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Best Movies Released April 2020
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Movies Released Thursday, April 2, 2020
Beastie Boys Story NR
Beastie Boys Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz tell you an intimate, personal story of their band and 40 years of friendship in this live documentary experience directed by their longtime friend and collaborator, and their former PE Coach, filmmaker Spike Jonze.
Documentary
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Movies Released Friday, April 3, 2020
Lazy Susan NR
Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family, who lazily skated through life with their grudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she’s middle-aged with no job, no relationship, and an increasingly estranged family. She finally decides to take charge and turn things around, but never having done anything herself before, the struggle is real (and hilarious) as Susan becomes the woman she always wanted to be, all on her own.
Allison Janney, Jim Rash, Sean Hayes, Margo Martindale, Carrie Aizley, Kiel Kennedy, Danny Johnson, Darlene Hunt
Comedy
Onward PG
A suburban fantasy tale which centers on two teen elf brothers who go on a quest to discover if there is still magic left in the world.
Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Lena Waithe, Octavia Spencer, Ali Wong, John Ratzenberger, Mel Rodriguez, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Fantasy Family Animated
Where to Watch:
Disney+
User Rated:
3 / 5
Never Rarely Sometimes Always PG-13
The story focuses on two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City.
Ryan Eggold, Rose Garnett, Sara Murphy, Talia Ryder, Eliza Hittman, Adele Romanski, Sidney Flanigan, Théodore Pellerin
Drama
Resistance
Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. Jesse Eisenberg stars in this compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm’s way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II. As a young man growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe, Marcel has no intention of getting involved in the war – his pursuits include impersonating Charlie Chaplin in burlesque clubs, painting backdrops for his plays, and antagonizing his obstinate father. His life is thrown into upheaval when he is recruited into the French Resistance, putting his acting skills to the ultimate test in teaching orphaned Jewish children how to survive in the horrifying reality of the Holocaust.
Matthias Schweighöfer, Ed Harris, Jesse Eisenberg, Karl Markovics, Jonathan Jakubowicz, Edgar Ramirez, Félix Moati, Vica Kerekes
Drama War Biography
Coffee & Kareem NR
While police officer James Coffee (Ed Helms) enjoys his new relationship with Vanessa Manning (Taraji P. Henson), her beloved 12-year-old son Kareem (Terrence Little Gardenhigh) plots their break-up. Attempting to scare away his mom’s boyfriend for good, Kareem tries to hire criminal fugitives to take him out but accidentally exposes a secret network of criminal activity, making his family its latest target. To protect Vanessa, Kareem teams up with Coffee — the partner he never wanted — for a dangerous chase across Detroit.
Taraji P. Henson, Michael Dowse, Shane McCarthy, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Mike Falbo, Ed Helms
Action Comedy Crime
Dolphin Reef G
Echo is a youngster who can't quite decide if it's time to grow up and take on new responsibilities-or give in to her silly side and just have fun. Dolphin society is tricky, and the coral reef that Echo and his family call home depends on all of its inhabitants to keep it healthy. But Echo has a tough time resisting the many adventures the ocean has to offer.
Natalie Portman, Jane Hamlin, Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey
Family Documentary Nature
Where to Watch:
Disney+
User Rated:
4 / 5
Invisible Life R
Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other. A tropical melodrama from the director of Madame Satã.
Fernanda Montenegro, Julia Stockler, Karim Ainouz, Carol Duarte
Drama
The Other Lamb
For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.
Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Isabelle Connolly, Malgorzata Szumowska, C.S. McMullen, Kelly Campbell, Eve Connolly
Drama Horror
Slay the Dragon PG-13
A secretive, high-tech gerrymandering initiative launched 10 years ago threatens to undermine our democracy. Slay the Dragon follows everyday people as they fight to make their votes matter.
Barak Goodman, Chris Durrance, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Coralie Charriol Paul, William von Mueffling
Documentary
Rogue Warfare: The Hunt R
When the leader of an elite team of soldiers is captured by terrorists, it is up to the team to find and rescue him before it is too late.
Stephen Lang, Mike Gunther, Will Yun Lee, Chris Mulkey, Andrew Emilio DeCesare, Jermaine Love, Rory Markham, Bertrand-Xavier Corbi
Action
Elephants
Documentary following a family of elephants as they journey across Africa. Narrated by Meghan Markle.
Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz, Meghan Markle
Documentary Nature
Movies Released Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Anastasia (Live-Action) PG
Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
Brandon Routh, Anastasia Romanoff, Amiah Miller, Donny Murphy, Blake Harris, Emily Carey, Aliyah Moulden, Armando Gutierrez
Adventure Fantasy
Dead by Dawn
A suicidal man in a remote cabin is suddenly faced with protecting a kidnapped woman from three killers and their sadistic games. Unable to contact the outside world and with night falling, he falls backs on creating traps to prevent the criminals from gaining entry. It’s a fight to the death where only the strongest will survive until dawn.
