April 2020 Movies

Released Friday, April 3rd

Onward

Disney+

The story of two teen boys who seek the chance to spend one last magical day with their father.

Chris Pratt, Dan Scanlon, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ali Wong, Dan Scanlan, C. S. Anderson

PG Fantasy Family

83% WILL SEE

Lazy Susan

Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family, who lazily skated through life with their grudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she’s middle-aged with no job, no relationship, and an increasingly estranged family. She finally decides to take charge and turn things around, but never having done anything herself before, the struggle is real (and hilarious) as Susan becomes the woman she always wanted to be, all on her own.

Sean Hayes, Margo Martindale, Allison Janney, Carrie Aizley, Jim Rash, Kiel Kennedy, Danny Johnson, Darlene Hunt

NR Comedy 1 hr, 20 mins

26% WILL SEE

Dolphin Reef

Disney+

Echo is a youngster who can't quite decide if it's time to grow up and take on new responsibilities-or give in to her silly side and just have fun. Dolphin society is tricky, and the coral reef that Echo and his family call home depends on all of its inhabitants to keep it healthy. But Echo has a tough time resisting the many adventures the ocean has to offer.

Natalie Portman, Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, Jane Hamlin

G Family Documentary 1 hr, 18 mins

74% WILL SEE

Coffee & Kareem

The plot follows a Detroit cop who reluctantly teams with his girlfriend’s 11-year-old son to clear his name and take down the city’s most ruthless criminal.

Taraji P. Henson, Ed Helms, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Michael Dowse, Mike Falbo, Shane McCarthy

NR Action Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

38% WILL SEE

Slay the Dragon

A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. Slay the Dragon follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.

Jeff Skoll, Barak Goodman, Chris Durrance, Diane Weyermann, Coralie Charriol Paul, William von Mueffling

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 41 mins

31% WILL SEE

Resistance

Focuses on the legendary mime Marcel Marceau's involvement in the French resistance during World War II.

Edgar Ramirez, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Jakubowicz, Ed Harris, Matthias Schweighöfer, Malgorzata Szumowska, Clemence Poesy, Félix Moati

Drama War

68% WILL SEE

Invisible Life

Prime Video

Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other. A tropical melodrama from the director of Madame Satã.

Karim Ainouz, Carol Duarte, Julia Stockler, Fernanda Montenegro

R Drama 2 hrs, 21 mins

44% WILL SEE

The Other Lamb

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough, Malgorzata Szumowska, C.S. McMullen, Raffey Cassidy, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly, Isabelle Connolly

Drama Horror

69% WILL SEE

Rogue Warfare: The Hunt

When the leader of an elite team of soldiers is captured by terrorists, it is up to the team to find and rescue him before it is too late.

Stephen Lang, Fernando Chien, Essam Ferris, Mike Gunther, Andrew Emilio DeCesare, Will Yun Lee, Jermaine Love, Rory Markham

R Action 1 hr, 43 mins

57% WILL SEE

Elephants

Disney+

Documentary following a family of elephants as they journey across Africa. Narrated by Meghan Markle.

Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz, Meghan Markle

Documentary Nature 1 hr, 29 mins

56% WILL SEE

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

The story focuses on two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City.

Théodore Pellerin, Ryan Eggold, Eliza Hittman, Adele Romanski, Sara Murphy, Rose Garnett, Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder

PG-13 Drama

38% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, April 7th

Anastasia (Live-Action)

Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

Blake Harris, Amiah Miller, Anastasia Romanoff, Emily Carey, Brandon Routh, Aliyah Moulden, Armando Gutierrez, Kendall Vertes

PG Adventure Fantasy

69% WILL SEE

Dead by Dawn

A suicidal man in a remote cabin is suddenly faced with protecting a kidnapped woman from three killers and their sadistic games. Unable to contact the outside world and with night falling, he falls backs on creating traps to prevent the criminals from gaining entry. It’s a fight to the death where only the strongest will survive until dawn.

Bo Burroughs, Sean Cain, Drew Lindsey Mitchell, Kelcey Watson, Timothy Muskatell, Bobby Slaski, Detra Hicks, Skylar Dominique

Thriller Horror

58% WILL SEE

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Released Wednesday, April 8th

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce...

Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.

Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin, Elizabeth Chatwin, Kerin Eberhard, Nicholas Shakespeare

NR Documentary 1 hr, 29 mins

40% WILL SEE

Released Friday, April 10th

Trolls World Tour

PremiumVOD

The eternal optimist Poppy and the curmudgeon Branch return in another musical comedy-adventure.

Anna Kendrick, Caroline Hjelt, Sam Rockwell, Jamie Dornan, Gwen Stefani, Kenan Thompson, Walt Dohrn, Betsy Sodaro

PG Adventure Sequel

89% WILL SEE

We Summon the Darkness

On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.

Alexandra Daddario, Johnny Knoxville, Logan Miller, Maddie Hasson, Marc Meyers, Alan Trezza, Keean Johnson, Amy Forsyth

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 31 mins

36% WILL SEE

Love Wedding Repeat

The film centers on Jack who finds himself juggling brotherly duties to ensure his sister Hayley has the wedding of her dreams while unexpectedly being reunited with Dina (Munn), the woman he fell in love with- and lost- two years ago.

Sam Claflin, Freida Pinto, Aisling Bea, Olivia Munn, Jack Farthing, Tim Key, Dean Craig, Eleanor Tomlinson

NR Comedy Romance

94% WILL SEE

The Main Event

Using special powers from a magical mask, a young WWE fan causes chaos when he enters a wrestling competition and fights an intimidating rival.

Tichina Arnold, Jay Karas, Adam Pally, Lucie Guest, Lisa Durupt, Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin

Comedy Sports

54% WILL SEE

The Roads Not Taken

Follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo’s journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future.

Salma Hayek, Elle Fanning, Javier Bardem, Sally Potter, Laura Linney, Branka Katic, Milena Tscharntke

R Drama 1 hr, 25 mins

60% WILL SEE

Sea Fever

A socially awkward marine biologist, Siobhán, (Hermione Corfield) comes aboard an Irish fishing trawler to conduct research on the local sea life.A sea creature leaves them marooned at sea, and they struggle for their life when a mysterious bioluminescent force infiltrates their ship.

Olwen Fouéré, Neasa Hardiman, Connie Nielsen, Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Ardalan Esmaili

NR Thriller Sci-Fi 1 hr, 29 mins

78% WILL SEE

Les Misérables

Prime Video

Set against the 2005 French riots, the story centers on Stéphane (Damien Bonnard) and his two partners who recently joined an anti-crime brigade in Montfermeil. The men find themselves overrun during the course of an arrest.

Steve Tientcheu, Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti, Damien Bonnard, Djibril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly

R Drama Crime 1 hr, 42 mins

39% WILL SEE

The Lost Husband

A young woman (Leslie Bibb) attempting to put her life back together after the death of her husband, moves into her estranged Aunt's (Nora Dunn) goat farm with her children in Central Texas. The city girl is out of her element as she gets to know the residents of the small town, and eventually falls for the handsome farm manager (Josh Duhamel) with a tragic past.

Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Bridget Stokes, Kevin Alejandro, Nora Dunn, Vicky Wight

PG-13 Comedy Romance

92% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, April 14th

The Bay of Silence

Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.

Olga Kurylenko, Paula van der Oest, Brian Cox, Shalisha James-Davis, Litiana Biutanaseva, Maroussia Frank, Claes Bang, Assaad Bouab

Thriller

80% WILL SEE

Released Friday, April 17th

Sergio

Set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.

Ana de Armas, Greg Barker, Wagner Moura, Brian F. O'Byrne, Clemens Schick, Bradley Whitford

R Drama True Story 1 hr, 58 mins

50% WILL SEE

Endings, Beginnings

Set in current day Los Angeles follows Daphne (Woodley), a thirtysomething woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course of one year. During that time, she will unlock the secrets to her life in a sudden turn of events and in the most surprising of places.

Sebastian Stan, Jamie Dornan, Drake Doremus, Jardine Libaire, Kyra Sedgwick, Shailene Woodley, Matthew Gray Gubler, Lindsay Sloane

NR Drama Romance 1 hr, 50 mins

61% WILL SEE

Abe

12-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef, but his family—half-Israeli, half-Palestinian—have never had a meal together without a fight. But when Abe ditches his traditional summer camp to spend time with radical street chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine inspires him to unite his family through food. Abe decides to cook a meal that will bring everyone to the table, but he’s about to learn that the kitchen can’t heal some age-old divides.

