JUNE 2, 2023

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Directed By: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, & Justin K. Thompson

Studio: Sony Pictures

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.

Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Vélez, Jake Johnson, Jason Schwartzman, Issa Rae, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya and Oscar Isaac
Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Rating: PG (for sequences of animated action violence, some language and thematic elements)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 140 minutes

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Directed By: Rob Savage

Studio: 20th Century Studios

The Boogeyman

High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims.

Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, and David Dastmalchian
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Rating: PG-13 (for terror, violent content, teen drug use and some strong language)
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Runtime: 98 minutes

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Directed By: Celine Song

Studio: A24

Past Lives

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro
Genre: Drama | Romance
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language)
Country: USA | South Korea (English & Korean)
Runtime: 106 minutes

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Directed By: Eva Longoria

Studio: Searchlight Pictures

Flamin’ Hot

FLAMIN’ HOT is the inspiring true story of Richard Montañez (Jesse Garcia) who as a Frito Lay janitor disrupted the food industry by channeling his Mexican American heritage to turn Flamin’ Hot Cheetos from a snack into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.

Starring: Jesse Garcia, Annie Gonzalez, Dennis Haysbert, and Tony Shalhoub
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language and brief drug material)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 99 minutes

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Directed By: Tina Satter

Studio: HBO

Reality

On a Saturday afternoon, in June 2017, Reality Winner, a 25-year-old in cut-off jeans, is confronted at her Georgia home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins and Reality’s life quickly begins to unravel.

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Marchánt Davis and Josh Hamilton
Genre: Drama
Rating: TV-MA
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 83 minutes

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Directed by: Abel Ferrara

Studio: Gravitas Ventures

Padre Pio

World War I has ended and Italian soldiers, broken but victorious, are returning to an impoverished village ruled by wealthy landowners. As events surrounding the first free election in Italy threaten to tear the village apart, Padre Pio struggles with his own personal demons, ultimately emerging from his spiritual anguish to become one of Catholicism’s most venerated figures.

Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Cristina Chiriac, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Ruocco, and Asia Argento
Genre: Biography | Drama
Rating: R (for language, some violence and brief nudity)
Country: USA | UK | Germany | Italy (English & Italian)
Runtime: 104 minutes

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Directed by: April Mullen

Studio: Vertical

Simulant

Set in the near future, Evan, an android simulant, is created for Faye to replace her dead husband. To fully realize all his human traits, Evan enlists Casey, a brilliant global hacker whose mission is to remove all restrictions governing simulants’ thoughts and capabilities. In doing so, he unleashes an A.I. uprising, triggering a government manhunt led by Agent Kessler who will take extreme measures to eliminate the rise of the android machines.

Starring: Robbie Amell, Jordana Brewster, Simu Liu, Alicia Sanz, and Sam Worthington
Genre: International | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Canada (English)
Runtime: 95 minutes

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Directed by: Juan Felipe Zuleta

Studio: Quiver Distribution

Unidentified Objects

An uptight dwarf and his free-spirited, alien-obsessed neighbor hit the road on a border-defying search for their place in the universe.

Starring: Sarah Hay, Matthew Jeffers, Roy Abramsohn, and Hamish Allan-Headley
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 100 minutes

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Directed by: Alexandre O. Philippe

Studio: Exhibit A Pictures

Lynch/Oz

Victor Fleming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.

Starring: Amy Nicholson, Rodney Ascher, John Waters, Karyn Kusama, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, David Lowery, Jason Stoval, Judy Garland, and David Lynch
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 108 minutes

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Directed by: Sylvia Caminer

Studio: Quiver Distribution

Follow Her

An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss’s twisted revenge fantasy.

Starring: Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones, Mark Moses, Cristala Carter, and Brian Vincent
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 92 minutes

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Directed by: Cory Choy

Studio: Terror Films

Esme, My Love

When Hannah notices the symptoms of a terminal and painful illness in her aloof daughter, Esme, she decides to take her on a trip to their abandoned family farm in a desperate attempt to connect before they have to say goodbye.

Starring: Audrey Grace Marshall and Stacey Weckstein
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 105 minutes

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Directed by: Cédric Klapisch

Studio: Blue Fox Entertainment

Rise

Elise, a very promising classical dancer, is injured during a performance at 26 years old. Although she’s told she will no longer be able to dance, she will try to find a new direction in contemporary dance.

Starring: Marion Barbeau, Hofesh Shechter, Denis Podalydès, Muriel Robin, Pio Marmaï, and François Civil
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France | Belgium | Netherlands (French & English)
Runtime: 117 minutes

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Directed by: Jamie Boyle

Studio: Long Shot Factory

Anonymous Sister

When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is two-time Emmy Award®-winning director Jamie Boyle’s chronicle of her family’s collision with the opioid epidemic.

Starring:
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 94 minutes

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Directed By: Idan Haguel

Studio: Greenwich Entertainment

Concerned Citizen

A dark comedy about gentrification in which a socially progressive man’s attempt to improve his Tel Aviv neighborhood goes unexpectedly awry. A satirical parable about the insidious ways in which privilege can unleash prejudice within.

Starring: Shlomi Bertonov, Ariel Wolf, and Lena Fraifeld
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Israel (Hebrew, English, & French)
Runtime: 82 minutes

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Directed By: Patricia Chica

Studio: Level 33 Entertainment

Montréal Girls

A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at risk when he forfeits his education after being forever changed by two young women who shatter his limited beliefs in himself and his destiny.

Starring: Hakim Brahimi, Jasmina Parent, Sana Asad, Jade Hassouné, Manuel Tadros, and Nahéma Ricci
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA | Canada (French, Arabic, & English)
Runtime: 94 minutes

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Directed By: Chris Robinson

Studio: Peacock

Shooting Stars

A look at the young life of basketball star LeBron James. Feature film adaptation of LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger’s book ‘Shooting Stars’.

Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Katlyn Nichol, Natalie Paul, Algee Smith, and Sam Hubbard
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Sport
Rating: PG-13 (for strong language, some suggestive references and teen drinking)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 115 minutes

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Directed By: Marco Berger

Studio: Dark Star Pictures

Horseplay

In the hot Argentine summer, a group of friends get together to enjoy the holiday. They drink, party hard and make videos together. A rare mix of homophobia and horseplay comes together; however, under the surface, jealousy and violence begin to emerge. A twisted triangle of friends between a repressed gay, a secret bisexual boy and a homophobe, will push tensions to the limit.

Starring: Bruno Giganti, Agustín Machta, Franco de la Puente, Iván Masliah, and Facundo Mas
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Argentina (Spanish)
Runtime: 102 minutes

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Directed By: Lee Sang-yong

Studio: Capelight Pictures

The Roundup: No Way Out

Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do (Don Lee) joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. Soon, he finds out this case involves busting a synthetic drug and starts to dig deeper… Meanwhile, the guy behind it all–Joo Sung-chul (Lee Jun-hyuk)–doesn’t stop looking for trouble, and the Japanese drug distributors, Ricky (Munetaka Aoki) and his gang, come to Korea to join the chaos. Things are just about to get out of hand….

Starring: Lee Jun-hyuk, Munetaka Aoki, Ma Dong-seok, and Min Kim
Genre: Action | Crime | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: South Korea (Korean)
Runtime: 105 minutes

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Directed By: Charlotte Le Bon

Studio: Yellow Veil Pictures

Falcon Lake

A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

Starring: Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Anthony Therrien, and Pierre-Luc Lafontaine
Genre: Drama | International | Romance
Rating: Not Rated
Country: France | Canada (French & English)
Runtime: 100 minutes

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