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Actress Rita Moreno (“West Side Story”) has had a colorful life and career. The highs and lows of her life and career are examined in the documentary “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It.”

Gina Rodriguez (“Jane the Virgin”) stars in the Netflix sci-fi apocalyptic thriller, “Awake.” She plays a woman who tries to save her children after a solar flare causes nearly all of humanity to lose the ability to sleep.

Disney offers yet another live action origin story for one of its animated villains. Emma Stone (“La La Land”) and Emma Thompson (“Saving Mr. Banks”) lead the cast in a PG-13 rated comedy set in London’s Mod 70s.

The inspirational Netflix movie “Blue Miracle” is based on a true story. A group of Mexican orphans takes on a big task. They team up with a washed-up former fishing champ (Dennis Quaid, “The Right Stuff”) in an attempt to win a lucrative fishing contest in a last-ditch attempt to save their orphanage.

Melanie Laurent (“Inglorious Basterds”) stars in the French sci-fi thriller “Oxygen,” about a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with no idea how she got there. It’s the latest effort from director Alexendre Aja (“Crawl”). -fi

A teen is accused of being an accomplice to a botched robbery that left a man dead. Was he involved, or just an innocent bystander? The drama “Monster” stars Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (“Waves”), Jennifer Hudson (“Cats”), Jennifer Ehle (“The King’s Speech”) and Jeffrey Wright (“Westworld”).

Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) stars in the ghost story “Things Heard & Seen,” a Netflix adaptation of  the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. The supporting cast includes James Norton (“Little Women”), Natalia Dyer (“Stranger Things”), Rhea Seehorn (“Better Call Saul”), F. Murray Abraham (“Amadeus”) and Karen Allen (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”). […]

A Korean-American family starts a small farm in Arkansas in the 1980s. Yuh-Jung Youn won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for this sweet, subtle family film.

Melissa McCarthy (“Spy”) and Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) co-star in a Netflix superhero spoof, “Thunder Force.” It co-stars Jason Bateman (TV’s “Ozark”) and was written and directed by McCarthy’s husband, Ben Falcone (“Superintelligence”).

Idris Elba (“The Wire”) and Caleb McLaughlin (“Stranger Things”) star in “Concrete Cowboy,” a coming-of-age tale set in the real-life world of Philadelphia’s inner city horsemen.