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Movies Released August 17, 2018

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Set 20,000 years ago in the Ice Age, a hunting expedition goes awry and a young survivor braves the inhospitable and dangerous conditions to find his way back.

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Albert Hughes, Dan Widenhaupt, Leonor Varela, Natassia Malthe, Priya Rajaratnam

PG-13 Drama Action

89%

  • 3.6
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A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together as they confront violent and extreme political corruption.

Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Lauren Cohan, Sala Baker, Peter Berg, Lea Carpenter, Ronda Rousey, Iko Uwais

R Drama Action

78%

  • 3.6
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During the 1980s in Los Angeles, a group of wealth graduates of the Harvard School for boys establish an investment club. When the funds run out, the members resort to kidnapping and murder.

Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Cary Elwes, Captain Mauzner, Suki Waterhouse, James Cox, Holly Wiersma, Stephen Cox

Drama Crime

79%

  • 2.5
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Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, has an unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.

Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Albert Berger, Rose Byrne, Chris O’Dowd, Jesse Peretz, Ron Yerxa, Jeffrey Soros

Drama Romance

81%

  • 4
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An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.

Ryan Potter, Jim Caviezel, Matt Dillon, David L. Cunningham, Christian Parkes, Olivia Ritchie, Juliet Mills, Nick Boraine

Romance Family 1 hr, 50 mins

85%

  • 4.9
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A take on the 1837 classic centers on a young girl (Peralta) and her older brother (Moseley), a reporter, who travels to a small town in Mississippi to find a woman believed to be the real Little Mermaid.

Gina Gershon, Jared Sandler, Armando Gutierrez, Blake Harris, Chris Bouchard, Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, William Moseley

PG Drama Fairy Tale 1 hr, 27 mins

74%

  • 2.7
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A music biopic based on singer and songwriter Blaze Foley.

Wyatt Russell, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Zahn, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Sam Rockwell, Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat

Biography Music

73%

  • 4.5
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High schooler Lara Jean Song writes love letters to the five boys she's ever loved and keeps them locked away in a hatbox until the day her letters are mailed, upending her real-life love life.

Noah Centineo, Israel Broussard, Will Smith, Lana Condor, Susan Johnson, James Lassiter, Sofia Alvarez, John Corbett

Drama Romance

98%

  • 3.9
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A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose at the Postville Lodge during the auction when a strange force animates all of the various puppets throughout the convention as they go on a bloody killing spree.

Charlyne Yi, S. Craig Zahler, Michael Paré, Sonny Laguna, Tommy Wiklund, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Dallas Sonnier

Fantasy Horror

75%

  • 1
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Three brothers tear their way through childhood, pushing against their parents’ volatile love. While the older brothers take cues from their unpredictable father, Jonah, the youngest, increasingly embraces an imagined world all his own.

Sheila Vand, Jeremiah Zagar, Evan Rosado, Josiah Gabriel, Isaiah Kristian, Raul Castillo

Drama LGBTQIA+

10%

  • 1
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Thirty miles from Manhattan a group of mysterious mountain people fight for recognition as a legitimate Native American tribe from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. What begins as their journey travels the country as Native American’s fight for their rights at Standing Rock, Apache Junction and throughout the United States. Examining through expert interviews and unbridled access to the ­community, the film provides an in ­depth look at the complex past, volatile present and endangered future of the Ramapough Mountain Indians and what it truly means to be a “Native American”.

Edith Burke, Steven Oritt, Amanda Anderson, Jack Anderson, Joe the Carver, Russell Means, John Bragg, John Prine

Documentary 1 hr, 24 mins

64%

  • 1
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Legendary baseball coach, Don (John C. McGinley), gets inexperienced Michael (Garret Dillahunt) as his new assistant coach. As their lives dramatically change, the coaches must come together to help their team win.

Robert Deaton, George J. Flanigen IV, Richard Dresser, John C. McGinley, Garret Dillahunt, Jlynn Johnson, Graham Schneider, Keith Jamal Evans

Comedy

87%

  • 3.2
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At Chengdu Panda Base in China, scientists are dedicated to protecting the species by breeding adult Giant Pandas in order to introduce cubs into the wild. This film follows one such researcher, whose passion leads her to initiate a new technique inspired by a black bear program in rural New Hampshire. What starts as a cross-culture collaboration becomes a life-changing journey for an American biologist who crosses an ocean to join her; a scientist from Inner Mongolia; and a very curious female cub named Qian Qian, born in captivity.

Kristen Bell, David Douglas, Drew Fellman, Donald Kushner, Steve Ransohoff

G Documentary Nature

88%

  • 4.5
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Set against the mysterious Blackwood boarding school, new student Kit Gordy must unravel Blackwood's haunted and tragic history before it's too late.

AnnaSophia Robb, Chris Sparling, Isabelle Fuhrman, Rodrigo Cortés, Stephenie Meyer, Meghan Hibbett, Wick Godfrey, Marty Bowen

Suspense Adaptation

81%

  • 1
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Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

Bing Liu

Documentary 1 hr, 33 mins

0%

  • 1
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