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Admit One 7/19/24

Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One

Twisters (Theaters)

Starring: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sasha Lane, Kiernan Shipka, David Corenswet

Directed by: Lee Isaac Chung

Plot: A retired tornado-chaser and meteorologist is persuaded to return to Oklahoma to work with a new team and new technologies.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 78%

Critic Consensus: “Summoning a storm of spectacle and carried along by the gale force winds of Glen Powell’s charisma, Twisters‘ forecast is splendid with a high chance of thrills”

Oddity (Theaters)

Starring: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Jonathan French, Steve Wall

Directed by: Damian McCarthy

Plot: When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic killing, the suspect is found dead. A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister’s murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge.

RT Freshness: 98%

Critic Consensus: N/A

My Spy: The Eternal City (Prime Video)

Starring: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal, Ken Jeong, Flula Borg, Craig Robinson, Anna Faris

Directed by: Peter Segal

Plot: JJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear scheme aimed at the Vatican, which disrupts a high school choir trip to Italy.

RT Freshness: 15%

Critic Consensus: N/A

Find Me Falling (Netflix)

Starring: Harry Connick Jr, Agni Scott, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Lea Meleni, Clarence Smith, Christodoulos Martas

Directed by: Stelana Kliris

Plot: After a failed comeback album, a rock star retreats to a cliffside home on Cyprus, only to find his new life complicated by visitors, and an old flame.

RT Freshness: 31%

Critic Consensus: N/A

Before Dawn (Theaters and VOD/Digital)

Starring: Levi Miller, Travis Jeffery, Myles Pollard, Tim Franklin, Jordan Dulieu, Peter Sullivan

Directed by: Jordan Prince-Wright

Plot: After leaving his family’s sheep farm in the Australian outback, a young man joins his countrymen on the western front of World War I with hopes of helping expedite an end to the bloody conflict. But as war rages on, he is forced to grapple with the brutal realities of trench warfare, including a near-constant battle to keep himself alive–without leaving another man behind.

RT Freshness: 30%

Critic Consensus: N/A

Clear Cut (Theaters and VOD/Digital)

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Clive Standen, Stephen Dorff, Lucy Martin, Jesse Metcalfe, Tom Welling, Chelsey Reist, Lochlyn Munro

Directed by: Brian Skiba

Plot: A team of loggers discover a meth cook site in the middle of the forest and are forced to fight for their lives while being hunted by a drug cartel.

RT Freshness: 0%

Critic Consensus: N/A

The Abandon (Theaters)

Starring: Jonathan Rosenthal, Tamara Perry, Regis Terencio, Dan Kyle

Directed by: Jason Satterlund

Plot: Injured U.S. soldier Miles Willis awakens after witnessing a blinding white light on a battlefield in Iraq to discover he is trapped in a mysterious cube armed only with his combat gear. His dire situation escalates as the cube begins to change with violent shifts in gravity and the appearance of cryptic writing on the walls. As Miles begins to question his sanity, he finds a lifeline — a voice on the other end of his satellite phone who claims to be a prisoner in a similar space. As the walls close in, these two strangers must put their heads together if they are to outwit their captors and unlock this deadly puzzle.

RT Freshness: 88%

Critic Consensus: N/A

Crumb Catcher (Theaters)

Starring: Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, John Speredakos, Lorraine Farris, David Macke

Directed by: Chris Skotchdopole

Plot: A newlywed couple is held captive in a remote lake house by a maniacally optimistic inventor and his sour wife who are desperate to finance his dream project with a half-baked blackmail plot.

RT Freshness: 90%

Critic Consensus: N/A

 

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