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Posted on August 24, 2026 at 5:56 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not rated |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very crude humor, sexual references and insults, some teen kissing and reference to exploitive sexting |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking, teen drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some scuffles, no one badly hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 25, 2026 |
Rebel Wilson’s “Pitch Perfect” experience and love of classic Hollywood shows in her first film as director, “The Deb,” with vibrant, ebullient musical numbers featuring an outstanding cast of young performers. It was released in Wilson’s home country of Australia in 2024 but is just now coming to the US on demand. The basic plot …
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Posted on August 20, 2026 at 6:52 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended, very graphic and bloody perio and violence, many characters injured and killed, graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 21, 2026 |
Cool action hero name: Check. Tightly coreographed hand to hand combat in tightly constrained space: Check. Pause in the action to have someone read aloud action hero’s heroic but tragic backstory: Check. Holding on for dear life hanging by one hand: Check. Killing many bad guys with sounds of spurting blood and crunching bone: Check. …
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Posted on August 12, 2026 at 4:48 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for pervasive language, drug use, and sexual content/nudity. |
| Profanity: |
Constant very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations and nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and drug use, casual and to excess |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Scuffles, fire |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 14, 2026 |
“Tony” begins with a quote from the late author and chef Anthony Bourdain describing himself at age 19: “a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, badly in need of a good ass-kicking.” Add in depressed, arrogant, angry, terrified, and desperately crushing on a girl he has no possible capacity to attract, and you’ve …
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Posted on August 6, 2026 at 7:51 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and some grisly images |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and pervasive language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, references to drugs and drug dealing |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very graphic and disturbing images, very sad death, reference to suicide, murders |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 7, 2026 |
“The Rivals of Amzaiah King” is four or five movies in one, but what could have been jarringly uneven is mostly held together, thanks to the exceptionally gifted writer/director Andrew Patterson, whose acclaimed “Vast of Night” introduced us to a first-time, low-budget filmmaker who already had a deep understanding of cinematic storytelling. This one is …
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Posted on August 6, 2026 at 12:38 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sexual material, language and brief nudity |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
The theme of the movie is sex, very explicit references and situations, some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol and drug references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, trips to the ER, no one badly injured |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 7, 2026 |
A ridicuously silly premise manages to stay out of the way and let the glossy rom-com take over. Extremely attractive people with great chemistry, some genuinely funny situations and a touch of wit in the dialogue, a bunch of top actors in small parts, and some surprisingly sharp satire around the edges (watch for the …
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