79% (3) Let Me In 116 min, R, [Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller] [Matt Reeves] [01 Oct 2010]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, Metacritic: 79%, External Reviews
Awards: 14 wins & 28 nominations.
Actors: Cara Buono, Chloë Grace Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Richard Jenkins
Writer: Matt Reeves (screenplay), John Ajvide Lindqvist (screenplay "Låt den rätte komma in"), John Ajvide Lindqvist (novel)
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Plot: In Los Alamos, New Mexico, the twelve year-old Owen is a lonely and outcast boy bullied in school by Kenny and two other classmates; at home, Owen dreams of avenging himself against the trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old next door neighbor, Abby, who only appears during the night in the playground of their building. Meanwhile, Abby's father is a wanted serial-killer who drains the blood of his victims to supply Abby, who is actually an ancient vampire. Abby advises Owen to fight Kenny; however, soon he discovers that she is a vampire, and he feels fear and love for the girl. Meanwhile a police officer is investigating the murder cases, believing that it is a satanic cult.
Rotten Tomatoes: Twelve-year old Owen is viciously bullied by his classmates and neglected by his divorcing parents. Achingly lonely, Owen spends his days plotting revenge on his middle school tormentors and his evenings spying on the other inhabitants of his apartment complex. His only friend is his new neighbor Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl who lives next door with her silent father. A frail, troubled child about Owens's age, Recognizing a fellow outcast, Owen opens up to her and before long, the two form a unique bond. When Abby's father disappears, the terrified girl is left to fend for herself. Still, she rebuffs Owen's efforts to help her, leading the imaginative Owen to suspect she's hiding an unthinkable secret.
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77% (3) Slow West 84 min, R, [Adventure, Western] [John Maclean] [16 Apr 2015]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 92%, Metacritic: 72%, External Reviews
Awards: 6 wins & 18 nominations.
Actors: Aorere Paki, Caren Pistorius, Jeffrey Thomas, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Writer: John Maclean
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English, French Country: UK, New Zealand
Plot: 'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Rotten Tomatoes: At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas (Michael Fassbender), a mysterious traveler, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.(C) A24 Films
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76% (3) ParaNorman 92 min, PG, [Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy] [Chris Butler, Sam Fell] [17 Aug 2012]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, Metacritic: 72%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 19 wins & 45 nominations.
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi
Writer: Chris Butler
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA
Plot: In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago. Eventually, Norman decides to cooperate, but things don't go according to plan. Now, a magic storm of the witch threatens Blithe Hollow as the accursed dead rise. Together with unexpected new companions, Norman struggles to save his town, only to discover the horrific truth of the curse. With that insight, Norman must resolve the crisis for good as only he can.
Rotten Tomatoes: The new 3D stop-motion comedy thriller from animation company LAIKA, reteaming the company with Focus Features after the groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated Coraline. ParaNorman is, following Coraline, the company's second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. In ParaNorman, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits. -- (C) Focus
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71% (3) Alpha 96 min, PG-13, [Adventure, Drama, Family] [Albert Hughes] [17 Aug 2018]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, Metacritic: 63%, External Reviews
Actors: Jens Hultén, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marcin Kowalczyk
Writer: Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt (screenplay by), Albert Hughes (story by)
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Plot: In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity.
Rotten Tomatoes: An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age,ALPHAtells a fascinating, visually stunning story that shines a light on the origins of man's best friend. While on his first hunt with his tribe's most elite group, a young man is injured and must learn to survive alone in the wilderness. Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learn to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds in order to find their way home before winter arrives.
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70% (3) The Road 111 min, R, [Adventure, Drama] [John Hillcoat] [18 Dec 2009]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, Rotten Tomatoes: 73%, Metacritic: 64%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 5 wins & 31 nominations.
Actors: Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Viggo Mortensen
Writer: Joe Penhall (screenplay by), Cormac McCarthy (based on the book by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: USA
Plot: It's a post-apocalyptic world, several years after whatever the cataclysmic event, which has in turn caused frequent quakes as further potential hazards. The world is gray and getting quickly grayer as more and more things die off. A man and his pre-teen son, who was born after the apocalypse, are currently on the road, their plan to walk to the coast and head south where the man hopes there will be a more hospitable environment in which to live. The man has taught his son that they are the "good people" who have fire in their hearts, which in combination largely means that they will not resort to cannibalism to survive. The man owns a pistol with two bullets remaining, which he will use for murder/suicide of him and his son if he feels that that is a better fate for them than life in the alternative. Food and fuel are for what everyone is looking. The man has taught his son to be suspect of everyone that they may meet, these strangers who, out of desperation, may not only try to steal what they have managed to scavenge for their own survival, but may kill them as food. Although life with his father in this world is all the boy has known, he may come to his own thoughts as to what it means holistically to be one of the good or one of the bad. Meanwhile, the man occasionally has thoughts to happier times with his wife/the boy's mother before the apocalypse, as well as not as happy times with her after the apocalypse and the reason she is no longer with them.
Rotten Tomatoes: "The Road" is a post-apocalyptic dramatic thriller about a father and his son walking alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food -- and each other.
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52% (3) Young Ones 100 min, R, [Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Western] [Jake Paltrow] [17 Oct 2014]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 59%, Rotten Tomatoes: 52%, Metacritic: 47%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins.
Actors: Elle Fanning, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult
Writer: Jake Paltrow
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Website Language: English Country: South Africa, Ireland, USA
Plot: Set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome ( Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Mary (Elle Fanning) fends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it. From writer/director Jake Paltrow comes a futuristic western, told in three chapters, which inventively layers Greek tragedy over an ethereal narrative that's steeped deeply in the values of the American West.
Rotten Tomatoes: YOUNG ONES is set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth's precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Kodi Smit McPhee)and Mary (Elle Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it. (C) Screen Media
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