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<title><![CDATA[ Man of Steel (Opened this week) ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-14/man-of-steel/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This new Superman flies without a lot of emotional baggage, which is mostly a good thing though the character could stand a bit more dramatic heft. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Midnight's Children (Opened this week) ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-14/midnights-children/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Salman Rushdie wrote the screenplay for this film, which is based on his Booker Prize-winning novel about the children who were born at the exact hour of India's independence in 1947. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The East (Opened this week) ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-14/the-east/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This crypto-thriller that explores moral grounds before turning gauzy is the latest film from <i>Sound of My Voice</i>'s Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ This Is the End (Opened this week) ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-14/this-is-the-end/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Be mindful when partying at James Franco's house: You could get stuck there for the apocalypse with Seth Rogen and Co. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ 42  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-04-12/forty-two/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Jackie Robinson's story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ After Earth  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-31/after-earth/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Often gorgeous, sometimes fascinating, this Smith-family outing is ultimately unwieldy and unsurprising. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Before Midnight  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-24/before-midnight/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This third European outing with Celine and Jesse is a grand accomplishment. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2012-08-03/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-dog-days/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This third film in the tween series is funny without being in any way condescending to its target audience. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Epic  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-24/epic/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This imaginative 3-D animated fantasy takes place in a forest world. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Escape From Planet Earth  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-02-15/escape-from-planet-earth/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ In this 3-D animated movie, a famous astronaut from another planet becomes trapped on Earth – aka the Dark Planet. Interplanetary shenanigans ensue. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Evil Dead  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-04-05/evil-dead/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Fans of the original horror trilogy have nothing to fear from this gory new reworking. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Fast & Furious 6  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-24/fast-and-furious-6/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ The curiously addictive fast-cars franchise is still committed to excess. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Flight of the Butterflies  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/flight-of-the-butterflies-3d/</link>

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<title><![CDATA[ Frances Ha  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-31/frances-ha/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ There's a tour de force performance by Greta Gerwig and no small amount of magic in this winning movie by Noah Baumbach about a generation in flux. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ G.I. Joe: Retaliation  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-03-29/g-i-joe-retaliation/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This overflowing action stew is loaded to the brim with half-formed ideas, action stereotypes, and hints of characters. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Iron Man 3  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-03/iron-man-3/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ It's more of the same, but the same is pretty good. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Jurassic Park  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/1993-06-11/jurassic-park/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ It's every species for themselves in this Spielberg dinosaur blockbuster now out in 3-D. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Kon-Tiki  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-31/kon-tiki/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Real-life adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 trip across the Pacific on a raft is re-created in this beautifully lensed film. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Love Is All You Need  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-31/love-is-all-you-need/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Danish Oscar-winner Susanne Bier lightens her tone with this grown-up romantic comedy that stars Pierce Brosnan. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Monsters, Inc.  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2001-11-02/monsters-inc/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Re-released in 3-D. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Mud  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-04-26/mud/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Now You See Me  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-31/now-you-see-me/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This magicians' caper film has a good cast but very little else hidden up its sleeve. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Oblivion  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-04-19/oblivion/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Tom Cruise stars in this science-fiction outing that favors style over substance. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Olympus Has Fallen  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-03-22/olympus-has-fallen/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ It''s <i>Die Hard</i> at the White House as a lone man battles the terrorists who take the building with diabolical force. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Oz the Great and Powerful  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-03-08/oz-the-great-and-powerful/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Neither a besmirching nor a instant classic, this sometimes clunky prequel in which James Franco plays the Wizard when he was a mere, young huckster also has Sam Raimi's ravishing visuals. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Parental Guidance  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2012-12-25/parental-guidance/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ The actors deserve credit for the professionalism they bring to this family comedy stinker. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Rocky Mountain Express  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/rocky-mountain-express/</link>

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<title><![CDATA[ Scary Movie 5  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-04-12/scary-movie-5/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This parodic auto-mash-up of <i>Paranormal Activity</i>, <i>Black Swan</i>, <i>The Evil Dead</i>, and more is even worse than you think. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Star Trek Into Darkness  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-17/star-trek-into-darkness/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ The <i>Star Trek</i> reboot may be overly familiar, but it's still a hell of a lot of fun. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Stories We Tell  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-07/stories-we-tell/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Texas: The Big Picture  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/texas-the-big-picture/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Texas is shown to be a land capable of producing everything from grapefruit to microchips in this IMAX movie. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Big Wedding  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-04-26/the-big-wedding/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Croods  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-03-22/the-croods/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Great Gatsby  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-10/the-great-gatsby/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Hangover: Part III  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-24/the-hangover-part-iii/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ The hard-R comedy trilogy concludes with more mortal peril and questionable taste. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Internship  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-07/the-internship/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Once Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson joined forces to crash weddings; in their new comedy, the duo crashes Google as older-than-average interns. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Kings of Summer  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-07/the-kings-of-summer/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This Sundance favorite is a perfect yet offbeat summer movie about teens who ditch their families and try to live like men in a ground-level treehouse in the woods. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Purge  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-07/the-purge/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey star in this suspenseful horror film that's set in the near future and poses dark possibilities and even darker lighting. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Trash Dance  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-05-03/trash-dance/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani  ]]></title>

<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2013-06-07/yeh-jawaani-hai-deewani/</link>

<description><![CDATA[ This Bollywood film is a coming-of-age romantic comedy about friends viewed over a number of years. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ A Bug's Life (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452041/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Alice (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452078/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Beethoven's 2nd (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452095/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Boxer's Omen (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452186/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Carmen (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452081/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Casper (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1449876/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452100/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ This third film in the tween series is funny without being in any way condescending to its target audience. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Downton Abbey (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1423378/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452102/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Carol Burnett provide just-right voices for these Seussian characters who offer the perfect antidote to the injustices experienced in childhood. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452103/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Carol Burnett provide just-right voices for these Seussian characters who offer the perfect antidote to the injustices experienced in childhood. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452104/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, and Carol Burnett provide just-right voices for these Seussian characters who offer the perfect antidote to the injustices experienced in childhood. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1449863/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Joysticks (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1078278/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/796317/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Sparkling dialogue (by screenwriter Robert Riskin) and the screen chemistry of Cooper and Arthur make this Depression-era comedy a frothy delight. The film earned Capra a second Oscar. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Only God Forgives (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452678/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ Parental Guidance (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452101/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ The actors deserve credit for the professionalism they bring to this family comedy stinker. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Smokey and the Bandit (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452068/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Stuntman Hal Needham makes his debut as a director in this king of the "good ol' boy" movies. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Speed Racer (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/810842/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ The Wachowski brothers' hyperbolic film is supersaturated with outrageously eye-popping visuals, but there's nary an honest emotion in sight. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Muppets Take Manhattan (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1449880/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ The Silence of the Lambs Feast (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1452117/</link> 
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<title><![CDATA[ The Smurfs (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/1453036/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Line up for your innoculations: We've been Smurfed. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ You Can't Take it With You (Special Screening) ]]></title>
<link>http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/special-screenings/796318/</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Based on the antic stage play by George S. Kaufmann and Moss Hart, this Capra film earned Oscars for the film and the director. With her impeccable timing and idiosyncratic delivery, Jean Arthur plays a girl who must introduce her fiancé and his parents to her decidedly eccentric family. ]]></description>
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