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Secretariat Poster
84%

Ratings

  • 4.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

Based on "Secretariat," the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and its owner, Penny Chenery. Chenery was a mother and housewife who knew little about horses when she was pressed to take over her ailing father's horse farm in Virginia. Though Secretariat came along and began to take shape as a potential champion, Chenery was pressured to sell the farm after her father died and she was hit with a multimillion-dollar inheritance tax. She saved both the farm and the horse, and watched as Secretariat became the first thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown in 25 years, taking the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in dominating fashion. Chenery became known as the "first lady of racing."

Mike Rich, John Malkovich, Diane Lane, Dylan Walsh, Scott Glenn, James Cromwell, Mark Ciardi, Margo Martindale

PG Drama 1 hr, 56 mins
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It's Kind of a Funny Story Poster
89%

Ratings

  • 4.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

A clinically depressed 15-year-old checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward where he gains a new lease on life.

Emma Roberts, Zach Galifianakis, Viola Davis, Zoe Kravitz, Anna Boden, Lauren Graham, Jim Gaffigan, Pam Abdy

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 41 mins
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My Soul to Take Poster
85%

Ratings

  • 3.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

The story concerns a serial killer who shows up 15 years after he is believed dead to kill seven children born on his supposed death day.

Anthony Katagas, Wes Craven, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Emily Meade, Raul Esparza, Iya Labunka, Henry Lee Hopper

R Thriller 1 hr, 28 mins
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Life As We Know It Poster
85%

Ratings

  • 4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Two single people suddenly become caregivers to an orphaned girl after the parents, their mutual best friends, are killed in an accident.

Paul Brooks, Barry Josephson, Josh Duhamel, Norm Waitt, Greg Berlanti, Josh Lucas, Jean Smart, Christina Hendricks

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 52 mins
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Inside Job Poster
75%

Ratings

  • 4.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, "Inside Job" traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Matt Damon, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins
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Never Let Me Go Poster
71%

Ratings

  • 3.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Alex Garland, Sally Hawkins, Andrew Macdonald, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Allon Reich

R Drama 1 hr, 44 mins
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Stone Poster
88%

Ratings

  • 4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Based on a play by "Junebug" screenwriter Angus MacLachlan. Robert De Niro will play a parole officer who develops a friendship with a teaching assistant.

Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, Edward Norton, Frances Conroy, John Curran, Angus MacLachlan

R Drama 1 hr, 45 mins
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Nowhere Boy Poster
64%

Ratings

  • 3.7 / 5

out of 5 stars

A biopic of a young John Lennon.

Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Douglas Rae, Matt Greenhalgh, Thomas Sangster, Kevin Loader, David Threlfall, Ophelia Lovibond

R Drama 1 hr, 27 mins
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Tamara Drewe Poster
61%

Ratings

  • 3.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

The story centers on a sexy flirtatious woman who returns to her small country village and stirs up dark passions among the locals.

Luke Evans, Gemma Arterton, Bill Camp, Alison Owen, Moira Buffini, Dominic Cooper, Tracey Seaward, Stephen Frears

R Comedy 1 hr, 49 mins
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As Good as Dead Poster
29%

Ratings

  • 3.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Fundamentalists kidnap the man they believe murdered their religious leader, but they may have the wrong person.

Andie MacDowell, Brian Cox, Cary Elwes, Frank Whaley, Jonathan Mossek, Matt Dallas

R Thriller
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It's a Wonderful Afterlife Poster
27%

A British-Asian mother's obsession to marry off her daughter leads to serial murder.

Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha

Comedy 1 hr, 40 mins
I Spit On Your Grave Poster
84%

Ratings

  • 4.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

A remake of the controversial 1979 horror movie, it retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills, who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson.

Daniel Franzese, Steven R. Monroe, Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, Chad Lindberg

R Thriller 1 hr, 48 mins
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Down Terrace Poster
25%

Ratings

  • 4 / 5

out of 5 stars

A genre-bending portrait of a crime family.

Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins
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Buried Poster
83%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried", playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Ryan Reynolds, Chris Sparling, Samantha Mathis, Rodrigo Cortés, Robert Paterson, Warner Loughlin

R Drama 1 hr, 40 mins
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Borderline

changed release date from March 14, 2025 to March 7, 2025

The Ritual

changed release date from April 18, 2025 to June 6, 2025

The Mummy

changed release date from April 17, 2025 to April 17, 2026

Bad Fairies

changed release date from July 23, 2025 to July 23, 2027

Bad Fairies

changed release date from TBA to July 23, 2025

The Mummy

changed release date from TBA to April 17, 2025
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