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Directed by Kunle Afolayan

Its September 1960, and with Nigeria on the verge of independence from British colonial rule, a northern Nigerian Police Detective, Dan Waziri, is urgently despatched by the Colonial Government to the trading post town of Akote in the Western Region of Nigeria to solve a series of female murders that have struck horror in the hearts and minds of the local community. On getting to Akote, more murders are committed, and with local tension high and volatile, Waziri has a race on his hands to solve the case before even more local women are killed. Set against the backdrop of the national celebratory mood of the impending independence, Waziri is pulled into a game of cat and mouse as he and the killer try to outwit each other...

Sadiq Daba Kehinde Bankole Demola Adedoyin Kayode Aderupoko David Bailie Kanayo O. Kanayo Bimbo Manuel Ibrahim Chatta Femi Adebayo Kunle Afolayan Deola Sagoe Fabian Adeoye Lojede Nick Rhys Colin David Reese Lawrence Stubbings Ifayemi Elebuibon Abiodun Aleja

Director Director

Kunle Afolayan

Producer Producer

Writer writer.

Tunde Babalola

Editor Editor

Cinematography cinematography.

Yinka Edward

Lighting Lighting

Lanre Omofaye

Production Design Production Design

Special effects special effects.

Lola Maja-Okojevoh

Composer Composer

Kulanen Ikyo

Sound Sound

Golden Effects Pictures

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Spoken languages.

Hausa Igbo English Yoruba

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01 oct 2014, 14 apr 2015, releases by country.

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Review by Sally Jane Black

As soon as a certain character appeared, I said, "He's the killer." I doubted myself immediately, because it seemed too obvious, but no, he was the killer. Throughout the film, I found myself easily predicting what was going to come next, though at no point did this spoil the film for me. Still, the moment that most surprised me certainly took the film to a new level, when a blade flashes out in the dark and slices a neck cleanly, killing a likable character (but not the one I thought would die). It was something I should have guessed, but the film presented it in a way that just managed to avoid predictability (for me).

What makes the film stand…

Review by EudoraFletcher ★★★ 4

What caught my eye in this Nigerian production is that middle class people here behave like Europeans: They are dressed in western clothes, shake hands to say hello, sit down in a restaurant, drink wine and speak English with each other. All in all, it appears to me as if the movie would have been produced for an international audience. Since I know as good as nothing about Nigeria it could be that people actually behave and speak as they do in “October 1”. Two policemen who are investigating a murder case speak a hilarious pidgin English that is very hard to understand. But funny it is for sure! The camera is ok and the cut is a little bit…

Review by Disappointed113 ★★½

This is a film that has a lot to say about colonialism and cultural genocide but those themes are hidden behind a thick layer of muck. To put it simply, the technical aspects here aren’t very good. There is consistently way too much coverage and cutting, the editing is constantly jarring, the score half of the time doesn’t fit the scene and feels overbearing, etc. However, despite these glaring flaws, the film contains enough moments of brilliance that I cannot dismiss it so easily. The scene where the children mispronounce sovereign as suffering is such a nice little touch that I’m still drawn to it. The contrast between the classes is well documented and always interesting. It’s just quite unfortunate…

Review by Orlac ★★★½

solid crime thriller although the villain is revealed right at the beginning (queen elizabeth)

Review by Megan ★★★★

I've only seen a handful of Nollywood movies but October 1 is the first to really captivate me. It's a fantastic story working both as a period piece and as a thriller. Unlike other Naija films it doesn't ramble meaning every scene actually has a purpose. This is by no means a short film but the two and a half hours feel earned and purposeful. They tell the story on tribalism, statehood and power in a transitioning nation. Plus I could watch that Akote countryside for days.

Review by James Bloomfield ★★★½

'October 1' is a long, fascinating, and occasionally frustrating watch. In brief, it is pushes 3 hours, covering an under seen (at least by me) and extremely complicated (for a variety of reasons) moment in history, and it's reach sometimes exceeds its grasp (almost entirely due, I suspect, to a combo of budget restrictions and language clashes).

The story follows a police detective who is tasked with solving a series (which grows over the course of the film) of murders in a sort of crossroads village catering to trade, in the west of Nigeria. He is given the job due to his success on a previous case (which will come back later, though not in the way you maybe are…

Review by GoreWhoreGourmet ★★★½

I’m leaving for Africa tomorrow so I thought it would be interesting to check out some African films. Plus I don’t think I have ever seen a film that came directly from that continent…

All in all this was a standard crime film, however, the music was displaced to the point where I got the giggles. Serene spa sounds were not what I would be expecting to hear when police officers would be looking at a dead body.

