Sports and one night stands

Players

A New York sportswriter Mack (Gina Rodriguez) and her male BFF Adam (Damon Wayans Jr.) have been plotting one night stand “plays” for years. Until, you guessed it, Mack catches feelings for her latest “score.” Intended as a date night romcom the sports loving guys-guys will embrace, reviews are decidedly mixed.  On one end, “It’s

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Hollywood comedy from France

The Crime is Mine

A murder accusation can be just the ticket for a struggling young actress seeking fame and glory in 1930s Paris. That’s the premise of this farcical French comedy that’s a hit with critics despite its broader humor and theatrics. It”s clever in a way that will resonate today, but decorated in nostalgic French form.  From

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Upgraded

An overworked intern pretends to be her fearmongering auction house boss, sending her into a swirl of London-set glamour and romance in this just-in-time for Valentine’s Day romcom.  Camila Mendes, Marisa Tomei, Lena Olin and Archie Renaux star.

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Suncoast

As her mother disappears into caring for her sick brother, a high school girl befriends an eccentric activist and tries to make the most of her teenage life around the edges of sadness in this Searchlight Pictures comedy-drama starring Nico Parker (The Last of Us), Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson. The semi autobiographical story is

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They Called Him Mostly Harmless

An addictive true crime documentary that peels back the layers of the well publicized mystery of a hiker whose body was found in a tent by a Florida highway with no identification.  A far flung community of internet sleuths and fellow hikers – many who had met him – band together to figure out why

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The End We Start From

An environmental crisis submerges London in flood waters as a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn try and find their way home in this timely, adrenaline-pumping disaster drama that also stars Benedict Cumberbatch.  Ages 14+.  Based on the acclaimed novel. “…down-to-earth, beautifully conceived and thoughtful, a shrewd piece of filmmaking in support of the story’s

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Ricky Stanicky

For the past two decades, three friends have been shifting allll the blame for their transgressions on a made-up person named Ricky — all the way back to when they accidentally burned down a house as teenagers.  When their significant others start to become suspicious of their scapegoat, they hire an actor to play him

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Adam Sandler in Netflix drama Spaceman

Spaceman

In a rare dramatic turn, Adam Sandler plays a lonely astronaut on a research mission who discovers a spiderlike alien (voiced by Paul Dano) inside his spacecraft, and with his help…begins to understand his failing marriage. Carey Mulligan, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, and Lena Olin also star in this adaptation of Czech author Jaroslav Kalfar’s

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Orion and the Dark

From the inventive screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), the story of an anxious 11-year-old boy (Jacob Tremblay) who meets a character in his sleep called the Dark — which is one of his deeper fears, until the Dark takes him on a whirlwind adventure. A cleverly crafted “cinematherapy” film that will appeal to the

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The Greatest Night in Pop

After it debuted at Sundance, this feature length doc chronicles the night in 1985 when 40 top musicians gathered in a studio for the top secret mission to record “We Are the World,” which became one of the biggest hits of all time.   Capturing interviews as well as footage from behind the scenes, it

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