Recently Released Movies, a list by Keith Stewart

76

/189/

73

/42/

3.4

/40395/

77

/185/

97

/1692/

61

/45/

1.5

age 13+

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

77

7.2

/1065/

58

/23/

75

/4/

3.7

/16617/

100

/91/

61

/107/

79

/20/

4.0

age 15+

A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.

86

IMDb 3

8.2

/30865/

80

/587/

80

/105/

4.2

/852628/

93

/288/

82

/1291/

89

/58/

4.0

age 15+

In 1950s New York, table tennis player Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to Hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

71

IMDb 2

7.0

/30281/

72

/948/

72

/345/

3.1

/433139/

73

/186/

92

/1554/

65

/35/

2.5

age 17+

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

71

IMDb 5

7.4

/106227/

75

/3987/

74

/1399/

3.6

/1011256/

66

/339/

90

/4177/

61

/59/

2.5

age 13+

In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.

75

5.2

/1154/

62

/124/

62

/26/

2.6

/22643/

100

/29/

98

/476/

4.0

Visionary director Quentin Tarantino had a dream of a Kill Bill chapter that never made it to the silver screen, a chapter known as "Yuki's Revenge." Over twenty years later, Tarantino and Epic have come together to bring the story to life in Fortnite.

74

7.3

/267/

60

/1/

70

/1/

3.5

/2357/

89

/44/

88

/31/

72

/8/

3.0

In a race against time, an ailing woman discovers her teenage son's violent obsessions and must go to great lengths to protect him, and possibly others, in this portrait of a Chinese American family. Inspired by true events.

83

8.3

/484/

66

/20/

82

/5/

4.0

/10920/

95

/59/

95

/217/

78

/11/

3.5

age 13+

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

70

6.7

/3215/

67

/40/

67

/85/

3.2

/27745/

82

/100/

40

/27/

76

/30/

4.0

age 14+

Three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other: a reclusive father visited by his grown children in the US, sisters visiting their novelist mother in Dublin, and adult twins called back to their Paris apartment to address a family tragedy.

83

IMDb 19

7.5

/57622/

78

/2966/

75

/1047/

3.8

/876971/

91

/212/

96

/2276/

73

/39/

4.0

age 8+

After cracking the biggest case in Zootopia's history, rookie cops Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De'Snake arrives and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, Judy and Nick must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

80

IMDb 14

8.1

/11573/

79

/183/

76

/41/

4.2

/197443/

86

/286/

93

/527/

84

/53/

2.5

age 13+

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

72

6.4

/712/

49

/11/

50

/5/

3.5

/8763/

92

/95/

82

/30/

4.0

age 15+

A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.

74

6.6

/733/

61

/49/

58

/9/

3.5

/2675/

96

/48/

88

/30/

73

/13/

3.5

age 15+

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

75

7.1

/3014/

72

/161/

77

/23/

3.8

/19365/

83

/89/

88

/28/

65

/13/

3.0

age 15+

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

70

6.5

/1108/

71

/99/

66

/19/

2.8

/1500/

79

/29/

93

/150/

59

/5/

3.0

age 10+

At 59, Mike Flynt may be too old to be on a college football field, but not too old to feel the weight of unfinished business. After nearly four decades, he returns to his alma mater to take the hit that changed everything. Bruised, doubted, and nearly broken, he pushes for one more game, not for glory, but for the teammates he lost, the family he fractured, and the ending he still believes is possible.

70

6.2

/478/

67

/58/

71

/6/

3.4

/801/

81

/16/

3.0

Retired pugilist Bernard “Bang Bang” Rozyski is inspired to try his hand at training once he reconnects with his estranged grandson. While their training brings Bang Bang out of the hole he’s been living in, everyone questions his motivations, including an ex-girlfriend from decades ago, who was privy to Bang Bang’s meteoric rise in the sport in the 80s as well as the rivalry with his former opponent, her cousin and Detroit's Mayoral candidate Darnell Washington. Is Bang Bang merely passing down inherited rage, or is there true altruism behind his tutelage?

