Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 4% (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: John Singleton
Written By: Shawn Christensen
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina
Studio: Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 77% (Audience)
Directed By: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, and Fernando Trueba
Written By: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Fernando Trueba
Starring: Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses and Mario Guerra
Studio: GKIDS
Synopsis: Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 28% (Critics) / 68% (Audience)
Directed By: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Written By: Len Wiseman, John Hlavin, J. Michael Straczynski, Allison Burnett
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Stephen Rea and India Eisley
Studio: Screen Gems
Synopsis: Kate Beckinsale is back as leather clad vampiress Selene in the fourth installment of the Underworld movie franchise. This time out Selene has been cryogenically frozen for 12 years while the humans, now aware of the existence of vampires and lycans, have hunted the two species almost to extinction.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 13% (Critics) / 41% (Audience)
Directed By: Arjun Rose
Written By: Arjun Rose
Starring: Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters, Jennie Jacques and Tulisa Contostavlos
Studio: Exile Media Group
Synopsis: After a teenage girl seemingly commits suicide, her fellow students (who have formed a “suicide club”) decide to speed up their own suicide pact. But when members of group begin to be murdered by a knife-wielding killer, the teens must discover who is behind the mask as they come to the realization that they do in fact want to live.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 72% (Audience)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Yasmine Reza, Roman Polanski and Michael Katims
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Synopsis: After two boys have a fight on the playground their parents meet to work out the issue. What begins as a polite coming together for the children quickly devolves into truly messy situation.
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% (Critics) / 47% (Audience)
Directed By: Ti West
Written By: Ti West
Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis and George Riddle
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Synopsis: On the last weekend before the Yankee Pedlar Inn closes its doors forever, two of the inn’s employees (and amateur ghost hunters!) are determined to prove that the legend of the haunted hotel is definitely real to disastrous results.
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 84% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Written By: Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Buono, Mary Astor and Joseph Cotten
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: Charlotte Hollis, an aging, eccentric, wealthy recluse is haunted by a years old terrifying family secret that threatens to not only be exposed when a long lost relative returns to town but to also drive Charlotte mad with guilt and remorse in this classic from 1964.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 82% (Critics) / 52% (Audience)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: John August
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore and David Kelly
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: Tim Burton takes a crack at the Roald Dahl classic about a poor boy who wins a tour of the most magical candy factory in the world.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 78% (Critics) / 61% (Audience)
Directed By: Mikael Håfström
Written By: Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson and Mary McCormack
Studio: MGM/Dimension
Synopsis: Mike Enslin, writer who is famous for debunking claims of paranormal events, checks into the infamous room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. The room is purported to be a receptacle for paranormal energy and Mike is convinced that it is just a hoax to drum up business for the hotel. However, once Mike checks in he is faced with undeniable proof that the supernatural is real but he may not survive to write about it.
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87% (Critics) / 70% (Audience)
Directed By: Spike Lee
Written By: Reggie Rock Bythewood
Starring: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Hill Harper, Roger Guenveur Smith and Andre Braugher
Studio: Sony Pictures
Synopsis: The year is 1995 and a disparate group of black men are embarking on a cross country bus trip to the Louis Farrakhan organized Million Man March in Washington, D.C. in Spike Lee’s guerrilla-style docudrama.
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Alexander Payne
Written By: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Beau Bridges, Matthew Lillard, Robert Forster and Amara Miller
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Synopsis: A lawyer tries to be a single parent to his two daughters while his wife lay in a coma suffered during a boating accident. He is also burdened with the knowledge that his wife was cheating on him while dealing with the added stress of a multimillion dollar land deal that his family is pressuring him to make a decision on.
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 53% (Critics) / 70% (Audience)
Directed By: Daniel Espinosa
Written By: David Guggenheim
Starring: Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: A green CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds), tasked with the benign job of overseeing a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa, ends up going on the run with his first prisoner, a rogue CIA agent (Denzel Washington) selling high level secrets, when the safe house is attacked.
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