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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Jessica Chasten, and Kristen Wiig. During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, and Benicia Del Toro. An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

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Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Live Schreiber, and Peter Sarsgaard. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.

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Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. With Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan. A single mother finds that things in her family's life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.

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Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together. Directed by Alex Ross Perry. With Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Patrick Fugit.

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Directed by Craig Zobel. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, and Margot Robbie. In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.

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Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. With Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, and Jimmy Chin. Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.

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Directed by John Erick Dowdle. With Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, and Owen Wilson. In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

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Directed by Noah Baumbach. With Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke, Seth Barrish. A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister.

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In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller review The End of the Tour.

Directed by James Ponsoldt. With Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Chlumsky. The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

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