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Argo Poster
53%

Ratings

  • 4.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

In 1979, CIA operative Tony Mendez, a master of disguise is put in charge of rescuing six Americans hiding out in Tehran. He comes up with the idea of using a bogus movie and contacts a Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers. Chambers and Bob Sidell, also a makeup artist, launch Studio Six Productions (an allusion to the six Americans awaiting rescue) and announce their first movie project, to be shot in Iran. Mendez travels to Tehran in January 1980 and tells the Americans to pretend they are Canadians on a scouting trip for a big-budget Hollywood epic. The ruse works.

George Clooney, Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Scoot McNairy, John Goodman, Grant Heslov, David Klawans, Chris Terrio

R Drama 2 hrs, 0 mins
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Here Comes the Boom Poster
63%

Ratings

  • 4.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

A physics teacher's school faces drastic cutbacks. In an attempt to save his best friend's job and the music program his students love, he moonlights in the octagon as a mixed martial arts fighter, ultimately leading to brawling in the UFC.

Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Joe Rogan, Kevin James, Frank Coraci, Todd Garner, Allan Loeb, Melissa Peterman

PG Action Comedy
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Sinister Poster
83%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Follows a journalist who moves his family into a house where another family was murdered. After moving in, he uncovers found footage that leads to clues about the murders.

Scott Derrickson, Ethan Hawke, Clare Foley, Fred Dalton Thompson, Jason Blum, C. Robert Cargill, James Ransone, Vincent D'Onofrio

R Thriller Suspense
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Smashed Poster
54%

Ratings

  • 2.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter... and getting smashed. When Kate's partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something's got to give. But change isn't exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she's been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Kyle Gallner, James Ponsoldt, Aaron Paul, Megan Mullally, Mary Kay Place

R Drama 1 hr, 25 mins
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Gayby Poster
31%

Ratings

  • 2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Jenn (Jenn Harris) and Matt (Matthew Wilkas) are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer's block and can't get over his ex-boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a child together... the old-fashioned way. Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track in preparation for parenthood? Gayby is an irreverent comedy about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness, and the family you choose.

Jonathan Lisecki, Jenn Harris, Matthew Wilkas

Comedy LGBTQIA+
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Art Machine Poster
100%

A 18-year-old prodigy painter, suffering from bipolar disorder, needs to come up with an art show to end all art shows, but when he meets a group of artist-anarchists, his world turns upside down.

Doug Karr, Joseph Cross, Jessica Szohr, Joey Lauren Adams

NR Drama Comedy
Seven Psychopaths Poster
66%

Ratings

  • 3.8 / 5

out of 5 stars

Story follows a screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling for inspiration for his script, Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken). Things take a turn for the worse when a gangster's (Mickey Rourke) mutt goes missing.

Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Tom Waits, Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

R Comedy
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Atlas Shrugged Part II Poster
87%

Ratings

  • 3.6 / 5

out of 5 stars

The second part of a planned trilogy that continues the Ayn Rand story.

Samantha Mathis, Duncan Scott, Esai Morales, John Putch, Harmon Kaslow, John Aglialoro, Duke Sandefur, Brian Patrick O'Toole

PG-13 Drama Sequel
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Middle of Nowhere Poster
36%

Ratings

  • 2.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

A drama chronicling a woman’s separation from her incarcerated husband and her journey to maintain her marriage and her identity.

Ava DuVernay

R Drama
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3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom Poster
38%

Ratings

  • 2.2 / 5

out of 5 stars

Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam) has been tortured, embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce (Chris O'Dowd) -usually on film- his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.

Ron Perlman, Jordan Roberts, Sam Anderson, Lizzy Caplan, Whitney Cummings, Chris Noth, Chris O'Dowd

Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins
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Least Among Saints Poster
45%

Ratings

  • 3 / 5

out of 5 stars

Returning home to a broken marriage and an uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Martin Papazian) believes there is no hope for himself. Yet when a troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), calls out for help, Anthony cannot turn away. To the dismay of the boy's social worker (Laura San Giacomo), Anthony sets out on a fool's quest to help this heartbroken and hard-to-reach child find his long-lost father. In the midst of this new mission--the first that seems to matter since his return--Anthony begins to come to grips with both the costs of war and the universal power of human connection. Papazian finds both the gravity and the grace in ordinary, flawed characters pushed to extraordinary acts of compassion and decency.

Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, Azura Skye, Audrey Marie Anderson, A.J. Cook, Charles S. Dutton

R Drama
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Smiley Poster
77%

Ratings

  • 2.9 / 5

out of 5 stars

After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named Smiley can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

Caitlin Gerard, Toby Turner, Jana Winternitz, Michael Gallagher, Glasgow Phillips, Melanie Papalia, Shane Dawson, Andrew James Allen

R Drama 1 hr, 30 mins
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Special Forces Poster
91%

Ratings

  • 3.5 / 5

out of 5 stars

A kidnapping drama set in Afghanistan.

Stephane Rybojad, Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Denis Menochet, Benoit Magimel, Raphael Personnaz

R Drama 1 hr, 48 mins
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War of Buttons Poster
33%

Ratings

  • 3.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

Two rival gangs of kids from different French villages engage in a play war.

Christophe Barratier, Thomas Langmann, Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Casta, Jean Texier, Ilona Bachelier

PG-13 Adventure Family
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Nobody Walks Poster
17%

Ratings

  • 4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family living in the hip and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, the father, has agreed to help Martine complete sound design on her art film as a favor to his wife. Martine innocently enters the seemingly idyllic life of this open-minded family with two kids and a relaxed Southern California vibe. Like a bolt of lightning, her arrival sparks a surge of energy that awakens suppressed impulses in everyone and forces them to confront their own fears and desires.

Ry Russo-Young, Lena Dunham, Olivia Thirlby, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jane Levy, Dylan McDermott, Emma Dumont

R Drama 1 hr, 23 mins
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Simon and the Oaks Poster
46%

Ratings

  • 3.3 / 5

out of 5 stars

Set in rural Sweden in the 1940s and tells the story of a boy from a working class family who befriends a Jewish boy whose family has fled from Germany.

Lisa Ohlin, Bill Skarsgard, Helen Sjoholm, Jan Josef Liefers

NR Drama 2 hrs, 2 mins
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Grave Encounters 2 Poster
84%

Ratings

  • 3.4 / 5

out of 5 stars

Grave Encounters was a found-footage horror phenomenon that many people believed was just a movie. Film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong in Grave Encounters 2. Alex is as obsessed with the first film as the 20 million people who viewed its viral trailer on YouTube. While he and his friends research the events and visit the real psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film, they find themselves face-to-face with unspeakable evil, banking on the hope that their knowledge of the original film will help them survive the sequel.

The Vicious Brothers, Sean Rogerson, John Poliquin, Richard Harmon, Stephanie Bennett, Dylan Playfair, Leanne Lapp, Howard Lai

Sequel Thriller
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20%

Ratings

  • 1 / 5

out of 5 stars

A Whisper to a Roar tells the heroic stories of courageous democracy activists in five countries around the world – Egypt, Malaysia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. From student leaders to prime ministers and heads of state, these activists share their compelling personal stories of struggle, past and present, with their countries’ oppressive regimes.

Alfred Molina, Ben Moses

Documentary
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The Thieves Poster
50%

Ratings

  • 3.9 / 5

out of 5 stars

It's the score of their lives--if they can pull it off. Five thieves at the top of their game, and the crew is assembling for their biggest job yet. Popie's the muscle and brains, Pepsee's the safecracker. Yenicall climbs walls, Zampano is the strategy man, and Chewingum is the master of disguise. But this new score--it's hot. Maybe too hot. But who can resist the Tear of The Sun: a 318-carat diamond, worth 20 million dollars, and locked away in a casino. The vault is impenetrable, the location covered in cops, and everyone knows there's no honor among thieves--especially not the crew Macao Park, Popie's old partner, has forced their team to work with. As they gear up and stroll into the casino with a plan, skills, and a whole lot of nerve, they quickly learn that avoiding the cops may not be their toughest problem. What's Macao Park's real motive? Who will betray them all? And who will walk away with the diamond?

Dong-hoo Choi, Yun-seok Kim, Gianna Jun, Hae-suk Kim

NR Action 2 hrs, 15 mins
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Hell of a Summer

changed release date from April 18, 2025 to April 4, 2025

The Grove

changed release date from TBA to April 4, 2025

Pets

changed release date from TBA to April 11, 2025

Last Bullet

changed release date from TBA to May 7, 2025

Bride Hard

changed release date from TBA to June 20, 2025

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

changed release date from May 9, 2025 to September 19, 2025
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