Admit One 12/15/23
Here’s what’s new in theaters and on streaming this weekend, it’s Admit One
Wonka (Theaters)
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Hugh Grant, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins, Mathew Baynton
Directed by: Paul King
Plot: With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
RT Freshness: 83%
Critic Consensus: “With director Paul King at the helm and some solid new songs at the ready, the warmly old-fashioned Wonka puts a suitably sweet spin on the classic character while still leaving some room for the source material’s darker undertones”
The Family Plan (Apple TV+)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Van Crosby, Said Taghmaoui, Maggie Q
Directed by: Simon Cellan Jones
Plot: A former top assassin living incognito as a suburban dad must take his unsuspecting family on the run when his past catches up to him.
RT Freshness: N/A
Critic Consensus: N/A
Finestkind (Paramount+)
Starring: Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Clayne Crawford, Tim Daly
Directed by: Brian Helgeland
Plot: A crew of fishermen tread dangerous waters when their debts start piling up.
RT Freshness: 32%
Critic Consensus: N/A
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Netflix)
Starring: Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton
Directed by: Sam Fell
Plot: Having escaped from the farm, Ginger and Rocky welcome a new little adventurer into their lives. Back on the mainland, the whole of chicken-kind faces a terrible new threat.
RT Freshness: 79%
Critic Consensus: “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget offers more of the easy laughs and eye-catching animation that fans of the original enjoyed, although there’s a general feeling of diminishing returns”
American Fiction (Theaters)
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Erika Alexander
Directed by: Cord Jefferson
Plot: A novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
RT Freshness: 92%
Critic Consensus: “Jeffrey Wright and American Fiction will forever be inextricable thanks to the actor’s committed approach to the pointedly humorous and insightful material”
The Zone of Interest (Theaters)
Starring: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Medusa Knopf, Daniel Holzberg, Sascha Maaz, Max Beck
Directed by: Jonathan Glazer
Plot: The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
RT Freshness: 92%
Critic Consensus: “Dispassionately examining the ordinary existence of people complicit in horrific crimes, The Zone of Interest forces us to take a cold look at the mundanity behind an unforgivable brutality”