Admit One 11/3/23
Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One
The Marsh King’s Daughter (Theaters)
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Garrett Hedlund, Gil Birmingham, Brooklynn Prince, Caren Pistorius
Directed by: Neil Burger
Plot: A woman seeks revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 56%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Priscilla (Thaters)
Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Domińczyk, Raine Monroe Boland, Emily Mitchell, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll
Directed by; Sofia Coppola
Plot: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.
RT Freshness: 91%
Critic Consensus: “With Cailee Spaeny’s performance in the title role leading the way, Priscilla sees Sofia Coppola taking a tender yet clear-eyed look at the often toxic blend created by mixing first love and fame”
What Happens Later (Theaters)
Starring: David Duchovny, Meg Ryan
Directed by: Meg Ryan
Plot: Willa and Bill are ex-lovers that will see each other for the first time in years when they both find themselves snowed in, in-transit, at an airport overnight.
RT Freshness: 58%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Squealer (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Wes Chatham, Theo Rossi, Katherine Moennig, Danielle Burgio, Ronnie Gene Blevins
Directed by: Andy Armstrong
Plot: When a local cop and an overzealous social-worker follow clues on missing persons cases around town, stomach-turning discoveries are unearthed on a pig farm, where the town butcher has been slaughtering more than livestock.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Rumble Through the Dark (Theaters)
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bella Thorne, Ritchie Coster, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Virginia Newcomb, Derek Russo
Directed by: Graham and Parker Phillips
Plot: A desperate, bare-knuckle cage fighter battles to save his family home against the strongest of foes and the longest of odds.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Death on the Border (Theaters)
Starring: Shannon Elizabeth, Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts, Frank Whaley, Kika Magalhães, Jay Hieron
Directed by: Wendy Wilkins
Plot: On the U.S.-Mexican border, two women risk their lives to rescue a group of young women from a sinister human trafficking network.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Project Z (Theaters)
Starring: Eili Harboe, Myra, Vebjørn Enger, Jonis Josef, Iben Akerlie, Arthur Berning
Directed by: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken
Plot: A group of film students bring along three unemployed actors to make a zombie movie at a closed motel in the Norwegian mountainside. Suddenly their fiction is turned into reality, when an unknown creature starts to terrorize the group.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Locked In (Netflix)
Starring: Famke Janssen, Anna Friel, Finn Cole, Rose Williams, Alex Hassell, Guy Robbins
Directed by: Nour Wazzi
Plot: Unhappy newlywed Lina is against her rich, coldhearted mother-in-law, Katherine. An affair sets off a chain reaction that will result in a love triangle, a murder and a plot to bring Lina down.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Quiz Lady (Hulu)
Starring: Awkwafina, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, Holland Taylor, Tony Hale, Will Ferrell
Directed by: Jessica Yu
Plot: A gameshow-obsessed woman and her estranged sister work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts.
RT Freshness: 80%
Critic Consensus: “Quiz Lady‘s perfectly matched leads help Jessica Yu’s occasionally uneven comedy overcome its periodic wobbles and land on the right side of hilarious and heartfelt”
Fingernails (Theaters and Apple TV+)
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson, Annie Murphy
Directed by: Christos Nikou
Plot: Anna and Ryan have found true love, and it’s proven by a controversial new technology. There’s just one problem, as Anna still isn’t sure. Then she takes a position at a love testing institute and meets Amir.
RT Freshness: 67%
Critic Consensus: “A trio of solid performances help Fingernails get its thought-provoking ideas across in spite of an occasionally underwhelming story”