Christianity brings out the worst in so many fucking people all over this world. This movie was a solid three until Koya ’s speech.

Menu: Tea Egusi soup 

Review by dsbfq ★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The main reason I rated this a 3½ is because it's an average movie with good concepts but flawed executions imo.

SPOILERS !!

Waziri's epiphany regarding the "X" carvings being a cross, and that leading him to find out Aderopo's background and subsequently his motive was a bit cliche, but I suppose it's good enough. It's not a thing I would get mad about, and believable enough. In the climax though, I thought Aderopo monologing about his plans and motives to Tawa felt a little corny and almost made him look like some sort of stereotypical evil villain. I also wish they would explore more of Aderopo's mental state and the affects his trauma had on him. I feel like…

Review by Seventh_Persona ★★★

As Nollywood entered a new and improved technical era of big-budget productions after decades of cheaply made home video releases, so too did the themes of their movies start to mature into a deeper social, historical and cultural analysis of what it meant to be Nigerian. There are definitely some rough edges to Kunle Afolayan's October 1 , particularly in the sound and editing departments. However, it's a far cry from the Living in Bondage days of Nigerian cinema. Similarly, the murder mystery aspect of the film is not all that impressive in comparison to films like Memories of Murder or Manhunter , as it's pretty obvious from the onset who the killer is, and there isn't a real murderer-investigator dichotomy/character foil…

Review by mj

tried to get into this one but the crunchy sound quality was really distracting for the half an hour i put into it. fairly decent, might give it another go at some point.

Review by Wade Garrett ★★★½

This murder mystery is clearly more concerned with colonialism and the taint of European culture on Africa. Where the performances may fall short, they make up for in earnestness (except for the white actors, they were terrible). Overall, possibly the most amicable movie about rape, murder, and cultural genocide.

Entry #25 (Nigeria) in my March Around the World Challenge

Review by Pyaku ★★★½

This was my first experience with Nigerian film and this was a wonderful film to start with. Sadiq Daba deserved (and won) the African Academy award for his lead role. The story starts off a bit slow but it was very surprising and I loved the theme of independence (fuck you Britain!). The filmography was also very pleasing and showed great pride for life in Nigeria. 👏👏👏

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Sadiq Daba (Inspector Danladi Waziri) Kayode Olaiya (Sergeant Sunday Afonja) Ademola Adedoyin (Prince Aderopo) David Bailie (Ackerman) Colin David Reese (Rev. Dowling) Nick Rhys (Winterbottom) Lawrence Stubbings (Tomkins) Kehinde Bankole (Miss Tawa) Fabian Adeoye Lojede (Corporal Omolodun) Kunle Afolayan (Agbekoya)

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As Nigeria prepares for independence from the British in 1960, a seasoned police detective rushes to find the serial killer slaughtering its native young women.

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Kunle Afolayan's "October 1" is a master stroke for Nollywood

Granted that " October 1 " is not fast-paced, the action nonetheless unravels at a rate that keeps everyone in suspense.

The TV stations Crime and Investigation (CI) and Investigation Discovery (ID) usually trace the upbringings of criminals in order to understand if their environments influence the crimes the felons commit.

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On several occasions, it actually turns out that maladjustments are responsible for the offences.

"October 1" gets to the root of the matter just like the CI and ID documentaries. The film tells the story of Danladi Waziri (Sadiq Daba) , a police officer, mandated to uncover a serial killer in Akote, a rural community, where he is serving.  He is assisted by Sgt. Afonja (Kayode Olaiya), a native of Akote, who understands the traditions of the community. Incidentally, these events take place in the build-up to Nigeria’s independence on 1st October, 1960; which is where the film derives its name.

It is pleasant to see Sadiq Dada in a film long after he appeared in " Nightmare ," a 1995 Zik Zulu Okafor production that also starred Pete Edochie, Onyeka Onwenu, Sandra Achums and Charles Okafor.   Daba is excellent as Danladi. The choice of Demola Adedoyin as Prince Aderopo is laudable and he commendably plays his role with a wily demeanour.

