Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One.
Primate (Theaters)
Starring: Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, Miguel Torres Umba
Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Plot: A group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of survival.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 75%
Critic Consensus: “That’s one bad ape, and Primate is one lean, mean, effective chiller”
Greenland 2: Migration (Theaters)
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis, Amber Rose Revah, Gordon Alexander, Peter Polycarpou, William Abadie, Tommie Earl Jenkins
Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
Plot: In the aftermath of a comet strike that decimated most of the planet, the Garrity family must leave the safety of their Greenland bunker to traverse a shattered world in search of a new home.
RT Freshness: 54%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Dead Man’s Wire (Theaters)
Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Plot: On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a “dead man’s wire” from the trigger to Tony’s own neck.
RT Freshness: 94%
Critic Consensus: “Brilliantly offbeat and tinged with a darkly humorous edge, Dead Man’s Wire is brought to life by Bill Skarsgård’s fearless performance, authentic period flavor, and anti-capitalist fervor”
Oscar Shaw (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Michael Jai White, Tyrese Gibson, Isaiah Washington, Cecile Cubilo, Vince Jolivette
Directed by: R. Ellis Frazier and Justin Nesbitt
Plot: After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the streets he once swore to protect.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Magellan (Theaters)
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro, Hazel Orencio, Tomás Alves
Directed by: Lav Diaz
Plot: A portrayal of Ferdinand Magellan and Beatriz Barbosa’s 1517 marriage in Seville, focusing on their brief time together before his departure on the Spanish crown’s expedition.
RT Freshness: 86%
Critic Consensus: “Magellan blends Lav Diaz’s slow cinema rigor with the biopic form to create a visually hypnotic, deliberately paced historical epic that immerses viewers in a spiritually charged meditation on power, mythology, and colonial ambition”
Sleepwalker (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Justin Chatwin, Beverly D’Angelo, Mischa Barton, Lori Tan Chinn
Directed by: Brandon Auman
Plot: Haunted by terrifying visions, Sarah’s sleepwalking episodes begin to intensify, accelerating her descent into darkness.
RT Freshness: 20%
Critic Consensus: N/A
My Neighbor Adolf (Theaters)
Starring: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy, Kineret Peled
Directed by: Leon Prudovsky
Plot: Somewhere in South America, May 1960, just after Israel’s abduction of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Polsky, a lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor, lives in the remote countryside. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rosebushes. One day, when a mysterious old German man moves in next-door, he suspects that his new neighbor is… Adolf Hitler. Since nobody believes him, he embarks on a detective mission to find the evidence.
RT Freshness: 42%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Bulls (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Michael Shannon, Matt Trudeau, Meir Steinberg, T.J. Jagodowski, Daniel Meyer
Directed by: Daniel Meyer
Plot: Two brothers get one last shot at saving their failing family bar: enter the World Darts Championship. Problem is-they’re terrible. Enter their new “coach,” a local barfly who spends more time drinking than standing, but somehow throws darts like a legend. With this questionable genius leading the charge, the small-town underdogs take aim at the reigning champs, the fearsome Gallyan Brothers, and start looking like a real team.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Obex (Theaters)
Starring: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley
Directed by: Albert Birney
Plot: In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes analog hellscape as the line between reality and game blurs.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
People We Meet on Vacation (Netflix)
Starring: Emily Bader, Tom Blyth, Lukas Gage, Jameela Jamil, Alan Ruck, Molly Shannon
Directed by: Brett Haley
Plot: Poppy wants to explore the world and Alex prefers to stay home with a good book, but somehow they are the very best of friends. They live far apart, but for a decade they have spent one week of summer vacation together.
RT Freshness: 79%
Critic Consensus: N/A
