It’s a weekend with two big movie releases – and they could not be more different from each other, meaning each will attract their own unique audiences. There is the much-anticipated Barbie movie, a drama about one of the American scientists behind the development of the atomic bomb, a horror film in which a man realizes that his fiancee keep acting more and more like his deceased mother, and much more!
Barbie (PG-13)
Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.
Directed by Greta Gerwig
Starring: Margot Robbie, Ariana Greenblatt, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu
Release date: July 21
Cobweb (R)
Horror strikes when an eight-year-old boy named Peter tries to investigate the mysterious knocking noises that are coming from inside the walls of his house and a dark secret that his sinister parents kept hidden from him.
Directed by Samuel Bodin
Starring: Lizzy Caplan, Antony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman, Ellen Dubin, Woody Norman
Release date: July 21
The Evil of Dracula
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A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the school’s principle conceals a dark secret and the pupils are in grave danger.
Directed by Nikolai Malden
Starring: Miles Jonn-Dalton, Antonio Mayans, Ellen Wing, Michael Cristian, Genevieve Lenette
Release date: July 20
He Killed in Ecstasy
A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane.
Directed by Nikolai Malden
Starring: Ellen Wing, Miles John-Dalton, Antonio Mayans, Pauline Pert, Rinardo Talamonti
Release date: July 22
Mother, May I?
When Anya starts behaving like her recently-deceased mother, Emmett must confront his deepest traumas to free his fiancee from this bewildering possession.
Directed by Laurence Vannicelli
Starring: Daphne Gaines, Kyle Gallner, Michael Giannone, Chris Mulkey, Holland Roden
Release date: July 21
Oppenheimer (R)
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Alden Ehrenreich
Release date: July 21
