Admit One 1/7/22
Here’s What’s New in Theaters and on Streaming this Week:
The 355 (Theaters)
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Lupita Nyong’o, Diane Kruger, Bingbing Fan, Edgar Ramirez, Sebastian Stan
Directed by: Simon Kinberg
Plot: When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their every move.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 26%
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Commando (Theaters and VOD)
Starring: Michael Jai White, Mickey Rourke, Jeff Fahey, Aris Mejias, Gianni Capaldi, Donald Cerrone
Directed by: Asif Akbar
Plot: A DEA agent with PTSD returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a home invasion after a recently freed convict and his henchmen come after their stash of millions inside of the agent’s home.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
The Tender Bar (Prime Video)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Max Martini, Rhenzy Feliz
Directed by: George Clooney
Plot: A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle’s bar.
RT Freshness: 51%
Critic Consensus: “It’s well-acted and suffused with a warm nostalgic glow, but none of that is enough to overcome The Tender Bar‘s sleepy, sentimental noodling”
See For Me (Theaters and VOD)
Starring: Skyler Davenport, Laura Vandervoort, Kim Coates, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Emily Piggford, George Tchortov
Directed by: Randall Okita
Plot: Sophie, a young blind woman, house-sitting at a secluded mansion, finds herself under invasion by thieves seeking a hidden safe. Her only means of defense: a new app called “See For Me.” It connects her to a volunteer across the country who helps her survive by seeing on her behalf. Sophie is connected to Kelly, an army veteran who spends her days playing first-person shooter games. Sophie is forced to learn that if she’s going to survive the night, she’ll need all the help she can get. A blind teenage girl who ends up being not so powerless after all.
RT Freshness: 83%
Critic Consensus: N/A