131. Hugo
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Helen McCrory, Jude Law
Plot: A 12-year-old orphan living in the walls of a Paris train station circa
1930 must unravel a mystery involving his late father and a robot.
132. Good Time
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Safdie, Buddy Duress, Rose Gregorio
Plot: Over one neon-drenched night in New York City, Connie Nikas finds himself turning to increasingly desperate efforts in order to save his younger brother from a stint on Riker's Island following a botched bank robbery.
133. Joker
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Phillips
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Robert De Niro, Bryan Callen, Shea Whigham, Frances Conroy
Plot: After his stand-up career goes nowhere, Arthur Fleck turns to crime in order to support his mother, a turn that leads him down a path of insanity, ultimately transforming into the supervillain known as The Joker.
134. Captain Phillips
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Paul Greengrass
Actors: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Michael Chernus, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Chris Mulkey
Plot: Based on the true story of US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, led by Captain Richard Phillips which, in 2009, became the first American cargo ship in 200 years to be hijacked by pirates - in this case, Somali pirates.
135. The Conjuring
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wan
Actors: Ron Livingston, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mackenzie Foy, Lili Taylor, Joey King
Plot: Based on an actual paranormal investigations - a family experiences
unexplained events after moving to secluded farmhouse in New England.
136. Life Itself
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve James
Actors: Roger Ebert, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese, Errol Morris, Ava DuVernay, Ramin Bahrani
Plot: A look at the life and cultural impact of Roger Ebert, one of the world's renowned film critics and social commentators - from his Pulitzer Prize film reviews, to his long career with Gene Siskel to his late-life battle with cancer - it a both a poignant and insightful look into Ebert's world.
137. Sicario
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
Plot: Sicario translates to hitman in Mexico. When an idealistic FBI agent is
paired up with a consultant with a checkered past, she will have to learn
the hard way that combating the new war on drugs sometimes means getting
your hands dirty.
138. Eighth Grade
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bo Burnham
Actors: Josh Hamilton, Elsie Fisher, Emily Robinson, Missy Yager, Greg Crowe, Deborah Unger
Plot: Kayla has lived through nearly a year of a disastrous eighth grade year. As we follow her through her last week in middle school before summer, we live her life in all its painful glory.
139. Past, The ( passé, Le )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Actors: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis, Babak Karimi
Plot: An Iranian man abandons his French wife and two children in order to return home. He doesn't realize the consequences of his actions until his wife starts a new relationship... and requests a divorce.
140. The Favourite
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
Plot: In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne is on the throne while war rages with the French. Her devoted friend, Sarah Churchill, governs the country in her stead while trying to keep the queen's health and temper under control The arrival of a new servant, Abigail, soon changes the dynamics as she at first endears herself to Sarah, and later, the queen herself.
