Admit One 9/25
Everest
Starring: Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightly
Directed by: Baltasar Kormakur
Plot: Set in 1996, a number of simultaneous expeditions up Mount Everest are trapped by a massive storm that resulted in the deaths of eight climbers.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 73%
Critic Consensus: “Everest boasts all the dizzying cinematography a person could hope to get out a movie about mountain climbers, even if it’s content to tread less challenging narrative terrain”
Hotel Transylvania 2
Starring: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Mel Brooks, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Andy Samberg
Directed by: Genndy Tartakovsky
Plot: Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel.
RT Freshness: 41%
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Intern
Starring: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Adam Devine, Andrew Ranells, Celia Weston
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Plot: A retired successful business owner and widower lands an internship at a fashion website run by a young, career-driven woman
RT Freshness: 49%
Critic Consensus: “The Intern doesn’t do enough with its timely premise, but benefits from the unorthodox chemistry of its talented leads”
The Green Inferno
Starring: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Nicolas Martinez Zemorain, Sky Ferreira
Directed by: Eli Roth
Plot: A group of activists head to South America to try and save the rainforest but encounter a tribe of cannibals.
RT Freshness: 42%
Critic Consensus: “The Green Inferno may not win writer-director Eli Roth many new converts, but fans of his flair for gory spectacle should find it a suitably gruesome diversion”
Pawn Sacrifice
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Plot: Bobby Fischer heads to the Soviet Union in 1972 to face the Russian chess champion but the bigger battle is in his mind.
RT Freshness: 72%
Critic Consensus: “Anchored by a sensitive performance from Tobey Maguire, Pawn Sacrifice adds another solidly gripping drama to the list of films inspired by chess wiz Bobby Fischer”