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A 1920s English seaside town, Littlehampton, bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town's women -- led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) -- begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all. R | 1h 40m

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wicked_little_letters

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Director Alice Rohrwacher tells us that there is more to life than what meets the eye. Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur (Josh O'Conner), the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina (Yile Vianello). To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth – in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera. (In Italian, with English subtitles)

NR | 2h 10m

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/la_chimera

From filmmaker Alex Garland and his unique lense comes a disturbing & thought-provoking film exploring journalistic ethics during times of crisis. The film journeys across a dystopian future America, following a team of committed, military-embedded journalists, war photographer Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst), South American Joel from Reuters (Wagner Moura), aging & frail Sam from the New York Times (Stephen McKinley Henderson) & green,young Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) as they race against time to reach Washington DC before rebel factions from the "Western Alliance" of successor states descend upon the White House.

R | 1h 49m

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/civil-war-movie-review-2024