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Directed by Michael Mayer. With Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, and Annette Bening. An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

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Directed by Fabien Constant. With Sarah Jessica Parker, Renée Zellweger, and Taylor Kinney. A singer in New York gets a grim diagnosis that puts her life and dreams into perspective.

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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, and Mark Duplass. The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.

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Directed by Craig Johnson. With Daniel Doheny, Madeline Weinstein, and Antonio Marziale. While on a quest to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, Alex takes a detour to make a journey of self discovery.

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Directed by Bo Burnham. With Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, and Emily Robinson. A teenager tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth-grade year before leaving to start high school.

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Directed by Debra Granik. With Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie. A father and his 13 year-old daughter are living in a paradisiacal existence in a vast urban park in Portland Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

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Directed by Aaron Katz. With Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz, and John Cho. A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.

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Directed by Jared Stern. With Noël Wells, Ben Schwartz, and Rahul Kohli. A couple on their three-year anniversary need to decide whether to stay together or call it quits.

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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Ben Mendelsohn. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.

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Directed by Wes Anderson. With Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, and Edward Norton. Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.

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