Thriller

Ready or Not

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  • Title: Ready or Not
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Samara Weaving stars as a young woman from modest means marrying into the Le Domas Family who, on her wedding night, discovers she must play a game with the entire family known for their gaming empire. However, this will be no ordinary game night. With hide-and-seek chosen from a mystical box, Grace must successfully hide from the family in their mansion (providing a terrific setting for the action) as they hunt and prepare to sacrifice her on an altar before sunrise.

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Mercy

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  • Title: Mercy
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Set in a dystopian near-future (which seems to loosely blame the growing homeless for all crime in the city), the convoluted thriller from screenwriter Marco van Belle and director Timur Bekmambetov stars Chris Pratt as LAPD Detective Chris Raven. As the film opens, Raven has already been strapped to an electric chair and forced to prove his innocence to an Artificial Intelligence (played by Rebecca Ferguson) who has already judged him guilty.

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No Other Choice

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  • Title: No Other Choice
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Director Park Chan-wook‘s dark comedy offers an unusual solution to a man’s struggle to find a job in modern times. We’re introduced to Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a valued long-time employee of a paper-making company who loses his position after an American buyout and automation make his job obsolete. After struggling to find a new job for months, while taking various retail jobs that don’t allow the family to keep the same lifestyle, Man-su changes his tactics and begins investigating his most likely competition with plans to literally eliminate the competition.

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Thunderheart

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  • Title: Thunderheart
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Largely forgotten, the 1992 thriller set on a South Dakota Native American reservation casts Val Kilmer as FBI Agent Ray Levoi assigned to the case for his Sioux lineage which works as PR move for the FBI (even if he doesn’t appear Native American and has spent most of his life shunning that heritage). Kilmer, who had some Native American ancestry on his father’s side, delivers a strong performance of a man struggling to find truth where the only ones talking to him are almost certainly lying.

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