ROTTEN TOMATOES: Opening This Week

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies Opening This Week

• An American Carol 1,639 theaters, no reviews. Satirists take aim at Michael Moore and other liberal icons.
  
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3,215 theaters, 53% positive reviews. Disney family pic.
  
• Blindness 1,690 theaters, 39% positive reviews. Everyone suddenly goes blind, with terrifying consequences, especially for circus aerialists.
  
• Flash of Genius 1,098 theaters, 73% positive reviews. Greg Kinnear stars in a true man-vs-corporation story of a guy who wanted proper credit for his inventiion.
  
• How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 1,750 theaters, 36% positive reviews. Almost Famous meets The Devil Wears Prada in story of a low-level Vanity Fair staffer.
  
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist 2,421 theaters, 60% positive reviews. The themes of Before Sunrise revisited with hipper, younger actors.
  
• Religulous 502 theaters, 65% positive reviews. Bill Maher's documentary.
  
• Appaloosa 1,045 theaters, 39% positive reviews. Cowboy flick directed by and starring Ed Harris, with Viggo as his antagonist.
  
• SNEAK PREVIEW: The Express 700 sneaks on 10/4. True-life football drama starring Dennis Quaid and Rob Brown. It's the story of Ernie Davis, the superstar running back who was Jim Brown's successor at Syracuse, and the first black man to win the Heisman. He died of leukemia before he could play a single professional game. NOTE: Jim Brown never won the Heisman. The possibility of racial discrimination against Brown is part of the story of the film. Brown lost in his senior year to Paul Hornung, who was a helluva player his own self, as we say in Texas, but that doesn't explain how Brown could have finished FIFTH, behind a center from Oklahoma.