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PLOT: A suburban man (Matt Damon) voluntarily undergoes miniaturization in order to join a small-person’s community where his middle class savings will make him wealthy. REVIEW: Alexander Payne’s DOWNSIZING is nothing if not ambitious – perhaps too much so. It’s...
PLOT: A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working the graveyard shift at a top secret government installation in the cold war era, befriends an imprisoned sea creature (Doug Jones) being experimented upon by an overzealous agent (Michael Shannon) and a...
PLOT: The true story of Tennis champ Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) who, in 1973, accepted a challenge by Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) to play an exhibition game that he marketed as an epic battle of the sexes. REVIEW: Despite...
PLOT: A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one. REVIEW: Director Brian Cavallaro's new haunted-horror-thriller Against the Night is a film...
PLOT: A traumatized civilian who trains himself to be a terrorist-killing machine is recruited by the CIA to help them stop a nuclear bomb threat. REVIEW: The beats, characters and plot points of AMERICAN ASSASSIN are so familiar that you...
PLOT: When Sam (Sam Saunders) returns home to a small British isle in order to attend a mysteriously deceased girl’s funeral, his investigation of events leads to a harrowing trove of long-buried town secrets. REVIEW: In 2015, longtime Art Department...
PLOT: A young woman (Jessica Chastain) working for a Hollywood mogul, spins a private poker game for high-stakes players into a multi-million dollar business, putting her in the cross-hairs of the authorities and the mob. REVIEW: MOLLY’S GAME tells the...
PLOT: A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working the graveyard shift at a top secret government installation in the cold war era, befriends an imprisoned sea creature (Doug Jones) being experimented upon by an overzealous agent (Michael Shannon) and a...
PLOT: An inexplicable phenomena results in parents being uncontrollably compelled to murder their children. REVIEW: MOM AND DAD marks the solo directorial debut of Brian Taylor, one half of the famous Neveldine/Taylor directorial duo, which brought us such crazed classics...
PLOT: A young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) restoring her older husband’s (Javier Bardem) decaying home, finds their idyll interrupted by two abrasive house guests (Ed Harris & Michelle Pfeiffer). REVIEW: As far as big studio movies go this year, few are...
David Robert Mitchell has made one of the best Amblin-esque films in years, with the film having much in common with classics like Poltergeist and Arachnophobia.
