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I just sent an email to friends about going to see The Gospel this weekend. Wallace & Gromit and Thumbsucker and Junebug are also on my list, but I might wait until DVD for Thumbsucker & Junebug.

Junebug is a little controversial in my office (in NC). Most folks I know who have seen it here were disappointed. They thought it was too pretentious.

For the first time in a loooong time, there are more than one good movie that I'm excited to leave my house for. Wallace & Gromit is a must see, and In Her Shoes is a date movie I'm actually looking forward to taking my girlfriend to.

Nudel, Junebug is pretentious at points -- there are these pointless "atmosphere" shots where the camera lingers on like, grass, or empty rooms -- but the characters and writing are generally pretty engaging. The Amy Adams performance alone makes it worth seeing, and there's other good stuff in it. The pretension (and a major confusion about what to do with someone who seems like one of the main characters at first, but disappears for long stretches) keep it from being great, but it's still good.

I'm personally ditching the new wide releases this weekend -- I expect W&G and In Her Shoes to play for a long time, and I may see Two for the Money during a weekday discount, because even cheesy Pacino can be a lot of fun -- and concentrating on a couple of limited releases: Clooney's Good Night and Good Luck, and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale (Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming -- not the soccer comedy that Dave despises! -- is one of my ten favorite movies ever). I'm trying also to fit in Thumbsucker before it ends its run, and may sneak into Roll Bounce and/or Into the Blue if the timing is right (GN+GL and Thumbsucker are playing at separate large multiplexes).

I love animation but I was "eh" about Chicken Run so I'm not as excited about Wallace & Gromit as I probably should be.

Hey, I gotta go with Jeff Wells on In Her Shoes. It's a first-rate movie of its kind.

Wallace and Gromit was great. I'm actually seeing it again on Saturday (paying for it, no less!)...and I actually enjoyed In Her Shoes..not perfect, but some wonderful performances and a good story.

Both IN HER SHOES and THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT are well worth your time, whether you a girl or a guy in the first case and whether you're a kid or an adult in the second. Don't let marketingdeprive you of great entertainment, you don't have to go see SERENITY just because that's what's expected of you as a young man!

Definitely going for Wallace and Gromit, been waiting on this movie for years.

This weekend Canada gets Where the Truth Lies, so yes...I'd say it's worth going to the movies.

I'd say In Her Shoes is more than worth leaving home to go see. It's been a damn long time since there's been a wide-release film that's blended such broadly appealing comedy with truly effective drama. It's a great flick, not quite to the Billy Wilder level, but it's damn close, comparable to flicks like When Harry Met Sally.

GN&GL is a very nice piece of journalism, Edward R Murrow would be proud, but the film resolutely refuses to dramatize the events, so you're never hooked in by the gut, and there's no movie-ending neat wrap-up to rally the audience or tell them what to think. It's a very presentational film--clear and concise.

I've hopes for Wallace and Gromit but haven't gotten a chance to catch a screening of it yet, so that is my highest priority of the new releases

I too may give IN HER SHOES a shot...it looks like a movie I could see with my wife where she won't be covering her eyes and I won't be rolling mine.

Anyone notice the new trailer fro PROOF? They're making it look like some sweet family movie (which it may be...I haven't seen it or read reviews because I may still see it) and that reminded me of that new faux-trailer for THE SHINING.

I also like the ad for WAITING where they say "from 'a' producer of AMERICAN PIE." OOOOOoh...."A" producer!

I'm sure Wallace And Gromit is worth it, judging by the reviews. I'm seriously considering trekking to the Grove to see Good Night and Good Luck (as opposed to waiting a week and seeing it at the much cheaper and more convenient Burbank AMC 16).

I can however heartily reccommend Thumbsucker. I saw it back in June and loved it. It's better than Garden State, better then Napolean Dynamite, and (since I saw it Tuesday) better than Elizabethtown (verdict... loathed the first half, was moved by the second half even though objectively it wasn't that great). Anyway, as far as the 'young male coming of age genre', Thumbsucker (which plays its relative quirkiness for drama as opposed to cheap laughs) is my second favorite, behind Rushmore.

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"Wallace and Gromit" is definitely tops for me. Like Pete, I've been waiting for it for a long time. I'm also interested in "Good Night." But this weekend it looks like I'll need an Ark if I want to get around, so I'll wait until the rains let up and catch 'em mid-week.

I think Thumbsucker looks good. As long as it's better than the dreadful Chumscrubber, I'll be happy. I'll see Two for the Money because Pacino is my hero. Waiting looks awful. I enjoyed In Her Shoes a lot more than I expected to. I know it's next weekend, but I saw Domino last night and it is terrible.

If I have to see that commercial where the cook puts his dandruff onto a steak one more time.... I'll just be more mad.

"Separate Lies" -- I'm seeing it in South Jersey because it's raining too hard in NYC.

Sony Pictures Classics is the new Miramax -- it screwed "Thumbsucker" and "Junebug" around. The AMC Hamilton didn't get "Thumbsucker" until yesterday; most likely it'll be a 1-week programmer.

"Junebug" didn't get to North Carolina until now? I saw it in the NYC suburbs over Labor Day -- SPC should have made that picture a mainstream release in the Tar Heel State at the same time. (Fox Searchlight handled "Garden State" as a mainstream movie in New Jersey.)

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