Kings (2018) - Halle Berry

Kings (2018)

Kings stars Oscar winner Halle Berry and Daniel Craig as citizens of the same South Central Los Angeles neighborhood set against a backdrop of rising racial tensions during the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992. In her first English-language film following the critically acclaimed Mustang, writer-director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Kings tells a dramatic story of family bonds and the lengths one mother will go to bring her children home.

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Outside In (2018)

Outside In (2018)

A stupid escapade in which he wound up taking the fall for two pals — one of them younger brother Ted (Ben Schwartz) — sent Chris Connelly (Duplass) into the state pen at age 18, where he stayed for the next two decades. He might well be there still if not for Mrs. Beasley, AKA Carol (Falco), who began by continuing his education long-distance behind bars, then became a determined petitioner for his release.

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Revenge (2018) - Matilda Lutz

Revenge (2018)

Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) is an American socialite, who travels with her married French millionaire lover Richard for a weekend of passion. However, things go awry when Richard’s hunting buddies Stan and Dimitri arrive early, with Jen being the recipient of unwanted advances and eventual rape by Stan. To keep her from talking, Richard ends up pushing Jen off the cliff. Jen survives the fall and eventually kills the three men.

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Redoutable (2018)

Redoutable (2018)

Paris, 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the maker of “A bout de souffle”, “Le Mépris” and “Pierrot le fou”, idolized by critics and intellectuals, is shifting from revolutionizing cinema to becoming a revolutionary tout court. Isn’t he shooting “La Chinoise”, more a political tract in favor of Maoism than an actual movie? His female star is Anne Wiazemsky, writer François Mauriac’s granddaughter, sixteen years his junior.

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Where Is Kyra? (2018)

Where Is Kyra? (2018)

Mild-mannered, sheltered Kyra, played with intensity by Michelle Pfeiffer, begins to spiral after the death of her mother. Long out of work, the deep-in-debt Kyra struggles to support herself. As she becomes increasingly desperate and isolated, longing for her mother, she launches a cryptic, last-ditch scheme to keep from being evicted. She also finds solace in another lonely soul, Doug (Kiefer Sutherland), from whom she initially tries to hide her plight, but Kyra slowly ropes him into her deception.

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