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Top Crime Movies 2018

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December 7 December 14 December 25 November 30 October 5 October 10 October 12 October 19 October 26 Monday, September 10 September 14 September 21 September 28 August 10 August 17 August 24 July 13 July 20 June 8 June 15 May 11 April 20 April 27 March 2 March 9 March 23 February 16 January 12 January 19

Asher Poster
89%

Ratings

  • 3.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Asher (Ron Perlman) is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie (Famke Janssen) on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.

Ron Perlman, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Caton-Jones, Famke Janssen, Peter Facinelli, Jacqueline Bisset, Jay Zaretsky

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Backtrace Poster
71%

Ratings

  • 2 / 5

out of 5 stars

After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year in evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor (Ryan Guzman and Meadow Williams) to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he’s forgotten. MacDonald must now elude a local detective (Sylvester Stallone), a toughened FBI agent (Christopher McDonald) and the drug’s dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money all while confronting his past.

Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Christopher McDonald, Ryan Guzman, Meadow Williams

R
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The Mule Poster
66%

Ratings

  • 4.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

Clint Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does well—so well, in fact, that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl is assigned a handler. But he isn’t the only one keeping tabs on Earl; the mysterious new drug mule has also hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates. And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl’s past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it’s uncertain if he’ll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel’s enforcers, catch up to him.

Michael Pena, Laurence Fishburne, Clint Eastwood, Dianne Wiest, Taissa Farmiga, Ruben Fleischer, Bradley Thomas, Nick Schenk

R
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Destroyer Poster
49%

Ratings

  • 2.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

Follows a LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a cult-like gang in the California desert. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

Fred Berger, Sebastian Stan, Nicole Kidman, Tatiana Maslany, Matt Manfredi, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford, Karyn Kusama

R
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Blood Brother Poster
84%

Ratings

  • 3.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

Brother’s Blood takes place on the mean streets of a city in decay, where a recently released convict begins to take murderous revenge against his childhood friends, whom he believes let him take the fall for a crime they collectively committed. As the bodies start piling up, one of the friends, now a cop, will stop at nothing to put an end to the murderous rampage and to right the many wrongs of their tragically violent past.

Jack Kesy, John Pogue, Michael Finch, Karl Gajdusek, Charles Murray, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, China Anne McClain, Rajeev Jacob

R
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The Old Man and the Gun Poster
83%

Ratings

  • 3.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Tom Waits, David Lowery, Anthony Mastromauro

PG-13
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Bayou Caviar Poster
56%

Ratings

  • 2.7 / 5

out of 5 stars

A tale of sin involving good people who, out of desperation, resort to doing bad things that inevitably leave them with life-changing consequences.

Cuba Gooding Jr., Richard Dreyfuss, Famke Janssen, Eitan Gorlin, Paul Haggis

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20%

In 22 July, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips, United 93) tells the true story of the aftermath of Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack. On 22 July 2011, 77 people were killed when a far-right extremist detonated a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens. 22 July uses the lens of a survivor’s physical and emotional journey to portray the country's path to healing and reconciliation.

Eli Bush, Paul Greengrass, Scott Rudin, Anders Danielsen Lie, Greg Goodman, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden

Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer Poster
93%

Ratings

  • 5 / 5

out of 5 stars

The film is the shocking true story of the investigation and trial of Dr Kermit Gosnell - his 30 year killing spree and the political and media establishment that tried to cover it up. Who can the investigators really trust when a routine drugs investigation uncovers a scandal that goes all the way to the top?

John Sullivan, Nick Searcy, Dean Cain, Sarah Jane Morris, Earl Billings

PG-13
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? Poster
39%

Ratings

  • 4.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).

Richard E. Grant, Melissa McCarthy, Bob Balaban, Marielle Heller, Anne Carey, Jeff Whitty, Anna Deavere Smith, Jennifer Westfeldt

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The Guilty Poster
50%

Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.

Katinka Evers-Jahnsen, Jessica Dinnage, Johan Olsen, Gustav Möller, Jacob Cedergren, Omar Shargawi

R
Viper Club Poster
55%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

ER nurse Helen Sterling (Susan Sarandon) struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and State agencies, she discovers a clandestine community of journalists, advocates, and philanthropists who might be able to help.

Susan Sarandon, Maryam Keshavarz, Lola Kirke, Matt Bomer, Julian Morris, Shelia Vand, Jonathan Mastro, Edie Falco

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Slice Poster
73%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

In a spooky small town, when a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors (Zazie Beetz and Chance the Rapper) set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree.

Austin Vesely, Zazie Beetz, Will Brill, Chance the Rapper

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No Poster Available
71%

Ratings

  • 1.7 / 5

out of 5 stars

British High Court Judge Fiona Maye is so involved with her cases that she hears that it often strains her marriage. But one case is of particular difficultly — that of a 17-year-old boy who is suffering from leukemia and does not want to be forced to have possible life-saving blood transfusions because it goes against his religion. The case causes internal turmoil for the wise and compassionate judge who must choose between the bright boy's right to choose and the possibility of a future.

Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Fionn Whitehead, Richard Eyre, Duncan Kenworthy

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White Boy Rick Poster
76%

Ratings

  • 4.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, White Boy Rick is based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.

Matthew McConaughey, RJ Cyler, Richie Merritt, Eddie Marsan, Christopher Mallick, Joseph Kosinski, Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin

R
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80%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

Four teenage girls in a small suburb take up arms after their personal texts and selfies are leaked by an anonymous hacker.

Bella Thorne, Bill Skarsgard, Odessa Young, Joel McHale, Sam Levinson, Suki Waterhouse, Maude Apatow, Melanie Lynskey

R
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Monsters and Men Poster
31%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

The story takes place in Brooklyn where an unarmed black man is killed after an altercation with police officers, leading to a nuanced investigation into a tight-knit neighborhood.

Jasmine Cephas Jones, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Reinaldo Marcus Green, Anthony Ramos, Cara Buono, John David Washington, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan

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A Prayer Before Dawn Poster
94%

Ratings

  • 1.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

The true story of Billy Moore, a young English boxer incarcerated in two of Thailand’s most notorious prisons. He is quickly thrown into a terrifying world of drugs and gang violence, but when the prison authorities allow him to take part in the Muay Thai boxing tournaments, he realizes this might be his chance to get out. Billy embarks on a relentless, action-packed journey from one savage fight to the next, stopping at nothing to do whatever he must to preserve his life and regain his freedom.

Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire, Nicolas Shake, Panya Yimmumphai

R
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BlacKkKlansman Poster
75%

Ratings

  • 3.7 / 5

out of 5 stars

It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organization aims to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream.

Sean McKittrick, Spike Lee, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Jordan Peele, Shaun Redick, Ryan Eggold, Raymond Mansfield

R
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No Poster Available
79%

Ratings

  • 2.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

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, Ansel Elgort, James Cox, Holly Wiersma, Cary Elwes, Billie Lourd, Kevin Spacey, Suki Waterhouse

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Papillon Poster
82%

Ratings

  • 4.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Papillon follows the epic story of Henri "Papillon" Charrière (Charlie Hunnam), a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega (Rami Malek), who in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.

Michael Socha, Charlie Hunnam, Joey McFarland, Riza Aziz, Eve Hewson, Rami Malek, Roland Møller, Michael Noer

R
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Poor Boy Poster
24%

Ratings

  • 1.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to repo their beloved houseboat the brothers cook up an epic con to finally leave their dusty town and sail off on a beam of sunshine to California.

Michael Shannon, Justin Chatwin, Lou Taylor Pucci, Amanda Crew, Pat Healy, Dale Dickey, Robert Scott Wiles, Dov Tiefenbach

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The Equalizer 2 Poster
93%

Ratings

  • 4.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Denzel Washington returns to one of his signature roles in the first sequel of his career. Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed – but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?

Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Melissa Leo, Richard Wenk, Steve Tisch, Bill Pullman, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal

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211 Poster
83%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history. Officer Mike Chandler (Nicolas Cage) and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly trained and heavily armed men.

Nicolas Cage, Cory Hardrict, Ori Pfeffer, Michael Rainey Jr., Weston Cage, Sophie Skelton, Alexandra Dinu, York Alec Shackleton

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Gotti Poster
87%

Ratings

  • 2.9 / 5

out of 5 stars

John Travolta (Academy Award Nominee) stars as the legendary mobster John Gotti who was head of the largest and most powerful crime organization in North America, the Gambino Family. His flamboyant style, charm and ruthless personae made him the most famous mobster in the 20th Century. The story, told through the eyes of his eldest son John Gotti, Jr. delves into the past and explores Gotti’s epic rise and fall in the mob. He earned the name “Teflon Don” by the media whom he did not shy away from, due to the FBI’s numerous unsuccessful attempts to convict Gotti. At the end, he was sentenced to life in prison, and a young 24 year old Gotti Jr. becomes the acting Boss of the Family. Gotti Jr. is also investigated and arrested in his own connections to crime by the FBI. Gotti Jr. ultimately rejects the legacy he was born into, and walks away a “civilian”.

John Travolta, Leo Rossi, Kevin Connolly, Randall Emmett, Kelly Preston, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Lydia Hull, Tyler Jon Olson

R
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No Poster Available
68%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

The story involves the case of Krystian Bala, a Polish writer who was convicted of murder in 2007. The murder for which he was convicted had been a cold case, baffling the Polish police for years, and had been called a perfect crime. Bala, never a suspect in the case, attracted attention when he published a novel that detailed a murder very much like the one that was frustrating the police.

Jim Carrey, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas, Brett Ratner, John Cheng, Simon Horsman, Jeremy Brock, Zbigniew Zamachowski

R
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Super Troopers 2 Poster
93%

Ratings

  • 3.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area. Unconventional police work follows, and the result is…Super Troopers 2.

