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Shazam!

Starring: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Glazer, Djimon Hounsou, Faithe Herman

Directed by: David F Sandberg

Plot: We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson’s case, by shouting out one word – SHAZAM! – this streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 93%

Critic Consensus: “An effortlessly entertaining blend of humor and heart, Shazam! is a superhero movie that never forgets the genre’s real power: joyous wish fulfillment”

Pet Sematary

Starring: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, Jete Laurence, Hugo and Lucas Lavoie, John Lithgow

Directed by: Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer

Plot: Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.

RT Freshness: 76%

Critic Consensus: “Sometimes remade is better”

The Best of Enemies

Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley, Nick Searcy

Directed by: Robin Bissell

Plot: Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.

RT Freshness: 53%

Critic Consensus: N/A

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