CADEJO BLANCO- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, Sarita dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea never made it home.”
6/18/23- Good reviews for this foreign drama (Spanish)- TRDB.
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THE WONDER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The Irish Midlands, 1862 — a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harboring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or are there more ominous motives at work?”
11/23/22- Good reviews from the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
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BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Juliette Binoche is Sara, a woman whose life spirals out of control when she becomes involved in a passionate love triangle. From acclaimed writer-director Claire Denis.”
7/9/22- Fairly good reviews for this drama/mystery. TRDB.
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APPLES- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris (Aris Servetalis) finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.”
6/29/22- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Late on a cold night somewhere in the U.S., teenage Casey (Anna Cobb in her feature debut) sits alone in her attic bedroom, scrolling the internet under the glow-in-the-dark stars and black-light posters that blanket the ceiling. She has finally decided to take the World’s Fair Challenge, an online role-playing horror game, and embrace the uncertainty it promises.”
4/16/21- Excellent reviews but I’ll skip this horror movie. TRDB.
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AMBULANCE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Over one day across the streets of L.A., three lives will change forever. In this breakneck thriller from director-producer Michael Bay, decorated veteran Will Sharp (Emmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Candyman, The Matrix Resurrections), desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from the one person he knows he shouldn’t–his adoptive brother Danny.”
4/10/22- Fair reviews from the critics and good ones from audiences. TRDB.
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MASTER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows hill, three women strive to find their place. Navigating politics and privilege, they encounter increasingly terrifying manifestations of the school’s haunted past… and present.”
3/17/22- Fair reviews for this horror/drama movie. TRDB.
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THE OUTFIT- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Academy Award winner Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.”
3/16/22- Very good early reviews. TRDB.
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NIGHTRIDE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “NIGHTRIDE is a wry, real-time one-shot thriller set on the midnight streets of Belfast. It places us in the driver’s seat with smalltime dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark.”
3/6/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
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STRAWBERRY MANSION- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own-they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state.”
3/4/22- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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