291. 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.
292. 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.
293. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe
Actors: Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, Olivia Colman, Eric André, Michael Rianda
Plot: When Katie Mitchell finds out she has been accepted into film school, her whole family decides to drive her down. But during the trip, a tech uprising interrupts their plans forcing the Mitchell family to band together to save themselves and perhaps the world.
294. 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.
295. 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.
296. Deadpool
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Miller
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Gina Carano, Ed Skrein, Brianna Hildebrand
Plot: The greatest anti-hero - the Merc with a mouth - Wade Wilson was once a special forces operative but turned mercenary. After being subjected to a rogue experiment, he finds himself with accelerated healing and transforms himself into Deadpool. Armed with weapons (and a wicked sense of humor) he will stop at nothing to track down the men responsible.
297. Big Hero 6
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Hall, Chris Williams
Actors: Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, James Cromwell, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung
Plot: The incredibly fast-paced and tech-heavy San Fransokyo is under attack - but robotics expert Hiro Hamada, with his robot Baymax, will team up with some reluctant, novice crime fighters in order to save the city.
298. 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.
299. Ocean's Eleven
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Eliott Gould, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts
Plot: Danny Ocean, with ten associates, plans an elaborate heist of three major Las Vegas casinos during a boxing match.
300. The French Connection
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Bill Hickman, Roy Scheider, Sonny Grosso
Plot: During a drug smuggle with a French Connection, the NYC narcotics police division engulf themselves further with breaking up the smuggling process.
