Movies Released April 21, 2023

A soldier returns to a warzone to repay a debt to his interpreter.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Guy Ritchie, Alexander Ludwig, John Friedberg, Marn Davies, Antony Starr, Emily Beecham, Ivan Atkinson

R Drama Action

82% WILL SEE

4.6 / 5

95%

3 / 5

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Beau is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix stars a paranoid man who embarks on an epic decades-long journey to get home to his mother.

Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen

R Drama

95% WILL SEE

3 / 5

85%

3.7 / 5

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Evil Dead Rise

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Sam Raimi, Lee Cronin, Robert Tapert, Rob Tapert, Lily Sullivan, Gabrielle Echols, Bruce Campbell, Morgan Davies

R Sequel Horror

85% WILL SEE

3.7 / 5

79%

4.5 / 5

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Chevalier

Film is centered on Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who is known as the Black Mozart.

Samara Weaving, Jessica Boone, Marton Csokas, Ronke Adekoluejo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Alec Newman, Minnie Driver, Sian Clifford

PG-13 Drama Biography

79% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

70%

3.3 / 5

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Kicked out of a small Western town for sinful behavior, free-spirited Alice and Nora set out for Virginia City to pursue their dream of opening a restaurant. Out on the prairie, they come across an injured bounty hunter named Elden (Cam Gigandet). Hoping to share in the reward, they nurse Elden back to health and help him stalk his prey, Grimes. But as Nora and Alice both develop feelings for Elden, no one notices that Grimes is now on their tail, and the hunters become the hunted…

Cam Gigandet, Buck Taylor, Raliegh Wilson, Chantelle Albers, Hannah James

R Action Adventure

70% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

95%

4.8 / 5

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Ghosted

Apple TV+

Salt-of-the-earth Cole (Evans) falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie (de Armas)—but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.

Chris Evans, Adrien Brody, Dana Goldberg, Ana de Armas, Amy Sedaris, Paul Wernick, Tim Blake Nelson, David Ellison

PG-13 Adventure Comedy 1 hr, 56 mins

95% WILL SEE

4.8 / 5

Watch Now On Amazon

86%

Judy Blume Forever

Prime Video

Filmmakers Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok trace Blume’s journey from fearful, imaginative child to storytelling pioneer who elevated the physical and emotional lives of kids and teens, to banned writer who continues to fight back against censorship today. Playful and poignant animations celebrate the magic and awkwardness of being young, while intimate conversations with acclaimed authors and artists reveal Blume’s profound impact on readers.

Ron Howard, Lena Dunham, Molly Ringwald, Brian Grazer, Samantha Bee, Davina Pardo, Anna Konkle, Leah Wolchok

NR Documentary 1 hr, 37 mins

86% WILL SEE

90%

To Catch a Killer

A talented but troubled cop is recruited by the FBI to help profile and track down a murderer.

Ben Mendelsohn, Damian Szifron, Shailene Woodley, Aaron Ryder, Jovan Adepo, Stuart Manashil, Jonathan Wakeham

R Thriller Mystery 1 hr, 59 mins

90% WILL SEE

92%

3.8 / 5

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War of the Worlds: The Attac...

Three young friends track a meteorite that crashes to earth and quickly discover they are at the epicenter of an alien invasion.

Alhaji Fofana, Junaid Syed, Lara Lemon, Sam Gittins, Leo Staar

Thriller Sci-Fi

92% WILL SEE

3.8 / 5

100%

Carmen

Benjamin Millepied’s CARMEN is a gritty modern day tale, with a majestic score by Nicholas Britell, and dream-like dance sequences that evoke magic realism. The story follows a young and fiercely independent woman who is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother, another strong and mysterious woman. Carmen survives a terrifying and dangerous illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard who cold-bloodedly murders two other immigrants in her group. When the border guard and his patrol partner, Aidan—a Marine with PTSD—become embroiled in a deadly standoff, Carmen and Aidan are forced to escape together. They make their way north toward Los Angeles in search of Carmen’s mother’s best friend, the mercurial Masilda and owner of La Sombra nightclub - a sanctuary of music and dance. Carmen and Aidan find both solace and their unwavering love for each other in the safety of Masilda’s magical refuge, but time is running out as the police hunt closes in.

