SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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Directed By: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Studio: Sony Pictures
The Woman King
The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, The Woman King follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca (Oscar®-winner Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for….
Starring: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, and John Boyega
Genre: Action | Drama | History
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of strong violence, some disturbing material, thematic content, brief language and partial nudity)
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Runtime: 135 minutes
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Directed By: Ti West
Studio: A24
Pearl
Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.
Starring: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, and Emma Jenkins-Purro
Genre: Horror
Rating: R (for some strong violence, gore, strong sexual content and graphic nudity)
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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Directed By: Andrew Dominik
Studio: Netflix
Blonde
Based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde boldly reimagines the life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, Blonde blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
Starring: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, and Julianne Nicholson
Genre: Biography | Drama | Mystery | Romance
Rating: NC-17 (for some sexual content)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 166 minutes
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Directed By: Tom George
Studio: Searchlight Pictures
See How They Run
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, Harris Dickinson, and David Oyelowo
Genre: Comedy | Mystery
Rating: PG-13 (for some violence/bloody images and a sexual reference)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 98 minutes
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Directed by: Kevin Smith
Studio: Lionsgate
Clerks III
After suffering a massive heart attack, Randal enlists friends and fellow clerks Dante, Elias, Jay and Silent Bob to help him make a movie about life at the Quick Stop.
Starring: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Trevor Fehrman, Austin Zajur, Jason Mewes, Rosario Dawson and Kevin Smith
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (for pervasive language, crude sexual material, and drug content)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 115 minutes
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Directed By: Brett Morgen
Studio: Neon
Moonage Daydream
MOONAGE DAYDREAM: a cinematic odyssey exploring Bowie’s creative, spiritual and musical journey. From the visionary mind of Brett Morgen, Moonage Daydream features captivating, never-before-seen footage and performances spanning David Bowie’s 54-year career. The film includes 40 exclusively remastered Bowie songs and is the first film ever sanctioned by the Bowie Estate, with local access to the artists’ archives.
Starring: David Bowie
Genre: Documentary | Music
Rating: PG-13 (for some sexual images/nudity, brief strong language and smoking)
Country: USA | Germany (English)
Runtime: 135 minutes
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Directed By: Agnieszka Smoczynska
Studio: Focus Features
The Silent Twins
Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales and became known as “the silent twins” because of their refusal to communicate with anyone other than each other.
Starring: Letitia Wright, Jodhi May, Michael Smiley, and Jack Bandeira
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for drug use, some sexual content, nudity, language and disturbing material)
Country: USA | UK | Poland (English)
Runtime: 113 minutes
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Directed By: Julian Higgins
Studio: IFC Films
God’s Country
When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she’s drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences. Based on the short story “Winter Light” by James Lee Burke.
Starring: Thandiwe Newton, Joris Jarsky, Jefferson White, and Tanaya Beatty
Genre: Thriller
Rating: R (for language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 102 minutes
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Directed By: Greg Mottola
Studio: Miramax
Confess, Fletch
In this delightful comedy romp, Jon Hamm stars as the roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch, who becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit–from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
Starring: Jon Hamm, Marcia Gay Harden, Kyle MacLachlan, Roy Wood Jr., and John Slattery
Genre: Comedy | Crime
Rating: R (for language, some sexual content and drug use)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 99 minutes
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Directed By: Matt Sobel
Studio: Amazon Studios
Goodnight Mommy
When twin brothers (Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti) arrive at their mother’s (Naomi Watts) country home to discover her face covered in bandages–the result, she explains, of recent cosmetic surgery–they immediately sense that something doesn’t add up. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her–things their loving mother would never do. As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds: The sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, who’s making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother at all.
Starring: Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, and Peter Hermann
Genre: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Rating: R (for some language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Directed By: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
Studio: Netflix
Do Revenge
Drea (Camila Mendes) is at the peak of her high school powers as the Alpha it-girl on campus when her entire life goes up in flames after her sex tape gets leaked to the whole school, seemingly by her boyfriend and king of the school, Max (Austin Abrams). Eleanor (Maya Hawke) is an awkward new transfer student who is angered to find out that she now has to go to school with her old bully, Carissa (Ava Capri) who started a nasty rumor about her in summer camp when they were 13. After a clandestine run-in at tennis camp, Drea and Eleanor form an unlikely and secret friendship to get revenge on each other’s tormentors.
Starring: Camila Mendes, Maya Hawke, Rish Shah, Sophie Turner, and Austin Abrams
Genre: Comedy
Rating: TV-MA
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 118 minutes
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Directed By: Sierra Pettengill
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Riotsville, U.S.A.
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation’s reaction to the uprisings of the late ’60s.
Starring: Charlene Modeste
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 91 minutes
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Directed By: Brian Moreno
Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Dreamland: A Storming Area 51 Story
A life-long alien enthusiast and comedian, Brian Moreno hires a wild crew to follow him on his extra-terrestrial fact-finding adventure to the viral “Storming Area 51” event. Nothing turns out as planned but the adventure is one of a kind.