Brian Cox, Paul Soter, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Rob Lowe

R
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The Escape of Prisoner 614 Poster
67%

Ratings

  • 3.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

After two deputy sheriffs lose their jobs because of poor arrest records, they purse an escaped convict to try and win back their badges. But nabbing the convict won’t be half as dangerous as facing the ruthless sheriff who is tracking their every move.

Martin Starr, Ron Perlman, Jake McDorman, George Sample III, Zach Golden

PG-13
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Con Man Poster
77%

The bizarre story of a teenage entrepreneur running a successful carpet company, ZZZZ Best, who gets busted for running a Ponzi scheme. After experiencing a religious conversion in prison, Minkow becomes a pastor doing anti-fraud work with the FBI.

Mark Hamill, Ving Rhames, Justin Baldoni, James Caan, Armand Assante, Bruce Caulk, Bret Saxon, William MacDonald

NR
Pickings Poster
61%

Ratings

  • 4.1 / 5

out of 5 stars

When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past.

Emil Ferzola, Usher Morgan, Elyse Price, Katie Vincent, Joel Bernard, Yaron Urbas

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Girls vs Gangsters Poster
72%

Ratings

  • 3 / 5

out of 5 stars

A wild bachelorette weekend in a foreign city spins hilariously out of control in this over-the-top sequel to the box office smash GIRLS. After a drinking contest with some questionable local spirits, three friends wake naked on a beach to discover two are handcuffed to a locked suitcase, one has a strange new tattoo, and none of them have any clue what happened the night before. When they soon find themselves pursued by local gangsters, their only shot at making it home - and to the altar - is to piece together the previous night’s events while on the run.

Barbara Wong, Fiona Sit, Ivy Chen, Ning Chang

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Beauty and the Dogs Poster
42%

Ratings

  • 2.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

Kaouther Ben Hania, Ghanem Zrelli, Mariam Al Ferjani, Noomane Hamda, Mohamed Akkari

NR
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Honor Up Poster
64%

Ratings

  • 3.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Damon Dash stars as OG, a drug lord’s lieutenant struggling to maintain the code of honor — protect the family — within his unruly crew after a Harlem shootout. Also featuring Nicholas Turturro and Stacey Dash, this film reveals a deadly underworld where beats pound as bullets fly and even outlaws must live by the code.

Kanye West, Damon Dash, Stacey Dash, Cameron "Cam’Ron” Giles, Daniel Jenkins, Smoke DZA, John "Murda Mook" Ancrum, Blackface

R
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Detective Chinatown 2 Poster
70%

Ratings

  • 2 / 5

out of 5 stars

When the case of New York Chinatown godfather Uncle Qi’s missing son turns into a murder investigation, the detective duo Tang and Qin team up again to hunt down the killer—this time with some help from the International Detective Alliance.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Liu Haoran, Michael Pitt, Chen Sicheng, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang

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Proud Mary Poster
83%

Ratings

  • 3.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

Taraji P. Henson is Mary, a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.

Taraji P. Henson, Danny Glover, Rade Serbedzija, Paul Schiff, Tai Duncan, John Stuart Newman, Billy Brown, Babak Najafi

R
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70%

Ratings

  • 3.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

This exuberant tragicomedy recounts the remarkable but true story of the rise and fall of Polish émigré Jan Lewan (Jack Black), from striving tchotchke shop owner in the ’70s to the undisputed “King of Pennsylvania Polka” in the early ’90s. Lewan pursued the American Dream by any means necessary, fleecing investors and bribing officials to build a personal musical empire in what became the world’s only known Polka Ponzi scheme. Swept up by Lewan’s charismatic charm are his devoted wife, Marla (Jenny Slate), and his neurotic sidekick, Mickey (Jason Schwartzman).

Jack Black, David Permut, Jason Schwartzman, Wally Wolodarsky, Jacki Weaver, Vanessa Bayer, Maya Forbes, Stuart Cornfeld

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Den of Thieves Poster
85%

Ratings

  • 3.7 / 5

out of 5 stars

A Los Angeles crime saga in the vein of Heat, Den of Thieves follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

Gerard Butler, Paul Sheuring, Dawn Olivieri, Meadow Williams, Mark Canton, Tucker Tooley, Curtis Jackson, Pablo Schreiber

R
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Small Town Crime Poster
68%

Ratings

  • 3.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

Follows ex-cop Mike Kendall (John Hawkes) who discovers the body of a young woman and, in an act of self-redemption, becomes hellbent on finding the killer. Adidas Gazelle Heren While his quirky detective style helps break open the case, his dogged determination unwittingly puts his sister (Octavia Spencer) and best friend (Anthony Anderson) in danger.

Clifton Collins, Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, Robert Forster, Jr., Eshom Nelms, John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson

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My Sunshine

changed release date from TBA to September 19, 2025

Stranger Eyes

changed release date from TBA to August 29, 2025

Relay

changed release date from TBA 2025 to August 22, 2025

The Sparrow in the Chimney

changed release date from TBA to August 1, 2025

Magic Farm

changed release date from TBA to April 25, 2025

Sister Mignight

changed release date from TBA to May 16, 2025
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