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PLOT:In 1987 New York City, two brothers (Adam Driver and Miles Teller) think they have stumbled upon a business opportunity that will change their lives, only to discover they’ve inadvertently gotten into bed with the Russian mob and are now saddled with a crushing debt they can never repay.

PLOT: Thirty days before she is due to begin her eleven-year prison sentence, disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites documentarians Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home, granting them unrestricted access to their subject.

PLOT: A wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher’s daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind of man he’ll become.

PLOT: On Halloween night, 1978, no one is safe from Michael Myers. Become the Boogeyman or fight back against the face of evil itself in Halloween.

PLOT: A retired surgeon (Michelle Yeoh) is kidnapped and forced to perform surgery on a ruthless gangster (Martin Freeman).

To be or not to be … parents. That is the thorny question raised in Lauren Miller Rogen’s Babies, an astute charmer about a happy, supportive Los Angeles couple (Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen) who, after 17 years of togetherness, begin wondering if they might be missing a bouncing bundle of something in their lives.

The dark days of Argentina’s dictatorship return to haunt a man 30 years later in Back to Buenos Aires (Ritorno a Buenos Aires), director Marco Bechis’ brooding portrayal of the deep wounds left by a military junta that tortured and killed thousands of people during its brutal reign over the country. Powerful and well-played, if…