Nine
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz. Rated PG-13.
The movie: In 1965 Rome, a director (Day-Lewis) seeks inspiration from the women in his life in this adaptation of the Broadway musical. Each big-name star (Cotillard, Cruz, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, Fergie) gets at least one number all to his/herself, and most succeed admirably. With Rob Marshall (“Chicago”) directing, we’d expect nothing less. Too bad the story has no structure and never comes together. Rent It.

Leap Year
Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, John Lithgow. Rated PG.
The movie: Irish legend says women are allowed to propose to their boyfriends on Leap Year day, so upon the advice of her idiot loon father (Lithgow) headstrong Anna (Adams) flies to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend (Adam Scott) of four years, who’s attending a medical conference. After a rough detour she meets a gruff bartender (Goode) and inexplicably falls in love with him. The idiot tradition is dumber than the people who believe in it, and this inane, trite romantic comedy has 2010 off to a terrible start. Please Skip It.

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