Miss Tawa (Kehinde Bankole) is admirable as the village belle, but Kayode Olaiya’s comic role as Sgt. Afonja is the icing on the cake called "October 1." In fact, he steals the show literally and will, no doubt, win a couple of awards as Best Supporting Actor in upcoming award ceremonies.

Kunle Afolayan must be commended for the brilliant casting and directing.  The location and props are fitting while the costumes remind one of pictures taken by our parents and grandparents in those days.  Unlike many Nollywood films,"October 1" is well subtitled.

The film aptly integrates several interesting subplots; smartly employing subtext and irony.  Tawa believes she was not taken to the city for her secondary education because she is female.  She says, ‘The two bright boys were taken to Lagos.  I wasn’t because I am a lady.’   However, as the story unfolds, the viewers understand why Tawa was not one of the chosen ones.  Yet in the end, she is the well-adjusted of the three as the two young men are scarred by their experiences in secondary school.

The tension between various Nigerian tribes even before independence is skillfully portrayed in the Kanayo O. Kanayo subplot.  All hell is let loose when he loses his daughter and he believes that Danladi is shielding Usman Dangari, his kinsman, suspected of killing the young lady.  Much as his loss was irreparable, Kanayo’s character fails to acknowledge that other young women had lost their lives in similar circumstances.  Therefore, instead of pushing for an end to the killings, he misinterprets it as hatred for his tribe.

Tunde Babalola, the screenwriter, must also be extolled for conducting adequate research into goings-on around that period.  For instance, there is a mention of Rosemary Anieze (Miss Nigeria 1960) during one of the chats between Tawa and Prince Ropo.

Agbekoya (Kunle Afolayan) should have spoken up sooner than later.  He could have saved a number of the slaughtered girls from their neurotic assailant.  One hopes the police charged him as an ‘accessory’ to the crimes.  There is no significance to Deola Sagoe’s role as Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti in the film.

Rev. Dowling, the paedophile-priest, always walks into the boys’ hostel, calls one boy’s name, singling the person out and saying, ‘it’s time for night prayers’.  Are night prayers meant for just one boy each night?  That does not serve as a suitable expression in that circumstance.

Granted that "October 1" is not fast-paced, the action nonetheless unravels at a rate that keeps everyone in suspense. This 140-minute picture is another feat for Nollywood.

Reviewed by Amarachukwu Iwuala, this article was first published on October 18, 2015.

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October Movie Review: Varun Dhawan Shines In This Exquisite Drama

October movie review: director shoojit sircar has made his bravest film, a poetic and emotional drama about unconditional affection..

Review: Varun and Banita's October reminds us to celebrate the bloom (courtesy YouTube)

October movie review: Varun in a still from the film (courtesy YouTube)

Juhi Chaturvedi's superb script shows us the difference it can make when a person simply decides to be there. This boy has decided to show up. The way Dan doggedly visits Shiuli every single day confounds her family and his friends, but reason can scarcely impede a romantic. There he is, making smalltalk with nurses, hunting up medicines, and glaring at the girl's uncle. This uncle bluntly says there is no point in the recovery of the girl if she wakes up and doesn't remember who they are. Dan, equally bluntly, disagrees: "So what if she doesn't remember who you are, at least all of you remember who she is." He gives us pause. Shiuli's mother is an IIT professor who can deal with tough facts, but she finds herself comforted by Dan and his insistence. Dan is so naive that it allows her to rediscover credulity. This kid may be imposing himself needlessly into someone else's catastrophe, yet a purely positive presence is a marvel. Dan's faith affects us all. As the doctor tries to get Shiuli to move her eyes from left to right, we the audience look at her pupils hungry with hope, willing them to oscillate even when they appear perfectly still. Varun Dhawan plays Dan as if caring were new to him. It is an emotionally wrenched character, one who loses his appetite without realising it. This is a controlled, remarkably unselfconscious performance, one where Dhawan uses insolence as a defence mechanism and treats a Delhi Police do-not-cross sign as if it were a suggestion. He is immensely believable, especially regarding his self-centred motivation, as Dan insinuates himself into Shiuli's story and keeps telling himself that he matters. He tapes his own pictures to the inside of Shiuli's bed, and while these are photographs where he is boyishly posing with that cheeky grin we know so well, yet - because of how fantastic the actor is here - he seems unrecognisable. The aimless are often the guileless. Shiuli is played with fine fragility by Banita Sandhu, an actress the film gazes at unflatteringly for the most part - in hospital light, surrounded by medical apparatus, her head roughly shaved - but Dan looks to her with undisguised adulation, and even sneaks a beauty parlour attendant into the intensive care unit to thread her brows. Shiuli is a tough role, but Sandhu is impressively consistent, and has a winsomeness that suits her character's name.  

