ANNIHILATION
(Paramount) Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Benedict Wong, David Gyasi. Directed by Alex Garland
A biologist with military experience is decimated when her husband disappears in an ecological disaster zone. However when he mysteriously returns in a coma, she volunteers to go into the zone, known as The Shimmer, to discover what is going on there. She and her team will come face to face with something she doesn’t expect and could never have prepared for. This is the latest from Alex Garland, director of the acclaimed Ex-Machina.
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Release Formats: Standard
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: R (for violence, bloody images, language and some sexuality)
Every Day
(Orion) Angourie Rice, Maria Bello, Debby Ryan, Jacob Batalon. A shy teenage girl is smitten by a young man who clearly has a crush on her. Then she discovers that the young man has been inhabited by a spirit that switches bodies, a different one each day. That can prove to be quite an obstacle but true love will find a way.
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Release Formats: Standard
Genre: Romantic Fantasy
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic content, language, teen drinking and suggestive material)
Game Night
(New Line) Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Danny Huston. A group of friends who get together for a regular game night discover that the murder mystery that’s supposed to be a game is a mystery that they are going to need to solve if they are to make it through the night.
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Release Formats: Standard
Genre: Comedy
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: R (for language, sexual references and some violence)
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Humor Me
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Operation Red Sea
The Peanut Butter Solution
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Welcome to New York
ALSO OPENING IN TAMPA/ST. PETERSBURG:
Beast of Burden
The Chamber
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Welcome to New York
ALSO OPENING IN JACKSONVILLE/ST. AUGUSTINE:
Beast of Burden
Sin Island
Welcome to New York
SCHEDULED FOR REVIEW:
Annihilation
The Chamber
Game Night
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