November 1, 2019 In 3D and 2D. The Treasure Released: January 8th Cast: Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu, Corneliu Cozmei Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Police, Adjective Why it's worth your time: With deadpan delivery that would make Steven Wright jittery, this Romanian comedy tells the story of Costi, a down-on-his-luck office drone, who joins his neighbor and a professional metal detector to hunt for a fortune buried beneath a family estate. Affleck's muted embodiment of this fractured young man conveys volumes about misery, guilt and regret, and he's matched by a sterling supporting cast that delivers similarly unaffected, bone-deep performances. The sights come as big as a snarling, 40-foot skeleton and as small as an origami samurai, manifested through the title character's magical shamisen. Preceded by the short subject.
With photogenic scenery, a wry sense of humor, and subtle computer-graphic enhancement, Creative Control questions our current direction. The barbershop, always a safe haven, is embroiled in gang violence and city bureaucracy. In doing so, it recognizes the jazzy spirit of Lee and Helen's doomed romance—and, also, the riffing-our-way-forward nature of life itself. Names like Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin are on the tips of these characters' tongues. Okja Bong Joon Ho's Okja is many things at once: a rollicking kid's fable about the bond between a young South Korean girl An Seo-hyun and her genetically enhanced super-pig named Okja ; a satiric critique of the corporate food industry; a wacko comedy about transcending cultural boundaries; and a fantastical adventure full of kidnappings and chases, buoyed by over-the-top performances from Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal, and culminating with a Times Square spectacular and a Holocaust-esque trip to the slaughterhouse. Such orderliness is toppled by his relationship with a waitress, Alma newcomer Vicky Krieps , who soon becomes his model and his companion in his house, which he also shares with his severely no-nonsense sister-partner Cyril a transfixing Lesley Manville. While that dawn-of-a-new-century moment is infused with pressing hope, the subsequent development of these men and women's lives—involving marriage, children, divorce, and illness—provides depressing rejoinders to their early optimism.
But in this case, he's haunted by past, present, and future. Released in 24 fps and 48 fps versions. Aspect ratio cropped to 2. Thelma After three reality-based character dramas, Norwegian director Joachim Trier takes a turn for the supernatural with Thelma, a genre piece about a girl with unholy powers—albeit one that still plays in a decidedly Trier-ian register. When they happen to witness the aftermath of a murder, they become captives of the resident skinheads and their leader a terrifying Patrick Stewart , leading to a prolonged showdown which Saulnier stages as a series of quiet, panic-stricken moments and bursts of brutal violence—a storytelling rhythm in tune with the sludgy punk and metal thundering through the venue's speakers.
Simpson, as well as providing background on the contentious historic relationship between Los Angeles' police force and African-American community. The patriarch is a man and a monster, a character we're all lucky to behold. Aspect ratio opened up to 1. Finding Dory reunites the friend. Aspect ratio opened up to 1. Released in 3D in selected territories.
When one of the players nails an audition for a Saturday Night Live-like sketch-comedy show, all hell breaks loose. Even the 3-D is a blast, with swirling ghosts and proton pack beams popping offscreen. Released in 3D conversion in selected territories. Barbershop: The Next Cut looks like comedic comfort food, but it's chasing the American dreams of Frank Capra and August Wilson. March 16, 2018 Released in 2D in North America, Japan and South Korea. Released in 3D in selected territories.
Atomic Blonde With Blondie style and John Wick ferocity, Charlize Theron strikes a peerless ass-kicking pose in Atomic Blonde, director David Leitch's electric Cold War extravaganza. Aspect ratio opened up to 1. Aspect ratio opened up to 1. Twenty-five years later, grown under the care of an Australian couple, the expatriate sets out to locate the mother he barely knew. Set in 2002, her story is one of romantic ups-and-downs—with both Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet playing romantic suitors—and familial tension, the latter felt in her strained relationship with her prickly mother a phenomenal Laurie Metcalf. Did I mention it was a comedy? Shot on location at a community retreat and, briefly, at a hotel that was featured in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo , this unique effort is an alternately optimistic and despairing look at the ongoing clash of global cultures. Shane Black perfected the mismatched buddy-cop formula with 1987's Lethal Weapon, so it's no surprise that, 29 years later, he's delivered another bickering-duo gem set in the L.
It's ultimately far less important than the overarching air of loss—of parents, of virginity, of adolescence—and grief that consumes them. Steve Gleason was a sturdy New Orleans Saints safety who became immortalized in team history when, during the squad's first game back in the Superdome following Hurricane Katrina, he blocked a punt against the Atlanta Falcons—a play that came to symbolize the city's indefatigable comeback spirit. Closing credits changed to slide format and one closing credits song omitted to reduce running time for 70mm prints. Abandonment, drug abuse, and betrayal all factor into this sorrowful equation, as Collin assuredly conveys the messy stew of passion, need, ego, loneliness, and fury that eventually begat such a calamity. Where to see it right now: In theaters 35.
When the townsfolk realize their fate, and only have 10 minutes to evacuate, The Wave capsizes tranquility with 100 tons of liquid devastation. Hush is the first of director Mike Flanagan's three 2016 releases the second is this September's Before I Wake, the third is October's Ouija: Origin of Evil , and even though it was only released as a Netflix exclusive, this expertly executed thriller generates an impressive amount of terror from its bare-bones set-up. The Wailing is the metaphysical mystery that we all wanted from True Detective Season 1. The movie can stumble into the excessive and dangerously cliché, but that's the price of depicting America's worst-case scenario with true bite. And they're complemented and, in fact, surpassed in the charisma department by the always great Jeff Bridges. We provide the complete list of 2016 movie releases by week of release.
Aspect ratio opened up to 2. As Chiron grows up, enjoying fleeting moments of euphoria amidst routine abuse and neglect, Jenkins charts thorny individual and interpersonal dynamics in which both salvation and damnation seem to stem from the same or, at least, similar source. More importantly, from an early apartment skirmish to a late hallway throwdown—one-against-many conflicts defined by stellar choreography and a piercing sense of pain and exhaustion—Theron indisputably seizes cinema's action-queen crown. Paterson Writer-director Jim Jarmusch's films have always been guided by something of a ramshackle poetic spirit. Released in 3D conversion in selected territories.