Movies Opening In Cinemas On February 17
Every week, Film Inquiry compiles a list of the movies that are opening in cinemas. Opening this week: The Great Wall; A Cure For Wellness; Fist Fight; Everybody Loves Somebody; Ghost of New Orleans; XX; My Name Is Emily; You’re Killing Me Susana; American Fable; Lovesong; In Dubious Battle and Land of Mine.
Note that these are based on the opening dates in the United States. If you’re looking for the opening dates for a certain movie in your country, click the ‘international release dates” below the movie details.
Opening in Cinemas This Week:
The Great Wall (2016)
1h 43min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writers: Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro a.o.
Stars: Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe
A Cure For Wellness (2016)
2h 26min | Mystery, Thriller
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious “wellness center” at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa’s miraculous treatments are not what they seem.
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writers: Justin Haythe, Justin Haythea.o.
Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth
Lovesong (2016)
1h 24min | Drama
Director: So Yong Kim
Writers: Bradley Rust Gray, So Yong Kim
Stars: Riley Keough, Jena Malone, Jessie Ok Gray
Fist Fight (2017)
1h 31min | Comedy
When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight.
Director: Richie Keen
Writers: Van Robichaux, Evan Susser a.o.
Stars: Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan
Everybody Loves Somebody (2017)
Comedy, Romance
A successful and single career woman asks her co-worker to pose as her boyfriend at a family wedding back home in Mexico. Her situation gets complicated when her ex shows up at the ceremony.
Director: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Writer: Catalina Aguilar Mastretta
Stars: Karla Souza, José María Yazpik, Ben O’Toole
Ghost of New Orleans (2011)
1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.
Director: Predrag Antonijevic
Writers: Gerald Di Pego, Justin DiPego a.o.
Stars: Josh Lucas, Terrence Howard, Lake Bell
XX (2017)
1h 20min | Horror
An all female horror anthology featuring new work from Karyn Kusama, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin and Jovanka Vuckovic.
Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, Sofìa Carrillo a.o.
Writers: Roxanne Benjamin, Jack Ketchum a.o.
Stars: Sheila Vand, Melanie Lynskey, Kyle Allen
My Name Is Emily (2015)
1h 40min | Drama
A teenage girl runs away from a foster home with the boy who loves her. She searches for her visionary writer father who is locked up in a psychiatric institution. It is a story of redemption.
Director: Simon Fitzmaurice
Writer: Simon Fitzmaurice
Stars: Evanna Lynch, Michael Smiley, Martin McCann
You’re Killing Me Susana (2016)
1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
“Me Estas Matando Susana” takes us on Eligio’s quest to find and recover his wife, Susana, who without a word, left Mexico City behind for a writer’s conference held in the chilly U.S. heartland.
Director: Roberto Sneider
Writers: José Agustín (novel), Luis Cámara a.o.
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Verónica Echegui, Ashley Grace
American Fable (2016)
1h 36min | Thriller
When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in her family’s silo in order to save their struggling farm, she is forced to choose between saving the man’s life or protecting her family from the consequences of their actions. AMERICAN FABLE is a fairytale thriller set in the 1980s rural Midwest about a courageous girl living in a dark – sometimes magical – world.
Director: Anne Hamilton
Writer: Anne Hamilton
Stars: Peyton Kennedy, Richard Schiff, Kip Pardue
In Dubious Battle (2016)
1h 50min | Drama
An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.
Director: James Franco
Writers: Matt Rager (adaptation), Matt Rager a.o.
Stars: Nat Wolff, James Franco, Vincent D’Onofrio
Land of Mine (2015)
1h 40min | Drama, History, War
A young group of German POWs are made the enemy of a nation, where they are now forced to dig up 2 million land-mines with their bare hands.
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Writer: Martin Zandvliet
Stars: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Which of these will you be seeing? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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