Nosferatu

Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) and Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) are barely married before they are forced apart when Thomas is called to meet with Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), a Romanian dignitary looking to purchase a manor house in Germany.  Meeting with the Count in his decrepit castle, they go through the motions of the sale, signing…

The Return

Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) returns to Ithaca, washed up on the shore and naked, twenty years after leading the armies in the Trojan War.  In his absence, his wife, Penelope (Juliette Binoche), has stayed faithful to her husband, refusing to remarry any of the various suitors who have made their offerings.  As life on the island…

Memoir of a Snail

Grace (Sarah Snook) and Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) are an odd pair of twins.  Their mother died tragically during childbirth leaving her entertainer husband, Percy (Dominique Pinon), to look after the kids.  When he suffers a career-ending injury, he retires to the home where the years pass by until eventually he too passes away.  The children…

Wicked

Long before Dorothy came to Oz, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) was a misunderstood young woman with latent magical abilities discernible to sorceress Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh), the latter of whom was an idol of Galinda (Ariana Grande).  When Elphaba drops off her sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), and Shiz University, the outcast witch is brought on as…

Gladiator II

The ever-expanding Roman empire is on the brink of disorder being led by the inept and infantile twin emperors Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger).  When General Acacius (Pedro Pascal) returns to the city with a ship full of slaves after conquering a North African territory, the emperors organize a days-long event of games…

Blitz

Under Adolf Hitler, Germany has tossed London into chaos during a relentless nighttime bombing campaign: the Blitzkrieg.  With the men away fighting the war, women like Rita (Saoirse Ronan) work the factories which were converted to making ammunition and bombs of their own.  A single mother, she and her young son George (Elliott Heffernan) live…

Last Summer

Anne (Léa Drucker) is a lawyer whose clients are often abused teens and young adults.  She lives an idyllic life in Paris with her husband, Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), and their two adopted daughters.  Their calm is upended, though, when Théo (Samuel Kircher), Pierre’s 17 year old son from his previous marriage, moves in with the…

Close to You

On his way back home after five years absence, Sam (Elliot Page) is reunited with Katherine (Hillary Baack), an old flame, on the train.  Neither party is who they were back in high school; Katherine now married with two children and Sam has fully transitioned from female to male.  Already in an emotionally charged state,…

A Real Pain

Cousins Benji (Kieran Culkin) and David (Jesse Eisenberg) travel to Poland with money left behind after their grandmother passed away to see the town where she grew up and the concentration camp which she survived as a way of honoring her legacy.  The two young men, each living vastly different lifestyles, react to the places…