Starring: Brian Moreno, Andy Kozel, Griff Pippin, and Brian Schlesinger
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 85 minutes
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Directed By: Tyler Perry
Studio: Netflix
A Jazzman’s Blues
A sweeping tale of forbidden love, A JAZZMAN’S BLUES unspools forty years of secrets and lies soundtracked by juke joint blues in the deep South.
Starring: Joshua Boone, Amirah Vann, Solea Pfeiffer, Austin Scott, and Ryan Eggold.
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for some drug use, violent images, rape, brief sexuality and language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 127 minutes
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Directed By: Bridget Smith & Samuel Gonzalez Jr.
Studio: Better Noise Music
The Retaliators
In THE RETALIATORS, an upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter’s brutal murder. A high-octane original soundtrack and cameos from some of the biggest names in rock music set the tone as this horror-thriller reveals a game of revenge played using a new set of rules. Michael Lombardi (Rescue Me), Marc Menchaca (Ozark), and Joseph Gatt (Game of Thrones) star. Five Finger Death Punch, Tommy Lee, Papa Roach, The Hu, Ice Nine Kills, Cory Marks, Escape The Fate, All Good Things, and more appear on screen and on THE RETALIATORS Original Soundtrack, releasing with the movie in September via Better Noise Music.
Starring: Michael Lombardi, Marc Menchaca, and Joseph Gatt
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 110 minutes
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Directed By: Atsuko Ishizuka
Studio: GKIDS
Goodbye, Don Glees!
Teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees,” an informal name for their backyard adventures. One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends as they realize that growing up has taken them on wildly different paths in life.
Starring: Natsuki Hanae, Yûki Kaji, Ayumu Murase, and Kana Hanazawa
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Drama | International
Rating: PG (for thematic elements, some peril and suggestive material)
Country: Japan (Japanese)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Directed By: Nabil Ayouch
Studio: Kino Lorber
Casablanca Beats
Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Encouraged by their new teacher, the students will try to free themselves from the weight of traditions to live their passion and express themselves through hip hop culture
Starring: Anas Basbousi, Ismail Adouab, Zineb Boujemaa, and Meryem Nekkach
Genre: Crime | Drama | International | Music | Romance
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France | Morocco (Arabic)
Runtime: 101 minutes
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Directed By: Martine Syms
Studio: MUBI
The African Desperate
This coming-of-age comedy tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant, a newly minted MFA grad whose final 24 hours in art school become a real trip.
Starring: Diamond Stingily, Dillon Egyes, Brent David Freaney, and Erin Leland
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 97 minutes
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Directed By: Nate Boyer
Studio: FilmRise
MVP
A recently retired NFL player develops a strong bond with a homeless veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Starring: Mo McRae, Nate Boyer, Dina Shihabi, and Tony Gonzalez
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 11w minutes
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Directed By: Louie Schwartzberg
Studio: Moving Art
Gratitude Revealed
An epic journey forty years in the making, GRATITUDE REVEALED from acclaimed filmmaker, Louie Schwartzberg, the director of cult hit Fantastic Fungi, takes us on a transformational, cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of Gratitude through his intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders, and personalities revealing Gratitude is a proven pathway back from the disconnection we feel in our lives; disconnection from ourselves, our planet, and each other.
Starring: Rick Bayless, Michael Beckwith, Deepak Chopra, and Brian Grazer
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 82 minutes
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Directed By: Hiroyasu Ishida
Studio: Netflix
Drifting Home
Kosuke and Natsume have been friends since childhood, but as time goes on the relationship between the two sixth graders seems strained as they keep avoiding one another. One day during their summer vacation, they go to a housing complex that is scheduled to be demolished. Having grown up there, the place holds a lot of memories. While playing, they suddenly get caught up in a mysterious phenomenon and when they regain consciousness, they see an entire ocean before them as the housing complex has drifted into a mysterious sea along with Kosuke and Natsume with it. Will they be able to return to their previous world? A summer farewell journey begins.
Starring: Daiki Yamashita, Kana Hanazawa, Mutsumi Tamura, and Ayumu Murase
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | International
Rating: PG (for thematic material, peril, language, some bloody images and brief smoking)
Country: Japan (Japanese)
Runtime: 119 minutes
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Directed By: Abigail Disney & Kathleen Hughes
Studio: Fork Films
The American Dream And Other Fairy Tales
Abigail Disney looks at America’s dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less. As a way to imagine a more equitable future, Disney uses her family’s story to explore how this systemic injustice took hold.
Starring: Abigail Disney
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 87 minutes
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Directed By: Marty Roberts & Jimmy Womble
Studio: UP2U Films
Running the Bases
When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he’s ever known. But as a man of faith, he soon faces extreme opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.
Starring: Brett Varvel, Todd Terry, Raphael Ruggero, and Eric Hanson
Genre: Family
Rating: PG (for thematic content, some violence and mild language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 127 minutes
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Directed By: Haik Kocharian
Studio: Freestyle Digital Media
I Am Like You
A story of the friendship between a teenage boy and a wolfdog. When the two are forcefully separated, we follow the journey of the animal in search of his friend. Addresses animal abuse, teens with undiagnosed conditions, assisted suicide.
Starring: Stacy Edwards, Eileen Grubba, Terra Mackintosh, and John Hosking
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 128 minutes
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