October movie review: Banita in a still from the film (courtesy YouTube)

The film has a uniformly strong cast - Prateek Kapoor is particularly wonderful as Dan's harrowed boss - but it is Gitanjali Rao as Shiuli's mother who breaks the heart over and over again, embodying the film's lachrymose lyricism. She is brittle and brilliant and beautiful, a mother perpetually afraid to let her reaction show, fearing what it could do to those around her, children and doctors and students. It is a magnificent, evocative performance, and one that made me bawl.  

October movie review: Gitanjali Rao in a still from the film (courtesy YouTube)

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Calling October only a love story will be injustice to its resilient tone. It's a battle, both inter-personal and intra-personal. It's not about logic or wise decisions, it's about how far can you go for the things you believe in.

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Manish Thakan 11 405 days ago

This movie is a masterpiece. If India nominates this movie for Oscar''s as best foreign language film it will win the award

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It was a very real life story feeling. 

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Beautiful movie!! The story, characters, the role of silence in the movie really are on point. Coincidentally, the same flower (prajakta/Parijat) have been my personal favorite growing up and always make me nostalgic. So, this movie felt special to me.<br/>But, I feel like it hasn't got enough appreciation. Shame!

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October review – low-key hotel drama earns its emotion honestly

Director Shoojit Sircar follows 2015’s Piku with a one-sided romance pitched between The Big Sick and full-on weepie

D irector Shoojit Sircar doubtless spent many hours in plush four-star hotels promoting 2015’s intriguingly low-key Piku , and the experience has inspired a film that initially threatens to be a Rossellinian departure for the Indian mainstream. For once, the focus isn’t on jetsetters swanking around rooftop pools, but the youngsters cleaning up after them for minimal wages and scant health benefits. That last detail proves significant, given that October interrupts its careful survey of a hotel’s intern programme when the dedicated Shiuli (Banita Sandhu) tumbles from a balcony and sustains severe brain damage.

What follows, however, is a shaky, perilously one-sided romance, pitched somewhere between The Big Sick and a full-on weepie. As the moody, irresponsible Danish (Varun Dhawan) steps up, scattering night jasmine blossoms around intensive care in a bid to rouse his colleague from her vegetative state, there’s a whiff of Nicholas Sparks – which can read either as recommendation or warning. Either way, Sircar’s regular screenwriter, Juhi Chaturvedi, has to work overtime to explain why the erratic Dan should have started playing Doogie Howser, beyond the general sentiment that it might be a nice thing to do for a girl.

Matters are steadied, just, by Sircar’s quiet sensitivity towards tiny signs of life. Welsh-born Sandhu is the obvious beneficiary – not least when the film provides a welcome explanation of how the comatose Shiuli’s brows remain so on-point – though the attentiveness may also enshrine Dhawan as Hindi cinema’s most Goslingesque pin-up. The course change Sircar proposes for that cinema remains honourable, and if October feels more tentative than Piku, which had rock-solid star turns to ground it, its emotion is at the last earned honestly: any structural wobbles will be nothing compared with the audience’s lower lips come the finale.

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Streaming on Max: The 21 Absolute Best Movies to Watch

Here are some highly rated films to check out, plus a look at what's new in May.

Turtles All the Way Down adapts the 2017 novel by John Green.

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Max  replaced HBO Max last year and streams a variety of titles, including Warner Bros. movies like Dune and HBO originals like Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off. Below, you'll find a batch of can't-miss films on the streamer, plus a look at new releases for this month. (If you're still trying to figure out if Max is for you, skim  our review of the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service ).

New releases for May

Note:  These descriptions are taken from Max press releases and lightly edited for style.

