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ParaNorman Poster
61%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

About a 13-year-old protecting his small town from a zombie attack.

Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Casey Affleck, Jeff Garlin, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Sam Fell, Bernard Hill, Leslie Mann

PG Adventure 1 hr, 33 mins
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The Expendables 2 Poster
92%

Ratings

  • 4.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Sylvester Stallone told the LA Times that if The Expendables does well, investors would likely fund a sequel for which he has "an idea ready to go." He did not reveal any plot details though.

Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Liam Hemsworth

R Action 1 hr, 43 mins
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Sparkle Poster
46%

Ratings

  • 4.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

The youngest sister in a sibling singing trio becomes a sensation but suffers conflict and tragedy in the process.

Jordin Sparks, Debra Martin Chase, Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, Derek Luke, Omari Hardwick, Michael Beach, Salim Akil

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 56 mins
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Cosmopolis Poster
64%

Ratings

  • 2.9 / 5

out of 5 stars

A 28-year-old multimillionaire is chauffeured across Manhattan for a haircut but the journey takes 24 hours due to a presidential visit, anti-globalization demonstrations, and a celebrity funeral. Stuck in traffic, the reclusive financial wizard anxiously monitors the value of the yen on the limo's computer. Using the car as his office, he summons advisers from nearby shops and restaurants, as he discusses imminent financial ruin with his broker.

Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon, David Cronenberg, Paulo Branco, Samantha Morton, Jay Baruchel

R Drama 1 hr, 48 mins
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Chicken with Plums Poster
19%

Ratings

  • 2.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Tehran 1958 – Nasser Ali Khan, the most celebrated violin player, has his beloved instrument broken. Unable to find another to replace it, life without music seems intolerable. He stays in bed and slips further and further into his reveries from his youth to his own children’s futures. Over the course of the week that follows, and as the pieces of this captivating story fall into place, we understand his poignant secret and the profundity of his decision to give up life for music and love.

Golshifteh Farahani, Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, Mathieu Amalric, Edouard Baer, Maria de Medeiros, Eric Caravaca

Drama 1 hr, 33 mins
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Beloved Poster
7%

Ratings

  • 3 / 5

out of 5 stars

A romantic musical drama spanning three decades as it follows a mother and daughter's misadventures in love. In the freewheeling Paris of the '60s, young Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier)--who has gone from selling shoes to sleeping with men for money--falls for a handsome Czech doctor, Jaromil (Rasha Bukvic), whom she soon marries and joins in Prague. A baby daughter is born, but Jaromil's infidelities and the arrival of Russian tanks in Prague lead Madeleine back to France--though the love between them still burns. Thirty years later in London, we follow Madeleine's daughter, Vera (Chiara Mastroianni), who has fallen in love with a musician (American actor Paul Schneider) who is incapable of devoting himself to her, while her ex (Honore regular Louis Garrel) still pines for her. Meanwhile in Paris, a re-married Madeleine (Catherine Deneuve) has rekindled her love affair with Jaromil (Milos Forman).

Paul Schneider, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Christophe Honoré, Ludivine Sagnier

Drama 2 hrs, 19 mins
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Side by Side Poster
78%

Ratings

  • 4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side by Side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

George Lucas, Keanu Reeves, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Kenneally, David Fincher, James Cameron, Robert Rodriguez, Walter Murch

Documentary 1 hr, 39 mins
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Why Stop Now? Poster
48%

Ratings

  • 3.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

The unhealthy relationship between a drug-addicted mother and her college-bound son set on the day of his interview at Julliard and her planned arrival in rehab.

Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, Ron Nyswaner, Phil Dorling, Tracy Morgan

R Drama Comedy
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The Day Poster
53%

Ratings

  • 3.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

A group of five survivors armed with shotguns, axes and machetes wander the back roads of a ravaged landscape looking for refuge in The Day, a look into a post-apocalyptic future. As war ravages humanity, destroying civilization and most of life on earth, the survivors realize they must do whatever it takes to stay alive. Lost, starving, and exhausted, they seek shelter in a seemingly safe abandoned farmhouse. However, while searching for food and resources, they unwittingly set off a trap signaling to their ruthless predators laying in wait to begin their deadly attack. With food and ammunition dwindling, the group must make a desperate final stand--over a 24 hour period--battling for their ultimate survival.

Cory Hardrict, Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Michael Eklund, Doug Aarniokoski, Luke Passmore, Dominic Monaghan, Shannyn Sossamon

R Action 1 hr, 24 mins
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Death by China Poster
38%

Ratings

  • 2.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

A documentary feature that pointedly confronts the most urgent problem facing America today – its increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China. Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can’t find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world’s largest totalitarian nation. Through compelling interviews with voices across the political spectrum, Death by China exposes that the U.S.-China relationship is broken and must be fixed if the world is going to be a place of peace and prosperity.

Peter Navarro

NR Documentary 1 hr, 19 mins
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

changed release date from TBA 2027 to March 17, 2028

Lifeline

changed release date from TBA to February 21, 2025

Invasion

changed release date from TBA to February 21, 2025

Jazzy

changed release date from TBA to February 7, 2025

Werwulf

changed release date from TBA to December 25, 2026

Mercy

changed release date from August 15, 2025 to January 23, 2026
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