Spring Movie Guide: 15 Films We’re Excited to Watch Inline

  • Insurgent
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    Insurgent

    If you can’t get enough of young women saving postapocalyptic worlds—and can’t wait for the Mockingjay to turn up again—this second installment of the Divergent series should answer your jonesing. Shailene Woodley is back as Tris, the profoundly gifted Dauntless heroine from Chicago who must avoid impending war with help from toothsome sidekicks played by Theo James, Ansel Elgort, and Miles Teller.

    Premieres March 20

  • While Were Young
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    While We’re Young

    **Noah Baumbach’**s laugh-out-loud comedy has a blast with today’s generation gap. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star as a bourgeois bohemian couple who, fearing middle-age, become friends with full-on Brooklyn hipsters—they do cool things like play boardgames and spin vinyl—played by Amanda Seyfried and (who else?) Adam Driver.

    Premieres March 27

  • White God
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    3/15

    White God

    This haunting Hungarian film is an animal lover’s dream—and nightmare. It’s about a thirteen-year-old girl whose beloved dog is set free on the streets and, looking for his master, joins up with a group of dogs who fight back against their human abusers. It had people weeping in Cannes.

    Premieres March 27

  • Effie Gray
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    Effie Gray

    Even stodgy eras have romantic triangles. This Victorian story scripted by Emma Thompson stars Dakota Fanning as the teenage bride of famous art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) who gets involved with the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

    Premieres April 3

  • 5 to 7
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    5 to 7

    **Victor Levin’**s comic romance works classic terrain: Aspiring novelist played by Anton Yelchin has an affair with an older woman—a diplomat’s wife played by _Skyfall’_s ravishing Bérénice Marlohe. A lucky young man. But can he keep her?

    Premieres April 3

  • Furious 7
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    6/15

    Furious 7

    Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Tony Jaa, and the late Paul Walker—plus, of course, lots of very fast driving. If you’re going to be dragged to a movie by your boyfriend or husband, you can’t do any better than this hyperbolic sillliness. Have I mentioned that there are race cars parachuting from airplanes?

    Premiers April 3

  • Clouds of Sils Maria
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    Clouds of Sils Maria

    **Olivier Assaya’**s drama brings together Juliette Binoche as a famous actress worried about getting older, Kristen Stewart as her personal assistant who’s worried about wasting her life, and Chloë Grace Moretz as a young Hollywood star who’s worried about her tabloid image. Add ingredients and stir.

    Premieres April 10

  • Ex Machina
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    8/15

    Ex Machina

    The filmmaking debut of Alex Garland, the author of The Beach, sounds like the thriller version of Her. Set in a remote Alaskan compound, it’s about a nice tech whiz (Domhnall Gleeson) who gets involved with his sinister-brilliant boss (Oscar Isaac) and a sexy android (Alicia Vikander) that may have a will of her own.

    Premieres April 10

  • Child 44
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    9/15

    Child 44

    Based on **Tom Rob Smith’**s propulsive bestseller, **Daniel Espinosa’**s thriller is set in Stalin’s Soviet Union. It stars the great Tom Hardy as a disgraced police agent sent to investigate some murdered kids. Everywhere he turns he bumps into another ambiguous character actor—Gary Oldmann, Charles Dance, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Jason Clarke, Vincent Cassel, and more.

    Premieres on April 17

  • Age of Adaline
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    10/15

    Age of Adaline

    Like a non-vampire version of Let the Right One In, this romantic drama stars Blake Lively as a young woman who, after an accident, never grows older while those around her age and die. Then she meets someone—Michiel Huisman who sleeps with Reese Witherspoon in Wild and is the Khaleesi’s bedmate in Game of Thrones—who might be worth the risk of loving.

    Premieres on April 24

  • Far from the Madding Crowd
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    11/15

    Far from the Madding Crowd

    Adapted from Thomas Hardy’s novel set in Victorian Dorset, this romantic epic stars Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene, a willful and independent young woman pursued by three very different men: shepherd Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts); a headlong soldier, Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge); and a solid middle-aged farmer, William Boldwood (Michael Sheen). Could those guys’ surnames be, like, symbolic?

    Premieres on May 1

  • Saint Laurent
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    12/15

    Saint Laurent

    The second (and better) of the YSL biopics, **Bertrand Bonello’**s film stars Gaspard Ulliel as the genius designer and Jérémie Renier as his partner, Pierre Bergé. Unauthorized and bursting with stylistic flourishes, it hopes to do for Saint Laurent’s life what he did for the women he dressed—make it unforgettable.

    Premieres on May 8

  • Pitch Perfect 2
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    13/15

    Pitch Perfect 2

    Directed by Elizabeth Banks (who’s also one of the stars), this sequel to the surprise hit brings back the whole gang of Barden Bellas—Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, etc. This time they’re off to win an international sing-off that no Yanks have ever nabbed.

    Premieres on May 15

  • Tomorrowland
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    14/15

    Tomorrowland

    In this sci-fi adventure made by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), the rising young actress Britt Robertson plays a scientifically curious teenager who meets up with a weathered genius (George Clooney) and travels to a special place where they can change the world.

    Premieres on May 22

  • Aloha
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    15/15

    Aloha

    In **Cameron Crowe’**s romantic comedy set in (surprise!) Hawaii, Bradley Cooper is a military hero turned defense contractor who returns to his old stomping ground and finds himself falling in love with an Air Force pilot played by Emma Stone while all sorts of amusing people—Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, Rachel McAdams, Jay Baruchel—do (one guesses) all sorts of amusing things around them.

    Premieres on May 29