Fight Club (1999) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Fight Club (1999) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Fincher

Written by: Jim Uhls

Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter

Runtime: 139 min

Synopsis: A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.

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Se7en (1995) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Se7en (1995) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Fincher

Written by: Andrew Kevin Walker

Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey, John C. McGinley

Runtime: 125 min

Synopsis: When retiring police Detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) tackles a final case with the aid of newly transferred David Mills (Brad Pitt), they discover a number of elaborate and grizzly murders. They soon realize they are dealing with a serial killer who is targeting people he thinks represent one of the seven deadly sins. Somerset also befriends Mills' wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), who lives afraid of establishing a future in the crime-riddled city.

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Hillbilly Elegy (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Hillbilly Elegy (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Ron Howard

Written by: Vanessa Taylor

Starring: Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, Owen Asztalos

Runtime: 116 min

Synopsis: J.D. Vance (Gabriel Basso), a former Marine from southern Ohio and current Yale Law student, is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget. J.D. must navigate the complex dynamics of his Appalachian family, including his volatile relationship with his mother Bev (Amy Adams), who’s struggling with addiction. Fueled by memories of his grandmother Mamaw (Glenn Close), the resilient and whip-smart woman who raised him, J.D. comes to embrace his family’s indelible imprint on his own personal journey.

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Train to Busan (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Train to Busan (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Yeon Sang-ho

Written by: Park Joo-suk

Starring: Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-seok, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Su-an, Kim Eui-sung, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee

Runtime: 118 min

Synopsis: A harrowing zombie horror-thriller that follows a group of terrified passengers fighting their way through a countrywide viral outbreak while trapped on a suspicion-filled, blood-drenched bullet train ride to Busan, a southern resort city that has managed to hold off the zombie hordes... or so everyone hopes.

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Rebecca (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Rebecca (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Ben Wheatley

Written by: Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse

Starring: Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Keeley Hawes, Sam Riley, Ann Dowd

Runtime: 121 min

Synopsis: After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley’s sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas).

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On the Rocks (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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On the Rocks (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Sofia Coppola

Written by: Sofia Coppola

Starring: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans

Runtime: 96 min

Synopsis: A New York woman (Rashida Jones) and her impulsive, larger-than-life father (Bill Murray) try to find out if her husband (Marlon Wayans) is having an affair.

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Aaron Sorkin

Written by: Aaron Sorkin

Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Noah Robbins, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong

Runtime: 129 min

Synopsis: In 1969, seven people were charged by the federal government with conspiracy and more, arising from the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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The Boys in the Band (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Boys in the Band (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Joe Mantello

Written by: Mart Crowley, Ned Martel

Starring: Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Robin de Jesús, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tuc Watkins

Runtime: 121 min

Synopsis: A visitor turns an evening upside down when he interrupts a gathering of gay men in New York City in 1968.

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Greenland (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Greenland (2020) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh

Written by: Chris Sparling

Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn

Runtime: 119 min

Synopsis: John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife (Morena Baccarin), and their young son (Roger Dale Floyd) embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting leveled, the Garrity's experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.

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