Noberto Pinheiro Jr., Mark Margolis, Fabiano Gullane, Noah Schnapp, Fernando Grostein Andrade, Carlos Eduardo Ciampolini, Caio Gullane, Seu Jorge

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 25 mins

83% WILL SEE

Y CÓMO ES EL?

A husband confronts a taxi driver who is sleeping with his wife.

Paul Fruchbom, Ariel Winograd, Kim Tae-Sik, Kim Jun-Han, Mauricio Ochmann, Omar Chaparro, Miguel Rodarte, Zuria Vega

PG-13 Drama Comedy

79% WILL SEE

Martin Eden

Set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history yet adapted from a 1909 novel by American author Jack London, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The twinned dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political reawakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman.

Luca Marinelli, Pietro Marcello, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Carlo Cecchi

Drama

43% WILL SEE

Bad Therapy

Married couple Bob and Susan Howard (Rob Corddry & Alicia Silverstone) decide to see a marriage counselor named Judy Small (Michaela Watkins), who recently relocated close to their home in Los Angeles. When Bob and Susan first meet Judy, she appears competent, intelligent, and trustworthy, with a track record of other couples that she's treated successfully without incident. But Bob and Susan's particular emotional dynamic is a trigger for Judy's dark and conflicted impulses. Suggesting that she see them separately, Judy subtly puts them at odds with one another and brings their marriage to the breaking point in a comically escalating series of manipulations.

Gina Resnick, Alicia Silverstone, Michaela Watkins, David Paymer, Bill Teitler, Nancy Doyne, Rob Corddry, Anna Pniowsky

Comedy

45% WILL SEE

Selah and the Spades

Prime Video

In the closed world of an elite Pennsylvania boarding school, Haldwell, the student body is run by five factions. Seventeen-year-old Selah Summers (Lovie Simone) runs the most dominant group, the Spades, with unshakable poise, as they cater to the most classic of vices and supply students with coveted, illegal alcohol and pills. Tensions between the factions escalate, and when Selah’s best friend/right hand Maxxie (MOONLIGHT’s Jharrel Jerome) becomes distracted by a new love, Selah takes on a protégée, enamored sophomore Paloma (Celeste O'Connor), to whom she imparts her wisdom on ruling the school. But with graduation looming and Paloma proving an impressively quick study, Selah’s fears turn sinister as she grapples with losing the control by which she defines herself.

Jesse Williams, Tayarisha Poe, Celeste O’Connor, Lovie Simone, Jharrel Jerome, Gina Torres

R Drama 1 hr, 29 mins

20% WILL SEE

Sometimes Always Never

A man searches for his missing son, who he has not seen in years. The family's life is turned upside down when a body is found. They must then learn to reconnect with each other.

Carl Hunter, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Bill Nighy, John Westley, Roy Boulter, Solon Papadopoulos, Alan Latham, Sam Riley

PG-13 Drama Comedy

61% WILL SEE

The Quarry

After murdering a traveling preacher, a fugitive drifter (Shea Whigham, Joker) travels to a small town and poses as the man he killed. Though the congregation loves the drifter’s sermons of forgiveness, the local police chief (Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water) is suspicious of the man. Soon a gruesome discovery at a local quarry forces the killer to fight for his freedom.

Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Scott Teems, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Soto, Bruno Bichir

Thriller Crime

62% WILL SEE

Rising High

Tells the story of the rise and fall of two real-estate fraudsters. Viktor Stein (David Kross), Gerry Falkland (Frederick Lau) and the banker Nicole Kleber (Janina Uhse) get incredibly rich within a short period of time. But soon they are sucked deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of lies, fraud and deceit - until at some point they completely lose sight of reality and have to decide what is really important to them.

