Movies Released October 7, 2016

Released Friday, October 7th

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life Poster

82%

4.2 / 5

(31)

Middle School: The Worst Yea...

Rafe Khatchadorian must use all of his wits to battle bullies, hormones and a tyrannical principal at Hills Village Middle School.

Lauren Graham, Griffin Gluck, Thomas Barbusca, James Patterson, Steve Carr, Susan Cartsonis, Adam Pally, Rob Riggle

PG Drama Teen

82% WILL SEE

4.2 / 5

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77%

3.3 / 5

(41)

The Girl on the Train

Theaters

A young woman becomes entangled in a murder investigation because of what she witnesses on her daily commute.

Marc Platt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Edgar Ramirez, Luke Evans, Jared LeBoff, Erin Cressida Wilson, Emily Blunt

R Thriller Adaptation

77% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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71%

2.9 / 5

(7)

The Birth of a Nation

Theaters

The true life story of slave-preacher turned revolutionary, Nat Turner, who in 1831 led the most successful slave revolt in American history.

Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Michael Berman, Kevin Turen, Aunjanue Ellis

R Drama Historical 1 hr, 50 mins

71% WILL SEE

2.9 / 5

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85%

3.3 / 5

(8)

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Limited

A wisecracking girl moves from foster home to foster home until she lands at the house of the weird Maime Trotter.

Danny Glover, Octavia Spencer, Glenn Close, Stephen Herek, Julia Stiles, David Paterson, Kathy Bates, Sophie Nelisse

PG Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 39 mins

85% WILL SEE

3.3 / 5

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77%

1 / 5

(1)

Better Off Single

Limited

A NYC dating comedy that follows one man's hallucination-fueled, post-breakup quest to find new love... and himself.

Abby Elliott, Kal Penn, Lewis Black, Lauren Miller Rogen, Aaron Tveit, Kelen Coleman, Benjamin Cox, Chris Elliott

NR Comedy

77% WILL SEE

1 / 5

Rent or buy On Amazon

84%

4.3 / 5

(3)

A young boy struggles with the effects of a benign tumor that rests against his pituitary gland, which delays his puberty and normal development, causing him frustration and embarrassment. At age 27, a successful operation to remove the tumor restores him to hormonally normal masculinity, but results in his experiencing all the effects of puberty over an extremely condensed three-week period.

J.K. Simmons, Maria Bello, Andrew Kosove, Jesse Israel, Joe Nussbaum, Brittany Snow, Heidi Jo Markel, Jane Lynch

Drama Comedy

84% WILL SEE

4.3 / 5

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71%

4 / 5

(2)

Blue Jay

Limited

Follows two former high school sweethearts. They return to their tiny California hometown and meet by chance, reflecting on their shared past through the lens of their differently dissatisfied presents.

Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson, Alex Lehmann

Drama Romance

71% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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89%

2.3 / 5

(3)

Phantasm: Ravager

Limited

For 37 years, audiences have followed small town friends Reggie, Mike, and Jody in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm in his final performance) and his armada of killer Sentinel Spheres. Now, Don Coscarelli’s acclaimed horror/sci-fi Phantasm franchise comes to a close in a truly epic finale, a multi-dimensional battle across multiple timelines, alien planets, and altered realities, where no less than the fate of Earth is on the line.

Don Coscarelli, A. Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, David Hartman

Horror 1 hr, 37 mins

89% WILL SEE

2.3 / 5

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79%

3 / 5

(1)

Voyage of Time

Limited

A documentary about the birth of the universe that will cover the first signs of life, bacteria, cellular pioneers, first love, consciousness, the ascent of humanity, life and death and the end of the universe.

Brad Pitt, Terrence Malick, Bill Pohlad

Documentary IMAX 0 hrs, 45 mins

79% WILL SEE

3 / 5

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50%

5 / 5

(1)

The Alchemist Cookbook

NYC Only

Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous.

