Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend: It’s Admit One.
A Minecraft Movie (Theaters)
Starring: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Eugene Hansen
Directed by: Jared Hess
Plot: Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world while embarking on a quest with an unexpected, expert crafter.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 48%
Critic Consensus: “Ostensibly a film about celebrating creativity, A Minecraft Movie provides a colorful sandbox for Jack Black and Jason Momoa to amusingly romp around in a story curiously constructed from conventional building blocks”
Freaky Tales (Theaters)
Starring: Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion
Directed by: Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Plot: An NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teenage punks, neo-Nazis and a debt collector embark on a collision course in 1987 Oakland, Calif.
RT Freshness: 70%
Critic Consensus: “Bold, funny, and overall entertaining, Freaky Tales is a vibrantly well-acted period piece that makes up in style what it lacks in narrative substance”
Hell of a Summer (Theaters)
Starring: Fred Hechinger, Finn Wolfhard, Billy Byrk, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, Adam Pally
Directed by: Finn Wolfhard and Billy Byrk
Plot:Â 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.
RT Freshness: 54%
Critic Consensus: N/A
William Tell (Theaters)
Starring: Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Ellie Bamber, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham, Jonathan Pryce, Ben Kingsley
Directed by: Nick Hamm
Plot: 1307, the Holy Roman Empire is in turmoil. As its grip on Europe loosens, new dynasties such as the Austrian Habsburg Family encroach on new lands, desperate for power. Switzerland, the once peaceful country, is overwhelmed and bows under the Austrian might. When the local huntsman William Tell sees a farmer begging for help after murdering a cruel Austrian governor, he reluctantly agrees to guide him to a safe location. But as he meets with more comrades along the way, Tell realizes that this act of violence is a larger sign of what’s to come with the growing Swiss resistance.
RT Freshness: 55%
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Luckiest Man in America (Theaters)
Starring: Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, David Straithairn, Maisie Williams, Shamier Anderson, Brian Geraghty, Patti Harrison, Haley Bennett, Damian Young, Lilli Kay, James Wolk
Directed by: Samir Oliveros
Plot: In 1984, a man named Michael Larson appeared on a popular game show called PRESS YOUR LUCK. Unfortunately for the producers, Michael was about to make history. In trying to beat the system, he caused one of the strangest moments on television.
RT Freshness: 65%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Wake Up (Theaters)
Starring: Turlough Convery, Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré, Charlotte Stoiber, Aidan O’Hare, Kyle Scudder
Directed by: Anouk and Yoann-Karl Whissell
Plot: A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting.
RT Freshness: 80%
Critic Consensus: N/A
825 Forest Road (Shudder)
Starring: Elizabeth Vermilyea, Kathryn Miller, Joe Falcone, Darren F. Earl, Lorenzo Beronilla, Brian Anthony Wilson
Directed by: Stephen Cognetti
Plot: Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life after a family tragedy when he moves to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret. The ghost of Helen Foster has terrorized residents for decades, since her own suicide back in the ‘40s.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Parvulos: Children of the Apocalypse (Theaters)
Starring: Farid Escalante Correa, Leonardo Cervantes, Mateo Ortega Casillas, Norma Flores, Horacio F. Lazo
Directed by: Isaac Ezban
Plot: In a dystopian future ravaged by a viral apocalypse, three young brothers–Salvador, Oliver, and Benjamin–find themselves isolated in a remote cabin deep within the woods. As they navigate this desolate world, they harbor a dark and disturbing secret in their basement, a presence they must feed to ensure their own survival.
RT Freshness: 91%
Critic Consensus: N/A
