A Star Is Born (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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A Star Is Born (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Bradley Cooper

Written by: Will Fetters, Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliot, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chapelle

Runtime: 135 min

In this new take on the tragic love story, Bradley Cooper plays seasoned musician Jackson Maine, who discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally (Lady Gaga). She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer... until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight.

But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

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Venom (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Venom (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Ruben Fleischer

Written by: Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg, Kelly Marcel

Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott

Runtime: 112 min

Synopsis: Journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is trying to take down Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), the notorious and brilliant founder of the Life Foundation. While investigating one of Drake's experiments, Eddie's body merges with the alien Venom - leaving him with superhuman strength and power. Twisted, dark and fueled by rage, Venom tries to control the new and dangerous abilities that Eddie finds so intoxicating.

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Mandy (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Mandy (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Panos Cosmatos

Written by: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouere, Richard Brake

Runtime: 120 min

Synopsis: Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) and Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache), Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

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Searching (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Searching (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Aneesh Chaganty

Written by: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian

Starring: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La

Runtime: 101 min

Synopsis: After David Kim (John Cho)'s 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened, and a detective is assigned to the case. However, 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop. In a hyper-modern thriller told via the technology devices we use every day to communicate, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before she disappears forever.

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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Ron Howard

Written by: Lawrence Kasdan, Jon Kasdan

Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Bettany

Runtime: 135 min

Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy.

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich) meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.

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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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