Every week Film Inquiry publishes the movies that are opening in cinemas! This week: Pixels, Paper Towns, Southpaw, The Vatican Tapes, Samba, Unexpected, Big Significant Things and Phoenix.
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
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When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.
Director: Chris Columbus
Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage
A young man and his friends embark upon the road trip of their lives to find the missing girl next door.
Director: Jake Schreier
Stars: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith
A boxer fights his way to the top, only to find his life falling apart around him.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, 50 Cent
A priest and two Vatican exorcists must do battle with an ancient satanic force to save the soul of a young woman.
Director: Mark Neveldine
Stars: Michael Peña, Kathleen Robertson, Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.
Director: Kris Swanberg
Stars: Cobie Smulders, Anders Holm, Gail Bean, Elizabeth McGovern
Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burn-out. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba’s willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Stars: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin
limited release in U.S. – International Release Dates
A week before they move across the country together, Craig lies to his girlfriend in order to go on his first road trip — to the south. Alone.
Director: Bryan Reisberg
Stars: Harry Lloyd, Krista Kosonen, Sylvia Grace Crim, James Ricker II
A disfigured concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Director: Christian Petzold
Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens
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