Sean Cain, Drew Lindsey Mitchell, Kelcey Watson, Bo Burroughs, Timothy Muskatell, Bobby Slaski, Detra Hicks, Skylar Dominique
Thriller Horror
Movies Released Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin NR
Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.
Werner Herzog, Bruce Chatwin, Elizabeth Chatwin, Kerin Eberhard, Nicholas Shakespeare
Documentary
Movies Released Friday, April 10, 2020
Trolls World Tour PG
In an adventure that will take them well beyond what they’ve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) discover that they are but one of six different Troll tribes scattered over six different lands and devoted to six different kinds of music: Funk, Country, Techno, Classical, Pop and Rock. Their world is about to get a lot bigger and a whole lot louder.
A member of hard-rock royalty, Queen Barb (Rachel Bloom), aided by her father King Thrash (Ozzy Osbourne), wants to destroy all other kinds of music to let rock reign supreme. With the fate of the world at stake, Poppy and Branch, along with their friends — Biggie (James Corden), Chenille (Caroline Hjelt), Satin (Aino Jawo), Cooper (Ron Funches) and Guy Diamond (Kunal Nayyar) — set out to visit all the other lands to unify the Trolls in harmony against Barb, who’s looking to upstage them all.
Jonathan Aibel, Maya Forbes, Sam Rockwell, Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Jamie Dornan, David P. Smith, Kelly Clarkson
Adventure Sequel Family
Where to Watch:
VOD / Digital
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
3 / 5
The Lost Husband PG-13
A young woman (Leslie Bibb) attempting to put her life back together after the death of her husband, moves into her estranged Aunt's (Nora Dunn) goat farm with her children in Central Texas. The city girl is out of her element as she gets to know the residents of the small town, and eventually falls for the handsome farm manager (Josh Duhamel) with a tragic past.
Nora Dunn, Josh Duhamel, Leslie Bibb, Vicky Wight, Bridget Stokes, Kevin Alejandro
Comedy Romance
Where to Watch:
Limited Theaters
User Rated:
4 / 5
We Summon the Darkness R
On the way to a heavy metal concert, Alexis (Alexandra Daddario) and two girlfriends hear a news report of a local murder believed to be tied to a series of satanic killings. After the show, the girls invite three guys to join them at the estate owned by Alexis’s father, a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Johnny Knoxville). What starts as a party suddenly turns dark and deadly in this devilishly entertaining thriller.
Johnny Knoxville, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth, Alexandra Daddario, Marc Meyers, Alan Trezza, Keean Johnson, Logan Miller
Thriller Horror
The Main Event
When 11-year-old Leo Thompson (Seth Carr) discovers a magical wrestling mask that grants him super strength, he uses it to enter a WWE competition. With the support of his grandmother (Tichina Arnold), Leo will do whatever it takes to achieve his dream of becoming a WWE Superstar. Can one kid win it all, in the face of epic challengers in the ring?
Adam Pally, Tichina Arnold, Lucie Guest, Lisa Durupt, Jay Karas, Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin
Comedy Sports Family
Les Misérables R
follows Stéphane (Damien Bonnard), a recent transplant to the impoverished suburb of Montfermeil, as he joins the local anti-crime squad. Working alongside his unscrupulous colleagues Chris (Alexis Manenti) and Gwada (Djebril Zonga), Stéphane struggles to maintain order amidst the mounting tensions between local gangs. When an arrest turns unexpectedly violent, the three officers must reckon with the aftermath and keep the neighborhood from spiraling out of control.
Damien Bonnard, Djibril Zonga, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Almamy Kanouté, Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti
Drama Crime
Love Wedding Repeat NR
In this romantic comedy about the power of chance, alternate versions of the same wedding unfold as Jack (Sam Claflin) tries to make sure his little sister has the perfect wedding day. But he'll have to juggle an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and unexpectedly reuniting with the girl of his dreams who got away, Dina (Olivia Munn). If he succeeds, Jack might find a happy ending of his own.
Sam Claflin, Olivia Munn, Allan Mustafa, Tim Key, Dean Craig, Freida Pinto, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joel Fry
Comedy Romance
Sea Fever NR
Siobhán's a marine biology student who prefers spending her days alone in a lab. She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and anxiety to win the crew’s trust, before everyone is lost.
