241. Citizenfour
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Laura Poitras
Actors: Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Jeremy Scahill, Ewen MacAskill, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
242. Starred Up
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Mackenzie
Actors: Jack O'Connell, Rupert Friend, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Spruell, David Ajala, Sian Breckin
243. The Lego Batman Movie
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Chris McKay
Actors: Will Arnett, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Mariah Carey
Plot: Bruce Wayne - rich, powerful, gad-about-town. Batman - vigilante, seeker of justice, deep voice. Dealing with the socialites and criminals of Gotham is hard enough - but what happens when the man/superhero takes on the responsibility of raising an orphaned boy?
244. The Salt of the Earth
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Actors: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Jacques Barthélémy, Lélia Wanick Salgado
245. Train to Busan ( Busanhaeng )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Actors: Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Woo-sik Choi, Yu-mi Jeong, Sohee, Kim Soo-ahn
Plot: A father who spends more time with his work than with his daughter honors
her birthday wish to visit her mother, and his ex-wife. But boarding the
high-speed KTX train turns in to a fight for survival when a zombie
outbreak cripples South Korea and an infected passenger soon threatens
everyone on board.
246. Frances Ha
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Noah Baumbach
Actors: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Patrick Heusinger, Justine Lupe
Plot: A 27-year-old New York woman tries to find her place in life - she works at a dance company but doesn't dance - has a best friend she hardly talks to and lives an apartment she doesn't really own.
247. Doctor Sleep
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Zahn McClarnon, Kyliegh Curran, Jacob Tremblay, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: It has been decades since the events of The Shining and Danny Torrence, now a middle-aged man, is trying to cope both with his father's legacy of alcoholism and his own gift, which he uses at a small town in Massachusetts, helping the elderly pass on as Doctor Sleep. But when he discovers a young girl with the most powerful Shine he has experienced, he must face both his past and the present when she comes under the gaze of The True Knot, a group that feeds on the Shine to sustain themselves.
248. 21 Jump Street
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Actors: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Brie Larson, Johnny Simmons, Johnny Depp, Ice Cube
Plot: A group of young police officers control youth crime by going undercover as students in local high schools.
249. Wind Rises, The ( Kaze tachinu )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Hideaki Anno, Jun Kunimura, Mirai Shida, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura
Plot: Hayao Miyazaki's latest film focuses on the life of Jiro Horikoshi - the man responsible for the design of the Japanese Zero fighter that saw much use in WWII. It is also a reflection of life in Japan during the first half of the 20th century.
250. Zero Days
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Alex Gibney
Actors: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan
Plot: A documentary examining the origins of the Stuxnet computer malware and the effects it has had on the geopolitical climate.
