THE LAST DUEL The first of two Ridley Scott pictures this season is based on a true story from the Hundred Years’ War (and a book by Eric Jager). INTRODUCING, SELMA BLAIR The “Cruel Intentions” actress undergoes treatment for multiple sclerosis in a documentary that trails her for a year. HARD LUCK LOVE SONG A guitarist-singer (Michael Dorman) reconnects with an ex (Sophia Bush) in a film based on a ballad by the musician Todd Snider. David Gordon Green, who directed the 2018 movie, returns. But count on him getting another whack at Strode, her daughter (Judy Greer) and her granddaughter (Andi Matichak). But given that this is a sequel to a 2018 sequel that recycled the title of John Carpenter’s 1978 original, notwithstanding the existence of Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake (which was also called “Halloween,” and which had its own sequel), and given that this series had already been rebooted 20 years earlier with “Halloween H20,” following five previous sequels - well, the odds of Michael Myers dying “tonight” do not seem high. HALLOWEEN KILLS “Evil dies tonight,” Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) promises in the trailer. ![]() She discovers ominous signs at the California ranch they’ve just moved to. MADRES In one of this week’s two films in the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” anthology, Ariana Guerra plays half of a Mexican American couple in the 1970s. Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snaer Gudnason play a couple who experience an unusual form of parenthood. LAMB The word from Cannes is that it’s best to see this feature, set in Iceland, knowing almost nothing about it. Upon release, the daughter, Jacinta, tries to break a cycle that she was in effect dragged into. JACINTA The documentarian Jessica Earnshaw follows a mother and daughter who have both experienced drug addiction and are imprisoned together. 6 on Netflix)ĪSCENSION An award winner at Tribeca this spring, Jessica Kingdon’s documentary follows a supply chain to explore capitalism and class disparities in modern China. Patrick Brice (“The Overnight”) directed. Théodore Pellerin and Asjha Cooper co-star. THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE A teenager (Sydney Park) transplanted from Hawaii to Nebraska works with her new peers to unmask a killer. ![]() ![]() But are they really lawmen? Tim Blake Nelson stars in a movie that comes billed as an “elevated action-western,” as if John Ford and Howard Hawks were working in a lowly, non-elevated mode. OLD HENRY After giving shelter to a man with a bag of money, a farmer and his son wind up in a predicament: Supposed lawmen want them to turn him in. MAYDAY Grace Van Patten plays a young woman who is transplanted to another realm and joins an all-female group of soldiers (Mia Goth plays their leader) in their cause. MATERNAL Lidiya Liberman plays a nun preparing to take her final vows when a young girl whose teenage mother runs off is entrusted to her care. ![]() Michael Gandolfini plays his father’s character as a young man the cast also includes Alessandro Nivola and Leslie Odom Jr. THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK The “Sopranos” veteran Alan Taylor directed this prequel to the HBO series, something of an origin story for Tony Soprano. KAREN DALTON: IN MY OWN TIME Without the benefit of much archival imagery, this documentary uses means both indirect (interviews) and direct (music) to remember the folk singer Dalton, an important influence on Bob Dylan, among many others.
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