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Admit One 11/1/24

Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend: It’s Admit One.

Here (Theaters)

Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Ophelia Lovibond, Beau Gadsdon

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Plot: A generational story about families and the special place they inhabit, sharing in love, loss, laughter, and life.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 36%

Critic Consensus: “While it’s heartening to see director Robert Zemeckis return to humanistic storytelling, Here‘s stagey conceit and overabundance of spectacle rob it of emotional resonance”

Juror #2 (Theaters)

Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Kiefer Sutherland, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough

Directed by: Clint Eastwood

Plot: Family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict – or free – the wrong killer.

RT Freshness: 93%

Critic Consensus: “A legal thriller with a heavy conscience, Juror #2 is less a summation of Clint Eastwood’s storied directorial career than another terrific reminder of his knack for plain-spoken drama”

Lost on a Mountain in Maine (Theaters)

Starring: Luke David Blumm, Paul Sparks, Caitlin FitzGerald, Griffin Wallace Henkel, Ethan Slater, Dan Matteucci

Directed by: Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger

Plot: A 12-year-old boy, separated from his family by a fast-moving storm, must fight to stay alive during his nine-day adventure lost in the backwoods of Maine.

RT Freshness: N/A

Critic Consensus: N/A

A Real Pain (Theaters)

Starring: Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Jakub Gasowski, Will Sharpe, Daniel Oreskes, Liza Sadovy, Kurt Egyiawan

Directed by: Jesse Eisenberg

Plot: Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

RT Freshness: 95%

Critic Consensus: “Led by a scene-stealing turn from Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain is a powerfully funny, emotionally resonant dramedy that finds writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg playing to his strengths on either side of the camera”

Absolution (Theaters)

Starring: Liam Neeson, Ron Perlman, Yolanda Ross, Frankie Shaw, Daniel Diemer, Javier Molina, Jimmy Gonzales

Directed by: Hans Petter Moland

Plot: An aging gangster attempts to reconnect with his children and rectify the mistakes in his past, but the criminal underworld won’t loosen their grip willingly.

RT Freshness: 43%

Critic Consensus: N/A

HitPig! (Theaters)

Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Andy Serkis, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Ashbourne, RuPaul, Shelby Young, Anitta, Lilly Singh

Directed by: David Feiss & Cinzia Angelini

Plot: A bounty hunter pig finds himself trekking the globe with a free-spirited elephant he intended to capture.

RT Freshness: 69%

Critic Consensus: N/A

Cellar Door (Theaters and VOD/Digital)

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, Addison Timlin, Laurence Fishburne, Chris Conner, Katie O’Grady

Directed by: Vaughn Stein

Plot: A wealthy homeowner offers to give his beautiful estate to a couple who’s looking for a fresh start. However, their dream home comes with one unusual caveat — they can never open the cellar door.

RT Freshness: N/A

Critic Consensus: N/A

Time Cut (Netflix)

Starring: Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, Michael Shanks, Summer H. Howell, Megan Best, Adam Hurtig, Sydney Sabiston

Directed by: Hannah Macpherson

Plot: A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?

RT Freshness: 13%

Critic Consensus: N/A

Levels (Theaters and VOD/Digital)

Starring: Cara Gee, Peter Mooney, Aaron Abrams, David Hewlett, Amanda Tapping, Adam Hurtig, Sydney Sabiston

Directed by: Adam Stern

Plot: After witnessing his girlfriend’s murder, a man risks everything, including reality itself, to discover the truth.

RT Freshness: N/A

Critic Consensus: N/A

He Never Left (Theaters)

Starring: Colin Cunningham, James Cox, Charla Bocchicchio, David E. McMahon, Jessica Staples, James Morris

Directed by: James Morris

Plot: After hearing strange noises coming from an adjoining motel room, Gabriel, a federal fugitive wanted for murder, and his girlfriend Carly inadvertently become targets of the notorious Pale Face killer, whose legend has consumed and haunted the local community for decades.

RT Freshness: N/A

Critic Consensus: N/A

72 Hours (Theaters and VOD/Digital)

Starring: Cam Gigandet, Sam Trammell, Pierson Fodé, Nicky Whelan, Jana Kramer, Jessica Serfaty, Luis Da Silva Jr., Keith Arthur Bolden

Directed by: Christian Sesma

Plot: Two brothers, one an FBI agent and the other an international money launderer, put aside their differences and band together to save their family by going after a perilous extraction deep in kingpin territory.

RT Freshness: N/A

Critic Consensus: N/A

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