U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-02-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disturbing Images)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Cast: Seungeun Kim, Soyeon Lee, Hyeonseo Lee, Jinhae Roh, Jinpyeong Roh, Yonggil Roh
Uses a combination of guerilla footage and interviews to create a vivid portrait of what it means to live inside and attempt to escape from North Korea – all without resorting to recreations and/or re-enactments.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-07-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Greg Kwedar
Cast: Colman Domingo, Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, Sean San Jose, Paul Raci, David “Dap” Giraudy, Patrick “Preme” Griffin, Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez, Sean “Dino” Johnson
Blending factual story elements with fictional details, this proves to be a different sort of prison story that offers hope and redemption without schmaltz.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-06-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Evan Holtzman
Smartly written, melding screwball comedy elements with rom-com beats against a Hitchcockian thriller backdrop. The small twists have big payoffs.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-01-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Adult Themes, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Emily Yancy, Blair Underwood, Vera Farmiga
"Origin" offers plenty to ponder and argue; the result is powerful and compelling.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-10-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Justine Triet
Cast: Sandra Huller, Milo Machado Graner, Swann Arlaud, Samuel Theis, Antoine Reinartz
An uncommonly perceptive and thought-provoking procedural that ponders the unknowability of any objective truth.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Disturbing Images, Adult Content – Cannibalism)
Genre: Adventure/Drama
Director: J.A. Bayona
Cast: Matias Recalt, Rafael Federman, Esteban Kukuriczka, Andy Pruss, Agustin Berruti, Tomas Wolf, Felipe Gonzalez Otano, Agustin Della Corte, Agustin Pardella, Esteban Bigliardi
A breathtaking motion picture that enthralls across the length of its 140+ minute running time.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cast: Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Yuko Tanaka
Challenging but neither inaccessible nor impossibly dense; director Kore-eda invites intellectual engagement but does not leave the viewer unrewarded.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura, Shohei Hino, Ko Shibasaki
"The Boy and the Heron" is a wonderful gift for everyone who expected "The Wind Rises" to be the swansong of legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, Kathryn Hunter, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Hanna Schygulla, Jerrod Carmichael
Challenges the kind of by-the-numbers approach that has dominated multiplex fare this year; it is brave, unconventional, and unique.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-10-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: Drama/Western
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser, Cara Jade Myers, Scott Shepherd
This is epic filmmaking and a reminder that the kinds of characters who have long fascinated Scorsese do not exist exclusively on the mean streets of modern-day America.