OCTOBER 20, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Studio: Paramount Pictures + Apple TV+
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, and Brendan Fraser
Genre: Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller | Western
Rating: R (for violence, some grisly images, and language)
Country: USA (English, Sioux, Latin, & French)
Runtime: 206 minutes
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Pain Hustlers
Directed By: David Yates
Studio: Netflix
Liza Drake (Emily Blunt) is a blue-collar single mom who has just lost her job and is at the end of her rope. A chance meeting with pharmaceutical sales rep Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) puts her on an upwards trajectory economically but dubious path ethically as she becomes entangled in a dangerous racketeering scheme. Dealing with her increasingly unhinged boss (Andy Garcia), the worsening medical condition of her daughter (Chloe Coleman), and a growing awareness of the devastation the company is causing forces Liza to examine her choices. Pain Hustlers is a sharp and revealing look at what some people do out of desperation and others do out of greed.
Starring: Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy García, Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, Brian d’Arcy James, and Chloe Coleman
Genre: Crime | Drama
Rating: R (for language throughout, some sexual content, nudity and drug use)
Country: USA | UK (English)
Runtime: 122 minutes
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Butcher’s Crossing
Directed By: Gabe Polsky
Studio: Saban Films
Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky’s epic frontier adventure, Butcher’s Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man’s relationship to his natural environment. Academy Award™ winner Nicolas Cage (1996, Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in a gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Fred Hechinger, Xander Berkeley, Rachel Keller, Jeremy Bobb, and Paul Raci
Genre: Drama | Western
Rating: R (for language, some violence/bloody images and brief sexual content)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 105 minutes
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Nyad
Directed By: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin
Studio: Netflix
A remarkable true story of tenacity, friendship and the triumph of the human spirit, NYAD recounts a riveting chapter in the life of world-class athlete Diana Nyad. Three decades after giving up marathon swimming in exchange for a prominent career as a sports journalist, at the age of 60, Diana (four-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening) becomes obsessed with completing an epic swim that always eluded her: the 110 mile trek from Cuba to Florida, often referred to as the “Mount Everest” of swims. Determined to become the first person to finish the swim without a shark cage, Diana goes on a thrilling, four-year journey with her best friend and coach Bonnie Stoll (two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster) and a dedicated sailing team.
Starring: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster and Rhys Ifans
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material involving sexual abuse, some strong language and brief partial nudity)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 121 minutes
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The Persian Version
Directed By: Maryam Keshavarz
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Leila is an Iranian American woman who strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures. When her large family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, she keeps everyone at arm’s length — until a secret is revealed.
Starring: Layla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Bijan Daneshmand, Bella Warda, and Tom Byrne
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rating: R (for language and some sexual references)
Country: USA (English & Persian)
Runtime: 107 minutes
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The Retirement Plan
Directed By: Tim Brown
Studio: Falling Forward Films
In The Retirement Plan, when Ashley (Ashley Greene) and her young daughter Sarah (Thalia Campbell) get caught up in a criminal enterprise that puts their lives at risk, she turns to the only person who can help — her estranged father Matt (Nicolas Cage), currently living the life of a retired beach bum in the Cayman Islands. Their reunion is fleeting as they are soon tracked down on the island by crime boss Donnie (Jackie Earle Haley) and his lieutenant Bobo (Ron Perlman). As Ashley, Sarah and Matt become entangled in an increasingly dangerous web, Ashley quickly learns her father had a secret past that she knew nothing about and that there is more to her father than meets the eye.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ashley Greene, Ron Perlman, Jackie Earle Haley, Ernie Hudson, Grace Byers, and Joel David Moore
Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | International | Thriller
Rating: R (for violence and pervasive language)
Country: Canada (English)
Runtime: 103 minutes
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Old Dads
Directed By: Bill Burr
Studio: Miraxmax + Netflix
Three best friends become fathers later in life and find themselves battling preschool principals, millennial CEOs and anything created after 1987.
Starring: Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale, Bokeem Woodbine, Katie Aselton, Reign Edwards, Miles Robbins, Rachael Harris, C. Thomas Howell, Bruce Dern, Natasha Leggero, and Katrina Bowden
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (for pervasive language, sexual material, nudity, and brief drug use)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 104 minutes
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Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Directed By: Andrew Bowser
Studio: Fathom Events
The story follows fledgling Satanist Marcus J. Trillbury (Onyx) as he attends a once-in-a-lifetime ritual at his idol BARTOK THE GREAT’S dark mansion. Once there, Marcus meets a group of other worshippers. As the group is led by Bartok and his assistant Farrah in a series of rituals meant to “better them,” it becomes clear that their intentions are more nefarious. As his new friends are losing the battle to keep their souls, a question of great destiny looms over Onyx’s head: is he doomed to be a nobody or is he the only one who can defeat Bartok and save his friends from damnation?
Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Barbara Crampton, Arden Myrin, Terrence ‘T.C.’ Carson, and Andrew Bowser
Genre: Comedy | Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 108 minutes
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Sick Girl
Directed By: Jennifer Cram
Studio: Lionsgate
When Wren Pepper (Nina Dobrev) feels her closest friends slipping away, she lets loose a little white lie that snowballs into a colossal, life-altering event. Jennifer Cram’s feature film debut is a hilarious take on the price of insecurity and the rewards of true friendship. Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), Dan Bakkedahl (Veep), Brandon Mychal Smith (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Sherry Cola (Good Trouble) join Dobrev in a brilliant comedy you won’t want to miss.
Starring: Nina Dobrev, Brandon Mychal Smith, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Koenig, Hayley Magnus, Ray McKinnon, Dan Bakkedahl and Wendi McLendon-Covey
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R (for language throughout, some sexual references and drug use)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 99 minutes
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If You Were the Last
Directed By: Kristian Mercado
Studio: Peacock
Adam (Anthony Mackie) and Jane (Zoë Chao) are three years into a NASA mission that has gone very wrong: Their ship is broken and drifting between Jupiter and Saturn. Finding ways to pass the time as they become certain that no one is coming to save them, they argue over what to do. One day, Adam poses that maybe they should sleep together; Jane laughs the idea off, but it prompts a flirty debate about whether they’re better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Zoe Chao, Natalie Morales, Missi Pyle, and Geoff Stults
Genre: Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 89 minutes
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The Pigeon Tunnel
Directed By: Errol Morris
Studio: Apple Original Films
When Cam and Sky bought their duplex, it seemed like the perfect investment opportunity for the young couple; a starter home, a mortgage offset by renters, and even a guest room for Sky’s sister, Carolyn. But as Sky and Cam slowly uncover hidden cameras and secrets of the duplex’s previous owner, obsession consumes their marriage and they both fall into destructive forms of voyeurism. When new tenants move in downstairs, their fixation with observing others has deadly consequences and they are forced to confront the very things they have been consumed by.
Starring: Jake Dove, Charlotte Hamblin, Garry Cooper, and Simon Harrison
Genre: Documentary
Rating: PG-13 (for some violence, smoking and brief language)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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The Other Zoey
Directed By: Sara Zandieh
Studio: Brainstorm Media
Zoey Miller (Josephine Langford), a smart computer major who thinks she has love all figured out, has her life turned upside down when Zach (Drew Starkey), a popular college soccer player, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey as his girlfriend. Before she can reveal the truth, she meets Zach’s cousin, Miles (Archie Renaux), with whom she has a lot in common. Pretending to be Zach’s girlfriend, she realizes she has feelings for both of them and is forced to confront her fears to make an impossible decision.
Starring: Josephine Langford, Drew Starkey, Archie Renaux, Mallori Johnson, Patrick Fabian, Heather Graham and Andie MacDowell
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language and suggestive references)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 86 minutes
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Night of the Hunted
Directed By: Franck Khalfoun
Studio: Shudder
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she’s made the plaything of a sociopathic sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why….
Starring: Monaia Abdelrahim, J. John Bieler, Aleksandar Popovic, Camille Rowe, and Jeremy Scippio
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA | France (English)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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Deep Sky
Directed By: Nathaniel Kahn
Studio: IMAX Entertainment
This inspiring documentary explores the $10 billion JWST’s engineering and construction process, historic Dec. 25, 2021 launch, and the release of its first full-color, galaxy-sprinkled images on July 12, 2022 witnessed by the entire planet.Excerpt from this article here – https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-imax-documentary
Starring: Michelle Williams
Genre: Documentary | Short
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 40 minutes
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Malibu Horror Story
Directed By: Scott Slone
Studio: Sunny Oak Films
Malibu Horror Story follows a team of amateur paranormal investigators as they delve into a 10 year old unresolved case, the disappearance of four popular high school boys on graduation night. While exploring a sacred cave in the hills of Malibu California, the team encounters chilling paranormal occurrences. As they analyze footage from the missing teens’ camera, they make a terrifying discovery involving an ancient curse which forces them to confront their own worst fears and unravel the sinister truth behind the boys’ vanishing.
