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Tomb Raider

Starring: Alicia Vikander, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Dominic West, Kristen Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen

Directed by: Roar Uthaug

Plot: Adventurer Lara Croft tries to uncover the circumstances of her father’s death and uncovers a plot by the evil organization Trinity, which is searching for an ancient power on a remote island.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 49%

Critic Consensus: “Tomb Raider reboots the franchise with a more grounded approach and a star who’s clearly more than up to the task — neither of which are well served by an uninspired origin story”

Love, Simon

Starring: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Duhamel, Logan Miller

Directed by: Greg Berlanti

Plot: 17 year old Simon Spier has to figure out how to tell his family that he’s gay and also tries to forge a romantic connection with an anonymous classmate he’s been following online.

RT Freshness: 91%

Critic Consensus: “Love, Simon hits its coming-of-age beats more deftly than many entries in this well-traveled genre — and represents an overdue, if not entirely successful, milestone of inclusion”

7 Days in Entebbe

Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Lior Ashkenazi

Directed by: Jose Padilha

Plot: A 1976 Air France is hijacked en route between Paris and Tel Aviv and a daring rescue operation is put into motion.

RT Freshness: 19%

Critic Consensus: “7 Days in Entebbe has a worthy story to tell, but loses sight of its most compelling elements in a dull dramatization of riveting real-life events”

I Can Only Imagine

Starring: J. Michael Finley, Madeline Carroll, Trace Adkins, Priscilla Shirer, Cloris Leachman, Dennis Quaid

Directed by: Jon and Andrew Erwin

Plot: The story of how Christian rock smash hit I Can Only Imagine came to be.

RT Freshness: 56%

Critic Consensus: N/A

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