• Turtles All the Way Down  (2024):  Romantic drama. The film tackles anxiety through its 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes. 
• Stop Making Sense (2023 rerelease):  It's the 1984 Talking Heads concert film directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme, newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary.
• The Iron Claw (2024):  Sports drama. The film tells the true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s.
• Nikki Glaser: Someday You'll Die  (2023):  Comedy special. Glaser dives into a wide range of topics, including why she doesn't want kids, the harsh realities of aging, her sexual fantasies, and plans for her own death.
• MoviePass, MovieCrash (2010):  Documentary. The film is about MoviePass, which in a span of eight years went from being the fastest growing subscription service since Spotify to total bankruptcy.

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The best movies to watch

The films below consist of notable new releases and blockbusters, HBO and Max originals and Warner Bros. films made exclusively for Max . All score around 65 or higher on Metacritic.

Turtles All the Way Down (2024)

Don't usually dabble in the young adult genre? You shouldn't let that keep you from taking in Turtles All the Way Down, based on a 2017 novel of the same name by John Green. The film stars Isabela Merced (Madame Web, upcoming sci-fier Alien: Romulus) as a teen who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. With elements of romance and a captivating performance from Merced, this straight-to-streaming movie deserves more attention.

Priscilla (2023)

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, about the relationship between Priscilla and Elvis Presley, is streaming on Max along with other recent films from entertainment company A24. Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi star in the stylish flick, which tells things from Priscilla's point of view. If you like new A24 flicks, Max's stash also includes The Iron Claw, The Zone of Interest and Dream Scenario (Love Lies Bleeding and Civil War will hit the streamer eventually).

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water reintroduced audiences to James Cameron's film franchise after 13 years and won an Oscar for best visual effects. The sequel centers on the Sully family -- Jake, Neytiri and their kids -- and is brimming with adventure and heart. It'll be  at least a couple of years  until Avatar 3 arrives, but you can pass the time by rewatching this on Max.

The Fallout (2022)

After a shooting occurs at her high school, 16-year-old Vada Cavell must navigate friendships, school and her relationship with her family. The Fallout skillfully approaches serious subject matter with realistic dialogue and compassion for its characters. With strong performances from stars Jenna Ortega, as Vada, and Maddie Ziegler, as her new friend Mia Reed, the feature will keep you glued to the screen for the entirety of its 90-minute runtime.

Dune (2021)

Remember 2021, when Warner Bros. movies hit HBO Max on the same day they premiered in theaters? That exciting period may be over, but at least we'll always have the memory of watching Denis Villeneuve's stunning sci-fi epic Dune at home. If you've never seen the film or need to brush up on what "the spice" is before Part Two, stream Dune now.

King Richard (2021)

King Richard is a feel-good biopic about the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams. The film winds back the clock to before the sisters became household names, giving us a glimpse of their upbringing in Compton and time spent practicing on run-down courts with their father, Richard Williams (Will Smith). Convinced his daughters are going to be successful, Richard works tirelessly to get their star potential noticed by professional coaches. A complicated man with a tremendous personality, Richard is fascinating to get to know, and his unwavering belief in Venus and Serena is inspiring. 

Son of Monarchs (2020)

A rare (nowadays) 90-minute film, American Mexican drama Son of Monarchs will stay with you long after the end credits roll. This deep character study follows two brothers who are changed in markedly different ways by the trauma they suffered in childhood. This story, folding in magical realism, follows how they move forward in life -- the butterfly metaphors are strong, with biologist Mendel returning to his hometown surrounded by majestic monarch butterfly forests.

Bad Education (2019)

Based on a magazine article by journalist Robert Kolker, this tale about a public school embezzlement scandal and the student journalists who broke the news is captivating from start to finish. Allison Janney and Hugh Jackman are great in their roles as the school officials who took part in the scheme. The drama also won the 2020 Emmy award for Outstanding Television Movie. 

Wonka (2023)

Dune's Timothée Chalamet stars in this prequel to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and it's a total treat. With new and familiar tunes, a committed cast and oodles and oodles of whimsy, the film allows audiences to get to know a young Willy Wonka with giraffe-sized ambition and undeniable chocolate-making skill. It's a quirky, comforting flick from Paddington director Paul King that you'll absolutely want on your plate.

Barbie (2023)

Unless you've been living in Barbie Land (or another place that isn't the real world), chances are you're very familiar with this pink-coated comedy already. The flick -- Warner Bros.' highest-grossing global release of all time -- brings a long list of stars together for a hilarious and heartfelt adventure. Greta Gerwig directs, Margot Robbie plays the titular role, and Ryan Gosling belts out an incredible power ballad as Ken.

