541. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Actors: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Issa Rae, Jake Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry
Plot: A multi-verse of Spider-beings awaits Miles Morales after a villain named Spot - one he helped create - gains the power to travel through the various worlds. But even though he thinks he has friends Gwen and Peter B. Parker, the master of the self-proclaimed master of the spider-verse, Miguel O'Hara - thinks Miles himself represents the biggest threat to the threads that hold all the worlds together.
542. X-Men
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bryan Singer
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, James Marsden, Famke Janssen
Plot: The war between mutants and humans heats up. The fate of all humans rests in the hands of a one group who stands up for the rights of all.
543. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Musical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
Plot: When a man comes home after fifteen years in prison to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of an evil judge, he vows to take vengeance on those that have wronged him.
544. 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.
545. All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues )
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Berger
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Joe Weintraub, Sebastian Hülk, Albrecht Schuch, Anton von Lucke
Plot: Follows a group of young, idealistic germans who quickly enlist during WWI whose lives are shattered by the brutal reality of the war.
546. American Gangster
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin, Carla Gugino
Plot: Based on a true story about a gangster who smuggles in drugs in the coffins of dead Vietnam soldiers while a detective tries to track him down.
547. 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.
548. The Thin Blue Line
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton, Dale Holt
Plot: Using interviews and re-enactments, the film examines the 1976 murder of a Dallas policeman, and the wrongful conviction of one of the two men implicated in the killing.
549. Nights of Cabiria ( notti di Cabiria, Le )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Giulietta Masina, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray, François Périer, Aldo Silvani, Ennio Girolami
Plot: A prostitute sets herself up in Rome looking for true love only to be disappointed.
550. Rambo: First Blood
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, David Caruso, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett
Plot: A Vietnam vet starts a war with a small town after being told he wasn't welcome there.