Ty Hickson, Joel Potrykus, Amari Cheatom

Drama

50% WILL SEE

5 / 5

Rent or buy On Amazon

73%

3.4 / 5

(5)

Under the Shadow

Limited

Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her family live amid the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war, a period known as The War of the Cities. Accused of subversion by the post-Revolution government and blacklisted from medical college, she falls into a state of malaise. With Tehran under the constant threat of aerial bombardment, her husband (Bobby Naderi) is drafted and sent to the frontlines by the army, leaving Shideh all alone to protect their young daughter, Dorsa (Avin Manshadi). Soon after he leaves, a missile hits their apartment building and while failing to explode, a neighbor dies under mysterious circumstances and Dorsa’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic.

Shideh finds herself slowly drawn into the ensuing turmoil, struggling to cling onto what is real and what is not. Searching for answers, she learns from a superstitious neighbor that the cursed missile might have brought with it Djinn – malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits that travel on the wind. Convinced that a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess Dorsa, Shideh has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

Babak Anvari, Hamidreza Djavdan, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Soussan Farrokhnia

PG-13 Thriller Horror 1 hr, 24 mins

73% WILL SEE

3.4 / 5

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73%

1 / 5

(1)

Blinky Bill: The Movie

Limited

Follows a mischievous little Koala boy.

Toni Collette, Ryan Kwanten, Rufus Sewell, Deborah Mailman, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Richard Roxburgh, Alexs Stadermann

NR Family Kids 1 hr, 33 mins

73% WILL SEE

1 / 5

Rent or buy On Amazon

79%

4 / 5

(4)

The Lennon Report

Limited

Focuses on the efforts of police officers, nurses and emergency doctors racing to save musician John Lennon’s life at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital.

Richard Kind, Evan Jonigkeit, David Zayas, Jeremy Profe, Walter Vincent, Stephen Spinella, Adrienne C. Moore, Devin Ratray

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 27 mins

79% WILL SEE

4 / 5

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84%

3 / 5

(4)

The 13th

VOD / Digital

Chronicles the history of racial inequality in the United States, examining how our country has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with the majority of prisoners being African-American. From the rebirth of the KKK to the Black Lives Matter movement, director Ava DuVernay traces the history of racism in the U.S. and how such fear and division facilitate a system that drives such mass criminalization.

Ava DuVernay

Documentary

84% WILL SEE

3 / 5

Rent or buy On Amazon

63%

2 / 5

(1)

London Town

Limited

When fifteen-year-old Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) hears the music of The Clash for the first time, it’s a revelation, opening up a new world of social consciousness and anti-establishment defiance beyond anything he’s known in his dead-end London suburb. Drawn into the heart of the city’s burgeoning punk scene, he forges two relationships that will change his life, falling in love with rebellious cool girl Vivian (Nell Williams) and finding an unexpected connection with none other than The Clash’s electrifying frontman, Joe Strummer (Jonathan Rhys Meyers).

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tom Hughes, Derrick Borte, Dougray Scott, Natasha McElhone, Daniel Huttlestone

Drama Music 1 hr, 34 mins

63% WILL SEE

2 / 5

Rent or buy On Amazon

73%

2.3 / 5

(3)

Phantasm: Remastered

Limited

Since its release in 1979, director Don Coscarelli’s epic tale of The Tall Man, his deadly silver Sentinel Spheres, and group the small town friends who must band together to stop his dimension-hopping schemes has captivated and terrified horror and sci-fi fans around the world.

Don Coscarelli, A. Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister

Suspense Horror 1 hr, 36 mins

73% WILL SEE

2.3 / 5

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37%

1.5 / 5

(2)

The Greasy Strangler

Limited

The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, slimy inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent, soon dubbed ‘The Greasy Strangler.’

Jim Hosking, Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo

NR Comedy Thriller 1 hr, 33 mins

37% WILL SEE

1.5 / 5

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