Connie Nielsen, Dougray Scott, Olwen Fouéré, Neasa Hardiman, Hermione Corfield, Ardalan Esmaili
Thriller Sci-Fi
The Roads Not Taken R
Sally Potter’s THE ROADS NOT TAKEN follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo’s journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future.
Salma Hayek, Javier Bardem, Elle Fanning, Laura Linney, Sally Potter, Branka Katic, Milena Tscharntke
Drama
Movies Released Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The Bay of Silence
Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
Maroussia Frank, Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox, Caroline Goodall, Claes Bang, Alice Krige, Paula van der Oest, Assaad Bouab
Thriller
Movies Released Friday, April 17, 2020
Sometimes Always Never PG-13
A man searches for his missing son, who he has not seen in years. The family's life is turned upside down when a body is found. They must then learn to reconnect with each other.
Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Tim McInnerny, Carl Hunter, Roy Boulter, Solon Papadopoulos
Drama Comedy Mystery
The Quarry
After murdering a traveling preacher, a fugitive drifter (Shea Whigham, Joker) travels to a small town and poses as the man he killed. Though the congregation loves the drifter’s sermons of forgiveness, the local police chief (Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon, The Shape of Water) is suspicious of the man. Soon a gruesome discovery at a local quarry forces the killer to fight for his freedom.
Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bruno Bichir, Scott Teems, Bobby Soto
Thriller Crime Mystery
Martin Eden
Set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history yet adapted from a 1909 novel by American author Jack London, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The twinned dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political reawakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman.
Pietro Marcello, Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Carlo Cecchi
Drama
Y CÓMO ES EL? PG-13
A mild mannered man, Tomás, goes to Puerto Vallarta to confront the cabdriver having an affair with his wife, only to end up driving back to Mexico City with him. Over the course of an eventful long distance drive, a strange bond develops between the pair.
Zuria Vega, Ariel Winograd, Kim Jun-Han, Mauricio Ochmann, Mauricio Barrientos, Paul Fruchbom, Kim Tae-Sik, Omar Chaparro
Drama Comedy
Bad Therapy
Married couple Bob and Susan Howard (Rob Corddry & Alicia Silverstone) decide to see a marriage counselor named Judy Small (Michaela Watkins), who recently relocated close to their home in Los Angeles. When Bob and Susan first meet Judy, she appears competent, intelligent, and trustworthy, with a track record of other couples that she's treated successfully without incident. But Bob and Susan's particular emotional dynamic is a trigger for Judy's dark and conflicted impulses. Suggesting that she see them separately, Judy subtly puts them at odds with one another and brings their marriage to the breaking point in a comically escalating series of manipulations.
Rob Corddry, Alicia Silverstone, Nancy Doyne, Haley Joel Osment, Gina Resnick, Michaela Watkins, Bill Teitler, Anna Pniowsky
Comedy
Rising High
Ready to do anything to get rich, a young man upends the Berlin property market with his shady pal, till the good times threaten to destroy it all.
Frederick Lau, Janina Uhse, David Kross, Anne Schäfer, Sophia Thomalla
Drama
Endings, Beginnings NR
In present day Los Angeles, Daphne (Woodley), a thirty something woman, navigates love and heartbreak over the course of one year. Daphne becomes intertwined with friends Jack (Dornan) and Frank (Stan) after meeting them at a party. During that time, she will unlock the secrets to her life in a sudden turn of events and in the most surprising of places.
Shailene Woodley, Drake Doremus, Sebastian Stan, Kyra Sedgwick, Jamie Dornan, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jardine Libaire, Lindsay Sloane
Drama Romance
Sergio R
Charismatic and complex, Sergio Vieira de Mello (Wagner Moura) has spent the majority of his storied career as a top UN diplomat working in the world’s most unstable regions, deftly navigating deals with presidents, revolutionaries, and war criminals for the sake of protecting the lives of ordinary people. But just as he readies himself for a simpler life with the woman he loves (Ana de Armas), Sergio takes one last assignment — in Baghdad, newly plunged into chaos following the US invasion. The assignment is meant to be brief, until a bomb blast causes the walls of the UN headquarters to come literally crashing down upon him, setting into motion a gripping life-or-death struggle.
Greg Barker, Ana de Armas, Clemens Schick, Bradley Whitford, Brian F. O'Byrne, Wagner Moura
Drama True Story
Selah and the Spades R
In the closed world of an elite Pennsylvania boarding school, Haldwell, the student body is run by five factions. Seventeen-year-old Selah Summers (Lovie Simone) runs the most dominant group, the Spades, with unshakable poise, as they cater to the most classic of vices and supply students with coveted, illegal alcohol and pills. Tensions between the factions escalate, and when Selah’s best friend/right hand Maxxie (MOONLIGHT’s Jharrel Jerome) becomes distracted by a new love, Selah takes on a protégée, enamored sophomore Paloma (Celeste O'Connor), to whom she imparts her wisdom on ruling the school. But with graduation looming and Paloma proving an impressively quick study, Selah’s fears turn sinister as she grapples with losing the control by which she defines herself.
