Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Yates

Written by: J.K. Rowling

Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Zoë Kravitz

Runtime: 134 min

At the end of the first film, the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his real agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.

In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt, who's unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

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Overlord (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Overlord (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Julius Avery

Written by: Mark L. Smith, Billy Ray

Starring: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbaek, John Magaro, Iain De Caestecker, Jacob Anderson, Dominic Applewhite

Runtime: 109 min

With only hours until D-Day, a team of American paratroopers drops into Nazi-occupied France to carry out a mission that's crucial to the invasion's success. Tasked with destroying a radio transmitter atop a fortified church, the desperate soldiers join forces with a young French villager to penetrate the walls and take down the tower.

But, in a mysterious Nazi lab beneath the church, the outnumbered G.I.s come face-to-face with enemies unlike any the world has ever seen. From producer J.J. Abrams, Overlord certainly offers high expectations.

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Halloween (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Halloween (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Gordon Green

Written by: Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Haluk Bilginer, Virginia Gardner, Nick Castle

Runtime: 106 min

Synopsis: It's been 40 years since Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) survived a vicious attack from crazed killer Michael Myers on Halloween night. Locked up in an institution, Myers manages to escape when his bus transfer goes horribly wrong. Laurie now faces a terrifying showdown when the masked madman returns to Haddonfield, Ill. - but this time, she's ready for him.

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Halloween (1978) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Halloween (1978) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: John Carpenter

Written by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, Nancy Loomis

Runtime: 91 min

Synopsis: On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being transferred for a court date, a 21-year-old Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith's Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Eli Roth

Written by: Eric Kripke

Starring: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan, Renee Elise Goldsberry

Runtime: 104 min

In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls from Amblin Entertainment.

The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.

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The Predator (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Predator (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Shane Black

Written by: Shane Black, Fred Dekker

Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Sterling K. Brown

Runtime: 107 min

From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black's explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species.

When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.

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A Simple Favor (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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A Simple Favor (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Paul Feig

Written by: Jessica Sharzer, Darcey Bell

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Eric Johnson, Jean Smart, Sarah Baker

Runtime: 116 min

A stylish post-modern film noir, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), a mommy blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town.

Stephanie is joined by Emily's husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge.

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: J.A. Bayona

Written by: Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly

Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, B.D. Wong, James Cromwell, Ted Levine, Justice Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, Rafe Spall

Runtime: 129 min

Synopsis: Three years after the destruction of the Jurassic World theme park, Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island of Isla Nublar to save the remaining dinosaurs from a volcano that's about to erupt. They soon encounter terrifying new breeds of gigantic dinos while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens the entire planet.

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The Nun (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Nun (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Corin Hardy

Written by: Gary Dauberman

Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Demián Bichir, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Ingrid Bisu

Runtime: 96 min

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest (Demián Bichir) with a haunted past and a novitiate (Taissa Farmiga) on the threshold of her final vows, are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order's unholy secret.

Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in The Conjuring 2, as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

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Alpha (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Alpha (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Albert Hughes

Written by: Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt

Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Leonor Varela, Natassia Malthe, Jens Hultén

Runtime: 97 min

An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age, Alpha tells a fascinating, visually stunning story that shines a light on the origins of man's best friend. While on his first hunt with his tribe's most elite group, a young man is injured and must learn to survive alone in the wilderness.

Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learn to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds to find their way home before winter arrives.

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