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This Weekend in D.C. Movie Reviews: Dec. 30-Jan. 1

You may already know how you’re going to spend New Year’s Eve here in the district, but what will you do during the daytime? The movies are a great idea, as local theaters are piled up with many of the best films of the past year. Almost all of D.C.’s theaters will be closing slightly earlier on New Year’s Eve so their employees can join in the festivities. To make up for being closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas, all IMAX theaters will be extending additional hours to their schedule (except on New Year’s Eve) until the start of the new year. Here are a few special events playing at local theaters in D.C. this weekend:

Friday, December 30, 2011:

National Gallery of Art:

  • Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar (NR) (dir. James Rasin) (2010) (12:30)
  • A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” (NR) (2:30)

West End Cinema (New openings for this week):

  • Le Havre (NR)
  • The Ides of March (R)
  • Moneyball (PG-13)

Avalon Theatre:

  • The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of my Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (NR) (Limited Engagement)

Saturday, December 31, 2011:

National Gallery of Art:

  • Velvet Underground and Nico (NR) (dir. Andy Warhol) (1966) (12:00)
  • Orphée (NR) (dir. Jean Cocteau) (1950) (2:00)
  • Donkey Skin (NR) (dir. Jacques Demy) (1970) (4:00)

Sunday, January 1, 2012:

The National Gallery of Art will be closed.

Playing all next week:

Lockheed-Martin IMAX Theater:

  • To Fly! (NR) (1976)
  • Hubble 3D (G) (2010)
  • Legends of Flight 3D (NR) (2010)

Smithsonian: Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater:

  • Born to Be Wild IMAX 3D (G)
  • Tornado Alley 3D (NR)
  • Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D (NR) (2008)
  • Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patagonia (NR) (2007)
  • Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG)

Albert Einstein Planetarium:

  • Infinity Express
  • The Stars Tonight
  • One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure
  • Journey to the Stars
  • Cosmic Collisions

Also playing at local D.C. theaters (AMC Loews Cineplex Uptown, AMC Loews Theaters Georgetown, AMC Mazza Gallerie, Avalon Theatre, West End Cinema, E Street Cinema, Regal Gallery Place) for extended engagements:

  • The Darkest Hour (PG-13)
  • The Darkest Hour 3D (PG-13)
  • We Bought a Zoo (PG)
  • War Horse (PG-13)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R)
  • The Adventures of Tintin (PG)
  • The Adventures of Tintin 3D (PG)
  • The Adventures of Tintin: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG)
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G)
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13)
  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (PG-13)
  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol: The IMAX Experience (PG-13)
  • Young Adult (R)
  • New Year’s Eve (PG-13)
  • The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (PG-13)
  • Hugo (PG)
  • Hugo 3D (PG)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R)
  • A Dangerous Method (R)
  • The Descendants (R)
  • Shame (NC-17)
  • My Week with Marilyn (R)
  • The Artist (PG-13)
  • Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG)
  • Melancholia (R)
  • Le Havre (NR)
  • The Ides of March (R)
  • Moneyball (PG-13)
  • The Muppets (R)
  • J. Edgar (R)
  • The Way (PG-13) (2010)
  • The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of my Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (NR)

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