Celeste O’Connor, Tayarisha Poe, Lovie Simone, Jharrel Jerome, Gina Torres, Jesse Williams
Drama
Abe
12-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef, but his family—half-Israeli, half-Palestinian—have never had a meal together without a fight. But when Abe ditches his traditional summer camp to spend time with radical street chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine inspires him to unite his family through food. Abe decides to cook a meal that will bring everyone to the table, but he’s about to learn that the kitchen can’t heal some age-old divides.
Daniel Oreskes, Gero Camilo, Dagmara Dominczyk, Fernando Grostein Andrade, Carlos Eduardo Ciampolini, Noberto Pinheiro Jr., Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane
Drama Comedy
Movies Released Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Party Hard, Die Young
Sun, sand, sex and all-night dancing at a beautiful island resort is the perfect graduation celebration for a group of young friends looking for one last taste of freedom before they go their separate ways. But the dancing and drinking comes to a halt when people start disappearing, and a masked murderer sends the ominous message…this party will be their last! With escape to the mainland suddenly cut off and the body count rising, a wild weekend turns into a desperate and bloody nightmare of survival.
Ferdinand Seebacher, Dominik Hartl, Robert Buchschwenter, Karin Lomot, Elisabeth Wabitsch, Michael Glantschnig, Valerie Huber
Horror
Movies Released Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The Willoughbys PG
The four Willoughby children -- Timothy; his twin brothers, Barnaby A and Barnaby B; and their little sister, Jane -- are abandoned by their oblivious parents and must learn how to adapt their old-fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Alessia Cara, Cory Evans, Ricky Gervais, Maya Rudolph, Sean Cullen, Will Forte, Terry Crews, Martin Short
Adaptation Family Animated
Movies Released Friday, April 24, 2020
Enemy Lines
November 1943. A British commando squad is teamed with an American officer on a covert mission into Poland, deep behind enemy lines. Working with the resistance they cross the harsh wilderness intent on kidnapping and extracting a sought-after Polish scientist, Dr Fabian, from the Germans.
Corey Johnson, John Hannah, Anders Banke, Tom George, Michael Wright, Ed Westwick, Tom Wisdom, Ekaterina Valdimirova
Drama Action Adventure
True History of the Kelly Gang R
Legendary outlaw Ned Kelly (George MacKay) leads a band of rebel warriors to wreak havoc on their oppressors in this gritty and veracious western thriller.
Travis Fimmel, Charlie Hunnam, Russell Crowe, Shaun Grant, Dacre Montgomery, Nicholas Hoult, Justin Kurzel, Earl Cave.
Drama Crime Period
Robert The Bruce
King Robert the Bruce is injured and on the run from the English army. On the brink of defeat, a widow and her family nurse him back to health and join The Bruce as he sets out to claim the long-awaited freedom of Scotland.
Jared Harris, Emma Kenney, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Eric Belgau, Angus MacFadyen, Anna Hutchinson, Daniel Portman, Mhairi Calvey
Drama
Extraction R
Set in an underworld of weapon dealers and traffickers where a young boy becomes a pawn in a war between notorious drug lords. As kidnappers trap the boy inside one of the world’s most impenetrable cities, his plight attracts a skilled mercenary named Tyler Rake (Hemsworth). Rake is a broken man with nothing to lose, harboring a death wish that makes an already deadly mission even more appealing to him.
Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Anthony Russo, Sam Hargrave, Joe Russo, David Harbour, Randeep Hooda, Manoj Bajpayee
Action Thriller
To The Stars
Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer's daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Tony Hale, Lucas Jade Zumann, Shea Whigham, Adelaide Clemens, Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Martha Stephens, Shannon Bradley-Colleary
Drama
Movies Released Saturday, April 25, 2020
Bad Education
Inspired by a school district scandal on Long Island, Bad Education deals with the public and private lives of the superintendent Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman), assistant/office coordinator Pam Gluckin (Allison Janney), and school board president Bob Spicer (Ray Romano). Slowly we see things start to unravel revealing Frank's double life, including a fling with a former pupil. In addition, Pam has been using the Official office credit card for more than school business.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Hugh Jackman, Mike Makowsky, Eddie Vaisman, Allison Janney, Julia Lebedev, Oren Moverman, Fred Berger
Drama Comedy