151. Tale of Tales ( Il racconto dei racconti )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matteo Garrone
Actors: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Hayley Carmichael
Plot: A street circus family serves as the common thread between three fantastic stories - a queen lives happy enough, but is bound to her husband makes an ominous deal; a king rules by libido until he falls for a most unlikely paramour and a king obsessed with a flea takes little notice when he marries his daughter of to an ogre. Based on the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile.
152. Elvis & Nixon
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Liza Johnson
Actors: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters
Plot: December, 1970, the King of Rock n Roll shows up on the White House lawn with a request to meet the most powerful man in the world - President Nixon. This look into the untold true story behind the most unique meeting leading into one of the most iconic photos of all time (and the most requested in the National Archives).
153. Goat
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Neel
Actors: James Franco, Virginia Gardner, Nick Jonas, Ben Schnetzer, Jake Picking, Danny Flaherty
154. Southside with You
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Tanne
Actors: Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Parker Sawyers, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Alex Zelenka, Deborah Geffner
Plot: Follows future president Barak Obama as he takes future first lady Michelle on their first date across Chicago's South Side.
155. Imperium
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Ragussis
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Burn Gorman, Nestor Carbonell, Seth Numrich, Sam Trammell
156. Sing
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Garth Jennings
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Matthew McConaughey, Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon, Nick Offerman, Seth MacFarlane
Plot: Buster is koala with a theater - but not nearly enough patrons. In order to attract some more business he enlists the help of some of his friend to put on a spectacular singing competition.
157. Nerve
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Actors: Emma Roberts, Juliette Lewis, Dave Franco, Jonny Beauchamp, Samira Wiley, Emily Meade
Plot: A high school senior starts an online game of truth or dare, unaware that the game is being manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers".
158. Blood Father
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-François Richet
Actors: Mel Gibson, Elisabeth Röhm, William H. Macy, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Thomas Mann
159. The Dressmaker
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Actors: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Sarah Snook, Judy Davis, Caroline Goodall
Plot: A high fashion woman has returned to the small, rural Australian town she escaped with a sewing machine in hand and haute couture style on her mind. She transforms the women in the town and, in the process, exacts revenge on those who wronged her in the past.
160. Genius
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Grandage
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney
Plot: Follows the life of Max Perkins as his time as book editor at Scribner where he was in charge of approving books from the likes of Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
