Accountant, The (2016)

Title: The Accountant
Rating: R
Directed by: Gavin O’Connor
Written by: Bill Dubuque
Starring: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick and J.K. Simmons
Release Date: 10/14/2016
Running Time: 128 minutes

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Christian Wolff (Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.

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Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)*

Title: Kevin Hart: What Now?
Rating: R
Directed by: Leslie Small and Tim Story
Written by: Kevin Hart, Joey Wells, Harry Ratchford and Brian Buccellato
Starring: Kevin Hart, Don Cheadle and Halle Berry
Release Date: 10/14/2016
Running Time: 96 minutes

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Hart takes center stage in this groundbreaking, record-setting, sold-out performance of “What Now?”—filmed outdoors in front of 50,000 people at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field—marking the first time a comedian has ever performed to an at-capacity football stadium.

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Kevin Hart and Halle Berry escape from the stadium while being chased by David Meunier’s men. As they fly away in a helicopter, Kevin says it’s time the world learns how funny Kevin Hart is.

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Max Steel (2016)

Title: Max Steel
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Stewart Hendler
Written by: Christopher Yost
Starring: Ben Winchell, Josh Brener and Maria Bello
Release Date: 10/14/2016
Running Time: 92 minutes

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16-year old MAX MCGRATH has just moved to a new town – and is desperately trying to fit in – when he discovers his body can generate the universe’s most powerful energy. Unbeknown to Max, a slightly rebellious and hilarious techno-organic extraterrestrial named Steel has been keeping an eye on him, hungry for his super-human energy. When they finally meet, they discover that together they form MAX STEEL, a superhero possessing powerful strength beyond anything in our world. These two unlikely friends soon find themselves hunted by sinister forces who want to control Max’s powers, as well as an unstoppable enemy from another galaxy.

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After Credits? No

Memoriam: In memory of Michael June Hall

Certain Women (2016)

Title: Certain Women
Rating: R
Directed by: Kelly Reichardt
Written by: Kelly Reichardt
Based on the short stories by: Maile Meloy
Starring: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and Lily Gladstone
Release Date: 10/14/2016
Running Time: 107 minutes

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The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.

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After Credits? No

Dedication: For Lucy

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Priceless (2016)

Title: Priceless
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Ben Smallbone
Written by: Chris Dowling and Tyler Poelle
Starring: Joel Smallbone, Bianca A. Santos, Amber Midthunder, Jim Parrack and David Koechner
Release Date: 10/14/2016
Running Time: 97 minutes

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Inspired by true events, PRICELESS is a powerful drama/thriller about James Stevens who was, at one time, a good man with a great life — but that was then and this is now. After the tragic death of his wife and losing custody of his little girl, James is at the darkest crossroad of his life. Angry, desperate, and unable to hold down a steady job, he agrees to drive a box truck on a shady, one-time trip cross country for cash — no questions asked. But when he discovers what he is delivering is actually who, he is compelled to save two beautiful and frightened sisters who are unaware of the danger that awaits them.

Can love, strength, and faith redefine his past and change the course of his future? This unlikely hero risks it all to save these women, confront the forces that oppose him and ultimately discover the life he was meant to live.

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Miss Hokusai (2015)*

Title: Miss Hokusai (aka. Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai)
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Keiichi Hara
Written by: Miho Maruo and Stephanie Sheh
Based on the comic “Sarusuberi” by: Hinako Sugiura
Starring: Yutaka Matsushige, Anne Watanabe and Erica Lindbeck
Release Date: 10/14/2016
Running Time: 93 minutes

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The time: 1814.
The place: Edo, now known as Tokyo.
One of the highest populated cities in the world, teeming with peasants, samurai, townsmen, merchants, nobles, artists, courtesans, and perhaps even supernatural things.
A much accomplished artist of his time and now in his mid-fifties, Tetsuzo can boast clients from all over Japan, and tirelessly works in the garbage-loaded chaos of his house-atelier. He spends his days creating astounding pieces of art, from a giant-size Dharma portrayed on a 180 square meter-wide sheet of paper, to a pair of sparrows painted on a tiny rice grain. Short-tempered, utterly sarcastic, with no passion for sake or money, he would charge a fortune for any job he is not seriously willing to undertake.

