New This Week in Theaters, September 13, 2018

 Patient Zero (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Natalie Dormer, Matt Smith, Stanley Tucci

In the pandemic thriller, Patient Zero, humanity is battling intelligent, adrenaline-fueled creatures born from a viral super-strain. After being bitten, human survivor Morgan realizes he is asymptomatic and can communicate with the infected, leading the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.

 White Boy Rick (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rory Cochrane, Eddie Marsan

The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

 The Predator (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most lethal hunters’ return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.

 Lizzie (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw

A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.

 The Children Act (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead, Ben Chaplin

As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.

 A Simple Favor (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells

A SIMPLE FAVOR, directed by Paul Feig, centers around Stephanie, a mommy blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily’s  sudden disappearance from their small town.

 Unbroken: Path to Redemption (PG-13)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Will Graham, Gary Cole

When the war ended, his battle began. Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling book, UNBROKEN: PATH TO REDEMPTION begins where Unbroken ends, sharing the next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini’s powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace.

 The Riot Act (PG-13)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Brett Cullen, Lauren Sweetser, Brandon Keener

After a quiet murder seen by only three people, two avengers bring to life the idea of a ghost in attempt for justice.

 Where Hands Touch (PG-13)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay

A rites of passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.

 Hal (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Allison Anders, Judd Apatow, Rosanna Arquette, Hal Ashby

Hal Ashby’s obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby’s uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

 American Chaos (R)
Opens on Friday, September 14

Six months before the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker James D. Stern travels across the country to ask potential voters about their feelings for candidate Donald Trump.

 Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Joan Juliet Buck, Paul Caranicas, Michael Chow, Tina Chow

Sex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York, and his colorful and sometimes outrageous milieu.

 Bel Canto (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Julianne Moore, Christopher Lambert, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch

A world-renown opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she’s invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.

 The Dawn Wall (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson

Legendary free climber Tommy Caldwell tries to get over heartbreak by scaling 3000ft of an impossible rock face: the Dawn Wall of El Capitan.

 Angie X (NR)
Opens on Friday, September 14
Starring: Francesca Eastwood, Pierson Fode, Elisa Donovan, Yetide Badaki

In 1984, the most powerful drug dealer on the west coast was a 19 year old coed. Based on actual events.

Synopsis by IMDB.

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