Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 53% (Audience)
Directed By: David Guy Levy
Written By: Steffen Schlachtenhaufen
Starring: Brittany Snow, Enver Gjokaj, Sasha Grey and Jeffrey Combs
Studio: IFC Films
Synopsis: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman unknowingly agrees to compete in a deadly game of “Would You Rather,” hosted by a sadistic aristocrat. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 59% (Audience)
Directed By: Jamie Travis
Written By: Lauren Miller and Katie Anne Naylon
Starring: Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long
Studio: Focus Features
Synopsis: Former college frenemies Lauren and Katie move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment, and in order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 39% (Critics) / 65% (Audience)
Directed By: Don Scardino
Written By: John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Chad Kultgen and Tyler Mitchell
Starring: Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin and Jim Carrey
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt’s growing ego. But lately the duo’s greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they’ve grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show looks stale. But there’s still a chance Burt and Anton can save the act-both onstage and off-if Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 79% (Critics) / 91% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Wright
Written By: Kevin Lehane
Starring: Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey and Lalor Roddy
Studio: Forward Films
Synopsis:When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 60% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Sam Raimi
Written By: Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire
Starring: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Synopsis:Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he’s hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 24% (Critics) / 63% (Audience)
Directed By: Seth Gordon
Written By: Craig Mazin and Jerry Eeten
Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho and Amanda Peet
Studio: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity. (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 16% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Josh Schwartz
Written By: Max Werner
Starring: Victoria Justice, Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler, Jackson Nicoll and Jane Levy
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Synopsis:Wren’s Halloween plans go awry when she’s made to babysit her brother, Albert, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two nerds at her side, she needs to find her brother before her mom finds out he’s missing. (Source)
TWO LITTLE BOYS
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43% (Critics) / 95% (Audience)
Directed By: Robert Sarkies
Written By: Duncan Sarkies and Robert Sarkies
Starring: Bret McKenzie, Hamish Blake, Maaka Pohatu
Studio: Hopscotch Films
Synopsis: When Nige finds himself in a spot of bother after a series of unfortunate incidents, he is forced to ask Deano for help. The problem is Deano is not really the kind of guy you should turn to in a crisis. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 16% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: John Moore
Written By: Skip Woods and Roderick Thorp
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working to prevent a nuclear-weapons heist, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Colin Trevorrow
Written By: Derek Connolly
Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson and Karan Soni
Studio: Film District
Synopsis: From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine – When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. Together, they embark on a hilarious, smart, and unexpectedly heartfelt journey that reveals how far believing can take you. (Source)
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 59% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Jee-woon Kim
Written By: Andrew Knauer, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and George Nolfi
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville
Studio: Lionsgate
Synopsis: The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.
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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 43% (Critics) / 94% (Audience)
Directed By: Fisher Stevens
Written By: Noah Haidle
Starring: Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Christopher Walken and Juliana Margulies
Studio: Lionsgate
Synopsis: A pair of aging con men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment — to kill his comrade.
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