1. Dune: Part Two
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.3 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. The Wild Robot
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Chris Sanders
Actors: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Nighy
3. Deadpool & Wolverine
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shawn Levy
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Jennifer Garner
4. Hit Man
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 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
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 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.
6. Civil War
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons
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.
7. 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.
8. Challengers
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Actors: Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, Mike Faist, Jake Jensen, A.J. Lister, Connor Murray
Plot: Tashi was once one of the fastest-rising stars of the tennis world - and in the middle of it all finds herself caught between budding tennis players Art and Patrick. But this teen affair turns into a marriage with Art and when a sudden injury takes her out of the game, she also becomes his coach. Years later, Art prepares for the biggest game of his life - and it sends him and Tashi on a collision course with Patrick, a tennis star in his own right, as rivalries on and off the court come to a head.
9. Alien: Romulus
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fede Alvarez
Actors: Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux, David Jonsson, Aileen Wu, Spike Fearn
Plot: A group of young space colonizers looking to escape a dead-end existence
decide to take on risky scavenging job promising big returns. But the
derelict Romulus space station is home to something far deadlier than
anything they could imagine.
10. 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
