June weather means we’ll all be spending a lot more time out on our beautiful beaches, but not every day is going to be a winner. Luckily, if you should find yourself stuck indoors on a rainy day, there are lots of movies arriving at the library throughout the month to keep you and your guests entertained! Just about every genre is represented, so if you are looking for a superhero adventure, a family film, horror, thrillers, mystery, comedy, drama, romance, sci-fi, western, or documentary you will find them all here. There’s even 2 acclaimed TV series hitting our shelves if you just want to spend a day or 2 binging.
GLORIA BELL
Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold (John Turturro) on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
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“Moore — vulnerable but undauntable — lives every moment in her skin, fantastic to the last glorious frame.” – Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly
“Moore’s compassionate performance confirms the strength of the original and its beloved heroine’s universal appeal. More than that, Gloria Bell proves that the best stories can be told endlessly, so long as they’re told well.” – Eric Kohn, IndieWire
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A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL
A joyous family reunion turns into a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia and unexpectedly plan a funeral, which threatens to reveal sordid family secrets.
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“I cop to laughing out loud numerous times, and I was captivated by Vianne’s big ‘what’s good for the goose’ style speech at the end. If A Madea Family Funeral is indeed the final ‘Hallelu-YUHRR’ for Madea, it’s not that shabby an exit.” – Odie Henderson, RogerEbert.com
“Wherever you find yourself in the Perry equation, Medea herself deserves a final high-five. Perry hints that she may come back in a younger version, not played by him. But Medea will never be the same without her creator. In A Medea Family Funeral, she hosts a memorial service that defines the term hellzapoppin. And Perry correctly and adoringly gives her the last word in which she lets all the women have for letting any damn man abuse them. Hallelujah, sister!” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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JT LEROY
A young woman named Savannah Knoop (Kristen Stewart) spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author and cult status character J.T. LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law (Laura Dern).
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“JT LeRoy may have been an elaborate fib, but Kelly finds a genuine pearl of wisdom in the web of deception.” – Charles Bramesco, The Guardian
“Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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THE KID
A young boy, Rio (Jake Schur), is forced to go on the run across the American Southwest in a desperate attempt to save his sister (Leila George) from his villainous uncle (Chris Pratt). Along the way, he encounters Sheriff Pat Garrett (Ethan Hawke), on the hunt for the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid (Dane DeHaan). Rio finds himself increasingly entwined in the lives of these two legendary figures as the cat and mouse game of Billy the Kid’s final year of life plays out. Ultimately Rio is forced to choose which type of man he is going to become, the outlaw or the man of valor, and will use this self-realization in a final act to save his family.
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“Absorbing, well-structured and superbly acted.” – Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
“First-time director D’Onofrio has as an admirable visual style, whether we get medium-long-shot takes or intimate close-ups. This is a good-looking period piece film, percolating with top-tier performances.” – Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
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THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
Toby (Adam Driver) enters a world of time jumping fantasy when he meets “Don Quixote” (Jonathan Pryce), a delusional Spanish cobbler who believes Toby to be Sancho Panza. They embark on an epic adventure where dreams and reality intertwine.
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“It is an uncompromising work that will make many viewers frustrated and even furious. I adored pretty much every single glorious, gorgeous goddamn minute of it.” – Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice
“The movie nearly killed him (Gilliam). Yet the victory isn’t just that he finished it, but that he’s fashioned something so magnificent in its messiness. He should be proud as well as relieved. The impossible dream is dead. But long live The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone
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TOM CLANCY’S JACK RYAN: SEASON 1
An up-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit.
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SAG Awards Nominee: Best Actor (Drama) – John Krasinski, Best Stunt Ensemble
“Showrunners Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland have perfectly reimagined Ryan for modern audiences. They certainly couldn’t have found a better actor to play him.” – Terry Terrones, Colorado Springs Gazette
“Expertly plotted by creators Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is all the more impactful for its restraint and scope, offering excellent character-based drama that’s concerned with much more than just its namesake.” – Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
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CAPTAIN MARVEL
Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.
