New Movies This Friday, Nov 1st; 'Ender's Game'

If you're wondering what new movies are coming out this Friday, here's a quick and dirty list.

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Ender's Game
Rated PG-13, 114 min

The International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is recruited and trained to lead his fellow soldiers into a battle that will determine the future of Earth.

Director: Gavin Hood
Stars:    Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin

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Last Vegas

Rated PG-13, 105 min   -   Comedy

Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Stars:    Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline

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Free Birds

Rated PG; 91 min   -   Animation | Comedy

Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.

Director: Jimmy Hayward
Stars:    Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Dan Fogler, Amy Poehler

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About Time [Limited]

Rated R; 123 min   -   Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi

At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.

Director: Richard Curtis
Stars:    Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson

This has 64% rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

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Dallas Buyers Club [Limited]

Rated R; 117 min   -   Drama

The story of Texas electrician Ron Woodroof and his battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies after being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1986, and his search for alternative treatments that helped established a way in which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Stars:    Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

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Diana - [Limited]

Rated PG-13; 113 min   -   Biography | Drama | Romance

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Stars:    Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge, Geraldine James

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In Theaters Now

IMDb ratings included

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Rated R; 92 min   -   Comedy
7.1/10 

86-year-old Irving Zisman takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina to take his 8 year-old grandson, Billy, back to his real father.

Stars:  Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, Georgina Cates

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Gravity

Rated PG-13; 91 min   -   Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
8.6/10 

A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

Stars:  Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen

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Captain Phillips

Rated PG-13; 134 min   -   Action | Adventure | Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
8.1/10 

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Stars: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed
(Considering the media surrounding the Captain, the term "true story" seems like a strong term.

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The Counselor

Rated R; 117 min   -   Crime | Drama | Thriller
6.1/10 

A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.

Director: Ridley Scott
Stars:    Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Rated PG; 95 min   -   Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
6.5/10 

Flint Lockwood now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V. But he's forced to leave his post when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids.

Stars: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Will Forte, Neil Patrick Harris

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Carrie

Rated R; 100 min   -   Drama | Horror
    6.4/10 

A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday

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Escape Plan

Rated R; 115 min   -   Action | Mystery | Thriller
    7.2/10 

When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside.

Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent, Vincent D'Onofrio

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12 Years a Slave

Rated R; 134 min   -   Biography | Drama | History
    8.2/10 

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Stars:  Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

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Enough Said

Rated PG-13 93 min   -   Comedy
    7.5/10 

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.

Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette

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Prisoners

Rated R; 153 min   -   Crime | Drama | Thriller
    8.1/10 

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo

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