331. Knives Out
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rian Johnson
Actors: Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Katherine Langford, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon
Plot: When the head of a family turn up dead, detective Benoit Blanc finds himself on the case - and in the middle of a feuding eccentric, combative family.
332. The Hurt Locker
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly
Plot: An elite bomb squad in Iraq is assigned a new sergeant who wastes no time taking his unit into the deadly urban chaos with reckless abandon. As his men struggle to understand his death wish, his true character is revealed that will affect every man.
333. District 9
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: William Allen Young, Robert Hobbs, Jason Cope, Sharlto Copley, Kenneth Nkosi, Vanessa Haywood
Plot: A refugee camp in Africa is home to extraterrestrials living in slum-like conditions that only want be treated with respect and get back to their home.
334. Witness for the Prosecution
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Henry Daniell
Plot: A man on trial for murder goes through a rigorous plot twisting court trial; based on an Agatha Christie story.
335. Anomalisa
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, Tom Noonan
Plot: A depressed customer service rep faces the mundanity of his life and one day finds someone he can finally connect with.
336. The Truman Show
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Natascha McElhone, Brian Delate, Noah Emmerich
Plot: An insurance salesman discovers that his entire life has been a television show.
337. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman, Jason Clarke, Judy Greer, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell
Plot: Ten years after a virus has decimated humanity and given rise to a growing nation of genetically-modified apes, led by Caesar, the two sides come to a fragile peace. But this peace will not last and soon a war arises - one whose outcome will determine which species remains the dominant force on the planet.
338. Hotel Rwanda
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Terry George
Actors: Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Sophie Okonedo, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Joaquin Phoenix, Antonio David Lyons
Plot: A hotel manager tries to save the lives tutsi refugees while the Hutu
militia take over Rwanda.
339. The Heiress
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins, Vanessa Brown, Betty Linley
Plot: In this adaptation of Henry James' Washington Square, mousy heiress
Catherine, beaten down by her domineering father, falls in love with a
handsome young stranger. But her father fears the young man may be a
fortune hunter, and attempts to thwart their romance. The experience that
follows produces a side of Catherine no one imagined.
340. In the Heat of the Night
Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson
Plot: A black man is sent to investigate a murder in a racist southern state,
where is met with racism, bigotry, and scrutiny.
