281. Top Gun: Maverick
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro
Plot: After 30 years in service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell finds himself still where he wants to be: a test pilot still pushing the limits, even as a new crop of hot-shots make their mark, while avoiding the advancements that would ultimately ground him.
282. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Actors: Emma Stone, Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Andrea Riseborough
Plot: He once played an iconic superhero - but that was then, and this is now.
With a huge ego and family trouble - a washed-up actor will attempt to put
his troubles behind him at he mounts a comeback on Broadway.
283. Barry Lyndon
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Marisa Berenson, André Morell, Patrick Magee
Plot: A young man takes on a liberal approach to nobility when he gambles,
duels, and fights his way to becoming a nobleman while winning the heart
of a woman. Takes place during 18th Century Europe.
284. The Searchers
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, John Qualen, Ward Bond
Plot: A civil war veteran searchers for years for his niece who was possibly
captured by Indians as the inspiration for his motivation is in question.
285. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone
Plot: After escaping from Hong Kong, Indiana Jones, a night-club singer and his 12-year old companion land in India where whey must help a village regain it's mysterous stones, along with their children, from a dangerous cult.
286. Ex Machina
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, Corey Johnson, Chelsea Li
Plot: An everyday programmer working as cog in the machine of the world's largest internet company finds himself as a winner of a competition to spend a week at the private mountain retreat of the secretive CEO of the company. But once he arrives, he finds himself as part of an experiment - interacting with world's most advanced A.I. - housed in the body of a beautiful female robot.
287. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Warren J. Kemmerling, Lance Henriksen, Melinda Dillon
Plot: A blue collar worker trucks stops working while he encounters a UFO and is drawn to a mountain for unknown reasons and continues to hear certain notes over and over.
288. Drive
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
Plot: A stuntman-turned-wheelman must use all his skills to survive after a botched job results in a contract on his head.
289. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
Plot: Told from the perspective of an elective senator, he tells of a time when he murders a terrible unlawful gunman, which made him famous.
290. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Harris, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane
Plot: Based on the book by J.K. Rowling. A boy finds out he is a wizard and that he was excepted to the Magic School, Hogwarts. It's a year filled with finding new friends and learning about new and old enemies.