70

6.0

/2430/

63

/233/

67

/17/

3.2

/5983/

95

/41/

70

/44/

3.0

age 15+

A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.

73

6.4

/259/

60

/6/

100

/1/

3.2

/2358/

69

/49/

91

/18/

62

/13/

3.0

age 14+

Roger, a writer, navigates complicated relationships with his ex Casey and his current lover Nicole, a newly-single mother, with the support of his best friend Alan. A modern romance set against the rapidly changing landscape of Brooklyn, New York.

76

7.1

/655/

54

/27/

45

/4/

3.5

/2452/

93

/61/

92

/23/

86

/16/

4.0

age 15+

A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is having an affair in a sensitive and searching portrait of a Southern family.

77

6.8

/3896/

68

/208/

65

/26/

3.6

/48262/

95

/112/

85

/18/

78

/23/

3.5

When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

71

6.1

/835/

55

/44/

61

/16/

3.1

/4857/

95

/75/

75

/52/

74

/15/

3.5

age 14+

After the death of her husband, Tabatha—a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer—wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.

87

7.5

/107/

80

/3/

100

/1/

3.9

/594/

93

/13/

4.0

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.

78

6.6

/5297/

68

/515/

70

/81/

3.2

/13264/

95

/79/

83

/229/

78

/13/

4.0

age 11+

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

70

5.9

/3374/

62

/190/

65

/37/

3.1

/9341/

96

/45/

71

/21/

75

/7/

3.0

age 16+

In the picturesque landscapes of Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

74

7.0

/304/

58

/8/

100

/2/

3.6

/548/

85

/13/

63

/4/

3.0

A coming-of-age story that follows Matias, an Argentine filmmaker in his forties, struggling with an unfinished movie inspired by his elusive first love to Alexander, a Swedish friend he met at an international school in the 90’s. Tenderness and fascination define their strong friendship, which is short-lived when Alexander is suddenly expelled back to his country, leaving young Matias with an unresolved story of undeclared emotions. 25 years later, and Matias decides to reopen Pandora’s box as he embarks on a journey to find the ending to his story by coming face-to-face with Alexander, discovering life imitating art.

74

6.9

/3575/

Trakt

68

/262/

60

/34/

3.6

/16246/

95

/73/

84

/28/

75

/15/

3.0

age 15+

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

70

6.5

/487/

63

/25/

73

/10/

3.7

/7746/

68

/37/

61

/1192/

76

/15/

3.5

age 15+

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

77

7.0

/1110/

60

/29/

64

/18/

3.7

/6018/

98

/62/

87

/21/

3.5

An octogenarian woman transitions to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

76

8.2

/85/

100

/1/

100

/1/

1.0

A woman looking for an end to her suffering, checks in to the House of Abraham, home to a mysterious cult that promises a way out. She soon discovers all is not what it seems and must plan an escape before it's too late.

74

7.8

/167/

73

/3/

3.6

/586/

3.0

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's ability to take on the fight is inspiring.

72

6.2

/690/

60

/48/

57

/7/

3.5

/5465/

98

/51/

82

/10/

3.0

Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.

72

6.0

/814/

72

/125/

67

/19/

3.3

/466/

75

/24/

89

/26/

63

/7/

3.5

age 15+

World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats and it remains unclear who paid for the contract killing.

73

6.3

/4069/

64

/265/

70

/50/

3.3

/39890/

86

/170/

84

/63/

68

/31/

3.5

age 15+

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

74

6.4

/6288/

Trakt

68

/423/

66

/88/

3.1

/14213/

84

/147/

80

/184/

70

/35/

4.0

age 14+

New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with Apollo, she begins to come to terms with her past, and her own creative inner life.

71

6.9

/6189/

67

/332/

68

/70/

3.7

/57300/

80

/155/

89

/162/

65

/36/

2.5

age 15+

Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of superstardom, not even the doctors who warn him of the permanent damage he causes to himself with his quest.

75

6.6

/470/

55

/14/

66

/11/

3.5

/4855/

100

/22/

83

/9/