Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One.
Faces of Death (Theaters)
Starring: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, Charli XCX
Directed by: Daniel Goldhaber
Plot: A woman who moderates a TikTok-like platform, responsible for filtering out any content that is offensive or violent, comes across a group on the website that appears to be re-enacting the murders from the original film. As misinformation spreads widely online, she must determine whether the killings are real or staged.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 66%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Beast (Theaters)
Starring: Daniel MacPherson, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Mojean Aria, Kelly Gale, George Burgess, Bren Foster
Directed by: Tyler Atkins
Plot: After years away from the cage, a once-feared MMA champion is pulled back in for the fight of his life when his younger brother is put in danger. Reuniting with the trainer who once made him a legend, he commits to one final showdown against the reigning title-holder — a brutal fighter determined to dismantle the ex-champ’s legacy in front of the world.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
You, Me & Tuscany (Theaters)
Starring: Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page, Marco Calvani, Lorenzo de Moor, Aziza Scott, Nia Vardalos, Isabella Ferrari
Directed by: Kat Coiro
Plot: A free-spirited, young cook named Anna makes a brash decision to become a squatter in an abandoned Tuscan villa owned by a man she barely knows, leading to a whole new world of adventure, lies, and love when she meets Michael, the homeowner’s cousin.
RT Freshness: 88%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Newborn (Theaters)
Starring: David Oyelowo, Olivia Washington, Barry Pepper, Jimmie Fails, Aiden Stoxx, Thomas Cadrot
Directed by: Nate Parker
Plot: After years of being locked in solitary confinement, a man is released into a newly self-isolating society.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Hamlet (Theaters)
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn, Sheeba Chaddha, Avijit Dutt, Art Malik, Timothy Spall
Directed by: Aneil Karia
Plot: Haunted by his father’s ghost, Prince Hamlet descends from elite London society into the city’s underground, moving between Hindu temples and homeless camps. In seeking to avenge his father’s murder, he begins to question his own role in his family’s corruption.
RT Freshness: 75%
Critic Consensus: “Fueled by Riz Ahmed’s electrifying turn, this gritty, streamlined Hamlet boldly reimagines the classic tragedy with ferocious emotion and intent”
Exit 8 (Theaters)
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, Nana Komatsu
Directed by: Genki Kawamura
Plot: A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning.
RT Freshness: 95%
Critic Consensus: “An unsettling maze navigated with finesse by director Genki Kawamura, Exit 8 is a video game adaptation rendered with existential dread and stylistic sophistication”
Heads or Tails? (Theaters and VOD/Digital)
Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi, John C. Reilly, Mirko Artuso, Peter Lanzani, Gabriele Silli, Gianni Garko
Directed by: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
Plot: After a deadly rodeo and a stolen kiss, Rosa and her cowboy lover flee across the Italian wilderness, pursued by Buffalo Bill himself.
RT Freshness: 89%
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Christophers (Theaters)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Jessica Gunning, James Corden
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Plot: Estranged children of a well-known artist employ a forger to finish his incomplete paintings in order to sell them.
RT Freshness: 96%
Critic Consensus: “A sly caper carried off with director Steven Soderbergh’s characteristic panache, The Christophers is a superb two-hander featuring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel at their very best”
Outcome (Apple TV)
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jonah Hill, Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer, Laverne Cox, Susan Lucci, David Spade, Martin Scorsese
Directed by: Jonah Hill
Plot: Reef Hawk is an actor who has been sober for five years. He has taken a break from acting to build his new home, and he takes pride in his progress in life. However, when he receives a call from his crisis lawyer Ira Slitz, who reveals that someone is blackmailing him with a video of questionable content, his life is turned upside-down. Reef then sets out to make amends with those whom he has wronged in the past in order to figure out who the blackmailer is.
RT Freshness: 19%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Thrash (Netflix)
Starring: Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, Alyla Browne, Djimon Hounsou
Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
Plot: When a Category 5 hurricane decimates a coastal town, the storm surge brings devastation, chaos and something far more frightening: hungry sharks.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
