211. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Yates
Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Katherine Waterston, Zoë Kravitz, Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller
Plot: Though having been captured by MACUSA, the dark wizard Grindelwald has made good on his promise and escaped custody. He puts his plan into motion to raise an army - one that he shapes with his twisted plan to put pure-blood wizards in control, not just in the wizarding world, but the non-magical world as well. A young Albus Dumbledore enlists the help of former student Newt Scamander to foil this plan, but as the wizarding world becomes ever more divided, love and loyalty will soon be put to the test.
212. The House with a Clock in its Walls
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Eli Roth
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Jack Black, Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Vanessa Williams
Plot: After the death of his parents, the young Lewis Barnavelt is sent to live with his uncle in Michigan. But he soon finds this new life will be anything but boring when he discovers his uncle is also a powerful warlock. Introduces to the world of sorcery and magic, it seems life has finally given him a winning hand. That is, until, he learns his uncle's home is holds a powerful dark artifact - a clock counting down to the end of the world. The dark warlock, Isaac Izard, built it before his own death - and now his widow, Selena seeks it out to complete her husband's dark work.
213. Operation Finale
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Chris Weitz
Actors: Oscar Isaac, Mélanie Laurent, Haley Lu Richardson, Ben Kingsley, Nick Kroll, Peter Strauss
Plot: It has been 15 years since the end of WWII and while many have been brought to justice, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect behind the Holocaust, remains free. A teams of secret agents are brought together, tasked with tracking down the elusive war criminal and bringing justice to so many.
214. Skyscraper
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Pablo Schreiber, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Byron Mann, Hannah Quinlivan
Plot: Will Ford is a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China, where the world's tallest skyscraper has been built, the building is set ablaze with Ford framed for the crime. Now he must not only figure out how to clear his name, but escape from the building, as well as rescue his family who are also trapped inside.
215. Lizzie
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Craig William Macneill
Actors: Kristen Stewart, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Denis O'Hare, Jeff Perry
Plot: Based on the 1892 true story of Lizzie Borden, whose murder of her family has led her name to be infamously remembered long after the crime, but the motives behind the attack have also long been overlooked.
216. Overboard
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg
Actors: Anna Faris, Eugenio Derbez, Eva Longoria, John Hannah, Swoosie Kurtz, Alyvia Alyn Lind
Plot: A gender-swapped remake in which a handsome but insufferable, spoiled and wealthy Leonardo suffers a mishap aboard his yacht, rendering him with temporary amnesia. This gives his long-suffering employee, Kate, and opportunity to get sweet revenge, by convincing him she is his wife.
217. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rosa Salazar, Will Poulter, Ki Hong Lee
Plot: In order to get the answers he seeks from WCKD and save mankind from the scourge known as the flare, Thomas will lead a group of Gladers in to the legendary Last City, a labyrinthine that will prove the deadliest maze of all. If they can make it out alive, they will finally receive the answers they need.
218. We the Animals
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Actors: Raúl Castillo, Josiah Gabriel, Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian, Sheila Vand, Terry Holland
Plot: A trio of brothers, Joel, Manny and Jonah, tear through their childhood while pushing back against their parent's tough love. While Joel and Manny seem to be growing into mini versions of their father, even as their mother plots an escape, young Jonah becomes lost in a world of his own imagination.
219. Juliet, Naked
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jesse Peretz
Actors: Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd, Megan Dodds, Jimmy O. Yang, Lily Newmark
Plot: Annie is the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan. Duncan has long had an obsession with now-faded singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe - and this leads Annie to start a transatlantic relationship with her boyfriend's idol.
220. Behind the Curve
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Daniel J. Clark
Actors: Mark K. Sargent, Darryle Marble, Robbie Davidson, Joe Pierre, Chris Pontius, Nathan Thompson
