Hair-don't: Anna Faris is on fire in What's Your Number? -- even if the material is mostly damp squib. Claire Folger/Fox hide caption
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Thursday
Broomfield, who moved to Palin's hometown of Wasilla, AK, while making the film, was ultimately unable to secure an interview with the former Republican vice-presidential candidate — so he appears with a cardboard stand-up of her in his documentary. Freestyle Releasing hide caption
Dark Skies: Jeff Nichols' haunting Take Shelter centers on an Ohio man (Michael Shannon, with Tova Stewart) plagued with nightmares about a coming apocalypse. Sony Pictures Classics hide caption
Bloody Mess: Chloe (Chelan Simmons) is one of a clueless citified klatch whose general haplessness keeps getting people killed. Magnolia Films hide caption
This photo, taken from a 2003 U.S. Department of Defense surveillance video, was released by Omar Khadr's lawyers. Khadr (pictured) is in an interrogation room at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Les Films Adobe hide caption
Shock And Aw-Shucks: Adam's best friend, Kyle (Seth Rogen), bucks him up with black comedy — and a trip to the bar to troll for babes. Chris Helcermanas-Benge/Summit Entertainment hide caption
Friday
Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's, in the movie Moneyball. Sony Pictures hide caption
An Otis Redding concert inspired a Texas high school teacher to turn the Kashmere High School Stage Band into a soul powerhouse. In Mark Landsman's film, one former student — a keyboardist, not the unidentified trombonist pictured — says he'd be a felon today if the band hadn't given him a constructive focus. Roadside Attractions hide caption
Shade-y Figure? Peter Gatien, charged with drug crimes in the Manhattan club empire but convicted only of tax evasion, is chief witness for the defense in a film seemingly designed to rehabilitate his image. Magnolia Pictures hide caption
Tom Cullen Chris New Peccadillo Pictures hide caption
Thursday
Misfire: Robert DeNiro (left) sleepwalks his way through Killer Elite, also starring Jason Statham. Open Road Films hide caption
Friday
Made For Each Other? In Restless, the cancer-stricken Annabel (Mia Wasikowska) falls for Enoch (Henry Hopper), a death-haunted funeral crasher who's best friends with a ghost. Sony Pictures Classics hide caption
A criminally underused Christina Hendricks (right) plays Kate's best mate. Craig Blankenhorn/The Weinstein Company hide caption
Thursday
Tradition, tradition: Aist and Miron (Yuri Tsurilo, left) bear Miron's late wife Tanya to a distant site sacred to their culture's tradition. Shadow Distribution hide caption
Drawing From Life: Rutger Hauer is the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder in The Mill and the Cross, a stunner of an art film that takes inspiration from art, history and art history. Angelus Silesius hide caption