Drama

Marty Supreme

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  • Title: Marty Supreme
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I’m never rooting for Marty Mauser, and, for me, that limits how far Marty Supreme can reach (despite the talented filmmaking involved) as I have no stake in its destination. Inspired by the life of Marty Reisman, Timothée Chalamet stars as two-bit con-artist and aspiring ping-pong champion Marty Mauser. One of the best players in a sport largely ignored in the United States, our part-time shoe salesman cons and schemes on ways to improve his “Marty Supreme” brand while struggling to find the financing to make it to the World Table Tennis Championships in Japan.

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Sentimental Value

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  • Title: Sentimental Value
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The death of Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes’ (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) mother brings their estranged father (Stellan Skarsgård) back into their lives. A celebrated auteur filmmaker who chose his career over his family years before, Gustav brings with him a script for his first project in 15 years which is inspired by his family’s history. After his hopes to get his eldest daughter to star in the film fall through, Nora being a local stage and television actress, Gustav casts a young Hollywood actress (Elle Fanning) seeking her first serious role.

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Rental Family

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  • Title: Rental Family
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Based on a real practice in Japan where a company offers professional stand-ins to clients, Rental Family stars Brendan Fraser as a struggling actor living in Japan who is initially hired to be a token white guy for a client setting up their own funeral. Confused, but in need of work, Phillip (Fraser) agrees further roles (most of which are covered in montages while two key roles make up the core of the main story).

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Hamnet

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  • Title: Hamnet
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Based on the historical novel of the same name, Hamnet offers a fictionalized telling of William Shakespeare‘s (Paul Mescal) family and the series of events that could (depending on what scholars you believe) have played into the playwright’s finest tragedy. Whether or not the account is accurate, there is no debate that director Chloé Zhao (who co-wrote the screenplay with the novel’s author Maggie O’Farrell) delivers a heartbreaking, yet ultimately cathartic, emotional tour de force that won’t leave a dry eye in the house.

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