1. Dune: Part Two
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Stellan Skarsgård
Plot: After the fall of House Atreides, the Harkonnen have taken control of Arrakis. Paul and his mother Jessica survive and begin to learn the ways of the desert Fremen people. Jessica, however, has plans elevate Paul to a messiah-like figure - a destiny Paul is reluctant to take but as the conflict increases, his decision will reverberate far beyond the desert planet.
2. Civil War
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Sonoya Mizuno
Plot: In a near-future America torn apart by a new civil war, a group of military-embedded journalists goes cross-country to reach DC before an impending attack by a rebel faction and their story is fraught with horrors and danger that war brings.
3. Inside Out 2
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kelsey Mann
Actors: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Maya Hawke, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira
4. Late Night with the Devil
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 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.
5. Ordinary Angels
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.5 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.
6. Hit Man
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Molly Bernard, Mike Markoff
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. The Beekeeper
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Ayer
Actors: Jason Statham, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Taylor James, David Witts
Plot: When a phishing scheme results in the death of the person he most trusts, Adam Clay will stop at nothing to root out the corruption - no matter how high it goes. Clay is no ordinary vigilante, however, he was once a Beekeeper - an operative for a highly clandestine and brutally efficient special forces unit - and now he will use all his skills to take down everyone who goes up against him or stands in his way.
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Miller
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Angus Sampson, Daniel Webber, Nathan Jones, Tom Burke
Plot: A young Furiosa is kidnapped from a lush paradise in the middle of the wasteland. Taken to the leader of the Biker Horde, the charismatic but bloodthirsty Dementus, she must watch as her mother is killed. When Dementus tries to challenge the might of The Citadel, led by Immortan Joe, Furiosa is once again traded but will not submit as she plans her revenge against Dementus - rising through the ranks of the Immortan's clan - but when Praetorian Jack takes her under his wing, it opens to the door to another option even as chaos and war descend upon the wastelands.
