New Movies
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Opening This Week - January 8
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The Forest (2016)
A young woman searches for her twin sister in a Japanese forest only to find herself surrounded by paranormal forces.
Director:Jason Zada |
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The Buzz: The Aokigahara forest is an unsettling environment worthy of a psychological horror movie, and I'm looking forward to watching Natalie Dormer navigate a terrain worlds away from Westeros. Here's hoping the screenplay will have some humanity, too. - Arno Kazarian
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The Revenant (2015) - [Nationwide Expansion]
A frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s is on a quest for survival after being brutally mauled by a bear.
Director:Alejandro González Iñárritu |
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The Buzz: More than worthy of its place on countless top 10 lists this year is Alejandro González Iñárritu's brutal and naturalistic follow-up to Birdman, which you might wind up watching with your hands mostly covering your eyes after the Leo vs. bear scene that everyone is talking about. The film is convincing in so many ways; namely, reinforcing our opinion that Tom Hardy should mainly play bad guys. After two solid weeks in ultra-limited release, The Revenant expands nationwide this week as the Oscar campaign kicks into second gear.
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Anomalisa (2015) - [Expansion]
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
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The Buzz: Charlie Kaufman's critically-approved stop-motion animated feature has an above-average start in a mere four theaters this past weekend, but you get the sense that box-office hawks expected it to fare much better given all the advanced hype. Let's see how this story -- which, admittedly, seems like a tough mainstream sell -- fares as it expands this weekend.
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The Masked Saint (2016)
"The Masked Saint" is based on a true story about one pastor's mission to help his community by risking his identity and returns to his former life as a wrestler. The triumphant story follows one man's journey and struggle between helping others and the consequences he faces doing this.
Director:Warren P. Sonoda |
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The Buzz: Though it's very early in the new year, we feel like The Masked Saint will go down as one of the most questionable wide releases of the year. Without knocking the movie's faith-based element, the story of a wrestler-turned-pastor-slash-crime-fighter, which is being presented as a straight drama, makes us scratch our head and wonder who thought this was a truly marketable idea.
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Wazir (2016) - [Limited]- Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A traumatized police officer is befriended by a grieving father who is being threatened by mysterious forces linked to terrorism.
Director:Bejoy Nambiar |
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The Buzz: The reportedly violent movie that brings together mega-stars Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar also features John Abraham in a role that has been kept secret.
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Anesthesia (2015) - [Limited]
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Director:Tim Blake Nelson |
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The Buzz: More than one review praised Tim Blake Nelson's directing and knack for dialogue with his latest turn behind the camera, but there was an equal amount of criticism of the overused storytelling technique of bringing the lives of many disparate characters together through a single event.
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Comoara (2015) - [Limited]- Comedy
Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family's country home in Romania and split the profits.
Director:Corneliu Porumboiu |
The Buzz: If you happened to catch the excellent movie Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu, one of the Romanian New Wave filmmakers, then you might be excited by the fact that Porumboiu's usual techniques are in place here -- long camera shots and all -- though his sense of humor moves into a more overt yet unpredictable territory with this adventure-comedy.
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Lamb (2015) - [Limited]- Drama
When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.
Director:Ross Partridge |
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Yosemite (2015) - [Limited]
It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three 5th grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the threat of a mountain lion looms over the community.
Director:Gabrielle Demeestere |
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The Buzz: James Franco collaborates again with The Color of Time director Gabrielle Demeestere on this quiet and naturalistic adaptation of his novel A California Childhood.
In Theaters Now - Box Office Top Ten
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance.
Director:J.J. Abrams |
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Daddy's Home (2015)
Stepdad, Brad Whitaker, is a radio host trying to get his stepchildren to love him and call him Dad. But his plans turn upside down when the biological father, Dusty Mayron, returns.
Director:Sean Anders |
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
Director:Quentin Tarantino |
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Sisters (2015)
Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.
Director:Jason Moore |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami...and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.
Director:Walt Becker |
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Joy (2015)
Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.
Director:David O. Russell |
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The Big Short (2015)
Four denizens of the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.
Director:Adam McKay |
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Concussion (2015)
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Director:Peter Landesman |
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Point Break (2015)
A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. "Point Break" is inspired by the classic 1991 hit.
Director:Ericson Core |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
As the war of Panem escalates to the destruction of other districts, Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant leader of the rebellion, must bring together an army against President Snow, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.
Director:Francis Lawrence |
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