Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Directed by: Wes Ball
Studio: 20th Century Studios

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Peter Macon, and William H. Macy
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi violence/action)
USA (English)
145 minutes

Poolman

Directed by: Chris Pine
Studio: Vertical

In Chris Pine’s feature directorial debut, Poolman tells the story of Darren Barrenman (Pine), a native Angeleno who spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block and fighting to make his hometown a better place to live. When he is tasked by a femme fatale to uncover the truth behind a shady business deal, Darren enlists the help of friends to take on a corrupt politician and a greedy land developer. His investigation reveals a hidden truth about his beloved city and himself.

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Annette Bening, DeWanda Wise, Stephen Tobolowsky, Clancy Brown, John Ortiz, Ray Wise, Juliet Mills, Ariana DeBose, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Danny DeVito
Comedy | Mystery
R (for some language and brief sexuality)
USA (English)
100 minutes

Force Of Nature: The Dry 2

Directed by: Robert Connolly
Studio: IFC Films

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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Eric Bana, Anna Torv, Deborra-Lee Furness, Robin McLeavy, Sisi Stringer, Lucy Ansell, Jacqueline McKenzie, Tony Briggs, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor and Richard Roxburgh
Thriller
R (for language)
USA (English)
120 minutes

Aisha

Directed by: Frank Berry
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

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Letitia Wright, Josh O’Connor, Lorcan Cranitch, Denis Conway, and Stuart Graham
Drama | International
Not Rated
Ireland (English)
94 minutes

The Last Stop In Yuma County

Directed by: Francis Galluppi
Studio: Well Go USA Entertainment

While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty–or cold, hard steel–to protect their bloodstained, ill-begotten fortune.

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Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Faizon Love and Michael Abbott Jr.
Crime | Thriller
R (for violence and language)
USA (English)
90 minutes

Not Another Church Movie

Directed by: Johnny Mack
Studio: Briarcliff Entertainment

In this hilarious spoof comedy, billionaire talk show host Hoprah Windfall uses her direct connection to God (Jamie Foxx) to demand he deliver a hero to help her plummeting ratings — or else she will cancel him. Panicked, God decides to call on the hardest-working man in the world, Taylor Pherry (Kevin Daniels). Despite Taylor’s lack of experience, God convinces him to do the impossible — write a hit movie using his dysfunctional, crazy family as the inspiration. But the Devil (Mickey Rourke) is in the details and he has a fiendish plan of his own to disrupt the whole ordeal.

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Kevin Daniels, Vivica A. Fox, Lamorne Morris, Tisha Campbell, Jasmine Guy, Lydia Styslinger, James Michael Cummings, Kyla Pratt, Mickey Rourke, and Jamie Foxx
Comedy
R (for sexual material and some language)
USA (English)
88 minutes

Gasoline Rainbow

Directed by: The Ross Brothers (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross)
Studio: MUBI

Celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Contemporary Color) turn their pioneering hybrid approach to the cinematic road trip with GASOLINE RAINBOW. Undoubtedly candid yet deeply loving, this is an expansive portrait of the new generation as told in their own words. With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been — the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. The plan, in full: “Fuck it.” Through desert wilderness, industrial backwaters, and city streets, they connect with outsiders on the fringes and discover their lives will be determined by the trails they blaze themselves. These are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future — and The Party at the End of the World. A SXSW and Venice Film Festival selection, GASOLINE RAINBOW depicts a wild and true coming-of-age. With a beating heart and an irrepressible spirit, this rhapsodic look at today’s American West reminds us of the timeless joys of community.

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Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza
Adventure
Not Rated
USA (English)
108 minutes

The Image Of You

Directed by: Jeff Fisher
Studio: Republic Pictures

Sasha Pieterse (PRETTY LITTLE LIARS), Parker Young (IMPOSTERS), Nestor Carbonell (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES), and Academy Award® winner Mira Sorvino (MIGHTY APHRODITE) star in this twisted tale of deception and desire based on the bestselling thriller by Adele Parks. Identical twins Anna and Zoe find their bond tested over Anna’s new love, Nick. While the trusting Anna is head over heels, her skeptical sister Zoe senses a web of deceit. But as Zoe digs for the truth, they’re all pulled into a dangerous game where honesty could prove fatal.

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Nestor Carbonell, Mira Sorvino, Sasha Pieterse, Parker Young, and Rebekah Graf
Thriller
R (for sexual content/nudity, language throughout, and some violence)
USA (English)
90 minutes

Lazareth

Directed by: Alec Tibaldi
Studio: Vertical

Following the death of their parents, Lee (Ashley Judd) adopts her nieces, Imogen (Katie Douglas) and Maeve (Sarah Pidgeon), and raises them in a remote cabin as a deadly pandemic rages on around them. For over 10 years, the girls are raised to never leave the woods, avoid any and all interaction with outsiders, and ultimately rely on Lee as their only connection to the outside world. Lee has convinced the girls this is the key to survival in what is now an infectious and violent world. But when Imogen and Maeve discover an injured man in the nearby woods, Lee’s absolute control begins to disintegrate as their faith in her, and everything they’ve ever known, begins to unravel.

