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Thirteen-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school-the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year-before she begins high school.

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"The Brand New Testament" is a magically hilarious comedy in which God is real...and lives in Brussels. On Earth, he is a coward, with dubious morals and an odious antipathy towards his family. His daughter, Ea, decides to revolt against her dad's sadistic ways.

Hacking his computer and leaking to the dates of every person's death to the entire world, she causes a global pandemic of anarchy and debauchery. As God loses control, he can only watch as the chaos unfolds.

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A dramatic anti-war romantic comedy set on the northern border between Russia and Finland during World War II a few weeks before the Finnish surrender in 1944, 'The Cuckoo' tells the compelling story of two runaways - a Russian captain (Victor Bychkov) and a Finnish sniper (Ville Haapasalo) - who

find refuge with a young Lapp widower (Anni-Kristiina Juuso). Naturally, there arc cultural and linguistic barriers between them, not to mention war rivalries. Yet they slowly get to know each other and their very separate worlds come together in both comic and tragic ways.

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Collin (Daveed Diggs), a parolee facing his final three days of probation, needs to stay clear of trouble. Miles (Rafael Casal), Collin's hot-tempered best friend, can't stay out of it.

When Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men's friendship is tested, sending Collin and Miles on a collision course with each other in this bold and thought-provoking film that bursts with energy, style and humour.

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Hilary Swank plays Betty Anne Waters, a young woman whose world is shattered when her beloved brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

Steadfastly convinced of his innocence, Betty Anne embarks on an 18-year journey to set Kenny free, using state-of-the-art forensic technology.

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This tale of friendship and survival, set during the days of the 1860s focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instincts.

Two of them in particular are complementary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft and Jake is a scruffy scoundrel - a saddle tramp not above a little larceny here and there. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually, they find themselves older and wiser for the journey and friendship.

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Ten years after a Western economic collapse, cold-blooded drifter Eric (Guy Pearce) traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who took everything he had.

After losing their trail he soon crosses paths with Rey (Robert Pattinson), a badly wounded member of the gang who was left for dead by his own brother. Vulnerable and naive Rey joins Eric as his unwitting accomplice and together they cross this new world to exact their revenge.

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The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go.

Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).

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The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto (Riko Fujitani) is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again.

The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop! While trying to find the source of the time loop, characters confront discontentment with their employment, mortality, and the impending end of a relationship in this charming time adventure comedy.

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Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to stage Samuel Beckett's famous play Waiting for Godot.

When he is allowed to take the colorful band of convicts on a tour outside of prison, Etienne finally has the chance to thrive.

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When Samira (Lupita Nyong'o) returns home to New York City, her simple trip turns into a harrowing nightmare when mysterious creatures that hunt by sound attack.

Accompanied by her cat Frodo and an unexpected ally (Joseph Quinn), Samira must embark on a perilous journey through the city that has suddenly gone silent, where the only rule is to stay quiet to stay alive.