Collateral Beauty
Theatrical Release Date: 12/16/2016
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Frankel
Actors: Will Smith, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris
Plot: When a New York advertising executive is struck by personal tragedy, it sends him on a downward spiral of isolation and depression. Struggling to find a way to connect, his colleagues come up with a plan to send him on his own personal journey through letters, trying to confront some of the biggest questions life gives us.
La La Land
Theatrical Release Date: 12/16/2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Damien Chazelle
Actors: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons, Sonoya Mizuno, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt
Plot: An aspiring actress who rubs elbows with big stars only by delivering their lattes and a jazz pianist barely making ends meet by playing dingy bars form a quick bond. Yet as each comes closer to realizing their dreams, it starts to tear apart their relationship.
Manchester by the Sea
Theatrical Release Date: 12/16/2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Actors: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, C.J. Wilson, Gretchen Mol
Plot: Following the death of his father, a teen boy finds himself in the care of his closest relative, an uncle who is not prepared to take on this responsibility.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Theatrical Release Date: 12/16/2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Tudyk, Diego Luna, Forest Whitaker
Plot: Set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, Rogue One follows a group of resistance fighters on a daring mission to steal plans for the Empire's ultimate war machine: The Death Star.
Neruda
Theatrical Release Date: 12/16/2016
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pablo Larraín
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Pablo Derqui, Mercedes Morán
Plot: In the 1940s, an investigator is sent to hunt down Childean's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda, after the poet becomes a fugitive after joining the Communist party.
