Alone in Berlin

Highly Recommended Director: Vincent PerezStarring: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Br hlYear: 2016The rise of the wonderful and incomparable Daniel Bruhl has been well-witnessed, at least among those who have been paying attention. The German/Spanish actor has been hitting more home runs than not with his film choices, or perhaps his talent level helps lift each lucky movie he appears in. Inglourious Basterds, Rush, A Most Wanted Man, Woman in Gold, <a href="http://arch...Read the entire review Source: DVD Talk
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Friends From College (Netflix)

The return of Ethan (Keegan-Michael Key) and Lisa Turner (Cobie Smulders) to their circle of college friends in New York City (Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, Jae Suh Park and Fred Savage) shakes up everyone's lives as they approach their 40s in this comedy from Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco.Premieres Jul 14, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Salvation (2017) (CBS)

Self-made tech billionaire Darius Tanz (Santiago Cabrera) and MIT grad student Liam Cole (Charlie Rowe) contact Pentagon Press Secretary Grace Barrows (Jennifer Finnigan) about the fact an asteroid will crash into Earth in six months. Premieres Jul 12, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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American Wrestler: The Wizard

Recommended The Movie:There have been a few films that include a metaphoric fish thrown into new, sometimes hostile waters, and on the heels of HBO's fascinating miniseries The Night Of, we now get American Wrestler: The Wizard, a similar story in its broadest strokes, based on true events.Written by Brian Rudnick and directed by Alex Ranarivero, American Wrestler tells the story of Ali Jahani (George Kosturos), an immigrant who left Iran during the Khomeni overthrow to live in California with his uncle Hafez. Hafez is played by Ali Afshar, producer of the film and the subject on whom the movie…
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Will (TNT)

A young William Shakespeare (Laurie Davidson) arrives in London to start his theater career where he attracts the attentions of Alice Burbage (Olivia DeJonge), her actor brother Richard (Mattias Inwood), poet (and eventual rival) Christopher Marlowe (Jamie Campbell Bower), and Richard Topcliffe (Ewen Bremner), the Elizabethan enforcer against Catholicism.Premieres Jul 10, 2017 Source: Metacritic
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Elle; Certain Women; Neruda; Frantz and more – reviews

Isabelle Huppert is superb as a complex rape victim in Paul Verhoeven’s fearless Elle, while Kelly Reichardt’s study of female identity is lifted to the heavens by Kristen StewartIs thespian auteurism a thing? Can an actor author a film they haven’t scripted or directed through sheer force of presence? Watching Isabelle Huppert burn herself into the already too-hot-to-handle Elle (Lionsgate, 18), you believe so. Paul Verhoeven, himself a pretty assertive film-making brand, has repeatedly stated that he couldn’t have made this exhilaratingly kinked study of sexuality without Huppert’s “amorality” – a term few but he could apply with such doting…
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