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Ashley Judd, Katie Douglas, Asher Angel, Sarah Pidgeon, Christine Uhebe, and Edward Balaban
Thriller
Not Rated
USA (English)
86 minutes

Mother Of The Bride

Directed by: Mark Waters
Studio: Netflix

Lana’s daughter Emma returns from abroad and drops a bombshell: she’s getting married. In Thailand. In a month! Things only get worse when Lana learns that the man who captured Emma’s heart is the son of the man who broke hers years ago.

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Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, Sean Teale, Chad Michael Murray, Rachael Harris, and Benjamin Bratt
Comedy | Drama | Romance
TV-PG
USA (English)
88 minutes

East Bay

Directed by: Daniel Yoon
Studio: Level 33 Entertainment

An unexpectedly uplifting comedy about 39-year-old Jack Lee, who is forced to accept that he’s a failure. He turns to his friends, whose lives also haven’t exactly gone as planned. Each struggle with the constant pressure to be happy and successful. As Jack tries to get back on track, he has hallucinations that make him question reality.

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Constance Wu, Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier, Daniel Yoon, and Edmund Sim
Comedy | Drama
Not Rated
USA (English)
93 minutes

Hazard

Directed by: Jonas Govaerts
Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Noah really loves his girlfriend, his daughter, and his car, but he gets involved in a deadly driving job that will result in either losing his life, his family or his beloved car.

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Emilie De Roo, Gene Bervoets, Frank Lammers, Tim Mielants, and Monic Hendrickx
Action | Comedy | International
Not Rated
Belgium (Dutch)
88 minutes

Power

Directed by: Yance Ford
Studio: Netflix

Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power.

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Charlie Adams, Baher Azmy, Paul Butler, Julian Go, and Elizabeth Hinton
Documentary
R (for language and some violent content)
USA (English)
89 minutes

A Prince

Directed by: Pierre Creton
Studio: Strand Releasing

Pierre-Joseph goes to an apprenticeship college to train as a gardener. There he meets a series of characters — Françoise Brown, the principal, Alberto, his botany teacher, and Adrien, his employer — who will prove decisive in his apprenticeship story and in unleashing his sexuality. Forty years later Kutta appears, Françoise Brown’s adoptive child whom he has heard so much about but never met. But Kutta, who is now the owner of a strange château, seems to be looking for more than just a gardener.

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Antoine Pirotte, Pierre Creton, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Barré, and Mathieu Amalric
Drama | International
Not Rated
France (French)
82 minutes

Stay With Us

Directed by: Gad Elmaleh
Studio: Film Movement

After three successful years living and working in America, French-Jewish actor and comedian Gad Elmaleh decides to move back home to Paris. He misses his family and friends. Or, at least that’s what Gad tells his loving yet overbearing parents, Régine and David. However, it’s not long before his parents find out the true reason for their son’s return — after a long period of ambivalence towards his own Jewishness, Gad has officially decided to convert to Catholicism. Dumbfounded by his sudden obsession with the Virgin Mary, and with only five weeks before his baptism, Gad’s family endeavor to bring him back to Judaism for fear of losing him forever. Inspired by the director’s own fraught relationship to the Jewish faith and starring Elmaleh’s real-life family, Stay With Us is a heart-warming and charming story about faith, family and acceptance.

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Gad Elmaleh, Régine Elmaleh, David Elmaleh, and Judith Elmaleh
Comedy | International
Not Rated
France (French)
90 minutes

Queen Of Knives

Directed by: Jon Delgado
Studio: Freestyle Digital Media

The Benetto family is scattered to the winds in Brooklyn, NY, and there’s no predicting where they will end up. Relationships keep shifting. Generations keep trying to adapt to a new world. Exactly who are the adults here?

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Gene Pope, Mel Harris, Roxi Pope, Emily Bennett, Alexandra Renzo, and Justin Sams
Comedy | Drama
PG-13 (for action and violence, drug content and some strong language)
USA (English)
102 minutes

Robe of Gems

Directed by: Natalia López
Studio: OVID

In the midst of a silent divorce, Isabel (Nailea Norvind) leaves the city with her two children for her family’s abandoned country house. She soon discovers that the sister of her housekeeper, María (Antonia Olivares), has gone missing. When Isabel offers her help, an unspoken pact to find the missing one is born between the two women. Meanwhile, Roberta (Aida Roa), the police commander in charge of the investigation, tries to get her son (Daniel García) out of the cartels. The countryside is mined with confusion and danger, but regardless of these circumstances, determination in the face of destiny subsists.

