BAM Rose Cinemas

Part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the elegant BAM Rose Cinemas has four screens and plays a mixture of high-brow Hollywood releases and art-house fare, with a few family films thrown into the mix. The relaxed crowd is mostly made up of Brooklyn residents, but people from Manhattan have been known to make a trip for a special film. It is worth the effort, if only to spare oneself the mob scene at Manhattan's art houses.