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First Take: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri- there’s nothing wrong with a bit of dark comedy

SYNOPSIS: A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. Martin McDonaugh is…
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First Take: Early Man- it truly is a beautiful game

SYNOPSIS: Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with side…
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First Take: The Post- insert political statement about the press here

SYNOPSIS: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unp…
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First Take: The Shape of Water- del Toro, you absolute genius

SYNOPSIS: At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held…
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First Take: Coco- seize the moment

SYNOPSIS- Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfath…
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First Take: Darkest Hour- there’s always 2 sides to a story

SYNOPSIS: During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, wh…
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First Take: Molly’s Game- you just lost the game

SYNOPSIS: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world’s most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Aa…
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First Take: The Greatest Showman- let the show commence in style

SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business & te…
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First Take Classics: Amélie- the film that began a foreign film revolution

SYNOPSIS- Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discov…
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