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The story of Cinderella is retold as a body-horror fable about unrealistic beauty standards in The Ugly Stepsister. Elvira (Lea Myren) joins her recently married mother Rebekka (Ane Dahl Torp) and younger sister Alma (Flo Fagerli) at their new home, with Elvira quickly striking up a rapport with her new stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch …
A Mississippi juke joint finds itself attacked by a clan of vampires in Sinners. In 1932, twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return home to the Mississippi Delta after spending many years in Chicago. Using money stolen from Chicago gangs, the Smokestack Twins purchase a rundown …
The story of pioneering women’s wrestler Mildred Burke is told in Queen of the Ring. Mildred Bliss (Emily Bett Rickards) is a Kansas single mother working in her mother’s diner. After attending a match, Mildred became enamoured by the world of professional wrestling. Despite it being illegal at the time for women to wrestle, Mildred …
A platoon of Navy SEALS find itself trapped in enemy territory in Warfare. In November 2006, a platoon of Navy SEALs led by C.O. Erik (Will Poulter) and consisting of communicator Ray (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Corpsman Elliot (Cosmo Jarvis), Petty Officer Sam (Joseph Quinn), gunner Tommy (Kit Connor), communicator John (Finn Bennett), and sniper Frank (Taylor …
A woman receives anonymous drops on her phone instructing her to kill her date in Drop. Violent (Meghann Fahy) is a domestic abuse survivor who is about to go on her first date in years, leaving her young son Toby (Jacob Robinson) in the case of sister Jen (Violett Beane). Violet arrives at the fine …
A writer inherits her late friend’s Great Dane in The Friend. Iris (Naomi Watts) is a writer and literary professor who was close friends with her mentor, Walter (Bill Murray). Walter was an acclaimed novelist and notorious womanizer, with a trail of ex-wives including Elaine (Carla Gugino), Tuesday (Constance Wu), and Barbara (Noma Dumezweni). However, …
A 15-year-old joins a theatre company and becomes increasingly uncomfortable at the attention given to her by the director in The Players. After taking an acting workshop in the summer of 1994, 15-year-old Emily (Stefani Kimber) is invited by Marley (Jess Salgueiro) to audition for an avant-garde production of Hamlet at a theatre company run …
An ex-con trying to rebuild his life befriends a Syrian cab driver in SKEET. Billy Skinner (Sean Dalton) was one of the best skeets, or enforcers, working for St. John’s gangster, Leo (Garth Sexton). After spending three years in prison for attempted murder, Billy plans to clean up his life and repair his relationship with …
DIY queen Ingrid Veninger creates a docu-dogme film about her own family in Crocodile Eyes. Ruby (Ingrid Veninger) sets out to capture 100 real moments. These include bonding with her granddaughter, four-year-old Freya (Laska Sauder), and her daughter Sara (Hallie Switzer), grappling with the challenges of motherhood. After the death of her father, Dedo (Frank …
A middle-aged midwife puts her health at risk to have a child in Conceiving Clara. Clara Winter-Durrani (Tajana Prka) is a 42-year-old midwife who, while helping other mothers give birth, is unable to conceive a child of her own. Exploring any option that she can, and receiving pressure from her mother-in-law Shirin (Hangama), Clara begins …
Three estranged sisters come home after it is announced that their father has terminal cancer in Home Free. Herb Homur (Art Hindle) and his wife Jill (Jill Frappier), decide to invite their three adult daughters, Rain (Michelle Nolden), Ivy (Tara Spencer-Nairn), and Daisy (Natalie Brown), home for the weekend, despite the sisters being estranged from …
A superintendent observes the tenants’ actions in a rundown apartment complex in Niagara Falls in The Legacy of Cloudy Falls. Cloudy Falls Residence is an apartment complex in Niagara Falls which seems destined to be torn down. The superintendent, Rita (Susan Berger), tells the story of three of the tenants of Cloudy Falls. These include …
This Review Was Originally Published as Part of Our Coverage of Fantasia 2024 A Toronto librarian’s sheltered existence is cracked open in Darkest Miriam. Miriam Gordon (Britt Lower) is a librarian at the Allen Gardens branch of the Toronto Public Libraries, whose daily routine involves reading to children, answering questions at the info desk, and …
A top British Intelligence officer tries to find the person responsible for a critical security breach, with one of the suspects being his wife, in Black Bag. George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) is an operative at Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre, who is given a list by Philip Meacham (Gustaf Skarsgård) containing those suspected of a …
A family fights to protect their farm in a post-apocalyptic world in 40 Acres. After a pandemic has decimated the global food chain the most valuable resource has become farmland. Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) is an African-American military veteran living on her heavily fortified farm with her Indigenous partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) and their four …
The city of Winnipeg finds itself intersecting with Tehran in Universal Language. Set in an alternate reality, where French and Persian are the dominant cultures in Canada, Matthew (Matthew Rankin) boards a bus to return from Montreal to his hometown of Winnipeg. However, when he tries calling his mother, Matthew is surprised when a strange …
A Montreal copywriter moves to France intending to become a shepherd in Shepherds. After a medical scare, Mathyas Lefebure (Félix-Antoine Duval) decides to abandon his life coming up with advertising slogans in Montreal and relocates to Provence, France intending to become a shepherd and write a book about his experience. Multiple local sheep farmers give …
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A woman seeks answers after her husband is forcibly disappeared in I’m Still Here. It is the early 1970s and Brazil is under a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) lives in a beachside house in Rio De Janeiro with her former congressman husband Rubens (Selton Mello) and their five children. Despite the ongoing dictatorship, …
A US Marshall transporting an important witness discovers that the pilot of her charter is a hired hitman in Flight Risk. Deputy US Marshall Madelyn Harris (Michelle Dockery) apprehends mob accountant Winston (Topher Grace), who has been hiding out in Alaska. Winston agrees to testify about the mob boss Moretti and Harris accompanies Winston on …
