New Movie Releases August 24th, 2018

List below shows all new movies released in theaters on August 24th, 2018, including both wide and limited movie releases.

A.X.L.

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Oliver Daly
Actors: Becky G., Alex Neustaedter, Eric Etebari, Dorian Kingi
Plot: A teen boy finds his life altered forever when he comes across cutting-edge military technology in the form of a mechanized dog.

The Happytime Murders

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian Henson
Actors: Elizabeth Banks, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joel McHale
Plot: In this world, puppets are people too - though treated as second-class citizens. During its height of popularity, The Happytime Gang delighted children of all ages. But the 80s are over and now a serial killer stalks the puppet cast, one gristly murder after another. Phil, a puppet and disgraced detective turned-private eye is on the case following the murder of his brother and hooks up with a former partner to try to solve the case. But as evidence mounts against him, he realizes he will not only have to solve the cast, but clear his name in the process.

Limited Movie Releases

Beautifully Broken

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Eric Welch
Actors: Benjamin A. Onyango, Scott William Winters, Emily Hahn, Caitlin Nicol-Thomas
Plot: A refugee who has escaped, a prisoner with a promise to keep and a daughter hiding a painful secret - three fathers find their paths intertwining in this tale inspired by true events.

The Bookshop

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Isabel Coixet
Actors: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, Hunter Tremayne
Plot: In 1959, Florence Green, local widow and free spirit, opens the first bookshop in the town of Hardborough, England. Fighting apathetic townspeople, she slowly, but surely, brings about a mini-revolution in a town where nothing has changed for nearly a century. She opens minds with the literature of the day, including the scandalous Lolita and daring Fahrenheit 451, but even as people join with her, she finds just as much opposition, laying the groundwork for a political showdown.

Destination Wedding

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Victor Levin
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach
Plot: A pair of misanthropic wedding guests find themselves drawn to each other through their mutual misery.

Papillon

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Noer
Actors: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Eve Hewson, Michael Socha
Plot: Devil's Island is a remote, dangerous penal colony. The rather meek Henri "Papillon" Charrière, a Parisian safecracker is sent to the island after being framed for murder. He will do anything to escape and thus strikes up a friendship with the quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega - who has the money and the means - but a plan of this magnitude can't be down overnight and over several years, ups and downs, they form an unbreakable bond.

Wild Boys, The ( garçons sauvages, Les )

Theatrical Release Date: 08/24/2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bertrand Mandico
Actors: Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Anaël Snoek
Plot: Early 20th century - five adolescent boys, with an unhealthy obsession with the occult, commit a heinous act. After, they are approached by a Dutch captain who takes them aboard his morose, haunted boat. Even as they make their way towards a supernatural island, the boys chaff under the captain's command and plan a mutiny.

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