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MTV Movie + TV Awards Nominee: Best Hero – Brie Larson, Best Fight
“It rises to the occasion with strong performances and with its directors’ willingness to slow down and take their story seriously, balancing humor, action, and exposition in a carefully calibrated package.” – Shana O’Neil, The Verge
“Watching Danvers’ story play out, complete with boggling plot twists and a scene-stealing friendly feline, is hugely entertaining, and it can’t be over-emphasized how central Larson, about to become the most recognized woman on the planet, is to the enterprise.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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FIVE FEET APART
Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old… she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control – all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow CF patient named Will Newman (Cole Sprouse). There’s an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Further complicating matters is Will’s potentially dangerous rebellion against his ongoing medical treatment. Stella gradually inspires Will to live life to the fullest, but can she ultimately save the person she loves when even a single touch is off limits?
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MTV Movie + TV Awards Nominee: Breakthrough Performance – Haley Lu Richardson
“The movie is smartly paced, and Sprouse (Riverdale) and Richardson make for one of the more adorable pairs in recent films. You not only want what’s best for them, but believe it can actually happen.” – Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post
“It is tempting to dismiss this story as ‘sick-lit’ but director Justin Baldoni balances the compelling specifics of CF with the larger questions we all face about creating meaning in a world of uncertainty and loss. And he does it with two gifted and appealing young stars, especially Richardson.” – Nell Minow, RogerEbert.com
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CAPTIVE STATE
Set in a Chicago neighborhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, Captive State explores the lives on both sides of the conflict – the collaborators and dissidents.
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“Although the TV ads and other promotional material appear to promise a megaplex-ready thrill ride about space invaders and rebellious Earthlings, this rigorously intelligent, cunningly inventive, and impressively suspenseful drama plays more like a classic tale about a disparate group of resistance fighters united in a guerrilla campaign against an occupying force.” – Joe Leydon, Variety
“An atmospheric, affecting science fiction flick with big ideas, slick execution and a message that will stick with you.” – Rosie Knight, IGN
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THE MUSTANG
Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an “outdoor maintenance” program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation. Spotted by a no-nonsense veteran trainer (Bruce Dern) and helped by an outgoing fellow inmate and trick rider (Jason Mitchell), Roman is accepted into the selective wild horse training section of the program, where he finds his own humanity in gentling an especially unbreakable mustang.
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Sundance / NHK Award Winner: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
“Quiet, understated and unforgettable, The Mustang is a winner by five lengths.” – Kim Hughes, Original-Cin
“Ms. De Clermont-Tonnerre’s direction is a revelation — not just a good first try, but a first-rate achievement by any measure. She clearly watched such relevant classics as The Black Stallion and The Misfits, yet found a laconic style that is all her own.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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US
A mother (Lupita Nyong’o) and a father (Winston Duke) take their kids (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway. Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
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MTV Movie + TV Awards Nominee: Best Movie, Best Performance in a Movie – Lupita Nyong’o, Best Villain
“His choice of shots is remarkable, from the mirror house to an institutional hallway chase that goes on forever, to static shots of possible entry points that double down on the suspense. Us is a well shot, artfully chilling movie, one awash in mood but which doesn’t fail to deliver the story.” – Jim Slotek, Original-Cin
“It is unquestionably Nyong’o’s film, and the 12 Years a Slave actress gives a nerve-flaying double performance. As Adelaide, every facial expression seems to embody an emotion in its purest, uncut form, while her evil double has a twisting, buckling physicality that comes close to avant-garde butoh dance.” – Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
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WONDER PARK
A young girl named June (Brianna Denski) brings a magnificent amusement park to life.
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“Older viewers are more likely to appreciate the film’s intentions than fully embrace the story and its characters. Kids, on the other hand, will probably enjoy the frenetic action sequences; plucky heroine; cute, talking animals; and colorful visual representations.” – James Berardinelli, ReelViews
“Instead of an instant classic, we get a noble effort. We need more of those. This is a bright and earnest attempt to craft an on-screen fantasy for modern kids, with a practical moral that anyone could appreciate.” – William Bibbiani, TheWrap
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HOTEL MUMBAI
A gripping true story of humanity and heroism, Hotel Mumbai vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher) and a waiter (Dev Patel) who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple (Armie Hammer and Nazanin Boniadi) is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
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“No amount of words can convey the sense of the film, because it is such a gut-punch of emotion.” – Andy Howell, Film Threat
“Visceral and suspenseful, Hotel Mumbai is also deeply humane and moving, anchored by searing performances from Patel, Kher, Boniadi and Hammer.” – Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune
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KILLING EVE: SEASON 2
The second season picks up seconds after the season one finale, with Eve (Sandra Oh) unsure if Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is going to be alive, but goes on to search for her.
