1. Coco
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Lee Unkrich
Actors: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Renee Victor, Edward James Olmos, Alanna Ubach
Plot: Budding musician Miguel wants nothing more than to be like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz, despite the fact is family has forbidden music. But when he finds himself in the Land of the Dead, he sets off on an adventure that will solve a centuries old mystery, and his families' true origins.
2. Dunkirk
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Aneurin Barnard, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh
Plot: After landing at Dunkirk, France during the Battle of France in WWII, a group of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada and France find themselves surrounded by the German army. A fierce battle ensues, leading to one of the most daring and miraculous rescues of the war.
3. Blade Runner 2049
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Mackenzie Davis, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista
Plot: Set 30 years following the events in Blade Runner, new LAPD blade runner, officer K, discovers a long-buried secret that could plunge what is left of society into chaos. In order to uncover the truth, he sets out on a mission to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who has been MIA for the last 30 years.
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbie Cornish
Plot: In this darkly comic tale a mother, who is frustrated at the lack of progress following the murder of her daughters months earlier, buys and posts three messages in billboards leading in to town, pointed directly at the well-liked chief of police. When other disparate characters begin to get involved in the proceedings, the grieving mother and Ebbing Police Department really get into it.
5. Get Out
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jordan Peele
Actors: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson
Plot: A young African-American male has been dating his Caucasian girlfriend and
both decide to visit her parents - who are unaware of his race. Once
there, things begin to get strange.
6. Your Name. ( Kimi no na wa )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraish, Ryô Narita, Aoi Yuki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa
Plot: Two souls who couldn't be any further apart: Mitsuha Miyamizu is a girl living in a small mountain town where she yearns to get away from her small life, her father's electoral campaign and the superstitions that drive the community. Taki Tachiban lives a fast and busy life in Tokyo where he works part time at an Italian restaurant and strives for his dreams of becoming an artist or architect. When the two dream, a celestial bond causes them to switch bodies - and the possibilities and adventure it opens up will change their lives forever.
7. Logan
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Merchant, Boyd Holbrook, Elizabeth Rodriguez
Plot: In a bleak future, slowly losing his power of healing, an aged Wolverine, along with an Alzheimer-affected Professor Xavior, must face a deadly adversary - Nathaniel Essex, whose corporation is bent on destroying the world. With seemingly all other mutants extinct, Logan must regain his confidence and help a young girl, Laura Kinney, reach her own potential as a mutant - a clone of Wolverine himself.
8. I Am Not Your Negro
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Raoul Peck
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson
Plot: Samuel L. Jackson narrates this documentary in which director Raoul Peck shares the vision of author James Baldwin in a his unfinished novel "Remember This House" about race in America focusing on the lives of three of his friends, all who met with death: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X.
9. Salesman, The ( Forushande )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Actors: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Mehdi Koushki
Plot: An Iranian couple are forced out of their crumbling apartment and must find new accommodations. Both are also rehearsing for an upcoming production of Death of a Salesman. Their new apartment, unknown to them, was the former home of a lady of the night - one with many clients. When the wife is alone and a client comes calling - it has a chilling affect on their lives and relationship.
10. A Ghost Story
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 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.
