75% (3)  Arbitrage  107 min,  R,  [Drama, Thriller]  [Nicholas Jarecki]  [14 Sep 2012]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 88%,   Metacritic: 73%,   External Reviews
Awards:  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
Actors:  Brit Marling, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth
Writer:  Nicholas Jarecki
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA, Poland
Plot:  Robert Miller is a successful financial businessman with a loving wife and a smart daughter ready to take over the family business. Professional secrets involving illegal fraudulent activities start coming out at the same time that Robert's personal secrets take a turn for the worse and threaten to derail everything he has achieved.
Rotten Tomatoes:   When we first meet New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) on the eve of his 60th birthday, he appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Struggling to conceal his duplicity from loyal wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon) and brilliant daughter and heir-apparent Brooke (Brit Marling), Miller's also balancing an affair with French art-dealer Julie Cote (Laetetia Casta). Just as he's about to unload his troubled empire, an unexpected bloody error forces him to juggle family, business, and crime with the aid of Jimmy Grant (Nate Parker), a face from Miller's past. -- (C) Official Site
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70% (3)  The East  116 min,  PG-13,  [Adventure, Drama, Thriller]  [Zal Batmanglij]  [28 Jun 2013]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 68%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 75%,   Metacritic: 68%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win & 7 nominations.
Actors:  Alexander Skarsgård, Brit Marling, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell
Writer:  Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, American Sign Language    Country:  UK, USA
Plot:  A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Rotten Tomatoes:   THE EAST, a suspenseful and provocative espionage thriller from acclaimed writer-director Zal Batmanglij and writer-actress Brit Marling, stars Marling as former FBI agent Sarah Moss. Moss is starting a new career at Hiller Brood, an elite private intelligence firm that ruthlessly protects the interests of its A-list corporate clientele. Handpicked for a plum assignment by the company's head honcho, Sharon (Patricia Clarkson), Sarah goes deep undercover to infiltrate The East, an elusive anarchist collective seeking revenge against major corporations guilty of covering up criminal activity. Determined, highly-trained and resourceful, Sarah soon ingratiates herself with the group, overcoming their initial suspicions and joining them on their next action or "jam." But living closely with the intensely committed members of The East, Sarah finds herself torn between her two worlds as she starts to connect with anarchist Benji (Alexander Skarsgård) and the rest of the collective, and awakens to the moral contradictions of her personal life. (c) Fox Searchlight
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69% (3)  Sound of My Voice  85 min,  R,  [Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller]  [Zal Batmanglij]  [03 Aug 2012]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 66%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 74%,   Metacritic: 67%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 win & 7 nominations.
Actors:  Brit Marling, Christopher Denham, Davenia McFadden, Nicole Vicius
Writer:  Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Two documentary filmmakers are determined to expose the truth about Maggie, the mysterious leader of a secretive cult who claims to belong to the year 2054. Although they believe that everything is nothing more than a fraud, the filmmakers end up driven by her charisma.
Rotten Tomatoes:   In Sound of My Voice, Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius), a couple and documentary filmmaking team, infiltrate a mysterious group led by an enigmatic young woman named Maggie (Brit Marling). Intent on exposing her as a charlatan and freeing the followers from her grip, Peter and Lorna start to question their objective and each other and they unravel the secrets of Maggie's underworld. -- (C) Fox Searchlight
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67% (3)  Another Earth  92 min,  PG-13,  [Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi]  [Mike Cahill]  [12 Oct 2011]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 70%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 66%,   Metacritic: 66%,   External Reviews
Awards:  7 wins & 13 nominations.
Actors:  Brit Marling, DJ Flava, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, William Mapother
Writer:  Mike Cahill, Brit Marling
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  SPOILER: Seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams receives an acceptance letter from MIT and she celebrates with her friends. On the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking at Earth 2 and crashes with composer John Burroughs, killing his pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job as high-school janitor, but tries to commit suicide. She survives, however, and submits an essay to a contest where the prize is a ticket to travel to Earth 2. Meanwhile the scientists discover that Earth 2 is a mirror of Earth and the synchronicity between the dwellers was interrupted when the planets were seen by each other. One day, Rhoda decides to visit John Burroughs, whose life was destroyed after the death of his family, to admit to him that she had killed his family. However she does not have the nerve to tell him the truth. So she lies and tells him he has won a free cleaning service of his home. Rhoda wins the writing contest, but meanwhile John and she have fallen in love with each other. Rhoda has to take a decision whether she goes or stays, but she wants to tell John the truth first.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Rhoda Williams, a bright young woman accepted into MIT's astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs, has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child with his loving wife. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined. Estranged from the world and the selves they once knew, the two outsiders begin an unlikely love affair and reawaken to life. But when one is presented with the chance of a lifetime opportunity to travel to the other Earth and embrace an alternative reality, which new life will they choose? -- (C) Fox Searchlight
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61% (3)  I Origins  106 min,  R,  [Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi]  [Mike Cahill]  [19 Sep 2014]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 74%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 52%,   Metacritic: 57%,   External Reviews
Awards:  2 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors:  Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Brit Marling, Michael Pitt, Steven Yeun
Writer:  Mike Cahill
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English, Hindi    Country:  USA
Plot:  I Origins begins when graduate student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of human eyes with Karen and Kenny, in order to prove that eyes have evolved instead of "appeared" as creationists claim. His fascination with eyes takes him into areas that have profound personal and cultural consequences.
Rotten Tomatoes:   I ORIGINS, the second feature film from writer and director Mike Cahill, tells the story of Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling), they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory. Also starring Steven Yeun and Archie Panjabi, the film is produced by Mike Cahill, Hunter Gray and Alex Orlovsky. (c) Fox Searchlight
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52% (3)  The Better Angels  95 min,  PG,  [Biography, Drama, History]  [A.J. Edwards]  [07 Nov 2014]
Ratings & Reviews:  IMDb Reviews: 61%,   Rotten Tomatoes: 44%,   Metacritic: 53%,   External Reviews
Awards:  1 nomination.
Actors:  Brit Marling, Diane Kruger, Jason Clarke, Wes Bentley
Writer:  A.J. Edwards
External Links:  Wikipedia  Rotten Tomatoes  IMDb  Website     Language:  English    Country:  USA
Plot:  Indiana, 1817. The entire nation, only 40 years old and a few years removed from a second war of independence, is raw. Men, women, and children alike must battle nature and disease to survive in remote log cabins. This is young Abraham Lincoln's world. Spanning three years of the future president's childhood, The Better Angels explores his family, the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever, and the two women who guided him to immortality.
Rotten Tomatoes:   Indiana, 1817. The entire nation, only 40 years old and a few years removed from a second war of independence, is raw. Men, women, and children alike must battle nature and disease to survive in remote log cabins. This is young Abraham Lincoln's world. Spanning three years of the future president's childhood, The Better Angels explores his family, the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever, and the two women who guided him to immortality. Written and directed by A.J. Edwards, The Better Angels delves into visual and narrative poetry to express the Lincolns' world. The stark wilderness they inhabit comes alive in stunning black-and-white cinematography, and the story follows the lyrical course of the characters, who struggle physically and emotionally. They are forced to take on new additions to the family, learning what acceptance and empathy really mean. With an elegant touch and extreme attention to historical accuracy, Edwards shows the austerity of the era and reveals what shaped one of history's most distinctive leaders. (c) Amplify Releasing
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