The Short List of Things to Do

A guide to what you should see and what you should skip — and what you won't be able to avoid

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Week of Dec. 5

  1. Deadwood: The Complete Series
  2. 808s & Heartbreak
  3. Revolutionary Road
  4. Frost/Nixon: Original Watergate Interviews
  5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Week of Nov. 28

  1. Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...
  2. A Colbert Christmas
  3. Chungking Express
  4. WALL-E
  5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Week of Nov. 21

  1. Monty Python's Holy Trinity
  2. Gears of War 2
  3. If I Were a Boy
  4. Fanfan la Tulipe
  5. Bolt

Week of Oct. 24

  1. Synecdoche, New York
  2. Pink's Funhouse
  3. Dead Space
  4. Sons of Anarchy
  5. I've Loved You So Long

Week of Oct. 10

  1. Happy-Go-Lucky
  2. John Lennon: The Life
  3. To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
  4. The Starter Wife
  5. RockNRolla

Week of Oct. 3

  1. Flash of Genius
  2. The Visitor
  3. Rachel Getting Married
  4. Religulous
  5. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Week of Sept. 26

  1. Jenny Lewis' Acid Tongue
  2. State By State
  3. Obscene
  4. The Given Day
  5. Sarah
  6. The Lucky Ones

Week of Sept. 19

  1. The Duchess
  2. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
  3. Ms. Hempel Chronicles
  4. Righteous Kill
  5. Indignation

Week of Sept. 12

  1. The Women
  2. Anathem
  3. Do You Know
  4. Whatever, Martha!
  5. Towelhead

Week of Sept. 5

  1. Baby Mama
  2. Brian Wilson's That Lucky Old Sun
  3. The First Billion Is the Hardest
  4. Moontide; Road House
  5. Then She Found Me

Week of Aug. 22

  1. Entourage: The Complete Fourth Season
  2. Death Race
  3. The Black List
  4. Hamlet 2
  5. Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom

Week of Aug. 15

  1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  2. White Heat
  3. War Games: 25th Anniversary Edition
  4. Architecture School
  5. Skins

Week of Aug. 7

  1. Pineapple Express
  2. Breaking Dawn
  3. Elegy
  4. Elvis Presley The Complete '68 Comeback Special
  5. Frozen River

Week of Aug. 1

  1. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  2. Conor Oberst
  3. Stand the Storm
  4. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
  5. Brideshead Revisited

Week of July 25

  1. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
  2. MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks
  3. Miley Cyrus's Breakout
  4. Step Brothers
  5. The Lace Reader

Week of July 18

  1. Comedy Central's TV Funhouse
  2. Letters to My Mother
  3. Sam Sparro's Sam Sparro
  4. Saving Grace
  5. Nas's Untitled

Week of July 11

  1. The Bank Job
  2. John Mellencamp's Life, Death, Love and Freedom
  3. The Black Hole War
  4. The Hold Steady's Stay Positive
  5. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D

Week of July 4

  1. Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson's Two Men with the Blues
  2. Beck's Modern Guilt
  3. A Few Seconds of Panic
  4. Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns
  5. Hancock

Week of June 27

  1. 10,000 B.C.
  2. Trumbo
  3. The Secret Life of the American Teenager
  4. Wanted
  5. Charlie Bartlett

Week of June 20

  1. The Visit
  2. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
  3. Alejandro Escovedo's Real Animal
  4. Camp Rock
  5. Get Smart
  6. The Love Guru

Week of June 13

  1. Fool's Gold
  2. Californication: The First Season
  3. Cassandra Wilson's Loverly
  4. The Happening
  5. The Incredible Hulk

Week of June 6

  1. Savage Grace
  2. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  3. N.E.R.D.'s Seeing Sounds
  4. Alanis Morissette's Flavors of Entanglement
  5. You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Week of May 30

  1. Dirty Harry Ultimate Collectors Edition
  2. Duffy's Rockferry
  3. The Best Game Ever
  4. 30 Days
  5. Kung Fu Panda

Week of May 23

  1. War, Inc.
  2. Al Green's Lay It Down
  3. John Adams
  4. Usher's Here I Stand
  5. Darfur Now

Week of May 16

  1. James Stewart: The Western Collection
  2. Boom Blox
  3. Scarlett Johansson's Anywhere I Lay My Head
  4. Reprise
  5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Week of May 9

  1. Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey
  2. Narrow Stairs
  3. The Lovers
  4. Home Before Dark
  5. What Happens in Vegas

Week of May 2

  1. Redbelt
  2. Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
  3. Cry-Baby
  4. Iron Man
  5. P.S. I Love You

Week of April 25

  1. Grand Theft Auto IV
  2. Hard Candy
  3. Nanking
  4. Baby Mama
  5. 27 Dresses

Week of April 18

  1. Charlie Wilson's War
  2. Flight of the Conchords
  3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  4. Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
  5. 88 Minutes

Week of April 11

  1. Lars and the Real Girl
  2. My Bloody Underground
  3. Street Kings
  4. Schoenberg, Sibelius Violin Concertos
  5. Juno

Week of April 4

  1. Lions for Lambs
  2. Karibu
  3. Battlestar Galactica
  4. Leatherheads
  5. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Week of Jan. 23

  1. Google Earth at the Prado Museum
  2. Merriweather Post Pavilion
  3. The Somme
  4. Of Time and the City
  5. MGM: When the Lion Roars

Week of Jan. 30

  1. The Deal
  2. Johnny Cash Remixed
  3. The Private Policeman's Balls
  4. Lords of Finance
  5. The Yankee Years

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