NOVEMBER 20, 2020
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HAPPIEST SEASON
Directed By: Clea Duvall
Studio: Hulu
A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family’s acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Holland, Victor Garber, and Mary Steenburgen
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Country: Canada | USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some language)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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THE LAST VERMEER
Created By: Dan Friedkin
Studio: Sony Pictures
An artist is suspected of selling a valuable painting to the Nazis, but there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Starring: Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps, and Roland Møller
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for some language, violence and nudity)
Runtime: 117 minutes
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SOUND OF METAL
Directed By: Darius Marder
Studio: Amazon Studios
A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff and Mathieu Amalric
Genre: Drama | Music
Country: Belgium | USA (English & French)
Rating: R (for language throughout and brief nude images)
Runtime: 120 minutes
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BUDDY GAMES
Directed By: Josh Duhamel
Studio: Saban Films
A group of friends reunite to play The Buddy Games, a wild assortment of absurd physical and mental challenges. In the process, they’ll heal old wounds, right past wrongs and figure out the true meaning of friendship…or die trying.
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Olivia Munn, Kevin Dillon, Dax Shepard and Neal McDonough
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Rating: R (for strong crude sexual content and language throughout, some graphic nudity, drug use and brief violence)
Runtime: 90 minutes
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EMBATTLED
Directed By: Nick Sarkisov
Studio: IFC Films
A son aspires to follow in his famous MMA father’s footsteps, but along his journey must figure out how to break the abusive cycle, if possible, that his father has continued.
Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Stephen Dorff, Donald Faison, and Saïd Taghmaoui
Genre: Action | Drama | Sport
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for pervasive strong language and crude sexual references, violence and some nudity)
Runtime: 117 minutes
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COLLECTIVE
Directed By: Alexander Nanau
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Starring: Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan, Tedy Ursuleanu, and Vlad Voiculescu
Genre: Documentary | International
Country: Romania | Luxembourg (Romanian & English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 109 minutes
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GIRL
Directed By: Chad Faust
Studio: Screen Media Films
A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she’d imagined.
Starring: Bella Thorne, Mickey Rourke, Chad Faust, and Lanette Ware
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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ALWAYS AND FOREVER
Directed By: Chris Stokes
Studio: RLJE Films
After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can’t be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them.
Starring: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Robbie Jones, Aundrea Smith, and Loretta Devine
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for violence, terror, thematic elements, some sexual references and language)
Runtime: 98 minutes
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JIU JITSU
Directed By: Dimitri Logothetis
Studio: The Avenue Entertainment
Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.
Starring: Alain Moussi, Frank Grillo, JuJu Chan, Tony Jaa and Nicolas Cage
Genre: Action | Fantasy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for violence throughout)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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1 NIGHT IN SAN DIEGO
Directed By: Penelope Lawson
Studio: 1091 Pictures
Two life long friends, Hannah, a former reality starlet, and her conscious cuddling best friend, Brooklyn, road trip to San Diego to meet a high school crush and attend Comic Con. When things don’t go as planned, their trip turns into a night of chaos, debauchery, and ultimately tests the deepest bonds of their friendship.
Starring: Jenna Ushkowitz, Laura Ashley Samuels, Alexandra Daddario, and Eric Nelsen
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 85 minutes
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HEARTS AND BONES
Directed By: Ben Lawrence
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Daniel is preparing an exhibition of his work from the world’s war zones. When Sebastian learns that this exhibition may display photographs of a massacre in his village, he finds Daniel and appeals to him to exclude those photographs.
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Andrew Luri, Hayley McElhinney, and Bolude Watson
Genre: Drama | International
Country: Australia (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 111 minutes
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TEAM MARCO
Directed By: Julio Vincent Gambuto
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Marco, 12, is obsessed with his iPad and hardly leaves the house. However, when his grandmother dies and his grandfather moves in, Marco’s life is turned upside-down.
Starring: Owen Vaccaro, Louis Cancelmi, Thomas Kopache, and Greg Rikaart
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family
Country: USA (English & Italian)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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VANGUARD
Directed By: Stanley Tong
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world’s deadliest mercenary organization.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Yang Yang and Miya Muqi
Genre: Action | International
Country: China (English & Mandarin)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 108 minutes
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THE BLACK BOOK OF FATHER DINIS
Directed By: Valéria Sarmiento
Studio: Music Box Films
A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century
Starring: Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, and Jenna Thiam
Genre: Drama | History | International | Romance
Country: Portugal | France (French)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 113 minutes
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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Directed By: Matthew Rankin
Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories
Determined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
Starring: Dan Beirne, Sarianne Cormier, Catherine St-Laurent, and Mikhaïl Ahooja
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Country: Canada (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 90 minutes
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BORN TO BE
Directed By: Tania Cypriano
Studio: Kino Lorber
BORN TO BE follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City-where, for the first time ever, all transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. With extraordinary access, this feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor’s work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming surgeon has led to his own transformation.
Starring: Leiomy Maldonado, Garnet Rubio, Mahogany Phillips, and Jess Ting
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 92 minutes
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THE FORGOTTEN CAROLS
Directed By: Christy Summerhays
Studio: Purdie Distribution
Uncle John recounts the story of Christ’s birth to Connie Lou through story and song. See Connie Lou discover what the world has forgotten about Christmas, ultimately opening her heart to the joy of this special season.
Starring: Christy Summerhays, Michael McLean, Jeff McLean, and Adrien Swenson
Genre: Musical
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 130 minutes
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ONE WORLD
Directed By: Alexander Adrian & Lance Violette
Studio: Burton Snowboards
999 Ideas, 72 Days, 39 Riders, One World: A Film by Burton. We are snowboarders committed to the fundamental values of our sport. We are creative thinkers, colorful personalities, raw athletes, cultural icons and style masters. We are young, we are old, from all walks of life from all over the globe. We are innovators, influencers and explorers. We respect the power of our impact and are constantly striving to better this one world that we share. Whether you’ve been here all along or you’re dropping in for the first time, the bond of snowboarding spans the globe and connects us all. We are one world.
Starring: Anna Gasser, Ben Ferguson, Danny Davis, & Mark McMorris
Genre: Documentary | Sport
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 45 minutes
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