Screening this Saturday and Sunday at the IFC Center is SUMMER WARS, the summer’s best animated movie, and a kid flick better than anything Miyazaki has put out in years. You won’t regret it. (full info)

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The IFC Center’s Ozu retro continues with 11am screenings Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the 1951 melodrama, EARLY SUMMER. (tickets and showtimes)

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Acclaimed Bollywood movie, PEEPLI LIVE, is still playing up at Big Cinemas in Manhattan. The Village Voice raves, the LA Times raves and the Hollywood Reporter does too. Produced by Bollywood superstar, Aamir Khan, it’s probably the best-reviewed movie to play at the Big Cinemas all year. (tickets and showtimes)

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And when it’s not playing, Big Cinemas is screening AASHAYIEN, starring John Abraham as a dude who wins a ton of money, announces he’s marrying his girlfriend and then collapses from…CANCER!!! Like most motion picture characters diagnosed with a terminal disease, he tries to make everyone’s lives happier. Those with weak stomachs should avoid it. (read a review) (tickets and showtimes)

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Bruce “Driving Miss Daisy” Beresford directed the new film, MAO’S LAST DANCER, about a Chinese dissident ballet dancer trying to follow his art during the Cultural Revolution. Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan and Bruce Greenwood also star. It’s the twelfth highest grossing Australian movie of all time. (read the reviews) (now playing all over town)

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