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Run Time: 1:55
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.

Blending factual story elements with fictional details, this proves to be a different sort of prison story that offers hope and redemption without schmaltz.

Run Time: 1:55
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.

"Origin" offers plenty to ponder and argue; the result is powerful and compelling.

An uncommonly perceptive and thought-provoking procedural that ponders the unknowability of any objective truth.

A breathtaking motion picture that enthralls across the length of its 140+ minute running time.

Run Time: 2:05
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.

Run Time: 2:04
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.

Challenges the kind of by-the-numbers approach that has dominated multiplex fare this year; it is brave, unconventional, and unique.

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.