Father of the Bride (2022)

Max's Father of the Bride introduces a Cuban American family that includes patriarch Billy, a traditional guy who struggles to digest surprising news from his eldest daughter: She's met a guy, and she wants to marry and move away with him. The third film adaptation of a 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter, the movie is an enjoyable iteration that includes stars like Andy Garcia and singer Gloria Estefan.

Let Them All Talk (2020)

Meryl Streep playing an eccentric author in a Steven Soderbergh comedy. What more do you need to know? If you do want to know more: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Hughes (Streep) is struggling to finish her next book, chased by her literary agent (Gemma Chan). She boards a cruise ship with old friends, who inspired her best-known work. Tensions are strong. It looks great -- Soderbergh uses crisp, natural light -- and most of the dialogue is improvised. See how Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen, Lucas Hedges and the rest of the impeccable cast have fun with that.

Kimi (2022)

Steven Soderbergh directs this engaging tech thriller set during the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela, a Seattle tech worker played by a neon blue-haired Zoë Kravitz, has agoraphobia, a fear that prevents her from making it past the front door of her apartment. But when she uncovers an unsettling recording while doing her job, she's pushed to make the leap. Kimi is a stylish thriller complete with eye-catching cinematography, a solid score and a protagonist you'll be rooting for.

No Sudden Move (2021)

A movie from Steven Soderbergh, the great director behind Erin Brockovich, Ocean's Eleven and, more recently, Logan Lucky? Twists, thrills and desperate characters populate this crime thriller set in 1950s Detroit. When a seemingly simple job gets out of hand, a group of criminals must work together to uncover what's really going on. Take in the incredible cast: Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, David Harbour, Jon Hamm and Amy Seimetz. While the plot can be a little convoluted and some won't be able to get past the fish-eye lens cinematography, Soderbergh's sense of humor and immersive direction make this crime caper an entertaining night in.

Documentary

All That Breathes (2022)

This captivating documentary is filled with images that will stick with you. It centers on two brothers in New Delhi who run a bird hospital dedicated to black kites -- birds of prey that are a staple of the sky. It was a contender for best documentary feature at the 2023 Oscars.

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)

Tune into this HBO doc for the gravity-defying skateboard stunts, a time capsule of the '80s skateboarding scene, and a version of Hawk you've probably never seen. We get to know the renowned athlete as a lanky, stubborn but determined kid who adopted his own skateboarding style. Hawk's persistence is something to marvel at, along with all the stunning skateboard moves this film packs in. Hang on for a memorable ride.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)

This film about beloved author, chef and globe-traveling TV host Anthony Bourdain comes from documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville, who also directed 2018's Won't You Be My Neighbor? and the Oscar-winning film Twenty Feet from Stardom. In interviews with people who knew Bourdain, like his friends, former partners and longtime colleagues, the doc tracks his career path, relationships and personal struggles. Bourdain fans and those less acquainted with the star will likely appreciate this two-hour look at his life.

The Color Purple (2023)

This movie musical version of The Color Purple is adapted from Alice Walker's 1982 novel and the Broadway play. Set in the early 1900s, the film tells the story of Celie, a Black woman living in the South who faces multiple hardships but is able to find strength in the bonds in her life. The cast includes Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey and Danielle Brooks, who received a 2023 Oscar nomination for her role as Celie's daughter-in-law, Sofia.

In the Heights (2021)

In the Heights  stars Anthony Ramos (whom you might recognize as John Laurens in Hamilton) playing Usnavi, a bodega owner struggling to keep his business afloat while a heatwave strikes Washington Heights. Secretly in love with his neighbor Vanessa (Melissa Barrera), who dreams of getting out of the salon and out of the neighborhood, Usnavi serves the people of Washington Heights with a whole lot of love, lottery tickets and cafe con leche. Between the choreographed twirls and fireworks, In the Heights is an examination of wealth disparity, immigration, classism and the importance of culture.

The Batman (2022)

Robert Pattinson steps out as Batman in this moody superhero flick directed by Matt Reeves. The movie takes place in a perpetually gray and rain-soaked Gotham City, where Bruce Wayne starts to seek out a murderer with an affinity for riddles. Along the way, he meets Catwoman, played by a swaggering Zoë Kravitz. A satisfying dark mystery with great scene-setting and storytelling, The Batman is also getting a Max spinoff series, The Penguin, in 2024.