Third of Tetsuzo’s four daughters and born out of his second marriage, outspoken 23-year-old O-Ei has inherited her father’s talent and stubbornness, and very often she would paint instead of him, though uncredited. Her art is so powerful that sometimes leads to trouble. “We’re father and daughter; with two brushes and four chopsticks, we’ll get by anywhere.”

Decades later, Europe was going to discover the immense talent of Tetsuzo. He was to become best known by one of his many names: Katsushika Hokusai. He would mesmerize Degas and Van Gogh, Monet and Klimt, Edmond de Goncourt and Debussy.
However, very few today are even aware of the woman who assisted him all her life, and greatly contributed to his art while remaining uncredited. This is the untold story of O-Ei, Master Hokusai’s daughter: a lively portrayal of a free-spirited woman overshadowed by her larger-than-life father, unfolding through the changing seasons.

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We are shown a block print by Katsushika Oei.

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Elle (2016)

Title: Elle
Rating: R
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Written by: David Birke
Based on the novel by: Philippe Djian
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling and Virginie Efira
Release Date: 11/11/2016
Running Time: 130 minutes

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Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game—a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

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Note: The credits start as we watch Michele and Anna walk through the cemetery in a continuation of the final scene.

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Great Gilly Hopkins, The (2016)

Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Rating: PG
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Written by: David Paterson
Based on the novel by: Katherine Paterson
Starring: Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Octavia Spencer and Julia Stiles
Release Date: 10/7/2016
Running Time: 99 minutes

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Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her?

When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet – she is sure there’s a hurt little girl in there somewhere. Gilly knows she has to escape, and if she can’t run then she’ll lie her way out. But her grand plan doesn’t go as intended, and she starts to think maybe she was wrong about Trotter. Maybe wrong about everything.

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Memoriam: In Memory of Susan Smith

Special thanks to Frank for this submission

Girl on the Train, The (2016)

Title: The Girl on the Train
Rating: R
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Written by: Erin Cressida Wilson
Based on the novel by: Paula Hawkins
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Edgar Ramirez, Lisa Kudrow and Laura Prepon
Release Date: 10/7/2016
Running Time: 112 minutes

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Reeling from a recent divorce and searching to preoccupy her days, Rachel Watson (Blunt) spends her weekday commute to and from Manhattan quietly gazing out the train windows. Every morning and evening, she relives memories from just outside the home she once shared with her now ex-husband Tom (JUSTIN THEROUX of The Leftovers, The Ten), who now lives there with his new wife, Anna (REBECCA FERGUSON of Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation, upcoming The Snowman), and their baby.

To distract herself from a life that’s grown so aimless, Rachel develops an obsession with the occupants of another house on the route, 15 Beckett Road—a few doors down from where she used to reside. There, blissfully unaware that a stranger is longingly watching, the seemingly perfect couple Megan (HALEY BENNETT of The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven) and Scott (LUKE EVANS of Dracula Untold, upcoming Beauty and the Beast) go about the business of suburban life.

For months, in between furtive sips of the liquor that’s become a constant companion, Rachel has stolen glimpses of the stunning Megan and handsome Scott as they drink morning coffee by their windows or laugh on their porch at nighttime—and imagined how idyllic their world must be. The seemingly carefree young woman is the portrait of everything that Rachel tried to be during her years with Tom, in a marriage from which she refuses to let go.

One day, on her way into the city, Rachel witnesses something so shocking in Megan and Scott’s backyard that it rocks her to the core. Soon after, when Megan goes missing and is feared dead, Rachel tells the police what she believes she has seen. But can Rachel trust what she thinks she witnessed, or is she entangled in the crime itself? When one voyeur crosses the dangerous line between concerned and obsessed, she will either find the real killer…or discover that there is innocent blood on her own hands.

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Birth of a Nation, The (2016)

Title: The Birth of a Nation
Rating: R
Directed by: Nate Parker
Written by: Nate Parker and Jean McGianni Celestin
Starring: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Junior, Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union, Penelope Ann Miller and Jackie Earle Haley
Release Date: 10/7/2016
Running Time: 120 minutes

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Set against the antebellum South and based on a true story, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer) accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities – against himself, his wife Cherry (Aja Naomi King), and fellow slaves – Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

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Accountant, The (2016)

Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016)*

Max Steel (2016)

Certain Women (2016)

Priceless (2016)

Miss Hokusai (2015)*

Elle (2016)

Great Gilly Hopkins, The (2016)

Girl on the Train, The (2016)

Birth of a Nation, The (2016)

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