Another Year (3 stars) — Four seasons among a longtime happily married couple, their family and friends, including an unhappy woman played by Lesley Manville, in an acclaimed performance, in the latest true-to-life drama from writer-director Mike Leigh. PALIS, UPST
Black Swan (3.5 stars) — Writer-director Darren Aronofsky explores dark psychological territory in the tale of a ballerina (Natalie Portman). R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language, some drug use. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, PALIS, PALTZ, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW
Blue Valentine (3.5 stars) — A modern couple's relationship is shown through vignettes that cross time periods. R for strong graphic sexual content, language, and a beating. PALIS.
DOWN: Downing Film Center, Newburgh - 561-3686.
FOAK: Fair Oaks Drive-in - 361-5774. Closed for the season.
HYDE: Hyde Park Drive-in - 229-4738. Closed for the season.
IMAX: Palisades Center, West Nyack - 358-IMAX (4629).
OVER: Overlook Drive-in, Poughkeepsie - 452-3445. Closed for the season.
PGAL: Regal Galleria Mall Stadium 16, Poughkeepsie - 297-0785.
ROSV: Roosevelt Cinemas, Hyde Park - 229-2000.
SHIL: Silver Cinemas South Hills 8, Poughkeepsie - 297-5512.
TINK: Upstate Films at Tinker Street, Woodstock - 679-6608.
WARW: Warwick Drive-in - 986-4440. Closed for the season
The Company Men (2 stars) — Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner star for writer-director John Wells as business executives caught up in the downturn in the economy. R for language, brief nudity. AMCG, PALIS
Country Strong (2 stars) — An ascending songwriter (Garrett Hedlund) teams with a fading country singer (Gwyneth Paltrow) for success that complicates her relationship with her manager-husband (Tim McGraw). PG-13 for thematic elements involving alcohol abuse and some sexual content. AMCG, PALIS, PGAL
The Dilemma (2 stars) — Ron Howard directs Vince Vaughn in a comedy as a man who suspects that the wife (Winona Ryder) of his business partner/best friend (Kevin James) is having an affair. PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving sexual content. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, PALIS, PGAL, SHOW
The Fighter (3 stars) — Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams, and Golden Globe winners Christian Bale and Melissa Leo star in the real-life comedy-drama of a blue-collar Massachusetts man with professional boxing aspirations. R for language throughout, drug content, some violence and sexuality. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, ORPH, PALIS, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould — Unseen footage, private home recordings and diaries, and interviews with the pianist's most intimate friends and lovers explore the incongruities between Gould's private reality and his wider image in a documentary by Michele Hozer and Peter Raymont. Unrated. TINK (2 p.m. Jan. 29), UPST (6 p.m. Jan. 30)
The Green Hornet (1.5 stars) — Seth Rogen co-wrote the screenplay adaptation and stars for director Michel Gondry as the masked crime fighter assisted by his late dad's assistant, Kato (Jay Chou). PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content. AMCG (plus 3-D), DEST (plus 3-D), HUDV (3-D), LYCE (3-D), ORPH, PALIS (plus 3-D), PALTZ (3-D), PGAL (3-D), ROSV (3-D), SHOW (3-D)
Gulliver's Travels (1.5 stars) — Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black), on assignment in Bermuda, ends up in Lilliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens. PG for brief rude humor, mild language and action. AMCG (3-D)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (3 stars) — With Voldemort's power growing ever stronger, Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence, frightening images and brief sensuality. AMCG, DEST, PALIS
Inside Job — Charles Ferguson shows how the global economic meltdown of 2008 was not some unfortunate accident. PG-13 for some drug and sex-related material. DEST, PALIS
The King's Speech (3.5 stars) — With an important radio speech looming, England's King George VI (Colin Firth), who has a debilitating stutter, is helped by a speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush). AMCG, CALL, DEST, DOWN, HUDV, LYCE, MIDD, ORPH. PALIS, PALTZ, PGAL, ROSV
Little Fockers (1.5 stars) — Renewed suspicions in the mind of the tighly wound Jack Byrne (Robert De Niro) about his son-in-law (Ben Stiller) cause problems during a family gathering. PG-13 for mature sexual humor throughout, language and some drug content. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, PALIS, SHOW
Marwencol — Shot over the course of four years, Jeff Malmberg's documentary intertwines the dual realities of Mark Hogancamp to tell the whole story of Marwencol, a 1/6th-scale World War II-era town that Hogancamp created as therapy for himself after he was attacked in an Ulster County bar and revived by medics. DOWN
