attend a conference and finds a young couple -- a Syrian guy (Sleiman) and a Senegalese woman (Gurira) -- living in the apartment he keeps there. The surprise leads to unexpected friendships, and a much-needed new lease on life for Vale.

THE BUZZ: Thomas McCarthy's long-awaited follow up to The Station Agent (still awesome five years later) has earned near-rapturous reviews from the festival circuit primarily for two reasons: the writer-director's nuanced feel for creating friendships between equally nuanced characters, and star Richard Jenkins's (you'll know the face) breakout performance in a leading role, after spending most of his career as a character actor. What most critics go on to say is that McCarthy wisely avoided addressing the Arab-in-America theme with a heavy hand, though at times he does come close to getting on that particular soapbox ...

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Smart People

Director: Noam Murro
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church (Full Cast)
Studio: Miramax Films

The Plot: When Dr. Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker) agrees to look after her injured former professor (Quaid), little does she know she will soon have to contend with his clumsy affections, the attitude of his Young Republican daughter (Ellen Page), and the sudden arrival of Lawrence's good-for-nothing adopted brother (Church).

THE BUZZ: Looking to be one of the best-reviewed films at Sundance this year, Smart People should have decent momentum as it builds toward its release this spring. Distributor Miramax is emerging beautifully in the post-Weinstein era, and they look to have a potential breakout hit on their hands; early reviews indicate that Noam Murro (you remember Noam, the commercials director that was supposed to make his debut with The Ring Two but wisely stepped away from that project) has created a dysfunctional family comedy that is both familiar and surprising. And reportedly the movie belongs to Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Page -- but that is not so surprising.

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Prom Night

Director: Nelson McCormick
Stars: Brittany Snow (Full Cast)
Studio: Screen Gems

The Plot: A group of high school students are stalked on their prom night by a vengeful killer who years ago witnessed the same kids cause a young girl's accidental death.

THE BUZZ: Once-hot screenwriter Stephen Susco finally got one of his post-Grudge ideas to stick, but this remake got the green light before the R-rated horror backlash. And if you want to proof of how Grindhouse and Hostel: Part Deux's respective failures have affected upcoming projects, take a look at this ... So if we're to expect less violence and more stalking from this PG-13 affair, I guess we can stop imagining, contrary to what the trailer might have us believe, this one doesn't exactly play out like the cast of High School Musical picked off one by one by a scorned Wildcat.

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Young@Heart [limited]

Director: Stephen Walker
Stars: (Full Cast)
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The Plot: A documentary on the Young at Heart Chorus, a group of senior citizens who perform contemporary and classic rock and pop songs.

THE BUZZ: Remember a while back when it seemed like a high-profile documentary came out every other week or so? By retooling his earlier effort, director Stephen Walker has helped breathe life back into the genre, and I believe that his film-festival hit will translate with the public, who in turn will keep Y@H rocking seriously diverse crowds over the next couple of months. But we really wish all the chorus members were available as "Guitar Hero" characters.

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Chaos Theory [limited]

Director: Marcos Siega
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer, Stuart Townsend (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Plot: Frank Allen (Reynolds) is a noted author on the art of living efficiently, but when his wife (Mortimer) covertly adds an extra ten minutes to his day, Frank's schedule -- which he adheres to via series of timetables and index cards -- is thrown into chaos. Can a meticulously arranged guy learn to live in the moment?

THE BUZZ: The hard thing to accept here is the idea of Ryan Reynolds being tightly wound, but I'm in for the ride if only because of RR's likability and natural comic sensibilities. Plus, any one-time indie project that gets called up to the majors (this used to be a Warner Independent title) is worth a look, especially one that co-stars Ms. Mortimer, who herself is leaving the indie world behind it seems. Funny to remember that Pretty Persuasion director Marcos Siega's last film was Underclassman -- how did that happen, anyway? We're amazed he hasn't tried to remove that from his IMDb page.

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Bra Boys [limited]

Director: Sunny Abberton Macario De Souza
Stars: (Full Cast)
Studio: Berkela Films

The Plot: A documentary about the cultural evolution of the Sydney beach-side suburb of Maroubra and the social struggle faced by a surf gang known as the Bra Boys.

THE BUZZ: Russell Crowe narrates Sunny Abberton's first-ever documentary, and you might be interested to know that Crowe has signed on to direct the feature-adaptation of this rabble-rousing crew who take after their fellow countryman. What's more compelling, however, is the fact that Abberton is a Bra Boy himself, resulting in a project that Slant Magazine called "a carefully manicured PR video" in a recent review. We tend to go agree with Slant's angles.

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