Movies Released February 5, 2021

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Jan. 16, 2023

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An Alabama native and grandson of a Ku Klux Klan member is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement in 1961.

Lucas Till, Lucy Hale, Matt William Knowles, Barry Alexander Brown, Bill Black, Eve Pomerance, Colin Bates, Stan Erdreich

PG-13 Drama True Story

93%

  • 5
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Set around the witch hunts and the great plague in England in 1665.

Charlotte Kirk, Neil Marshall, Sean Pertwee, Edward Evers-Swindell, Joe Anderson, Steven Waddington

NR Suspense Horror Period 1 hr, 51 mins

53%

  • 2.3
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Centers on a recently divorced man (Wilson) who meets a woman (Hayek) who lives on the streets and is convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is not real.

Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper, Owen Wilson, Mike Cahill, Madeline Zima, Joshua Leonard, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Ronny Chieng

R Drama Sci-Fi

84%

  • 4.2
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Growing up in an orphanage, Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life will take a new turn when a strange family takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch.

Goro Miyazaki

Adventure Adaptation Animation

81%

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Set in the 1940s, the film follows young Dara (Biljana Čekić) in Croatia as she comes face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust era after she is sent with her mother and siblings to the concentration camp complex known as Jasenovac. The facility was the only operational death camp during World War II not created or run by the Germans, but its overseers were no less ruthless or cruel. Overseen by vicious emissaries of the fascist Ustase government, the camp was used to murder Serbs, Jews and Roma people—and re-educating the few children deemed worthy of rehabilitation. As unspeakable atrocities unfold all around her, young Dara must summon tremendous courage to protect her infant brother from a terrible fate, to safeguard her own survival and to plot a precarious path toward freedom.

Anja Stanić, Luka Šaranović, Predrag Antonijevic, Nataša Drakulić, Biljana Čekić, Zlatan Vidović, Nikola Radulj, Vesna Kljajić

R Drama War 2 hrs, 10 mins

84%

  • 4.2
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In this heartfelt and hilarious rom-com, Sara, a novelist struggling with writer's block needs inspiration—and finds it when she serendipitously meets Godfrey, a down-on-his-luck oddball who constantly changes personas in order to cope with a traumatic past and avoid reality. Just as Godfrey begins to open up to Sara, he discovers that she’s been using him as inspiration for her next novel, and he vanishes from her life. Did Sara just lose the man of her dreams, or will she be able to find him and make things right?

Cleopatra Coleman, Ken Mok, Nick Thune, Iliza Shlesinger, David Koechner

R Comedy Romance

81%

  • 1.8
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Mike Markovich, a young stockbroker at a Mob-controlled Wall Street firm, is betrayed and imprisoned for six years. When he is released, his deadly quest for vengeance begins.

Anna Baryshnikov, Joseph Mensch, Metin Aksoy, Matt Levett, Toby Leonard Moore, Lev Gorn, Rade Serbedzija

Thriller

73%

  • 3.2
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Netflix

The story revolves around Abe no Seimei, the most renowned yin-yang master during the Heian period, and his fantastical encounters with demons and evil spirits.

Guo Jingming, Mark Chao, Jessie Li, Olivia Wang, Wang Duo

Action Fantasy

100%

  • 4.8
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Limited Apple TV+

What if we are living in a simulation, and the world as we know it is not real? To tackle this mind-bending idea, acclaimed filmmaker Rodney Ascher (Room 237) uses a noted speech from Philip K. Dick to dive down the rabbit hole of science, philosophy, and conspiracy theory. Leaving no stone unturned in exploring the unprovable, the film uses contemporary cultural touchstones like The Matrix, interviews with real people shrouded in digital avatars, and a wide array of voices, expert and amateur alike. If simulation theory is not science fiction but fact, and life is a video game being played by some unknowable entity, then who are we, really?

Rodney Ascher

NR Documentary 1 hr, 48 mins

63%

  • 3
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Based on a true story, this comedy follows the main character - 'the Narrator' (Thomas Sadoski) who is befriended by his young new neighbor 'the Kid’ (Jake Robinson), after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that the Kid may be a sociopath, the Narrator goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him and his wife, a woman he ultimately begins to fancy. Between long walks down the street, a twisted dinner date, and a car drive gone terribly wrong, the Narrator gets closer and closer to the truth about the Kid. But the truth, as he finds, is anything but what he expected.

Josh Pais, Jake Robinson, Gina Gershon, Tammy Blanchard, Jessica Walter, Thomas F. Mazziotti, Thomas Sadoski, Austin Pendleton

NR Comedy 1 hr, 21 mins

58%

  • 5
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Falling follows John (Viggo Mortensen) who lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Mónica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago, while his conservative father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. In the early stages of dementia, Willis is brought to John’s California home to help him relocate. Unfortunately, their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s adamant refusal to change his way of life in the slightest.

Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross, Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Laura Linney, Terry Chen

R Drama

54%

  • 2
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Jack is a lonely internet gambler living in New York City. He quickly becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. As Jack learns more about Scarlet, he discovers her unrealized talent as a painter and begins to fall hard for her. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy street in NYC Chinatown. While Scarlet is clearly hiding her whole truth, milking Jack’s wallet in the process, she also seems to develop genuine feelings for him. Jack has to find out - is their emotional connection real or is he just being taken for a ride?

Ben Hozie, Peter Vack, Julia Fox, Buddy Duress, Keith Poulson, Kevin Moccia, David J. White, Austin Brown

NR Thriller 1 hr, 26 mins

63%

  • 1
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A filmmaker and his girlfriend return their hometown from a movie premiere. A discussion about their past relationships takes an unexpected turn, testing the strength of their love.

John David Washington, Ashley Levinson, Sam Levinson, Kevin Turen, Zendaya

Drama 1 hr, 46 mins

70%

  • 5
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Two older women keep their romance hidden for decades.

Barbara Sukowa, Filippo Meneghetti, Malysone Bovorasmy, Florence Vignon, Martine Chevallier

NR Drama Romance 1 hr, 35 mins

86%

  • 3
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Set in the aftermath of a pandemic in which victims begin to lose their memories and affects one newlywed couple not long after they’ve first fallen met and fallen in love.

Chad Hartigan, Jack O’Connell, Mattson Tomlin, Aja Gabel, Olivia Cooke

NR Romance Sci-Fi 1 hr, 41 mins

47%

  • 4.5
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