If I said, "Who you gonna call?" you could end this movie recommendation right here with the obvious answer: "Ghostbusters." Searching for a Halloween- themed movie I can show my 7-year-old son (he's not ready for "Danny isn't here, Mrs. Torrance") the call-and-response from the 1984 classic "Ghostbusters" solved my problem for me.  

It takes less than five minutes for "Martha Marcy May Marlene" to go from lulling to deeply unnerving, its mood seamlessly shifting from bucolic observance to low-grade but steady dread.  

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Jason Bateman is a lawyer, married with three kids, who pines for the freedom enjoyed by his best friend, Ryan Reynolds. After drinking too much one night, the men find themselves wishing that they could have the other's life.  

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The latest from the genuis factory Pixar doesn't exactly sputter. Nor does this spy-flick primer for the car-seat crowd vroom story-wise.  

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Captain America was born out of a "super soldier" experiment during WWII. They have to back-engineer a way into the meeting between the Captain (Chris Evans) and the Avenger leader we know as Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). And they have to give us a credible version of future Iron Man Tony Stark's inventor dad, Howard Stark.  

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Somewhere in New York City, Vera Farmiga is lounging in a hotel bed in "a 'foofey' comforter," she says on the phone. The Oscar-nominated actress who gave George Clooney's character the romantic what-for in the dramedy "Up in the Air" is calling from Manhattan, where she's fielding questions about her latest movie, "Higher Ground."  

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Ameena Matthews shows no fear of entering the fray. And in the doggedly observant and intimate documentary "The Interrupters," the headscarf-clad Muslim woman and former gang enforcer does it  

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When the filmmakers behind "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" settled on virtual simians rather than people in monkey suits for their lower primates, their first casting task became obvious: Get Andy.