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MTV has always known how to throw a bangin' party to ring in the new year. Everyone from "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere to Miley Cyrus to musical guests like Sum 41 and the Foo Fighters has been on hand to count down to the new year with us, along with hosts like Sway, SuChin Pak, Damien Fahey and Kurt Loder.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" Bad Blake is a man with a lot of mileage on him, every inch of it visible.

Peter Jackson blends bone-chilling horror and sky-high fantasy in an extraordinary new movie.

George Clooney in a high-flying classic. Anna Kendrick and George Clooney in "Up In The Air" "Up in the Air," the new Jason Reitman movie, is difficult to describe.

Penelope Cruz in "Broken Embraces" Lena, Mateo and Ernesto are caught up in a vintage film-noir triangle.

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" In "New Moon," a new character joins the "Twilight" family of nuzzly PG-13 creatures.

Nicolas Cage is ill-served by this very silly movie. Xzibit and Nicolas Cage in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense? Judging by ...

A scene from "2012" Even if most of the Earth were to be destroyed by a natural cataclysm predicted long ago by the ancient Mayans , director Roland Emmerich would surely survive, if only to crawl back and polish off what little was left.

Even Philip Seymour Hoffman can't quite float this boat. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nick Frost in "Pirate Radio" Imagine you're a British teenager in the mid-1960s. The new breed of English rock is taking over the world.

Milla Jovovich overcome by alien inanity. Milla Jovovich in "The Fourth Kind" With the fumbled release of "The Fourth Kind," sneaky-hip viral movie marketing shoots itself in the foot.

George Clooney bogged down on an impossible mission. George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare At Goats" What went wrong with this movie? The subject - the U.S. military's apparently actual flirtation with paranormal warfare - has rich comic promise.

Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in a sci-fi murkfest. James Marsden and Cameron Diaz in "The Box" "The Box" is an overlong mess of a movie that's nevertheless eerie and unsettling.

Jemaine Clement almost saves Jared Hess' latest low-key comedy. Michael Angarano and Jemaine Clement in "Gentlemen Broncos" Jared Hess' peculiar specialty as a filmmaker is understandably rare.

Director Troy Duffy does it again. Why? Sean Patrick Flanery, Billy Connolly, Norman Reedus and Clifton Collins Jr.

Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton in a bracing indie art-world satire. Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton in " " Adrian Jacobs is a prickly composer on the New York experimental-music scene.

Asbury Shorts, New York City's longest running exhibition of award winning, independent short films, will present the touring showcase 'An Evening of the World's Best Short Films' Saturday, Oct.

High-concept anthology gets lost in Gotham. Orlando Bloom in "New York, I Love You" A revved-up writer improvises a mad rap for a beautiful stranger in the night , only to learn she's uniquely immune to his come-on. Meanwhile, in a downtown bar, a sardonic professor teaches some new tricks to an over-confident young thief .

Michael Jai White in "Black Dynamite" Can Black Dynamite fend off the Man and the Mob and the phalanx of wah-wah guitars arrayed against him and fight his way to the Honky House to mete out kung-fu justice? Most likely! The new movie "Black Dynamite" is more than just a fond, knowing tribute to '70s blaxploitation films .

Spike Jonze overstuffs a small kiddy classic. Max Records in "Where The Wild Things Are" Anyone wanting to turn Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" into a movie must face a steep challenge.

Carey Mulligan, remember the name. Carey Mulligan in "An Education" London, 1961.