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Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: John Goodman | Kyle Gallner | Melissa Leo | Michael Angarano | Michael Parks | Nicholas Braun | Stephen Root
TC says: “Call me a flatterer, but Melissa Leo seems way way WAY too young to play the daughter of Michael Parks. But then again, it’s the kind of challenge that brings the best out of all her performances. As a
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Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Abigail Breslin | Alessandro Nivola | Brittany Snow | Elisabeth Shue | Frances Fisher | Frank Whaley | Joel David Moore | Peter Stormare
Scott says: “In a brief but pivotal scene, Frances Fisher provides the missing piece of the puzzle to the character of her estranged son, a rock and roll musician in the midst of a career meltdown and a surprising personal
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Director: Heidi Ewing | Rachel Grady
Chris says: “In 1930, Detroit was America’s fastest-growing city. Today, in a postindustrial economy, it is the country’s fastest-shrinking one. In its meditative, collage-like approach, DETROPIA alternates stunning imagery of the city’s empty streets and ravaged, decaying landscapes with profiles
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Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Cyron Melville | David Dencik | Mads Mikkelsen | Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | Thomas W. Gabrielsson | Trine Dyrholm
Toni says: “This Danish film contains several standout performances adroitly balancing the personal and romantic with the political and philosophical. Mikkel Boe Følsgaard plays the ‘crazy’ King who is more naïve and irrepressible, not suited to palace intrigue. Alicia Vikander
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Director: Justin McMillan
Starring: Bryan Probets | Charlotte Stent | Chris Haywood | Eddie Baroo | Geneviève Lemon | Lisa Kay | Marti Sacks | Sam Parsonson
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Director: Jonathan W. Stokes
Starring: Ali Olomi | Georgina Campbell | Ibrahim Renno | Luke Benward | Maz Siam | Mido Hamada
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Ellora Torchia | Hayley Squires | Joel Fry | John Hollingworth | Mark Monero | Reece Shearsmith
Brett says: “From Director Ben Wheatley comes this eerie tale whose paranoia and alarm runs parallel to the global COVID-19 pandemic, but as the viewer soon discovers, this is no “Coronavirus: The Movie.” “After an establishing montage of the haunting,
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Director: Amelia Moses
Starring: Greg Bryk | Jayce McKenzie | Jesse Gervais | Judith Buchan | Katharine King So | Lauren Beatty | Michael Ironside
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nikole Beckwith
Starring: Bianca Lopez | Ed Helms | Fred Melamed | Nora Dunn | Patti Harrison | Rosalind Chao | Tig Notaro | Timm Sharp | Vivian Gill
Chris says: “Worth watching for Ed Helms and Patti Harrison, both of whom have rarely been more understated; however, the narrative might’ve benefited from being less understated, as much insight as it had on the practice of surrogacy. 3 cats“
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Joe Penna
Starring: Anna Kendrick | Daniel Dae Kim | Shamier Anderson | Toni Collette
Michael says: “STOWAWAY is serviceable science fiction flick about a doomed mission to Mars and the four people on board who must race against the clock to find the slimmest chances of survival. It’s what I call an ethical thriller,
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