David Kross, Janina Uhse, Sophia Thomalla, Frederick Lau, Anne Schäfer

Drama

56% WILL SEE

Released Tuesday, April 21st

Party Hard, Die Young

Sun, sand, sex and all-night dancing at a beautiful island resort is the perfect graduation celebration for a group of young friends looking for one last taste of freedom before they go their separate ways. But the dancing and drinking comes to a halt when people start disappearing, and a masked murderer sends the ominous message…this party will be their last! With escape to the mainland suddenly cut off and the body count rising, a wild weekend turns into a desperate and bloody nightmare of survival.

Dominik Hartl, Elisabeth Wabitsch, Robert Buchschwenter, Karin Lomot, Michael Glantschnig, Valerie Huber, Ferdinand Seebacher

Horror

65% WILL SEE

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Released Wednesday, April 22nd

The Willoughbys

The four Willoughby children -- Timothy; his twin brothers, Barnaby A and Barnaby B; and their little sister, Jane -- are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to adapt their old-fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.

Sean Cullen, Kris Pearn, Alessia Cara, Ricky Gervais, Cory Evans, Luke Carroll, Martin Short, Maya Rudolph

PG Adaptation Family

73% WILL SEE

Released Friday, April 24th

Extraction

Set in an underworld of weapon dealers and traffickers where a young boy becomes a pawn in a war between notorious drug lords. As kidnappers trap the boy inside one of the world’s most impenetrable cities, his plight attracts a skilled mercenary named Tyler Rake (Hemsworth). Rake is a broken man with nothing to lose, harboring a death wish that makes an already deadly mission even more appealing to him.

Chris Hemsworth, Sam Hargrave, Golshifteh Farahani, Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, David Harbour, Randeep Hooda, Manoj Bajpayee

R Action Thriller

78% WILL SEE

Robert The Bruce

King Robert the Bruce is injured and on the run from the English army. On the brink of defeat, a widow and her family nurse him back to health and join The Bruce as he sets out to claim the long-awaited freedom of Scotland.

Richard Gray, Jared Harris, Eric Belgau, Angus MacFadyen, Anna Hutchinson, Patrick Fugit, Emma Kenney, Zach McGowan

Drama 2 hrs, 2 mins

74% WILL SEE

Enemy Lines

November 1943. A British commando squad is teamed with an American officer on a covert mission into Poland, deep behind enemy lines. Working with the resistance they cross the harsh wilderness intent on kidnapping and extracting a sought-after Polish scientist, Dr Fabian, from the Germans.

Ekaterina Valdimirova, Anders Banke, Tom George, Michael Wright, Ed Westwick, John Hannah, Tom Wisdom, Corey Johnson

Drama Action 1 hr, 28 mins

79% WILL SEE

To The Stars

In a god-fearing small town in 1960s Oklahoma, bespectacled and reclusive teen Iris endures the booze-induced antics of her mother and daily doses of bullying from her classmates. She finds solace in Maggie, the charismatic and enigmatic new girl at school, who hones in on Iris’s untapped potential and coaxes her out of her shell. When Maggie’s mysterious past can no longer be suppressed, the tiny community is thrown into a state of panic, leaving Maggie to take potentially drastic measures and inciting Iris to stand up for her friend and herself.

Malin Akerman, Lucas Jade Zumann, Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Martha Stephens, Shea Whigham, Jordana Spiro, Shannon Bradley-Colleary

Drama

71% WILL SEE

True History of the Kelly Gang

Ned Kelly, a notorious Australian bushranger, comes to be regarded by many as a Robin Hood-like folk hero.

Charlie Hunnam, Nicholas Hoult, George MacKay, Travis Fimmel, Russell Crowe, Marlon Williams, Shaun Grant, Sean Keenan

R Drama Crime 2 hrs, 4 mins

71% WILL SEE

Released Saturday, April 25th

Bad Education

MAX

Inspired by a school district scandal on Long Island, Bad Education deals with the public and private lives of the superintendent Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman), assistant/office coordinator Pam Gluckin (Allison Janney), and school board president Bob Spicer (Ray Romano). Slowly we see things start to unravel revealing Frank's double life, including a fling with a former pupil. In addition, Pam has been using the Official office credit card for more than school business.

Hugh Jackman, Julia Lebedev, Fred Berger, Geraldine Viswanathan, Allison Janney, Ray Romano, Cory Finley, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones

Drama Comedy

89% WILL SEE