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Over-the-top violence abounds in this DC film about supervillains who agree to help the US government in exchange for some time off their prison sentences. Their mission is to destroy something alluded to as Project Starfish, harbored in the fictional island country of Corto Maltese. With a notable cast that includes Margot Robbie, Idris Elba and John Cena, 2021's The Suicide Squad is a wickedly entertaining, darkly funny bloodbath that differs from what you usually see in superhero movies. (Peacemaker, a spinoff TV series, is also available on Max.)

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Joker: Folie à Deux

Sequel to the film "Joker" from 2019. Sequel to the film "Joker" from 2019. Sequel to the film "Joker" from 2019.

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• Scott Silver
• Zazie Beetz
• Joaquin Phoenix
• 2 Critic reviews
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• Arthur Fleck

• Harley Quinn

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• Trivia The film's working title is "Folie a Deux", which means "Madness of Two" in French. This initially led to speculation about Harley Quinn's appearance in the film, which was shortly thereafter confirmed. The name Folie a Deux comes from the 19th century French psychiatrist Charles Lasègue and Jules Falret, also known as Lasègue-Falret syndrome, and it depicts two or more people that they share the same madness or delirium.
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‘The Strangers: Chapter 1’ Is a Whole New Level of Brainless Horror Movie

New remake “The Strangers: Chapter 1” does a huge disservice to its fantastic predecessor, offering up a masterclass of preposterousness and inanity instead.

Nick Schager

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Bryan Bertino’s 2008 The Strangers is one of the millennium’s finest horror films, and a large part of its success stems from the fact that it doesn’t cheat by making its main characters morons. Faced with a home-intrusion nightmare carried out by three silent fiends, two wearing old-timey masks and the other boasting a burlap bag over his head, its protagonists (Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman ) routinely assess their situation logically and react accordingly, thereby eliciting urgent, nail-biting engagement with their plight. It’s a small-scale masterclass in orchestrating suspense through diligent plotting and staging, not to mention memorable imagery, highlighted by the repeated sight of its villains materializing in the background, their motionless muteness casting them as inexplicable and unnerving harbingers of doom.

The same, alas, cannot be said about the sequel to Bertino’s gem, 2018’s clumsier The Strangers: Prey at Night , and that goes, double, triple, quadruple for The Strangers: Chapter 1 , which hits theaters May 17. The first entry in a planned trilogy whose subsequent installments will be released in the coming year, Renny Harlin’s thriller is a de facto remix of the franchise’s first outing, the primary difference being that whereas Bertino’s original was sleek, sinister, and deft, this do-over is noisy, dull, and dumb as a bag of rocks. Managing to do a disservice to virtually every plot element that it borrows, it’s proof positive that horror-cinema components are far less important than the artists tasked with piecing them together.

The Strangers: Chapter 1 wastes no time establishing its reliance on inanity to conjure up scares. In a forest, a businessman flees unknown assailants, and despite having an enormous head start on his pursuers (after all, they’re nowhere in sight), he carelessly trips, falls and calamitously injures himself. Another male character will later exhibit similar clichéd inelegance and suffer an ankle injury that hinders his ability to fight back—one of many examples of Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland’s screenplay taking the easy way out to make its characters vulnerable.

As quickly becomes clear, this prologue is not just unimaginative but completely pointless, as the film shifts its attention to Maya (Madelaine Petsch) and Ryan (Froy Gutierrez), a young couple in love who are celebrating their five-year dating anniversary and are on the third day of a road trip to Portland where Maya is trying to get an architecture-related job.

This is flimsy pretext for why the duo are traveling through the middle of Oregon nowhere, and yet it’s more contextual detail than is provided about Ryan, a guy without any apparent profession, family, friends or defining character traits aside from his failure to pop the question to Maya—which, it’s later revealed, is simply the result of cutesy miscommunication. Maya and Ryan’s shallowness, however, pales in comparison to their stupidity. While cruising down the highway, Maya announces that she’s hungry, and Ryan pulls off the road at her urging to drive for miles (?) down a forested road that’s so remote they lose cell service (?!) and, upon finally locating the tiny town of Vernon, cheerily opt to eat at the creepy ’50s-era diner (?!?). There, they preposterously announce to all the grungy rural patrons that Maya is a vegetarian and that they’re not married, making themselves the center of attention in a place where they obviously don’t fit in and are unwelcome.

