181. Mr. Turner
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Tom Wlaschiha, Timothy Spall, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Lesley Manville, Richard Bremmer, James Fleet
Plot: Explores the last half-century in the life of British artist J.M.W. Turner
- a brilliant, if somewhat eccentric, painter.
182. A Ghost Story
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lowery
Actors: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Kesha, Jonny Mars, Will Oldham, Kenneisha Thompson
Plot: Life, loss, love and legacy - a recently deceased man reappears as a white-sheeted ghost, hoping to comfort his bereft wife in their suburban home.
183. Chef
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Sofía Vergara, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Emjay Anthony
Plot: A failed chef starts up a food truck in order to jump start his creative process while at the same time attempting to reconnect with his estranged family.
184. Tickled
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve
Actors: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, David Starr, Hal Karp
185. Ida
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Actors: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Jerzy Trela
Plot: In 1960s Poland, a young woman is on the verge of taking her vows to
become a nun when she uncovers a dark secret involving her family dating
back to the Nazi occupation.
186. Prophet, A ( prophète, Un )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci
Plot: A young Muslim man, incarcerated for attacking police officers, unwillingly becomes part of a dangerous game of racial and prison politics.
187. Jodorowsky's Dune
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Frank Pavich
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michel Seydoux, H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Brontis Jodorowsky, Devin Faraci
Plot: Alejandro Jodorowsky is a cult filmmaker best known for his surrealistic tales El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Santa Sangre. Yet in the mid 1970s, he attempted to create his masterpiece - adapting Frank Herbert's 1965 novel, Dune, to the big screen. Spending $2 million to convince the likes of artist H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali, actor Orson Welles and musician Mick Jagger and to help in creating his epic, he failed to convince investors (and a purported hours long running time didn't help) and in the end was a failed vision. But the director still has his Dune bible - and we get a glimpse of what could have been.
188. Black Panther
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ryan Coogler
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett
Plot: Following the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the advanced nation of Wakanda in order to take the throne and rule his land. But he soon finds that forces from both outside and within his country conspire to bring ruin and drag Wakanda in to a new world war. But with the power of the Black Panther, along with help from CIA agent Everett K. Ross and the Dora Milaje - Wakanda's special forces, T'Challa will stop at nothing from saving his homeland - and his father's legacy.
189. Beasts of the Southern Wild
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Jonshel Alexander, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Nicholas Clark
Plot: Six-year-old Hushpuppy grows up in "the Bathtub" a southern Delta community where her father, Wink, seems harsh but is only preparing her for life on her own. A storm and a sudden illness brings on this life much sooner than expected and as beasts menace her, growing ever closer and larger, she will have face down her fears.
190. Blindspotting
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carlos López Estrada
Actors: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin
Plot: Three days before his probation officially ends, Oakland native Collin, doing everything he can to keep clean (curfew, avoiding drugs and holding down a job), witnesses a police officer gunning down a defenseless man. This throws his world off balance as he contends with his hot-headed friend Miles and tries to reconcile with his girlfriend, Val.
