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TITANE

Watch Trailer Director: Julia Ducournau
Language: French

The winner of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or, TITANE is a thrillingly confident vision from Julia Ducournau that deposits the viewer directly into its director’s headspace. Moving with the logic of a dream—and often the force of a nightmare—the film begins as a kind of horror movie, with a series of shocking events perpetrated by Alexia (Agathe Rouselle, in a dynamic and daring breakthrough), a dancer with a titanium plate in her skull following a childhood car accident. However, once Alexia goes into hiding from the police, and is taken in by a grief-stricken firefighter (Vincent Lindon), Ducournau reveals her deployment of genre tropes to be as fluid and destabilizing as her mercurial main character. A feverish, violent, and frequently jaw-dropping ride, TITANE nevertheless exposes the beating, fragile heart at its center as it questions our assumptions about gender, family, and love itself.

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Running Time: 108 minutes108 MIN
R Rated
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The magic of "Titane" is also owed to the grace with which Ducournau threads the needle between clarity and madness, shock and recognition, throttle and clutch.

David Ehrlich
Indie Wire
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THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

Watch Trailer Director: Michael Showalter

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s, Tammy Faye Bakker and her husband, Jim, rise from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park. Tammy Faye becomes legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, financial improprieties, scheming rivals and a scandal soon threaten to topple their carefully constructed empire.

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Running Time: 126 minutes126 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Jessica Chastain delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in the title role, and Andrew Garfield is nothing less than sensational as her soft-spoken, indifferent, and cloyingly ambitious preacher husband Jim.

Rex Reed
Observer
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THE CARD COUNTER

Watch Trailer Director: Paul Schrader

Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader’s THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader’s trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions, and features riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe.

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Running Time: 109 min109 MIN
R Rated
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The Card Counter, intense and vital and hugely satisfying, is pretty great.

Stephanie Zacharek
TIME Magazine
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SHANG-CHI

Watch Trailer Director: Destin Daniel Cretton

Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings” focuses on Shang-Chi who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

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Running Time: 133 minutes133 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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At some point during one of the best car chase scenes in San Francisco movie history, "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" makes at least one thing gloriously clear: Today, you will be getting your money's worth at the movies.

Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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THE LOST LEONARDO

Watch Trailer Director: Andreas Koefoed

THE LOST LEONARDO is the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and the restorer discovers masterful Renaissance brush strokes under the heavy varnish of its cheap restoration, the Salvator Mundi’s fate is determined by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power. As its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity: is this painting really by Leonardo da Vinci? Unravelling the hidden agendas of the richest men and most powerful art institutions in the world, THE LOST LEONARDO reveals how vested interests in the Salvator Mundi are of such tremendous power that truth becomes secondary.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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It plays like a thriller, like a heist. While I was watching, I could totally imagine that someone is going to pick up the rights to this and turn it into a feature film, because it's so gripping and thrilling.

Christy Lemire
NPR Los Angeles
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CANDYMAN

Watch Trailer Director: Nia DaCosta
Cast: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo

 

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer (Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.

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Running Time: 91 min91 MIN
R Rated
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From the opening moments of Nia DaCosta's gory yet strikingly beautiful and socially relevant "Candyman," it's clear we're in for an especially haunting and just plain entertaining thrill ride.

Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
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PIG

Watch Trailer Director: Michael Sarnoski

 

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

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Running Time: 92 minutes92 MIN
R Rated
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[Cage] offers something genuinely special: a perfect performance, and one which could not exist without every other performance that the actor has ever delivered.

Barry Hertz
Globe and Mail
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Accessible for All Screening: SOUND OF METAL

Watch Trailer Director: Darius Marder

About the film

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

 

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Running Time: 130 minutes130 MIN
R Rated
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The fragility of daily existence is captured empathetically and compassionately in Darius Marder’s excellent 'Sound of Metal.'

Roger Ebert
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PRIVATE RENTALS AT THE ATHENA

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