Gangster Squad (opened Jan. 11)
Originally slated for release in September, this high-octane crime movie from director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) was pushed back in the wake of the Aurora, Colo., shootings, which eerily mirrored a scene in the film that depicted a gangland massacre in a movie theater. Now, with that sequence removed, audiences will finally get to see Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin as a pair of Los Angeles cops assigned to take down notorious 1940s Mob kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). ''I like the idea that it's a throwback movie, but it's also an action movie,'' Brolin told EW during filming. ''I'd want to see it.'' Josh Rottenberg