After her combative breakup with Sukie (Beanie Feldstein), Jamie (Margaret Qualley) is looking to get out of the city for a while to let things cool down between her and her ex. She jumps at the chance of a road trip to Tallahassee with her friend Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) to go down and see her…
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Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) could not be more different than her cheer captain, pageant queen stepsister, Taffy (Liza Soberano). Preferring instead to keep to herself and spending her afternoons after school in the abandoned Bachelors’ Cemetary – which is, supposedly haunted – she makes pressings of the graves and will read next to her favorite…
The Holdovers
Mere hours separate the students at Barton Academy from Christmas Break, and while many are delighted that their classes have been cut short, the students of Paul Hunham’s (Paul Giamatti) antiquities class are not as lucky. “Wall Eye” as he is unaffectionately nicknamed by the students for his amblyopia is equally disliked by the faculty…
Asteroid City
Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman) accompanies his young son Woodrow (Jake Ryan) to Asteroid City for the Junior Stargazers convention where his science project is in contest for the top scholarship prize. One evening, during a ceremony led by Dr. Hickenlooper (Tilda Swinton) to view an astrological phenomenon, an alien spaceship lands and an Alien (Jeff…
Polite Society
An aspiring stunt performer, Ria (Priya Kansara) has little support at home or at school as her parents and teachers all want to see her go on to become a doctor. The only exception is her older sister, Lena (Ritu Arya), who helps her film videos for her channel and encourages her in her training. …
A Thousand and One
It is Harlem in the early 1990s, and Inez (Teyana Taylor) sees her young son, Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola), who is in the foster system, on the street. She begins to talk to the timid boy and eventually convinces him to come with her and the two run off to lay low with her friend…
Inside
Nemo (Willem Dafoe) enters an elaborately manicured, high-rise apartment of a wealthy artist with only two things on his mind; snag the self-portrait worth millions and escape. When his accomplice, Number 3 (Andrew Blumenthal) triggers the alarm system in an attempt to disarm it for Nemo’s exit, he finds himself stranded and alone. Minutes, turn…
Of an Age
Ebony (Hattie Hook) wakes up alone on the beach after an all-night bender and comes to the frantic realization that she is late for a dance competition. She calls her dance partner, Kol (Elias Anton), and they devise a plan to have her older brother, Adam (Thom Green), pick them both up to go to…
You Won’t Be Alone
A small town in 19th-century Macedonia has a legend of a witch, Old Maid Maria (Anamaria Marinca), who wanders throughout the wooded countryside searching for children to turn into witches like herself. Nevena (Sara Klimoska) is promised as an infant by her mother to Maria, and on the girl’s 16th birthday, Maria appears to the…
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