Admit One 8/10
The Meg
Starring: Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, Cliff Curtis
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
Plot: A gigantic prehistoric shark is unleashed from the ocean depths and deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor has to figure out someway to stop it.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 50%
Critic Consensus: “The Meg sets audiences up for a good old-fashioned B-movie creature feature, but lacks the genre thrills — or the cheesy bite — to make it worth diving in”
Dog Days
Starring: Adam Pally, Eva Longoria, Rob Corddry, Tone Bell, Jon Bass, Michael Cassidy, Thomas Lennon, Tig Notaro, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Cephas Jones
Directed by: Ken Marino
Plot: Follows the lives of multiple dog owners and their beloved fluffy pals around sunny Los Angeles.
RT Freshness: 59%
Critic Consensus: “This is Dog Days. It wants to be funny and romantic and adorable all at once, and sometimes is. This pup gets a 12/10″
Slender Man
Starring: Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, Javier Botet, Alex Fitzalan
Directed by: Sylvain White
Plot: In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, attempt to prove that he doesn’t actually exist – until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
RT Freshness: 18%
Critic Consensus: N/A
BlackKkKlansman
Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace
Director: Spike Lee
Plot: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
RT Freshness: 98%
Critic Consensus: “BlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events — and brings out some of Spike Lee’s hardest-hitting work in decades along the way”