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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Starring: John Krasinski, Pablo Schreiber, James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Toby Stephens, David Costabile

Directed by: Michael Bay

Plot: 6 members of security team defend the US embassy and a secret CIA base when they come under attack by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 59%

Critic Consensus: “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a comparatively mature and restrained effort from Michael Bay, albeit one that can’t quite boast the impact its fact-based story deserves”

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Ride Along 2

Starring: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter, Ken Jeong, Olivia Munn, Benjamin Bratt

Directed by: Tim Story

Plot: Future brothers-in-law James and Ben head to Miami to track down a new drug kingpin.

RT Freshness: 15%

Critic Consensus: “Ride Along 2 presents a cop-comedy sequel whose well-matched stars can’t break the law of diminishing returns — or lock up a script that unabashedly steals from the original”

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Norm of the North

Starring: Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Colm Meaney, Loretta Devine, Gabriel Iglesias

Directed by: Trevor Wall

Plot: A polar bear heads to New York City to try and save his glacier home from being turned into luxury condos.

RT Freshness: 4%

Critic Consensus: “A pioneering feat in the field of twerking polar bear animation but blearily retrograde in every other respect, Norm of the North should only be screened in case of parental emergency”

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