Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One.
Stitch Head (Theaters)
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Joel Fry, Tia Bannon, Rob Brydon, Seth Usdenov, Alison Steadman, Fern Brady, Jamali Maddix
Directed by: Steve Hudson
Plot: Follows Stitch Head, a small creature awoken by a Mad Professor in a castle to protect the professor’s other creations from the townspeople of Grubbers Nubbin.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 65%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Nouvelle Vague (Theaters)
Starring: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Bruno Dreyfürst, Benjamin Clery, Matthieu Penchinat, Pauline Belle
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Plot: This is the story of Godard making “Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.
RT Freshness: 89%
Critic Consensus: “Seamlessly recreating one of cinema’s most groundbreaking productions, Nouvelle Vague doesn’t reinvent the medium the way its subjects did, but it pays tribute to their accomplishment with infectious admiration”
Self-Help (Theaters)
Starring: Jake Weber, Landry Bender, Madison Lintz, Amy Hargreaves, Carol Cadby
Directed by: Erik Bloomquist
Plot: A young woman infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community after her mother becomes entangled with its enigmatic leader.
RT Freshness: 87%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Anniversary (Theaters)
Starring: Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack, Dylan O’Brien
Directed by: Jan Komasa
Plot: A provocative thriller about a very close-knit family that is torn apart as a new movement “The Change” envelops the country.
RT Freshness: 67%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Vincent Must Die (Theaters)
Starring: Karim Leklou, Vimala Pons , François Chattot, Michaël Perez, Emmanuel Vérité, Jean-Rémi Chaize, Ulysse Genevrey
Directed by: Stéphan Castang
Plot: Random strangers have suddenly started attacking Vincent with murderous intent. His existence as an unremarkable man is overturned, and as things spiral violently out of control, he is forced to flee and change his life completely.
RT Freshness: 93%
Critic Consensus: “Vincent Must Die‘s slow turn from absurd comedy to tense, horror-tinged drama is supported by smart storytelling and compelling work from Karim Leklou in the lead role”
Safe House (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Lucien Laviscount, Hannah John-Kamen, Ethan Embry, Lewis Tan, Holt McCallany, Adam Levy
Directed by: Jamie Marshall
Plot: In the aftermath of a brutal ambush on the vice president’s motorcade, six agents from the Secret Service, CIA, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security are ordered to shelter in a high-security safe house. But when communications are cut and the building goes into lockdown, they discover the real terror may be among them: The detonator signal that triggered the citywide attacks was traced to their location.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Wrecker (Theaters)
Starring: Tyrese Gibson, Harvey Keitel, Mena Suvari, Niko Foster, Chad Michael Collins, Danny Trejo, Ego Mikitas
Directed by: Art Camacho
Plot: When his brother crosses the wrong people, a former Marine must rely on his tactical training to protect his family and survive a deadly showdown with a powerful crime syndicate.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Violent Ends (Theaters)
Starring: Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, kate Burton, Ray McKinnon, Nick Stahl, Alexandra Shipp
Directed by: John-Michael Powell
Plot: Set in the Ozark Mountains, Lucas Frost is an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence. As Lucas tries to make a peaceful life of his own with his fiancée, Emma, he is suddenly pulled back into the family business when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery with brutal consequences.
RT Freshness: 76%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Ballad of a Small Player (Netflix)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Deanie Ip, Alex Jennings, Tilda Swinton
Directed by: Edward Berger
Plot: When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
RT Freshness: 48%
Critic Consensus: “Going all in with a committed Colin Farrell and a memorably opulent presentation of Macau, Ballad of a Small Player too often squanders its virtues by doubling down on excess to diminishing returns”
Hedda (Prime Video)
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, Nina Hoss
Directed by: Nia DaCosta
Plot: Hedda finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation of her present life. Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt–pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.
RT Freshness: 91%
Critic Consensus: “Reveling in Tessa Thompson’s commanding turn as Hedda, Nia DaCosta’s smoldering update on Henrik Ibsen’s seminal play locates a bracingly contemporary pulse within a classic text”
