Theatrical Releases: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning & Lilo & Stitch

Mission: Impossible
The Final Reckoning

Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

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Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Angela Bassett, Shea Whigham
Action | Adventure | Thriller
PG-13 (for sequences of strong violence and action, bloody images, and brief language)
USA | UK (English)
169 minutes

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Lilo & Stitch

Directed by: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

A lonely Hawaiian girl befriends a runaway alien, helping to mend her fragmented family.

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Fountain of Youth

Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Studio: Apple TV+

A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a big adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he’ll need someone even smarter, his estranged sister.

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John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Eiza González, Domhnall Gleeson, Arian Moayed, Laz Alonso, Carmen Ejogo, Stanley Tucci
Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery
PG-13 (for violence and action, and some language)
USA (English)
125 minutes

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Fear Street: Prom Queen

Directed by: Matt Palmer
Studio: Netflix

Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider puts herself in the running, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.

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India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor, Katherine Waterston
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
R (for strong bloody violence and gore, teen drug use, language and some sexual references)
USA (English)
88 minutes

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The New Boy

Directed by: Warwick Thornton
Studio: Vertical

From acclaimed filmmaker Warwick Thornton, The New Boy takes place in 1940s Australia at a remote monastery with a mission for Aboriginal children run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett). A new charge (Aswan Reid) is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers. However, the boy’s Indigenous spiritual life does not mesh with the mission’s Christianity and his mysterious power becomes a threat. Sister Eileen is faced with a choice between the traditions of her faith and the truth embodied in the boy, in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

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Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Cate Blanchett
Drama | Fantasy | History | International
Not Rated
Australia (English)
116 minutes

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The Last Rodeo

Directed by: Jon Avnet
Studio: Angel Studios

To save his grandson, a retired rodeo star enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition. Along the way, he confronts his past, discovers faith, and proves that true courage lies in family.

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Neal McDonough, Mykelti Williamson, Christopher McDonald, Sarah Jones, Daylon Swearingen
Drama
PG (for thematic elements, language and violence)
USA (English)
118 minutes

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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

Directed by: Laura Piani
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming and full of contradictions, finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in the legendary British Bookshop, Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life.

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Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Charlie Anson, Annabelle Lengronne, Liz Crowther, Alan Fairbairn
Comedy | International | Romance
R (for language, some sexual content and nudity)
France (French & English)
98 minutes

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The Surrender

Directed by: Julia Max
Studio: Shudder

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead. As the bizarre and brutal resurrection spirals out of control, both women must confront their differences as they fight for their lives — and for each other.

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Colby Minifie, Kate Burton, Chelsea Alden, Vaughn Armstrong, Riley Rose Critchlow, Mia Ellis
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Not Rated
USA | Canada (English)
90 minutes

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The Protector

Directed by: Raul Gasteazoro
Studio: Vertical

Ravaged by water wars, famine, and drought, the West is once again wild. To escape a manslaughter prison sentence and win her freedom, a woman must gain access to the region’s last freshwater aquifer, which is protected by a deadly minefield.

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Marguerite Moreau, Graham Greene, Jade Tailor, Christopher Redman, Matthew Fahey, Michael Piccirilli
Action
Not Rated
USA (English)
102 minutes

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Ran (40th Anniversary)

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Studio: Orion Pictures

At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to abdicate and divide his domain amongst his three sons. Taro (Akira Terao), the eldest, will rule. Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu), his second son, and Saburo (Daisuke Ryu) will take command of the Second and Third Castles but are expected to obey and support their elder brother. Saburo defies the pledge of obedience and is banished.

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Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
Action | Drama | International | War
R
Japan | France (Japanese)
160 minutes

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Worth the Wait

Directed by: Tom Lin
Studio: Tubi

The lives of multiple Asian-American strangers fatefully intertwine as they navigate budding love, confront profound loss, and encounter old flames.

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Lana Condor, Andrew Koji, Ross Butler, Sung Kang, Elodie Yung
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Not Rated
USA | Canada (English)
102 minutes

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Trail of Vengeance

Directed by: Min Kyu-dong
Studio: SHOUT! STUDIOS

Set in 1875, a widow’s life is upended by her husband’s murder, orchestrated by a nefarious colonel. In her quest for vengeance, she crosses paths with a former Pinkerton agent, a man with a troubled past.

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Eric Nelsen, Jeff Fahey, Graham Greene, Jeremy Sumpter, Rumer Willis
Western
Not Rated
South Korea (Korean)
98 minutes

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Restless

Directed by: Jed Hart
Studio: Quiver Distribution

Restless is the story of an empty nester whose quiet life is turned upside down when hard-partying–and potentially dangerous–new neighbors move in next door.

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Declan Adamson, Denzel Baidoo, Ben Crowe, Gillian Daniels, Peter Dean, Ken Doherty
Drama | International | Thriller
Not Rated
UK (English)
89 minutes

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Chambermaid

Directed by: Mariana Cengel-Solcanská
Studio: Film Movement

On the brink of the First World War, fifteen-year-old Anka is sent from her Slovakian village to work as a maid in a wealthy Prague household. Once there, the insecure newcomer is charged with looking after Resi, the family’s difficult daughter, enduring episode after episode of cruelty and humiliation at her hand. Soon though, Anka begins to see cracks in Resi’s tough surface, uncovering hidden family secrets. As war shatters the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the two women find solace in each other amid a world ruled by patriarchy and conflict, forging an intimate bond simmering with love and desire which transcends the two women’s class divide.

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Dana Droppová, Radka Caldová, Vica Kerekes, Zuzana Mauréry, Anna Geislerová
Drama | History | International | Romance
Not Rated
Slovakia | Czech Republic (Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian)
110 minutes

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Northern Lights (1978 Re-Release)

Directed by: John Hanson & Rob Nilsson
Studio: Kino Lorber

Winner of the 1979 Camera d’Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 1970s, dramatizes small North Dakotan wheat farmers’ political struggle against the bankers and railroad magnates pushing them into bankruptcy. Two young lovers get swept up in the turmoil surrounding the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in the mid-1910’s. Shot on location in black-and-white 16mm with a cast of nonprofessional actors, this deeply moving, politically committed film is a masterpiece of American independent cinema.

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Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Ray Ness
Drama | History
Not Rated
USA (English, Norwegian, Swedish)
95 minutes

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Onyx

Directed by: Stefano Milla
Studio: BET+

A remote road trip meant to heal a broken heart turns into a battle for survival when three friends get caught in an alien invasion.

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Jennifer Freeman, Jamie Leigh Norman, Tanjareen Thomas, Justice Lee, Sean Riggs, Ariane Andrew
Sci-Fi
Not Rated
USA (English)
— minutes

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Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds

Directed by: Matt Wilcox
Studio: Netflix

For the first time ever, go inside the cockpit with the U.S. Air Force’s legendary flight squadron, The Thunderbirds, and witness the unprecedented training, peril, and personal sacrifice it takes to push the limits of aviation as a member of one America’s most revered demonstration teams.

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TV-14
USA (English)
91 minutes

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Knock Out Blonde:
The Kellie Maloney Story

Directed by: Tom DeNucci, Seth Koch, & Rick Lazes
Studio: Vantage Media

The authorized documentary following the story of legendary boxing promoter Kellie Maloney and her journey to self-acceptance as a transgender woman.

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Kellie Maloney, Chelsea Brickham, Amy Wade, Nora Eschenheimer, Scout Lyons
Documentary | Biography | Sport
Not Rated
USA (English)
90 minutes

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