Starring: Dylan Sprayberry, Robert Bailey Jr., Valentina de Angelis, Rebecca Forsythe, Tommy Cramer, Hector Gomez Jr., and Veno Miller
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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Under The Fig Trees
Directed By: Erige Sehiri
Studio: Film Movement
On a hot summer day, a crew of workers — men and women, young and old — arrive at dawn at a picturesque fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. We eavesdrop, through the sun-dappled leaves of the fig trees, on the young women stealing away precious moments from the foreman’s watchful gaze. Meanwhile, the older women, tasked with the careful job of packing the tender fruit, watch and reminisce together as well. They joke, argue, debate, gossip, flirt, all the while painting an unhurried but riveting portrait of everyday life in the rural society, where class, gender, and circumstance often don’t allow for such personal freedoms. Set over the course of a single day, and with a cast made up of an intergenerational ensemble of non-professional actors, UNDER THE FIG TREES is “an elegant, understated tapestry of complex interactions [and] a pleasurable and immersive experience” (The Hollywood Reporter) that ultimately reveals the ways in which sisterhood itself becomes an act of resistance.
Starring: Ameni Fdhili, Fide Fdhili, Feten Fdhili, Samar Sifi, and Abdelhak Mrabti
Genre: Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Tunisia | Switzerland | France | Qatar | Germany (Arabic)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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The Canterville Ghost
Directed By: Kim Burdon
Studio: Blue Fox Entertainment
As the nineteenth gives way to the twentieth century and scientific invention brings forth new ways of traversing and seeing the world, a modern American family moves into their recently purchased, country home, Canterville Chase, in England, only to find it is haunted by a ghost. Sir Simon de Canterville has been haunting the grounds of Canterville Chase successfully for over three hundred years, but he meets his match when he tries to scare out the new arrivals.
Starring: Toby Jones, Freddie Highmore, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Meera Syal, and Stephen Fry
Genre: Animation | Comedy | International
Rating: PG (for thematic elements, peril and some violence)
Country: UK (English & French)
Runtime: 89 minutes
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Tripped Up
Directed By: Shruti Ganguly
Studio: Decal
Aspiring chef Lizzy sets off with her three best friends in tow to compete in the prestigious Saucy Food Festival. What begins as a calculated career move quickly turns into a madcap misadventure full of food, fun and female bonding, where the girls learn that struggle can be the secret ingredient to success.
Starring: Leah Lewis, Ashley Moore, Ariel Winter, Sasha Fox, Vanessa Williams, Jo Ellen Pellman, and Danny Kornfeld
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 96 minutes
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Another Body
Directed By: Sophie Compton & Reuben Hamlyn
Studio: Utopia
ANOTHER BODY follows a college student’s search for answers and justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
Starring: Ava Breuer and Faith Quinn
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 80 minutes
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The Delinquents
Directed By: Rodrigo Moreno
Studio: MUBI
Buenos Aires bank employee Morán dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he’ll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker holds on to the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román heads to a remote rural idyll to hide the funds. There, he encounters a mysterious woman who will transform his life forever.
Starring: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán de Silva, and Laura Paredes
Genre: Comedy | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: Argentina | Brazil | Luxembourg | Chile (Spanish)
Runtime: 189 minutes
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KillHer
Directed By: Robyn August
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Mattie and her three besties–Eddie, Jess, and Rae–head into the woods for a weekend to plan Mattie’s upcoming wedding and bachelorette party. Eddie, Mattie’s roommate and an unrelenting practical joker, leads them to believe they will be setting up camp near Mattie’s hunky fiancé, Jagger, and his friends. They soon realize the tent they’ve snuggled up next to belongs to a mysterious recluse named Mr. Rogers, rather than Jagger, and this is definitely his neighborhood! With zero cell reception and only a literal pot to piss in, their weekend camping trip is beginning to look like a bad idea for these unhappy campers. But it only gets worse when people start to die and a terrible secret is revealed. All these girls wanted was a killer pre-bachelorette party… and that’s exactly what they got.
Starring: M.C. Huff, Emily Hall, Jenna Z. Alvarez, Nicole Lovince, Tom Kiesche, Harrison White, and Jack Schumacher
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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Full Circle
Directed By: Josh Berman
Studio: Abramorama
Faced with a traumatic injury that leaves you permanently disabled, how would you reinvent yourself? Trevor Kennison’s life was forever altered by a broken back – for worse and for better, in equal measures.
Starring: Trevor Kennison
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 103 minutes
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Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
Directed By: Jennifer Lane
Studio: Greenwich Entertainment
The life and career of legendary artist Robert Irwin, whose installations have radically expanded the possibilities of what art can be. Irwin began as a painter in LA’s “Cool School” scene, before developing a new way of working that made perception itself the subject. Irwin’s notable works include the Central Garden at the Getty Center in LA and untitled (dawn to dusk) in Marfa, Texas.
