New Releases for the Week of August 30, 2019

DON’T LET GO

(OTL/BlumHouse) David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina, Brian Tyree Henry, Byron Mann. Directed by Jacob Estes

A police detective who is also a doting Uncle is devastated when his beloved niece is murdered. When he gets a cell phone call from the dead girl, he soon comes to the realization that he’s talking to the girl before she was murdered. That gives him the opportunity to solve her murder and prevent it from happening in the first place, but time has a habit of wanting to keep things the way they are.

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Genre: Mystery
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: R (for violence, bloody images and language)

Bennett’s War

(Forrest Films) Michael Roark, Trace Adkins, Ali Afshar, Allison Paige. A soldier badly injured in an IED roadside bombing returns home from war to find his family farm in serious financial peril. Needing to make some cash and unable to find work, he decides to take up his old job – motorcycle racing, despite the fact that doctors tell him that one crash could lead to permanent paralysis.

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Genre: Drama
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, AMC Lake Square, AMC West Oaks, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Cobb Daytona Luxury, Epic Theaters of Clermont, Regal Pavilion Port Orange, Regal Waterford Lakes, Regal Winter Park Village, Rialto Spanish Springs Square, Satellite Ocean Walk
Rating: PG-13 (for some language and brief violence)

Killerman

(Blue Fox) Liam Hemsworth, Emory Cohen, Diane Guerrero, Mike Moh. A man wakes up with no memory, millions in stolen cash and drugs. He also discovers that he is being pursued by a group of dirty cops who will stop at nothing to retrieve the cash and drugs.

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Genre: Action
Now Playing: Regal Oviedo Marketplace, Regal Pointe Orlando
Rating: R (for violence, pervasive language, drug material and some sexuality)

Ne Zha

(Well Go USA) Starring the voices of Yanting Lu, Jinogsensefu, Mo Han, Hao Chen. Based on ancient Chinese mythology, a young boy born of a demon seed is prophesied to bring destruction to the world. He alone must choose between good and evil if he is to become a hero – or something worse. This is China’s all-time animated feature box office champ and is being presented here on an exclusive IMAX 3D run before a limited release in standard format next week.

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Genre: Animated Feature
Now Playing: Regal Waterford Lakes
Rating: NR

Saaho

(Yash Raj) Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Evelyn Sharma. A power struggle in the corridors of wealth and privilege manifests itself in a variety of locations.

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Genre: Action
Now Playing: AMC West Oaks, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Cinepolis Polk County
Rating: NR

Spider in the Web

(Vertical) Ben Kingsley, Monica Bellucci, Itay Tiran, Hilde van Mieghem. A spy in the twilight of his career embarks on a final mission to redeem his life and deeds, but a mysterious woman leads the lines of trust between him and his superiors to blur and he soon realizes that rather than being a player he is nothing but a pawn in a game that he needs to change if he is to survive.

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Genre: Spy Drama
Now Playing: Touchstar Southchase
Rating: NR

Tigers are Not Afraid

(Shudder/Variance) Paolo Lara, Juan Ramón Lopez, Hanssel Casillas, Rodrigo Cortes. A group of five orphaned children in the midst of cartel country struggle to survive the violence and the ghosts that violence has made.

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Genre: Horror
Now Playing: Enzian Theater
Rating: NR

Tod@s Caen

(Pantelion) Martha Higareda, Omar Chaparro, Claudia Alvarez, Mauricio Barrientos. A man and a woman, both expert in the art of love preparing to pass on their secrets to successful seduction, cross paths in a bar and determine that to protect their own reputation – and future income – they must practice their craft on true experts like each other.

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Genre: Comedy
Now Playing: AMC Disney Springs, Epic Theaters at Lee Vista, Regal The Loop, Touchstar Southchase
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content throughout, some language and nudity)

ALSO OPENING IN ORLANDO/DAYTONA:

The Fanatic
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A Faithful Man
Angel of Mine
The Fanatic
Light of My Life

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The Fanatic

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Comali
Twice the Dream

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A Faithful Man
Don’t Let Go

New Releases for the Week of August 30, 2013

GETAWAY

(Warner Brothers) Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight, Rebecca Budig, Paul Freeman, Bruce Payne, Ivailo Geraskov. Directed by Courtney Solomon

When the wife of a former race car driver is kidnapped, her husband is forced to commandeer a customized sports car, taking the owner on a high octane race against time. Forced to follow the instructions of a faceless voice, knowing his every move is being watched, he must whip up a plan to defeat the nameless criminal calling the shots, knowing that his wife’s life as well as the two lives in the car are forfeit if he can’t.

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Release formats: Standard (opens Thursday)

Genre: Action

Rating: PG-13 (for intense action, violence and mayhem throughout, some rude gestures and language)

Closed Circuit

(Focus) Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Ciaran Hinds, Julia Stiles. Two former lovers, now estranged, are reluctantly forced to work together as the defense team of an accused terrorist. However, it seems that their every move is being watched and it becomes clear that events are being manipulated. The closer they look, the more danger they’re in.

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Release formats: Standard (opens Wednesday)

Genre: Thriller

Rating: PG-13 (for some sexuality, violence and language) 

The Grandmaster

(Weinstein) Ziyi Zhang, Tony Leung, Zhang Yongcheng, Cung Le. Visionary Chinese director Wong Kar Wai weighs in with this tale of Ip Man, the legendary Chinese martial arts master who is best known in the West as Bruce Lee’s teacher. During the chaos that followed the fall of China’s last imperial dynasty, he would rise as the best of the best during the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Not to be confused with the Ip Man trilogy which also was loosely based on the same historical figure.

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Release formats: Standard

Genre: Martial Arts

Rating: PG-13 (for violence, some smoking, brief drug use and language)

Instructions Not Included

(Pantelion) Eugenio Derbez, Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta, Daniel Raymont. A ladies man in Acapulco finds a baby girl on his doorstep. He decides to raise her himself after unsuccessfully searching for the mother in Los Angeles and manages to carve out a decent life for the two of them and a successful career as a Hollywood stunt ma. Complications ensue six years later when the birth mother resurfaces and wants her daughter back.

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Release formats: Standard

Genre: Dramedy

Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content, thematic elements and language)

One Direction: This is Us

(TriStar) Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles. Documentary filmmaker shocks his fans by doing a movie about the teen heartthrobs du jour. At least all the pre-teen tween girls will be giggling and texting in a different theater than the rest of us while this is out.

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Release formats: Standard, 3D (opens Thursday)

Genre: Musical Documentary

Rating: PG (for mild language)

Satyagraha

(UTV) Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgn, Arjun Rampal. A young man rising in the corporate ranks sees his hopes dashed when a personal tragedy exposes him to the corruption in the system. Moved to take action, he allies with an idealistic older man and ignites a revolution that soon spirals far out of control.

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Release formats: Standard

Genre: Bollywood

Rating: NR

The Spectacular Now

(A24) Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Brie Larson, Kyle Chandler . A popular BMOC in high school, the guy all the girls want to be with falls for the good girl. What begins as an unlikely romance blossoms into something deeper and more complicated than either one ever expected.

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Release formats: Standard

Genre: Coming of Age Drama

Rating: R (for alcohol use, language and some sexuality – all involving teens)