✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 22-29

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The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a list of new and upcoming films, check out our 2023 Movie Guide.

Asteroid City Wes Anderson makes a marvelous return to form in a play within a tv show within a film about an alien encounter at a desert stargazer summer camp that mediates on grief, government overreach, and pandemic trauma. With a stacked cast at the top of their game, including Scarlett Johannson, Margot Robbie, Steve Carell, Adrien Brody, Matt Dillon, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Maya Hawke, and a career-best Jason Schwartzman. Now playing in theaters. 

No Hard Feelings Jennifer Lawrence plays a loser millennial who agrees to date a Princeton-bound teen and bring him out of his shell in order to save her mother’s house from foreclosure. Whether it’s a J-Law career resurgence or rock bottom, it’s good to see a hard-“R” comedy with a movie star at the multiplex again.  Now playing in theaters. 

God is a Bullet When a violent cult kidnaps his daughter, detective Bob Hightower (GoT’s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) goes undercover with the group’s only escaped victim (Maika Monroe) and Jamie Foxx as “The Ferryman.” From the director of… The Notebook? Now playing in theaters. 

The Last Rider This documentary about the triumph of Greg LeMond at the 1989 Tour De France will be the hot ticket for the Metro area’s transit fetishists this weekend. Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27.

Sheroes When a drug cartel kidnaps a member of their girl squad during a vacation to Thailand, four friends use their special skills to come to her rescue. Whoever came up with that title deserves to spend eternity in a Thai prison. Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27.

Dhoomam (Kannada/Maylay)  It’s a mystery. Now playing at Regal Hollywood 27.

1920: Horrors of the Heart Reeling from her father’s suicide, a young woman seeks revenge against the mother who betrayed their family in this supernatural horror film. Now playing at AMC Thoroughbred 20.