Madelaine Petsch

Such brainlessness continues apace once they discover that their car no longer works and, despite Ryan accurately deducing that it’s due to sabotage by the hayseed mechanic, agree to stay at some oh-so-convenient hunting cabin that’s rented out as an Airbnb (!!!). This locale resembles the setting of Bertino’s The Strangers , minus the eeriness, given that Harlin’s quick cutting and look-at-me POV pans sabotage any sense of mounting dread. Once ensconced in this abode, Maya and Ryan discover that the refrigerator doesn’t work and, even though they’re only staying until morning, call for repairs in the dead of night. They’re then visited by a faceless girl who bangs at the door and asks for a non-existent person. In response, they proceed to do one head-smackingly baffling thing after another, from ignoring the threat and splitting up, to smoking weed and taking showers without any additional thought to the real and unsettling threat on their literal doorstep.

The Strangers: Chapter 1

The Strangers: Chapter 1 mimics the majority of its ancestor’s visual and narrative moves (including its incessant record-player tunes), albeit with a gracelessness that underlines how severely Harlin has fallen since his last watchable endeavor, 1999’s Deep Blue Sea . Maya and Ryan may have an inexplicable visitor milling around their woodlands cabin but they’re perfectly content to light lots of candles to have sex, to leave each other alone for long stretches for laughably contrived reasons, and—once they’re beset by faux-Scarecrow and his Betty Boop-ish female murderesses—to consistently make the wrong decisions in every single perilous situation in which they find themselves. Whereas Tyler and Speedman’s original victims had a head on their shoulders (and wanted to keep it that way), these young lovers are obsessed with emerging from safe spaces so they can become easier prey. They’re also fond of foolishly not looking where they’re going, making noises at inopportune moments, and waiting too long to take the decisive action that would save their hides.

Froylan Gutierrez and Madelaine Petsch

In its embrace of idiocy as a means of devising wannabe-nerve-wracking scenarios, The Strangers: Chapter 1 is actually a child of 1980s slasher films that cared less about rationality than about generic screams, chases, escape attempts, and ultra-violence. Even when it comes to its striking-looking baddies, Harlin lingers on them so long—as they silently appear and disappear, slowly walk about while singing “Rock-a-bye Baby,” or stand and stare at their targets—that they come across not as ghostly apparitions so much as pretentious cosplayers unduly taken with their own uncanniness. Harlin is as well, and he strikes the wrong balance between showing and suggesting, further undercutting the material’s terror.

At outset, title cards state that 1.4 million violent crimes occur each year, which translates to one every 26.3 seconds—meaning that seven have already occurred since the film began. The Strangers: Chapter 1 ’s most extreme offense, though, is what Harlin and company do to Bertino’s modern classic, right up to a coda that sets the scene for what will likely be more second-rate pulp.

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Olivia Cooke, Jamie Bell to Lead Italy-Set Romance ‘Takes One to Know One’ from ‘Pam & Tommy’ Writer

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“Sound of Metal” star Olivia Cooke , soon to be returning to “House of the Dragon” for its second season, and BAFTA winner Jamie Bell , recently seen in “All of Us Strangers,” are set to star in “Takes One to Know One.” The film is billed as an “unconventional and contemporary take on romance.”

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“The script penned by Brooke is beautiful and delicious and can only be elevated more by Natalie and Jamie’s immense talent and vision,” Cooke said. “To be working with this brilliant bunch is a dream.”

Added Biancheri: “I’m so excited to work with Olivia and Jamie on this project. The script is such a great combination of sexy, fun but also quite moving and I feel like it really hits a spot people are hungry for in cinema today.”

“Writing this movie for Olivia was an incredible experience, and I immediately resonated with Nathalie’s inspired and visionary take on the material,” Baker saiid. “I couldn’t be more thrilled that Nathalie, Olivia and Jamie are going to bring this story and these characters that I love so deeply to life.”

Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder said: “We fell instantly in love with Brooke’s superb script, Nathalie’s bold and original take on the romance movie and our two lead actors could not be a more perfect fit.” 

Cooke is represented by The Artists Partnership, CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox, L.L.P. Bell is represented by CAA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Biancheri is represented by CAA and Casarotto Ramsay & Associates. Baker is represented by CAA, Grandview and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.

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