Admit One 10/11/24
Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One
Saturday Night (Theaters)
Starring: Gabriel LaBelle, Dylan O’Brien, Cory Michael Smith, Rachel Sennott, Lamorne Morris, Nicholas Braun, Finn Wolfhard
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Plot: At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television — and culture — forever.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 78%
Critic Consensus: “Jazzed up by an excellent ensemble that captures the essence if not the exact likeness of SNL’s original cast and crew, Saturday Night is a frenetic and nostalgic celebration of one of showbiz’s most auspicious debuts”
Terrifier 3 (Theaters)
Starring: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Chris Jericho, Elliot Fullam, Daniel Roebuck
Directed by: Damien Leone
Plot: After surviving Art the Clown’s Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they’re safe, Art the Clown returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare.
RT Freshness: 74%
Critic Consensus: “Taking an axe to yuletide cheer and everything else in its path, Terrifier 3 is a bloody fantastic stocking stuffer for the holiday season”
The Apprentice (Theaters)
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Catherine McNally, Charlie Carrick
Directed by: Ali Abbasi
Plot: A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today.
RT Freshness: 78%
Critic Consensus: “Instead of cross-examining its subject, The Apprentice gives Sebastian Stan the chance to shine in a simplistic yet entertaining foray into the world of a young Trump”
We Live in Time (Theaters)
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, Adam James, Aoife Hinds, Marama Corlett, Grace Molony, Heather Craney
Directed by: John Crowley
Plot: An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
RT Freshness: 85%
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Silent Hour (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Sandra Mae Frank, Mekhi Phifer, Mark Strong, Michael Eklund, Jonathan Koensgen
Directed by: Brad Anderson
Plot: A detective with hearing loss and a deaf witness to a murder must lean on each other to outsmart killers they can’t hear coming when cornered in an abandoned apartment block.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Caddo Lake (Max)
Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Lauren Ambrose, Eric Lange, Sam Hennings, Diana Hopper
Directed by: Celine Held
Plot: When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
RT Freshness: 76%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Daddy’s Head (Theaters and Shudder)
Starring: Julia Brown, Rupert Turnbull, Charles Aitken, Nathaniel Martello-White
Directed by: Benjamin Barfoot
Plot: A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy’s recently deceased father visits them.
RT Freshness: 87%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Lonely Planet (Netflix and Theaters)
Starring: Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth, Diana Silvers, Younes Boucif, Adriano Giannini, Rachida Brakni
Directed by: Susannah Grant
Plot: A reclusive novelist arrives at a prestigious writer’s retreat in Morocco, hoping the remote setting will unlock her writer’s block. While there, she meets a young man — what starts as an acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Chosen Family (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Heather Graham, Julia Stiles, John Brotherton, Thomas Lennon, Andrea Savage, Michael Gross, Julie Halston, Odessa Rae
Directed by: Heather Graham
Plot: Yoga teacher Ann is trying to find inner peace despite having a manic family, a miserable dating life, and an inability to say no that keeps her busy trying to fix everyone else’s problems.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Se7en Cemeteries (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Danny Trejo, Efren Ramirez, Sol Rodriguez, Lew Temple, Vincent M. Ward
Directed by: John Gulager
Plot: A recent parolee gets a Mexican witch to resurrect his old posse so that they can help him save a woman’s ranch from a ruthless drug lord.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Bad Geniu$ (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Callina Liang, Benedict Wong, Jabari Banks, Taylor Hickson, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Adam Beauchesne, Tina Grant
Directed by: J.C. Lee
Plot: A group of seniors of an entrepreneurial high school team up to take down a rigged college admissions system.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Uprising (Netflix)
Starring: Gang Dong-Won, Park Jeong-Min, Kim Shin-Rok, Jin Seon-Kyu, Jung Il-Sung
Directed by: Kim Sang-Man
Plot: In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together — one the master and one the servant — reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Mr. Rocket (Hulu)
Starring: Elvis Nolasco, Jerrika Hinton, Kristolyn Lloyd, Akim Black, Ayden Gavin, Alan Akpobome
Directed by: Brandon Espy
Plot: In 1993, a mysterious children’s show host, Mr. Crocket, magically emerges from television sets to kidnap young children, brutally slaying their parents in the process. After Mr. Crocket snatches her son, one determined mother embarks on a perilous quest to track down the demonic entertainer and rescue her boy.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
In Her Place (Netflix and Theaters)
Starring: Elisa Zulueta, Francisca Lewin, Marcial Tagle, Pablo Macaya, Gabriel Urzua
Directed by: Maite Alberdi
Plot: Chile, 1955. When the popular writer María Carolina Geel kills her lover, the case captivates Mercedes, the shy secretary of the judge in charge of the case. After visiting the writer’s apartment, Mercedes begins to question her life, identity, and the role of women in society as she finds an oasis of freedom in that home.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