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A Las Vegas showgirl has to deal with the imminent closure of her show in The Last Showgirl. Shelly Gardner (Pamela Anderson) is a 57-year-old Las Vegas showgirl, who has performed in the revue Le Razzle Dazzle for the past three decades and acts as a mother figure for the younger dancers Jodie (Kiernan Shipka) …
Two young black men form a bond in a cruel reform school in Nickel Boys. Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) is a young African-American man in 1962 in Tallahassee, Florida. He has a seemingly bright future when his high school teacher, Mr. Hill (Jimmie Fails), gets Elwood enrolled in a tuition-free accelerated study program at an …
A woman receives a grave request from her cancer-diagnosed friend in The Room Next Door. Ingrid (Julianne Moore) is an autofiction novelist, who discovers that her old friend Martha (Tilda Swinton) has been diagnosed with Stage 3 cervical cancer. The two were close in their youth when they worked at the same magazine, but grew …
A fugitive punk rocker encounters a young woman, who happens to be the biggest fan of his band, in Dinner in America. After being kicked out of rehab, Simon (Kyle Gallner) is on the run from the police, due to his tendency of being a pyromaniac. Simon ends up crossing paths with Patty (Emily Skeggs), …
A young TSA agent is blackmailed to allow a dangerous package past security in Carry-On. Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is a young man working as a TSA agent at LAX. Worried about his future after his girlfriend Nora Parisi (Sofia Carson), who also works at LAX as the director of operations, announces that she is …
A Jewish Hungarian architect immigrates to the United States after the Second World War in The Brutalist. In 1947, Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody) emigrates from Budapest to Philadelphia, where he is taken in by his cousin Attila (Alessandro Nivola) and his wife Audrey (Emma Laird). While awaiting word of when his wife Erzsébet …
A CEO enters into a submissive affair with her much younger intern in Babygirl. Romy Mathis (Nicole Kidman) is the CEO of a tech company, who is not fully satisfied sexually by her longtime husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas). Romy’s company hires a new young intern, Samuel (Harris Dickinson), who chooses Romy to be his mentor. …
The classic novel by Alexandre Dumas receives an epic new adaptation with The Count of Monte Cristo. Young sailor Edmond Dantès (Pierre Niney) is promoted after risking his life to save a woman named Angèle (Adèle Simphal), against the orders of his captain Danglars (Patrick Mille). This promotion allows Edmond to propose to his love …
A family’s existence within a fallout shelter is disrupted by the arrival of an outsider in The End. Following an apocalyptic event, a former Energy Tycoon (Michael Shannon) and his Wife (Tilda Swinton), descend into an underground bunker along with their Butler (Tim McInnerny), Doctor (Lennie James) and Friend (Bronagh Gallagher). The couple’s Son (George …
The novel by William S. Burroughs is adapted for the big screen with Queer. As a result of his drug addictions, writer William Lee (William Lee) has been living as an exile in 1950s Mexico City, frequenting the city’s gay bars and sharing tales of homosexual misadventures with his friend Joe Guidry (Jason Schwartzman). Lee …
The early years of the career of Bob Dylan are recreated in A Complete Unknown. In 1961, enigmatic folk singer Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) travels to New York to visit his hero Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), who’s hospitalized with a degenerative illness. It is at the hospital where Bob meets Peter Seeger (Edward Norton), who …
A struggling woman in post-WWI Copenhagen is taken in by a confectioner running a side business taking unwanted babies in The Girl with the Needle. In the dying days of the first World War, seamstress Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is suddenly evicted from the apartment she shared with her MIA husband Peter (Besir Zeciri). Karoline …
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The ABC Sports Team provide live coverage of a hostage situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics in September 5. The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany were the first to be broadcast live across the world via satellite. On September 5, 1972, Geoffrey Mason (John Magaro) is beginning his first day as Executive Producer of …
Ridley Scott returns to the Roman Colosseum with Gladiator II. It has been sixteen years since the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and his dream of making Rome a free republic has died under the rule of the twin Emperors Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger). Aurelius’ grandson Lucius (Paul Mescal) has been living …
A lonely woman tells her life story to her pet snail in Memoir of a Snail. After the death of her last remaining friend friend Pinky (Jacki Weaver), Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook) goes into the garden and releases her longtime pet snail Sylvia. As Sylvia inches her way to her final destination, recounts her sad …
A family clashes over the fate of an heirloom piano in The Piano Lesson. On July 4, 1911, three brothers stole a piano from their former enslavers, though one of them, Boy Charles (Stephan James), died in a consequential fire. 25 years later, Boy Charles’ son Boy Willie (John David Washington) arrives with his friend …
A 9-year-old-old boy tries to make it home to his mother during the London bombings of World War II in Blitz. George (Elliott Heffernan) is a 9-year-old mixed race boy, who lives with his single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) and her father Gerald (Paul Weller) during the World War II blitz, where London was bombed …
A writer returns to his hometown and deals with the repercussions of using the people he knew as characters in his books in Okie. Louie Mulgrin (Scott Michael Foster) is a wealthy writer, who has returned to his rural hometown to collect some items from the house of his recently deceased father. Louis catches up …
A 12-year-old Kent girl befriends an odd drifter in Bird. Bailey (Nykiya Adams) is a tomboyish 12-year-old living in Gravesend, North Kent with her chaotic father Bug (Barry Keoghan) and wayward brother Hunter (Jason Buda). As Bug is distracted by his upcoming wedding, Bailey meets Bird (Franz Rogowski), a mysterious man looking for his family. …