U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-28
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Armondo Iannucci
Cast: Dev Patel, Darren Boyd, Benedict Wong, Ben Whishaw, Rosalind Eleazar, Morfydd Clark, Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Gwendoline Christie
By taking a different road, Iannucci has provided something that captures the essence of "David Copperfield" without being constrained by every detail.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Distrubing Content, Nude Images)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Hamilton, Lucy Walters, David Kallaway, Donnie Keshawarz, Rebecca Dayan
More interested in applying non-standard cinematic tactics to enliven the facts rather than being enslaved by them.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Richard Tanne
Cast: Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Kara Young, Coral Pena, C.J. Hoff, Shannon Walsh, Bruce Altman, Meg Gibson
The sentimentality and mawkishness that undermine many “heartbreaking” YA romances is kept at bay.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Rodrigo Santoro, Courtney B. Vance, Amy Landecker
This movie is passable popcorn entertainment – a two-hour distraction that won’t stand the test of time but was never intended to.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
Director: Brandon Trost
Cast: Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Molly Evensen, Eliot Glazer, Kalen Allen
Seth Rogen, playing two roles and showing no chemistry with himself, is in “comedy mode” here but the material isn’t funny enough for that to work.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2020-08-11
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Cast: Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Bill Melendez
At its best, it captures the flavor of the beloved comic strip gang but things start to drag after a jaunty first half-hour or so.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2020-08-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, William Zabka, Adrienne Barbeau, M. Emmet Walsh, Terry Farrell, Paxton Whitehead, Robert Downey Jr., Keith Gordon, Burt Young, Sally Kellerman, Ned Beatty
The movie is pure Dangerfield – a thinly-sketched narrative providing a clothesline onto which the comedian could pin a long string of gags and one-liners.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2020-08-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Cast: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Mick Jagger
The final 30 minutes of this would-be Hitchcockian caper film prove unable to deliver on the promise of the early acts.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-07
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Documentary
Director: Don Hahn
Cast: Howard Ashman, Sarah Gillespie, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bill Lauch, Alan Menken, Paige O’Hara, Peter Schneider
An affectionate but unremarkable biography of lyricist/writer Howard Ashman, who was in large part responsible for Disney's early-'90s renaissance.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Disturbing Images, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Horror
Director: Amy Seimetz
Cast: Kate Lyn Sheil, Jane Adams, Chris Messina, Katie Aselton, Kentucker Audley, Tunde Adebimpe, Jennifer Kim
Seimetz is trying to get at some compelling truths about the human experience but the cold, distant filmmaking style creates a barrier.