101. Loveless ( Nelyubov )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Actors: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova, Matvey Novikov, Daria Pisareva, Yanina Hope
102. Kong: Skull Island
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Actors: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Toby Kebbell, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, John C. Reilly
Plot: During the early 70s, on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean, a group of soldiers and explorers come across several dangerous creatures, including Kong, the king of the island.
103. Super Dark Times
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kevin Phillips
Actors: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Ethan Botwick
Plot: The lives of a group of teens in mid-90s suburbia is thrown into chaos when one brings along a samurai sword belonging to his older brother, leading to tragedy and coping with the consequences.
104. Brawl in Cell Block 99
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Actors: Jennifer Carpenter, Vince Vaughn, Don Johnson, Tom Guiry, Marc Blucas, Udo Kier
Plot: In a criminals world of dog eat dog the hero descends to his death in high security cell to be on top of his enemies hiding there and to save his new family.
105. Student, The ( (M)uchenik )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Actors: Yuliya Aug, Viktoriya Isakova, Pyotr Skvortsov, Aleksandra Revenko, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Irina Rudniktskaya
Plot: Taking place in contemporary Russia, a teen who believes that the bible gives him absolute authority takes on his school and community with increasingly chaotic and dangerous results.
106. Happy End
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden
Plot: The film explores the dynamics of a well to do family living in Calais, France on the
landscape of the on going refugee crisis. The film stars Isabelle Huppert as Anne
Laurent, a woman at the head of a construction company, Mathieu Kassovitz as
her brother Thomas, who is having an affair with a cello player, Jean Louis
Trintigant as Georges, the father of both of them, and Fantin Harduin as Eve,
Thomas’ disturbed daughter who recently lost her mother.
107. Graduation ( Bacalaureat )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Actors: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov
108. The Farthest
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Emer Reynolds
Actors: John Casani, James F. Bell, Edward Stone, Lawrence Krauss, Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco
109. Menashe
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein
Actors: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz
Plot: Inside an ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, Menashe is widower and, based on that community, his son is given to his brother-in-law to be raised until he re-marries. But Menashe was unhappy with his first marriage, and doesn't find a connection with any of the women around him. While his brother-in-law berates him, and he struggles with a job he hates, he will not give up on his son.
110. Step
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Amanda Lipitz
Actors: Paula Dofat, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon
Plot: Follows four high school senior girls on the step team in inner-city Baltimore as each strives to become the first in their family to attend college while also making their step team a success even as social unrest grips the troubled city.
