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Brookline's Top Ten Movies: Jan. 23 - 29

The top ten movies rented from Brookline MovieWorks in the last week. What was your favorite flick this week?

Wondering what's out and what's hot in movies this week? Here are the top ten great flicks Brookline's rented from in the last week.

  1. Moneyball
    Rated: PG-13 Starring: Brad PittJonah HillPhilip Seymour HoffmanRobin Wright PennStephen Bishop
  2. Ides of March
    Rated: R Starring: Ryan GoslingGeorge ClooneyPhilip Seymour HoffmanPaul GiamattiMarisa Tomei
  3. 50/50
    Rated: R Starring: Joseph Gordon-LevittSeth RogenAnna KendrickBryce Dallas HowardAnjelica Huston
  4. Midnight in Paris
    Rated: PG-13 Starring: Owen WilsonMarion CotillardRachel McAdamsKathy BatesCarla Bruni-Sarkozy
  5. Contagion
    Rated: PG-13 Starring: Marion CotillardMatt DamonLaurence FishburneJude LawKate Winslet
  6. The Help
    Rated: PG-13 Starring: Viola DavisBryce Dallas HowardOctavia L. SpencerEmma StoneJessica Chastain
  7. Real Steel
    Rated: PG-13 Starring: Hugh JackmanDakota GoyoAnthony MackieEvangeline LillyKevin Durand
  8. The Debt 
    Rated: R Starring: Helen MirrenSam WorthingtonJessica ChastainJesper ChristensenMarton Csokas
  9. The Tree of Life
    Rated: PG-13 Starring: Brad PittSean PennJessica ChastainFiona ShawHunter McCracken
  10. Killer Elite
    Rated: R Starring: Jason StathamClive OwenRobert De NiroYvonne StrahovskiDominic Purcell

New This Week: The Big Year, The Double, Drive, In Time 

Staff Pick: This week's favored new pick is "Warrior", it's about an ex-Marine who returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach played by Nick Nolte to train him for an important MMA tournament. However, as Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter himself has become unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher and returns to the amateur ring to provide for his children, even if at the expense of his own brother.

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