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Anyone But You
In the edgy comedy Anyone But You, Bea and Ben look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold…until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia. So, they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.
Director: Will Gluck
Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Alexandra Shipp, GaTa, Hadley Robinson, Michelle Hurd, Dermot Mulroney, Darren Barnet, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown
Reviews "...there's something zesty and bracing about how it channels the anti-romanticism of the Tinder-meets-MeToo generation." - Variety
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Dream Scenario
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. When his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom.
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Starring: Lily Bird, Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Baker, Dylan Gelula, Jessica Clement, Star Slade, David Klein, Paula Boudreau, Marnie McPhail, Maev Beaty, Krista Bridges, Conrad Coates
Reviews "Dream Scenario expands into a larger commentary about how even our dreams can be co-opted and exploited, and we'll leave it at that." - Richard Roeper
"Nicolas Cage goes delightfully, derangedly meta in Dream Scenario, a smart, dizzyingly entertaining horror-comedy that morphs into scathing social satire." - Washington Post
"The best parts of Dream Scenario are those dreams, the sequences in which Borgli pushes the medium and himself into unsettling, hallucinatory territory." - Los Angeles Times
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Ferrari
During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Adam Driver, Patrick Dempsey, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Penelope Cruz, Jack O'Connell, Valentina Belle, Massi Furlan, Brett Smrz, Tommaso Basili, Lino Musella, Erik Haugen
Reviews "You're about as deep inside this character's head as imaginable, though given the glimpses you catch of what's inside and all the damage that Enzo does, it is the filmmaker more than the character who holds you rapt." - New York Times
"Mann has composed an epic of bright racetrack sunshine and inky shadows, where long, meditative silences give way to feverish jolts of vehicular action. The storytelling has an unfussy classical burnish that feels nicely scaled to its time and place." - Los Angeles Times
"Ferrari is a beautifully-filmed story that eschews long-form biography..." - Richard Roeper
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The Iron Claw
The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.
Director: Sean Durkin
Starring: Holt McCallany, Zac Efron, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Michael Harney, Lily James, Jeremy Allen White
Reviews "A heavyweight collective has just entered the ring." - Empire Magazine
"In between all the drama that observed, Kevin maintains the most reasonable and compassionate outlook of all the participants... Efron successfully achieves that aspect of the wrestlers' personality, making it completely credible." - Los Angeles Times
"Efron, with his rock-hard physique and '70s mullet, turns in some of the most affecting work of his career." - Associated Press
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Mean Girls
From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to take down the group's apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.
Director: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Starring: Jon Hamm, Angourie Rice, Jenna Fischer, Ashley Park, Tina Fey, Busy Philipps, Auli'i Cravalho, Christopher Briney, Bebe Wood, Tim Meadows
Reviews "This newish take on the classic high-school-as-jungle satire makes the trek from film to stage and back to film again without forsaking comic snideness or draining an ounce of hormonal energy." - Toronto Star
"The core of Fey's storyline hasn't changed, even if technology has. It embraces, with trace elements of sincerity, the juicy comic extremes of mean-girldom, complete with an 11th-hour repudiation and a reminder to be nicer. Before it's too late." - Chicago Tribune
"There's lots of fun to be had, in a show that rhymes nonplussed with calcu-lust. And yet, like its predecessors, this Mean Girls has bite." - Washington Post
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Migration
The Mallard family is in a bit of a rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids - teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen - the whole wide world. After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica.
Director: Benjamin Renner
Starring: Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Caspar Jennings, Tresi Gazal, Awkwafina, Carol Kane, Keegan-Michael Key, David Mitchell, Danny DeVito
Reviews "Don't expect "Magnificent Ambersons"-style interfamily drama a la Orson Welles. But the character moments here resonate, and there are enough stakes to make the final scenes feel meaningful." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Migration" is vividly animated with warm cartoon tones that would do Daffy proud." - Associated Press
"Benjamin Renner's new comedy Migration offers a winning combination of a charming narrative and distinctive animation style." - Hollywood Reporter
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Poor Things
From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, Jerrod Carmichael, Margaret Qualley
Reviews "A film that finds itself stupendously filmed, and that, in any way, unspools in a sort of parallel universe, despite supposedly taking place in 19th-century Europe." - Los Angeles Times
"Beautifully garish, wonderfully twisted, unabashedly raunchy and at times grotesquely striking..." - Richard Roeper
"Through it all, Bella claims center stage; and whether she's acting as an innocent or a sophisticate, Stone has no problem anchoring the chaos." - Boston Globe
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Priscilla
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tim Post, Lynne Griffin, Dan Beirne, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Tim Dowler-Coltman, Stephanie Moore, Luke Humphrey, Jorja Cadence, Josette Halpert
Reviews "[Coppola] dashes any romantic illusions one might have regarding one of the most famous celebrity couples of the 20th century." - Toronto Star
"The title role should make a star of Cailee Spaeny, subtle in her portrayal..." - Richard Roeper
"Time passes in a brisk blur of tabloid headlines, album covers and ripped calendar pages, but the world that Coppola builds for her heroine holds together with beautiful coherence, right up until the moment it's ready to fall apart." - Los Angeles Times
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The Book Of Clarence
Struggling to find a better life, Clarence is captivated by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence.
Director: Jeymes Samuel
Starring: Teyana Taylor, Benedict Cumberbatch, James McAvoy, David Oyelowo, Alfre Woodard, Lakeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Tom Glynn-Carney
Reviews "Samuel has made a movie that imagines a good-hearted sinner slouching toward salvation one desperate measure at a time. But he's also made a mirror designed to let folks see themselves in this scenario for once." - Rolling Stone
"What's good about "The Book of Clarence" is what so many movies lack: taking really, really big swings." - New York Times
"The results are entertaining, sometimes riotously so, yet also decidedly mixed." - Washington Post
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Wish
Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Director: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
Starring: Chris Pine, Ariana Debose, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Evan Peters, Harvey Guillen
Reviews "Wish" entertains and unabashedly owns being a safe paean to old-school Disney, shamelessly aiming for all your nostalgic feels." - USA Today
"It all feels familiar, which is another word for comforting. And "Wish," however recycled it may be, is at least that: warm, funny-ish and with its heart in the right place." - Washington Post
"One can understand how some will view all of this with great cynicism, but come on: Wasn't there a time when you wished upon a star?" - Richard Roeper
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