Take Two is KKFI's exclusive movie review program! Hosted by film critic Russ Simmons and our own Susan Sanders, get the buzz on the latest flicks coming to Kansas City theaters.
Filmmaker Ridley Scott ("Gladiator") tries his hand at yet another epic, "Napoleon." Joaquin Phoenix ("Joker") stars as the French emperor and military genius.
Julia Roberts ("Eat, Pray, Love"), Mahershala Ali ("Green Book") and Ethan Hawke ("Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery") star in the apocalyptic Netflix thriller, "Leave the World Behind," directed by Sam Esmail ("Mr. Robot").
Two Oscar-winning actresses star in the Netflix drama, "May December." Julianne Moore ("Still Alice") plays a child rapist and Natalie Portman ("Black Swan") plays an actress signed to play her in a movie. "May December" is the latest from acclaimed director, Todd Haynes ("Far from Heaven").
The quirky short story by Roald Dahl ("The Witches") is now a quirky short film on Netflix directed by Wes Anderson ("Asteroid City").
The story behind the Supreme Court's historic Miranda Ruling is the focus of the drama, "Miranda's Victim." Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") plays Trish Weir, who suffered a rape in 1963 and fought a technicality that kept her rapist out of jail.
The dark Netflix thriller "The Killer" stars Michael Fassbender ("Next Goal Wins") as a philosophical assassin who scrambles to save himself when a hit goes bad. It's the latest from director David Fincher ("The Social Network," "Gone Girl").
Annette Bening ("Being Julia") and Jodi Foster ("Silence of the Lambs") star in the Netflix biopic "Nyad." It focuses on famed swimmer Diana Nyad's attempts to swim the Florida Straights at age 63.
Emily Blunt ("Oppenheimer") and Chris Evans ("Captain America") star in the Netflix opioid crisis drama, "Pain Hustlers." They play pharmaceutical sales reps who skirt the law by offering bribes to doctors to prescribe their addictive meds.
