Weekend Movie Forecast: Watchmen Vs. Frenchmen

Click on the stills above for more details and reviews of this week's releases and repertory selections, which also include Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, 12, Everlasting Moments, Tokyo!, Frontier of Dawn, Explicit Ills, Phoebe in Wonderland, Leave Her to Heaven, Teeth, and eXistenZ.

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By John Del Signore in Arts & Entertainment on March 6, 2009 4:15 PM

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Spirit of 76

Whoa, Jackie Earle Haley is in Watchmen? I may just go, then. He was great in Breaking Away, but then that whole movie was great. Sort of makes sense, I guess. Rorschach is supposed to go nuts after being taunted about his size, just like Moocher did in the earlier movie. "Don't forget to punch the clock, shorty." Crash.

hoodlum

Watchmen will be a huge let down if you've read the graphic novel.

MrCow

what? the movie was exactly like the comic.

Jen Chung

Go see Leave Her to Heaven—it's a restored print and Gene Tierney is amazing in it.

I'm seeing two Rendez-Vous films this weekend: Girl from Monaco and The Joy of Singing.