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“Perfect is a strong word, but Killing Eve is a series that merits those… Everything that worked so well in season one is back in essentially the same form, and it’s working again.” – Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast
“As directed by Killing Eve vet Damon Thomas, the first two installments instantly demonstrate a command of the show’s suspenseful, cheeky, and deeply feminine tone. That tone, which ping-pongs confidently and slightly subversively between sensibilities, is like nothing else on TV right now.” – Jen Chaney, New York Magazine
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THE BEACH BUM
The Beach Bum follows the misadventures of Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a rebellious rogue who always lives life by his own rules.
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“The hedonism on display is very much of a piece with Trash Humpers and Spring Breakers, but in a surprising change of pace for Korine, the film is more at ease with itself, and more emotional than either of those two provocative efforts.” – Ryan Oliver, The Playlist
“Korine’s visual gifts are on full display, capturing both the opulence of Florida and its scuzzy side in a way that finds beauty in both.” – Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
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HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING
An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, Hale County This Morning, This Evening looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son in an open-ended, poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives. The audience is invited to experience the mundane and monumental, birth and death, the quotidian and the sublime. These moments combine to communicate the region’s deep culture and provide glimpses of the complex ways the African American community’s collective image is integrated into America’s visual imagination.
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Academy Awards Nominee: Best Documentary
DGA Awards Nominee: Best Documentary Direction
Independent Spirit Awards Nominee: Best Documentary, Truer Than Fiction Award
Sundance Film Festival Winner: Special Jury Prize – Documentary
Sundance Film Festival Nominee: Grand Jury Prize – Documentary
“In an era where films such as Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk have received accolades for their capacity to reimagine expressions of black life on film, Ross contributes to this new canon by staring down the assumption of what type of black lived experiences mass audiences are capable of acknowledging.” – Melissa Vincent, The Globe and Mail
“The filmmaker’s poetic logic is inextricable from his consciousness of race and community, and of his function and potential as an artist grappling with his own circumstances and those of the people he’s depicting. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is not a long film, but it contains whole worlds.” – Glenn Kenny, New York Times
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UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.
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Cannes Film Festival Nominee: Palme d’Or
“The pervasive but almost offhand menace is supplied by Mitchell’s impeccable, widescreen mise-en-scène; the ordinary dread he locates in an unglamorous, mundane L.A.; and the way even the film’s comedy seems perched on the edge of unease.” – A.A. Dowd, The A.V. Club
“The plot’s construction might be derivative, but its serpentine execution is flawless, providing enough crazy turns and zany characters to sustain an escalating momentum for Silver Lake‘s nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime.” – Giovanni Marchini Camia, The Film Stage
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DUMBO
Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights alongside a charming and spectacular aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva Green), until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer, Dreamland is full of dark secrets.
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“The new story is decidedly, deliciously dark, veined with thin layers of Burton’s trademark macabre sensibility, which adds texture and tartness to the inherent charm of the story (at heart, one about the parent-child bond and the possibility of the impossible).” – Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post
“An enchanting blend of Disney twinkle and Tim Burton’s dark whimsy that’s at its best when venturing off the beaten path. Come for the super-cute elephant, stay for Keaton and DeVito’s glorious reunion.” – Ben Travis, Empire
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THE AFTERMATH
In 1946 postwar Germany, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.
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“Throughout, Knightley gives this genteel silliness conviction, grace, heart, and nerve. Sarsgaard gives it smolder and sex appeal. And sometimes, dear reader, that’s all a movie needs.” – Ty Burr, Boston Globe
“The bones of the story have been played a million times, but a talented and committed cast make this swoonsome rather than samey.” – Helen O’Hara, Empire
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THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT
Cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to the breaking point with their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their former boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game.
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“This hummingbird soars. It has that based-on-a-true-story feel, with all the urgency and verisimilitude of a real-life tale. A sad and visceral indictment of our society under the guise of a thriller, Kim Nguyen’s rousing cinematic elegy will sneak up on you, like its titular moth.” – Alex Saveliev, Film Threat
“The Hummingbird Project is at once an offbeat comedy and a satisfyingly weird thriller.” – G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle