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Blue Beetle Poster
88%

Ratings

  • 4.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Mexican-American teenager Jaime Reyes discoveres the Blue Beetle scarab on the way home from school. Turns out the scarab provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor which can be modified to enhance his speed and strength, as well as to create weapons, wings and shields.

Susan Sarandon, Bruna Marquezine, Belissa Escobedo, George Lopez, Damian Alcazar, Adriana Barraza, Harvey Guillén, Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer

PG-13 Action Superhero
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Strays Poster
78%

Ratings

  • 4 / 5

out of 5 stars

An abandoned dog teams up with other strays to get revenge on his former owner.

Sofia Vergara, Isla Fisher, Dennis Quaid, Jamie Foxx, Will Ferrell, Brett Gelman, Josh Greenbaum, Chris Miller

R Comedy Live-Action/CGI
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Back on the Strip Poster
63%

Ratings

  • 2.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

After losing the woman of his dreams, Merlin moves to Las Vegas to pursue work as a magician, only to get hired as the front man in a revival of the notorious black male stripper crew, The Chocolate Chips. Led by Luther - now broke and broken - the old, domesticated, out-of-shape Chips put aside former conflicts and reunite to save the hotel they used to perform in while helping Merlin win back his girl.

Kevin Hart, Colleen Camp, Gary Owen, Wesley Snipes, Tiffany Haddish, Faizon Love, Chris Spencer, Eric Daniel

Comedy
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Puppy Love Poster
90%

Ratings

  • 4.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

No plot details have been announced.

Lucy Hale, Grant Gustin, Jane Seymour, Nick Fabiano, Richard Alan Reid, Peter Stass, Michael Hitchcock

Comedy Romance
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The Monkey King Poster
84%

Ratings

  • 4.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

A monkey born from heavenly stone acquires supernatural powers and must battle the armies of both gods and demons to find his place in the heavens.

Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, BD Wong, Steve Bencich, Jimmy O. Yang., Ron Friedman, Bowen Yang, Stephanie Hsu, Jodi Long

PG Action Comedy
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The Adults Poster
87%

Follows Eric (Michael Cera) as he returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts. While Maggie (Sophia Lillis) attempts to recreate the intimate world the three of them once shared, Eric and Rachel (Hannah Gross) are faced with the divide between their childhood selves and the adults they are now.

Michael Cera, Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis, Kiah McKirnan, Simon Kim, Dustin Guy Defa, Wavyy Jonez, Anoop Desai

Drama Comedy
Dark Windows Poster
67%

A group of teenagers take a trip to an isolated summerhouse in the countryside. What starts as a peaceful getaway turns into a horrific nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them in the most gruesome ways.

Jóel Sæmundsson, Alex Herron, Annie Hamilton, Anna Bullard, Rory Alexander, Morten Holst

Thriller Horror
Between Two Worlds Poster
60%

Tells the story of Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, who goes to live in northern France to research a new book on the subject of precarious working conditions. Without revealing her true identity, she is hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences first-hand the financial instability and social invisibility of the ‘gig economy'. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity amongst this fraternity of working-class women. As she becomes more entwined in the community and strikes up a close friendship with a woman called Christèle, she begins to question the ethics of the deception in the name of her writing.

Juliette Binoche, Steve Papagiannis, Emmanuel Carrère, Hélène Lampert, Louise Pociecka, Aude Ruyter, Jérémy Lechevallier

Drama 1 hr, 47 mins
Bad Things Poster
100%

When a group of friends escape the city to spend the weekend in an abandoned hotel, a pervading eerie energy begins to illuminate the cracks in their little family unit. Ruthie Nodd (Gayle Rankin) inherits the hotel from her grandmother and with bad childhood memories threatening to burst to the surface, Ruthie wants to sell the hotel and never return. But her partner Cal (Hari Nef) drags her there with the hopes of returning it to its former glory. They're joined by their friend Maddie (Rad Pereira) and grifter Fran (Annabelle Dexter-Jones), whose unhinged seduction threatens to drive a wedge between the couple. As the friends dance, cook, flirt, and fight up and down the halls of the hotel, they begin to find themselves indelibly entwined in the hotel's seductive embrace and start doing bad things.

Molly Ringwald, Stewart Thorndike, Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Rad Pereira

Horror
The Engineer Poster
78%

Ratings

  • 4.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

The story of Yahya Ayyash—the bombmaker who led an army of suicidal soldiers in Israel during the mid ’90s. The story follows the biggest manhunt in the history of Israel to find him.

Emile Hirsch, Danny A. Abeckaser, Kosta Kondilopoulos, Angel Bonanni, Omer Hazan

R Drama True Story
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The Moon Poster
93%

Ratings

  • 5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Set in 2030, when the manned lunar exploration project has progressed considerably. Astronaut Hwang Seon-woo (Do Kyung-soo), ends up stranded on the Moon alone in space beyond 384,000 km due to an accident on the lunar surface, and Kim Jae-guk (Sol Kyung-gu), the former head of the space center must desperately try to save him. On the other hand, Moon Young, general director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration space station, has a hidden secret.

Yong-hwa Kim, Sul Kyung-gu, Jo Han-chul, Park Byung Eun, Kim Hee-ae, Do Kyung-soo

Thriller
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Landscape With Invisible Hand Poster
88%

Set in the near-future, an alien species known as the "Vuvv" has taken over Earth. After the Vuvv’s labor-saving technology causes the Earth's job market and global economy to collapse, a teen and his girlfriend cook up a way to make much-needed money by broadcasting their dating life to the fascinated aliens.

Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Kylie Rogers, Josh Hamilton, Tiffany Haddish, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini

R Drama Comedy
Simone: Woman of the Century Poster
14%

This tells Simone Veil's life story from her childhood to her major political battles seen through the pivotal events of the twentieth century. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era: her humanist message is still keenly relevant today.

Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Dahan, Elsa Zylberstein, Mathieu Spinosi, Rebecca Marder, Elodie Bouchez, Judith Chemla

NR Drama 2 hrs, 19 mins
Dead Shot Poster
54%

When a border ambush goes wrong, a retired Irish paramilitary Michael (Morgan) witnesses the fatal shooting of his pregnant wife by British Sergeant, Tempest (Ameen). Now wounded, and presumed dead, he escapes, taking his revenge to the dark and paranoid streets of 1970’s London. Raw and suspenseful, Dead Shot is an adrenaline-fueled thriller that will leave audiences weighing up the true cost of revenge.

Felicity Jones, Mark Strong, Aml Ameen, Tom Guard, Colin Morgan, Charles Guard

Drama Action
Haunting of the Queen Mary Poster
84%

Ratings

  • 3 / 5

out of 5 stars

A haunting story is unraveled between the ship’s heyday on Halloween night 1938 and the present…telling the story of two families whose lives become violently entangled.

Alice Eve, Joel Fry, Gary Shore, Nell Hudson, Lenny Rush

Drama Horror
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Downwind Poster
50%

Ratings

  • 5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living… downwind.

Martin Sheen, Mark Shapiro, Douglas Brian Miller

Documentary
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Mutt Poster
54%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

Feña (Lio Mehiel), a young trans guy bustling through life in New York, is afflicted with an incessantly challenging day that resurrects ghosts from his past. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, airport transfers are the hectic background to this emotional drama from Sundance that overlaps past, present, and future. Settling the disharmony of transitional upheaval in relationships familial, romantic, platonic is Feña's task at hand, and his resulting juggling act is equal parts skillful, fumbling, and honest. In negotiating his obliqueness, the poignant moments he finds between himself and others - as the distance between them closes - are warm, true, and touching.

MiMi Ryder, Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, Lio Mehiel, Cole Doman, Alejandro Goic

Drama LGBTQIA+
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Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation Poster
36%

Set amongst derelict, half-finished apartment complexes of a former regime, the discovery of a mysterious burnt body by two police officers reveals a puzzling repetition of events. As the investigation progresses, a network of violence and corruption is uncovered throughout the city.

Youssef Chebbi, Aymen Ben Hmida, Fatma Oussaifi, Mohamed Houcine Grayaa

Thriller
Madeleine Collins Poster
60%

In this tense psychological drama, Judith (Virginie Efira) leads a secret double life split between two households in two countries. In Switzerland, she lives with Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl. In France, she lives with Melvil, with whom she has two older boys. Gradually this fragile balance, based on lies and back-and-forth trips, begins to veer dangerously off the rails.

Virginie Efira, Jacqueline Bisset, Antoine Barraud, Quim Gutiérrez, Bruno Salomone, François Rostain, Loïse Benguerel

Drama Thriller
Birth/Rebirth Poster
63%

A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.

Marin Ireland, Breeda Wool, Grant Harrison, Judy Reyes, Rina Mejia, Laura Moss, A.J. Lister, Monique Gabriela Curnen

R Thriller Horror
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56%

Ratings

  • 4.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

If you're going to play this game fair, you have to be bad.

Nejat Isler, Uluç Bayraktar, Hazal Filiz Küçükköse, Ilayda Akdogan

Drama Crime
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Mutiny

changed release date from TBA to January 9, 2025

The Silent Planet

changed release date from TBA to March 7, 2025

Riff Raff

changed release date from TBA to February 28, 2025

Friendship

changed release date from TBA to May 9, 2025

There's a Zombie Outside

changed release date from TBA to March 4, 2025

The Wild

changed release date from TBA to March 7, 2025
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