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Nailea Norvind, Juan Daniel García Treviño, Sherlyn Zavala and Balam Toledo
Crime | Drama | International | Mystery
Not Rated
Mexico | Argentina | USA (Spanish)
118 minutes

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom

Directed by: Mitsuo Fukuda
Studio: Fathom Events

Lacus Clyne becomes president of a peace monitoring organization, but things are not quite what they seem.

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Cherami Leigh, Johnny Yong Bosch, Max Mittelman, and Zeno Robinson
Animation | Action | Adventure | Drama | International | Sci-Fi
Not Rated
Japan (Japanese)
124 minutes

Nothing Can’t Be Undone By A Hotpot

Directed by: Sheng Ding
Studio: China Lion Film Distribution

Four strangers become entangled in a murder case after stumbling upon a hidden cache and a corpse in a theater’s backstage area.

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Mi Yang, Qian Yu, Yu Tian, Ailei Yu, and Jiuxiao Li
Comedy | Crime | Drama | International
Not Rated
China (Mandarin)
129 minutes

Pure O

Directed by: Dillon Tucker
Studio: Good Deed Entertainment

Inspired by the filmmaker’s own story, an aspiring screenwriter and musician’s life quickly unravels when he is diagnosed with a crippling form of OCD. While struggling through his darkest hour, he must help himself, and those around him, tackle a litany of universal issues: grief, coming-of-age, addiction, redemption and the power of social connection.

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Daniel Dorr, Hope Lauren, Landry Bender, Jeffery A. Baker, and Clint James
Drama
Not Rated
USA (English)
116 minutes

Property

Directed by: Daniel Bandeira
Studio: Dark Star Pictures

To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family’s farm, a reclusive woman locks herself in her own armored car. Separated by a layer of glass, two universes are about to collide.

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Carlos Amorim, Anderson Cleber, Zuleika Ferreira, Ângelo Fàbio, Malu Galli, and Sandro Guerra
Drama | International | Thriller
Not Rated
Brazil (Portuguese)
101 minutes

H2: The Occupation Lab

Directed by: Idit Acrahami & Noam Sheizaf
Studio: Film Movement

Along a one-kilometer road in the heart of the Palestinian city of Hebron lies H2 — a neighborhood with a Jewish settlement closely guarded and highly surveilled by the Israeli military. At the end of this stretch of road lies the Cave of the Patriarchs, a holy place for both Jewish and Muslim faiths. This is where both the Hebron Massacre of 1929 took place — effectively birthing the Jewish settlement movement — and where the policy of ethnic separation was first implemented by the Israeli military. Rich with history of Jews and Muslims and the only city in the State of Palestine with a Jewish settlement, H2 has acted as both a microcosm for the entire conflict and as a laboratory for the methods of control implemented by the Israeli occupation of the West Bank for over 50 years. H2: The Occupation Lab is a clear-eyed case-study using archival footage and interviews to tell the city’s history and how it has fueled the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Israel | Canada (Arabic, English, & Hebrew)
90 minutes

Foil

Directed by: Zach Green
Studio: Cranked Up Films

After opting out of their high school reunion to reconnect on a desert camping trip, Rex and Dexter realize their intentions for the weekend are at odds. Dexter, a failed filmmaker, hopes to harness a fabled vortex in the area to inspire a movie idea. Rex, a rebellious conspiracy theorist, plans to investigate a rumored UFO crash believed to explain the anomaly. Tensions boil over when they meet an unusually friendly camper who claims to have found some wreckage from the crash: a mysterious piece of shiny foil.

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Zach Green, Devin O’Rourke, Chris Doubek, Brian McGuire, and Ashley Rae Spillers
Comedy | Sci-Fi
Not Rated
USA (English)
100 minutes

Three Promises

Directed by: Yousef Srouji
Studio: Suha Documentary

Three Promises is the story of a mother and her camera, of a son and his suppressed memories, and of an entire country. At the start of the 2000s, while the Israeli army is retaliating against the second intifada in the West Bank, Suha films her daily family life, punctuated by frequent trips underground and overwhelmed by the anguish of her two young children. At every moment of intense danger, she promises God that she will leave if they survive. In 2017, her son, the director of this film, discovers this archive and reconnects with this suppressed past, wondering with his mother what drove her to record a daily life of suffering, a stolen childhood, and why she delayed fleeing, paralyzed by the hope for change and burdened by the impossible choice between physical safety and emotional upheaval. While on the surface there emerges the heartrending portrait of everyday life in times of war, it is the staggering beauty of a mother’s love that is revealed between the lines. Blending the voice of the present with impressive family footage, Yousef Srouji completes the story begun by Suha, thus averting the act of forgetting, both personal and collective.

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Not Rated
Occupied Palestinian Territory (Arabic)
61 minutes

Summer Qamp

Directed by: Jen Markowitz
Studio: Bright West Entertainment

At a camp in rural Alberta, queer, non-binary, and trans teens get to just be kids in a supportive space, surrounded by counsellors who can relate to their experience.

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Canada (English)
80 minutes