11. Promised Land, The ( Bastarden )
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Melina Hagberg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh
12. The Substance
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Actors: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage
Plot: Actress Elizabeth Sparkle is facing the harsh realization that her best
days are behind her but finds a new lease on life with an illicit black
market drug that allows a younger version of herself to emerge - for a
short time anyway. But as Elizabeth begins to to bask longer and longer in
this younger form it becomes harder to return to her older self - and it
is not without consequences.
13. Late Night with the Devil
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes
Actors: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri
Plot: Jack Delroy is a popular late-night television host in the 70s... but not
THE most popular and in order to boost his ratings, has the idea to host
an actual exorcism - bringing along believers and skeptics - but something
goes terribly wrong in the process and evil in its purest form is awakened
to television screens nationwide.
14. Transformers One
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Josh Cooley
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Keegan-Michael Key, Jon Hamm, Laurence Fishburne
15. Strange Darling
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: JT Mollner
Actors: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey, Ed Begley Jr., Steven Michael Quezada, Madisen Beaty
Plot: A man and a woman meet up a motel for a one-night stand, not realizing the
horrors in store in a twisted journey that is equal parts fear and
madness.
16. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H. Macy, Peter Macon, Lydia Peckham
Plot: Three hundred years after the passing of Caesar, apes have evolved while humans have fallen. Noa is about to come of age in his Eagle Clan but the intrusion of a superior force leaves him for dead while taking his surviving clan captive. Vowing to get them back, he is joined by a young female human - who holds her own secrets - and one of the last, true followers of Caesar as they make their way to an oceanside stronghold where a mad tyrant holds sway.
17. Ordinary Angels
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jon Gunn
Actors: Alan Ritchson, Amy Acker, Hilary Swank, Nancy Travis, Skywalker Hughes, Tamala Jones
Plot: Based on a true story: a hairdresser does everything in her power, including rallying the local community, to come to the aid of a recently-widowed father looking to save the life of his ailing young daughter.
18. The Last Stop in Yuma County
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francis Galluppi
Actors: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Nicholas Logan, Faizon Love, Michael Abbott Jr.
19. The First Omen
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Arkasha Stevenson
Actors: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Maria Caballero, Nicole Sorace, Bill Nighy
Plot: A young American woman arrives in Rome, ready to give her life to the service of the church but encounters an encroaching evil that has her questioning her faith - and revealing a a dark conspiracy to bring about the End of Times.
20. Rebel Ridge
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Actors: Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Emory Cohen, Steve Zissis
