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Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool. By the 1960s, he was all but washed up, his career and personal life in shambles due to years of heroin addiction. In his innovative anti-biopic, director Robert Budreau zeroes in on Baker’s life at a key moment in the 1960s, just as the musician attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback, spurred in part by a passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo). Creatively blending fact with fiction and driven by Hawke’s virtuoso performance, Born to Be Blue unfolds with all the stylistic brio and improvisatory genius of great jazz.

“Everything that makes Ethan Hawke an extraordinary actor – his energy, his empathy, his fearless, vanity-free eagerness to explore the deeper recesses of a character – is on view in his performance as Chet Baker.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“It’s not necessary to be a jazz fan to get lost in this poetic and poignant film.” – Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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98 MIN

A young woman’s (Emma Watson) desperate search for her abducted boyfriend (Daniel Brühl) that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, an ex-Nazi cult that nobody ever escaped from.

“For anyone following Watson’s slow and steady path toward becoming one of her generation’s finest actresses, Colonia is more evidence of the exciting career she’s building.” – Katey Rich, Vanity Fair

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110 MIN

Rating: Unrated

When Doris Miller (Sally Field) meets John Fremont (Max Greenfield), her company’s hip new art director, sparks fly-at least for Doris. In the cluttered house she shared with her late mother, Doris mines the Internet for information on her one-and-only, guided by the 13-year-old granddaughter of her best pal Roz. When Doris begins showing up at John’s regular haunts, she wins over his Williamsburg friends. Her new life brings Doris a thrilling perspective, but also creates a rift between her and her longtime friends and family, who believe she’s making a fool of herself over a guy half her age. Eager for all the experiences she has missed out on, Doris throws caution to the wind and follows her heart for the very first time.

“Field keeps both hands firmly on the wheel as Doris, skillfully maneuvering through both the comedic and dramatic scenes like the two-time Oscar winner that she is.” – Katie Rife, AV Club 

“A winning comedy-drama built around one of cinema’s most endearing leading ladies.” – Rafer Guzman, Newsday

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95 MIN

Drone strikes: a controversial, relatively new, and increasingly common method of fighting terrorism. When British military personnel target a cell of terrorists in a highly populated area of Nairobi, Kenya, they must consider the cost of human casualties. Full of tension and drama, EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, and the beloved Alan Rickman in one of his final roles.

“General Benson is Mr. Rickman’s final screen performance, and it is a great one, suffused with a dyspeptic world-weary understanding of war and human nature… Ms. Mirren has rarely been icier, and her powerful, scary performance doesn’t strive to make her character likable.” -Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“…much like Dr. Strangelove, the Stanley Kubrick classic it often recalls, this teasingly hard-to-label war story has more than a fair share of scenes that generate explosive laughter — until the laughter catches in your throat.”- Joe Leydon, Variety

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102 MIN

Somewhere in Ukraine, Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. Alone in this new and unfamiliar place, he must find his way through the school’s hierarchy. Sergey quickly encounters the tribe, a student gang dealing in crime and prostitution. After passing their hazing rituals and being inducted into the group, he takes part in several robberies and begins to work his way up the chain of command to become pimp-protector for two of the girls, who turn tricks at the local truck stop. Finding himself in love with one of them, Sergey ultimately breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe, with tragic consequences.

“An utter astonishment.” – Wesley Morris, Grantland

“The Tribe is a brilliant formal achievement that marks Ukrainian writer-director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky as a filmmaker to watch.” – Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader 

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130 MIN

Rating: Unrated

When Krisha shows up at her sister’s Texas home on Thanksgiving morning, her close and extended family greet her with a mixture of warmth and wariness. Almost immediately, a palpable unease permeates the air, one which only grows in force as Krisha gets to work cooking the turkey and trying to make up for lost time by catching up with her various relatives, chief among them her nephew, Trey. As Krisha’s attempts at reconciliation become increasingly rebuffed, tension and suspicion reach their peak, with long-buried secrets and deep-seated resentments coming to the fore as everyone becomes immersed in an emotionally charged familial reckoning.

“An explosive, stomach-knotting debut.” – Tricia Olszewski, TheWrap

“This haunting drama finds new and explosive life in a familiar premise” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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83 MIN

To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” them to see what they have to offer.

“a crazy-like-a-fox documentary hellbent on seeing the best in people. Other people. Not us Americans. Turns out we suck at practicing what we preach. It’s classic Michael Moore.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“[Moore has] made his most enjoyable film in years and also his most inspiring, the antidote to prevailing global doom and gloom.” -Peter Howell, Toronto Star

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120 MIN

In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and a 30-year-old François Truffaut sequestered themselves in a windowless Hollywood office for a weeklong conversation. The result: the seminal book “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” published a half century ago, dissecting every film Hitchcock had made until then, illuminating his masterful techniques, making the case for the popular director as an artist, and influencing generations of filmmakers. Kent Jones brings “the Bible of Cinema” to invigorating life. He interviews filmmakers whose work has been profoundly influenced by Hitchcock: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater, Olivier Assayas, and many others.

“Kent Jones’ doc on the groundbreaking interview book gets you drunk on Hitchcock’s films again. Nirvana for movie lovers.” – Peter Travers, The Rolling Stone

“This is a jewel box of a movie for anyone who loves either Hitchcock or Truffaut – or better yet, both.” – Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine

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79 MIN