New Movies in Theaters: November 12, 2010

Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson and a runaway train. This looks like an awesomely preposterous bit of fun.

Aliens invade LA.

A grumpy, old and burnt-out newsman played by Harrison Ford teams with a energetic, driven and utterly adorable Rachel McAdams. I’m sure everything ties up in a completely predictable fashion but it still looks like a lot of fun. Plus, the director (Roger Michell) made the extremely underrated Changing Lanes, so you know it’s at least well made.

Quite possibly the most cliche sounding indie movie of all time:

“22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, parties on chilly East Village fire escapes, stealing twenties out of her mother’s Prada purse, pathetic Brooklyn “art shows,” prison-style tattoos done out of sheer boredom, drinking all the wine in her mother’s neatly organized cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.”