Benedict Hardie, Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Elsa Pataky, Rossy de Palma, Alexander Dinelaris Loïc Barrère, Tara Morice, Richard Brancatisano

Drama Musical

100% WILL SEE

56%

One More Time

Netflix

A second, third, fourth…chance at being 18 again.

Hedda Stiernstedt, Jonatan Etzler, Vanna Rosenberg, Evelyn Mok, Tove Edfeldt, Miriam Ingrid, Per Fritzell

NR Drama Comedy

56% WILL SEE

88%

4.5 / 5

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A Tourist’s Guide to Love

Netflix

After an unexpected break up, a travel executive (Cook) accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide.

Missi Pyle, Rachael Leigh Cook, Ben Feldman, Scott Ly, Truc Tran, Alexa Povah, Nondumiso Tembe, Andrew Barth Feldman

Comedy Romance

88% WILL SEE

4.5 / 5

79%

3 / 5

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The Tank

After mysteriously inheriting an abandoned coastal property, Ben and his family accidentally unleash an ancient, long-dormant creature that terrorized the entire region—including his own ancestors—for generations.

Scott Walker, Zara Nausbaum, Luciane Buchanan, Matthew Whelan, Regina Hegemann

R Thriller Horror

79% WILL SEE

3 / 5

74%

2.4 / 5

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The Best Man

Luke Wilson and Dolph Lundgren co-star in this pulse-pounding, action-packed thriller. When a team of ruthless mercenaries violently seize control of a remote resort hotel, former Special Ops soldiers attending their best friend's wedding must rely only on their wits and training to combat the terrorists and save the hostages held for ransom.

Luke Wilson, Shane Dax Taylor, Nicky Whelan, Brendan Fehr, Scout Taylor-Compton, Scott Martin, with Dolph Lundgren

Action Thriller

74% WILL SEE

2.4 / 5

75%

River

An exploration of the timeless relationship between human civilization and Earth’s rivers. Spanning six continents, this visual and musical tour-de-force is by turns celebratory, cautionary, and ultimately hopeful that we are beginning to understand rivers in all their complexity and fragility. Narrated by Oscar Nominee Willem Dafoe.

Willem Dafoe, Jennifer Peedom

Documentary

75% WILL SEE

50%

1 / 5

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Chokehold

Netflix

Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but quickly discover the locals are determined to get rid of them.

Kivanç Tatlitug, Onur Saylak, Funda Eryigit, Gürgen Öz, Onur Akgülgil

Thriller

50% WILL SEE

1 / 5

97%

4.7 / 5

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Gringa

Fighting for her own life and the ones she loves, a mother in New Mexico sinks deeper in her addiction while struggling to surface for her daughter.

Jorge A. Jimenez, Roselyn Sanchez, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Jess Gabor, E.J. Foerster, Patrick Hasburgh, Valentina Buzzurro

Drama Comedy

97% WILL SEE

4.7 / 5

97%

4.4 / 5

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Somewhere in Queens

Folows Leo Russo, a father who goes to great lengths to secure a basketball scholarship for his son, a high school senior.

Ray Romano, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jennifer Esposito, Mark Stegemann, Laurie Metcalf, Tony Lo Bianco, Sadie Stanley, Jacob Ward

R Drama

97% WILL SEE

4.4 / 5

75%

Other People’s Children

When dedicated high school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), it’s not long before she also falls for his 4-year-old daughter Leila. The adolescent giddiness of Rachel and Ali’s late night rendezvous and secret sleepovers evolves into the familiar warmth of family picnics and after-school pickups. Although she feels like a mother, Rachel is not allowed to forget that Lelia is another woman’s daughter. She begins to long for a child of her own, but as a forty-something woman, she is abundantly aware that she has limited time to begin a family. Rachel must decide whether to embrace the inherent entanglements of her current situation, including the looming presence of Ali’s ex-wife Alice (Chiara Mastroanni) or strike out again on her own. Other People’s Children becomes a soulful, sexy, and resolutely grown-up story of the elusive quest for agency and belonging.

Virginie Efira, Chiara Mastroianni, Roschdy Zem, Callie Ferreira-Goncalves, Victor Lefebvre, Sébastien Pouderoux, Rebecca Zlotowski, Yamée Couture

NR Drama Family 1 hr, 43 mins

75% WILL SEE

67%

Little Richard: I Am Everyth...

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.

Lisa Cortés

NR Documentary Music 1 hr, 38 mins

67% WILL SEE