Starring: Robert Irwin, Michael Govan, Tara Donovan, Ed Bereal, and Arne Glimcher
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 93 minutes
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Hopeless
Directed By: Kim Chang-hoon
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment
Yeon-gyu (HONG Xa-bin) is a teenage boy who wants to escape his hometown where violence is commonly enacted among neighbors. He only hopes to have a peaceful life with his mother. However, the world never allows him to have a dream nor hope for life. When Yeon-gyu needs a hand from grown-ups, Chi-geon (SONG Joong-ki), a thug of the town, offers a favor. The simple favor leads Yeon-gyu to explore the world of Chi-geon. It ironically results in Yeon-gyu gradually falling into Chi-geon’s life. Grasping a hope to run away from where he is, he struggles between the border. Can he escape from the town at the end?
Starring: Bibi, Park Bo-kyung, Xa-Bin Hong, Jeong Jaekwang, Kim Jong-soo, and Song Joong-ki
Genre: Crime | Drama | International
Rating: Not Rated
Country: South Korea (Korean)
Runtime: 133 minutes
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Hayride to Hell
Directed By: Dan Lantz
Studio: Sugartown Scare Productions
Set on the Coxe Family Farm in rural Willis County, Farmer Sam (Bill Moseley) exacts his bloody revenge on unscrupulous local town-folk, including Sheriff Jubel (Kane Hodder), who menace him and attempt to steal the farm that has been in his family for 200 years.
Starring: Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder, Graham Wolfe, Allyson Malandra, Jared Michael Delaney, and Shelby Hightower
Genre: Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 91 minutes
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Last Summer of Nathan Lee
Directed By: Quentin Lee
Studio: Margin Films
Nathan Lee (Harrison Xu), an API teenager, finds out that he has brain cancer right before he turns 18 and vows to live the remains of his life with passion… and refuses to die a virgin. Knowing that his gay best friend, Dash (Matthew Mitchell Espinosa), wants to become a filmmaker, Nathan offers himself as a documentary subject to Dash, who is also in love with Nathan. Nathan and Dash decide to document as much of his remaining life as possible. Without reservation, Nathan experiments sexually and falls in love with Lorelei (Natasha Tina Liu), another high school friend. As Nathan realizes he cannot reciprocate Dash’s true love, he decides to marry Dash, a Dreamer Immigrant, and gifts him American citizenship.
Starring: Harrison Xu, Natasha Tina Liu, Matthew Mitchell Espinosa, Dru Perez, Aaron Guest, and Lauren Mei
Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA | Canada (English)
Runtime: 92 minutes
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Soul Mates
Directed By: Mark Gantt
Studio: Faith Media Distribution
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
Starring: Neal McDonough, Charlie Weber, Annie Ilonzeh, Starletta DuPois, Kayla Eva, and Taylor Krasne
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Rating: R (for bloody violence, sexual content, language and partial nudity)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 95 minutes
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The Post
Directed By: Justin Hunt
Studio: LAMA Entertainment
The Post is an edgy, revenge thriller steeped in the undetermined boundaries of social media crime and punishment
Starring: Lize Johnston, Sarah Minnich, Shylo Molina, Addison Bowman, Lincoln A. Castellanos, Kimberly Bigsby, and Angus Benfield
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (for language, some violence and sexual material)
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: — minutes
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Finding Her Beat
Directed By: Dawn Mikkelson & Keri Pickett
Studio: Sonder Entertainment
A master of Japanese drumming and a Korean adoptee from Minnesota boldly convene an all-female troupe to perform Taiko, the Japanese drumming art that has been off-limits to women for centuries. As the early menace of Covid rumbles in the background, the group faces down hurdles to prepare for a historic performance in snowy St. Paul. Buoyed by dynamic drum performances and do-or-die spirit, FINDING HER BEAT is an energizing and uplifting story of music, cultural expression and sisterhood.
Starring: Kaoly Asano, Megan Chao-Smith, Chieko Kojima, Tiffany Tamaribuchi, and Jennifer Weir
Genre: Documentary
Rating: Not Rated
Country: USA (English)
Runtime: 89 minutes
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Under The Light
Directed By: Yimou Zhang
Studio: CMC Pictures
Journey through Jinjiang City’s maze of secrets with Su Jianming as he uncovers layers of political and business collusion. Who stands behind the mask of truth?
Starring: Jiayin Lei, Guoli Zhang, Hewei Yu, Dongyu Zhou, Yi-zhou Sun, and Naiwen Li
Genre: Crime | Drama | International | Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Country: China (Mandarin)
Runtime: 127 minutes
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