The Mechanic (1.5 stars) — Jason Statham plays an elite assassin who takes on an apprentice (Ben Foster). R for strong brutal violence throughout, language, some sexual content and nudity. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, MIDD, PALIS, PGAL, SHOW
No Strings Attached (2 stars) — Ivan Reitman directs a comedy in which friends (Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher) with benefits find that they might want a more meaningful relationship. R for sexual content, language and some drug material. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, PALIS, P, PALIS, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW
127 Hours (3.5 stars) — Trapped under a boulder while canyoneering, a lone mountain climber (James Franco) resorts to desperate measures in order to survive. AMCG, PALIS, PGAL
Plastic Planet — Werner Boote documents that plastics have emerged as a global threat. Unrated. TSL (Jan. 28-30)
Red (2 stars) — When his life is threatened by an assassin, former agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reassembles his former team in a last-ditch effort to survive. PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language. SHIL
The Rite (1.5 stars) — An American priest travels to Rome to attend an exorcism school. Anthony Hopkins stars. PG-13 for disturbing thematic material, violence, frightening images, and language including sexual references. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, MIDD, PALIS, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW
Saint Misbehavin' — Documentary about Wavy Gravy, whose commitment to social change and the end of human suffering is a message he delivers through humor, compassion and a song, "Basic Human Needs," that he sings wherever he goes. TSL (Jan. 28-30)
Season of the Witch (1 star) — Nicolas Cage stars in a medieval drama about knights who transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague. PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content. AMCG, PALIS
Secretariat (2.5 stars) — From a horse farm owned by the strong-willed Diane Chenery Tweedy (Diane Lane) emerges Secretariat, a 1973 Triple Crown winner. PG for brief mild language. SHIL
The Social Network (4 stars) — Success leads to personal and legal complications for Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. PG-13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language. PALIS, ROSN, SHIL
Somewhere (3 stars) — Writer-director Sofia Coppola spotlights a hard-partying movie actor (Stephen Dorff) who unexpectedly is asked to care for his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). R for sexual content, nudity and language. PALIS
Tamara Drewe — A formerly plain young woman returns to her English countryside childhood home a surgically enhanced beauty to cause a commotion among the locals. R for language, some sexuality. ROSN (Jan. 28-31)
Tangled (2.5 stars) — Mandy Moore provides the voice of Rapunzel in Disney's updated animated take on the fairy tale. PG for brief mild violence. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, PALIS, PGAL (3-D), SHOW
A Touch of Greatness — Using poetry, drama and imaginative play, fifth-grade teacher Cullum championed an unorthodox educational philosophy that spoke directly to his students' needs. Unrated. TSL (3:30 p.m. Jan. 29)
Tron: Legacy (2.5 stars) — Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, finds himself pulled into the same virtual world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father (Jeff Bridges) has been living for 20 years. PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence and brief mild language. AMCG (3-D), HUDV (3-D), IMAX, PALIS (3-D), PGAL (3-D)
True Grit (3 stars) — Remaking a 1969 film starring John Wayne, Ethan and Joel Coen return to the Western novel by Charles Portis for renewed inspiration in the tale of a determined young woman (Hailee Steinfeld) who hires a U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) to track down her father's murderer. PG-13 for some intense sequences of Western violence including disturbing images. AMCG, DEST, HUDV, LYCE, PALIS, PALTZ, PGAL, ROSV, SHOW
Unstoppable (3 stars) — An unstaffed, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas will wipe out a city unless officials from a rail company can stop it. PG-13 for sequences of action and peril, and some language. SHIL
The Way Back (2 stars) — Peter Weir directs Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Jim Sturgess in the tale of Siberian gulag escapees who walk 4,000 miles overland to freedom in India. PG-13 for violent content, depiction of physical hardships, a nude image and brief strong language. AMCG, PALIS, PGAL
Yogi Bear (2 stars) — Dan Aykroyd does the title voice, and Justin Timberlake voices sidekick Boo Boo, as they try to save Jellystone Park from closing. AMCG (3-D), DEST, HUDV (3-D), PALIS (3-D), PGAL (3-D), SHOW
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