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STARS AT NOON dir. Claire Denis, starring Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, and Bennie Safdie Stars At Noon, the latest release from popular distribution company A24 pairs Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn as strangers who find each other amidst the pandemic era present day. Trish (Qualley) is an...

GOD'S CREATURES dir. Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, starring Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, and Aisling Franciosi God's Creatures, the latest release from prestige distribution company A24, is an impactful drama focused on an Irish seaside town torn apart by a lie told by Aileen O'Hara as...

THE WOMAN KING dir. Gina Prince-Blythewood, starring Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, and John Boyega The Woman King, a historical epic about the West African all-female warrior camp known as the Agojie, focuses on General Nanisca, leader of the Agogie and her quest to...

PEARL dir. Ti West, starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, and Emma Jenkins-Purro Circa 1918, Pearl lives on a farm with her overbearing mother, helping to care for her infirmed father as she dreams of a becoming a star and leaving the farm forever. Wanting to...

BLONDE dir. Andrew Dominik, starring Ana de Armas Adapted from the 2000 novel penned by Joyce Carol Oats, Blonde depicts the roller coaster life of Norma Jeane Mortenson, aka Marilyn Monroe, as she ascends to stardom as an actress in Hollywood during the 1950s and 60s. While...

SEE HOW THEY RUN dir. Tom George, starring Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, et. al See How They Run, a murder comedy set in 1950s London, is a throwback noir-light story of a slimy American director attempting to adapt a popular Agatha...

PINOCCHIO dir. Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, and Cynthia Erivo The adventure of a wooden puppet who wishes to become a real boy, Pinocchio is a classic tale of what it means to be human. Carved by Geppetto, who treats Pinocchio as if he...

SAMARITAN dir. Julius Avery, starring Sylvester Stallone, Javon Walton, and Pilou Asbæk A quarter century ago in Granite City, superhero Samaritan and his arch enemy Nemesis fight to the death in a fiery warehouse duel, leaving both presumed to be dead. In current times 13 year old...

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING dir. George Miller, starring Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton Three Thousand Years of Longing, a fantasy adapted from the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, tells the story of Aliethea Binnie, comfortable in her lonely existence, who encounters a Djinn who...

BABY ASSASSINS dir. Yugo Sakamoto, starring Saori Izawa, Yukina Fukushima, and Masayuki Ino Upon graduation, highly trained teenage assassins Chisato and Mahiro are informed by upper management that they will need to hold down “normal” jobs as a cover, and—even worse—they’ll be forced to share an apartment....