DECEMBER 25, 2020
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WONDER WOMAN 1984
Directed By: Patty Jenkins
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Diana Prince lives quietly among mortals in the vibrant, sleek 1980s — an era of excess driven by the pursuit of having it all. Though she’s come into her full powers, she maintains a low profile by curating ancient artifacts, and only performing heroic acts incognito. But soon, Diana will have to muster all of her strength, wisdom and courage as she finds herself squaring off against Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah, a villainess who possesses superhuman strength and agility.
Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen
Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Country: USA | UK | Spain (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of action and violence)
Runtime: 151 minutes
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SOUL
Created By: Pete Docter
Studio: Pixar Animation
Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn’t quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz — and he’s good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Questlove, Phylicia Rashad, Daveed Diggs, Richard Ayoade, and Angela Bassett
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG (for thematic elements and some language)
Runtime: 100 minutes
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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Directed By: Emerald Fennell
Studio: Focus Features
Nothing in Cassie’s life is what it appears to be — she’s wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she’s living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Country: USA | UK (English)
Rating: R (for strong violence including sexual assault, language throughout, some sexual material and drug use)
Runtime: 113 minutes
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Directed By: Paul Greengrass
Studio: Universal Pictures
Five years after the end of the Civil War, Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd crosses paths with a 10-year-old girl taken by the Kiowa people. Forced to return to her aunt and uncle, Kidd agrees to escort the child across the harsh and unforgiving plains of Texas. However, the long journey soon turns into a fight for survival as the traveling companions encounter danger at every turn — both human and natural.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, and Andy Kastelic
Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Western
Country: UK | France (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for violence, disturbing images, thematic material and some language)
Runtime: 118 minutes
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SYLVIE’S LOVE
Directed By: Eugene Ashe
Studio: Amazon Studios
In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same. Writer/director Eugene Ashe combines romance and music into a sweeping story that brings together changing times, a changing culture, and the true price of love.
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Regé-Jean Page, Aja Naomi King, and Eva Longoria
Genre: Drama | Music | Romance
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual content, and smoking)
Runtime: 114 minutes
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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…
Directed By: Regina King
Studio: Amazon Studios
One Night in Miami is a fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the civil rights movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.
Starring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA (English)
Rating: R (for language throughout)
Runtime: 114 minutes
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THE DISSIDENT
Directed By: Bryan Fogel
Studio: Briarcliff Entertainment
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover-up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
Starring: Omar Abdulaziz, Fahrettin Altun, John O. Brennan, and Hatice Cengiz
Genre: Documentary | Crime | Thriller
Country: USA (Arabic, Turkish, & English)
Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing/violent material)
Runtime: 119 minutes
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PINOCCHIO
Directed By: Matteo Garrone
Studio: 01 Distribution
Geppetto’s puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits through a wonderful world full of imaginative creatures – from the belly of a giant fish, to the Land of Toys and the Field of Miracles.
Starring: Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo, and Massimo Ceccherini
Genre: Drama | Fantasy
Country: USA (English)
Rating: PG-13 (for some disturbing images)
Runtime: 125 minutes
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THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS
Directed By: Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at cultivation.
Starring: Piero Botto, Sergio Cauda, Maria Cicciù, and Aurelio Conterno
Genre: Documentary | International
Country: Italy | Greece | USA (Italian)
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language)
Runtime: 84 minutes
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I REMEMBER
Directed By: Nan Zhou
Studio: Gravity Pictures
Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called “Louis”, is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way – much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. Facing times of family tragedies and unrequited love, he almost gives up. Louis makes it to Vienna to study under Haydn in 1792, and the rest is history. At the end of his life, the master is isolated by loss of loved ones and hearing.
Starring: Angelababy, Denny Huang, Hong-Chi Lee, and Kari Väänänen
Genre: Drama | International
Country: China (Chinese)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 99 minutes
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MY SISTERS
Directed By: Adam Justice Hardy
Studio: Justice Creative
A women’s support group becomes the target of a misogynistic brotherhood when the youngest member tries to hide a deadly secret to keep the group together.
Starring: Chelsea Averill, Cait Bidwell, Jonathan Bocinsky, and Carson Cash
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Country: USA (English)
Rating: Not Rated
Runtime: 91 minutes
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