101. Kong: Skull Island
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Actors: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Toby Kebbell, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, John C. Reilly
Plot: During the early 70s, on an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean, a group of soldiers and explorers come across several dangerous creatures, including Kong, the king of the island.
102. Beach Rats
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Eliza Hittman
Actors: Harris Dickinson, Nicole Flyus, Frank Hakaj, Kate Hodge, Neal Huff, Erik Potempa
103. David Lynch - The Art Life
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm
Actors: David Lynch
Plot: One of the most notable and unique visionaries in film, David Lynch takes us on a journey of his formative years that shaped him - his idyllic small-town upbringing to the dark streets of Philadelphia. Infused with the early work of Lynch - art, music and film, The Art of Life delves in to the mind of this enigmatic man and gives us a better understanding of the man and the artist.
104. Loveless ( Nelyubov )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Actors: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova, Matvey Novikov, Daria Pisareva, Yanina Hope
105. Super Dark Times
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kevin Phillips
Actors: Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Ethan Botwick
Plot: The lives of a group of teens in mid-90s suburbia is thrown into chaos when one brings along a samurai sword belonging to his older brother, leading to tragedy and coping with the consequences.
106. Happy End
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden
Plot: The film explores the dynamics of a well to do family living in Calais, France on the
landscape of the on going refugee crisis. The film stars Isabelle Huppert as Anne
Laurent, a woman at the head of a construction company, Mathieu Kassovitz as
her brother Thomas, who is having an affair with a cello player, Jean Louis
Trintigant as Georges, the father of both of them, and Fantin Harduin as Eve,
Thomas’ disturbed daughter who recently lost her mother.
107. Student, The ( (M)uchenik )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Actors: Yuliya Aug, Viktoriya Isakova, Pyotr Skvortsov, Aleksandra Revenko, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Irina Rudniktskaya
Plot: Taking place in contemporary Russia, a teen who believes that the bible gives him absolute authority takes on his school and community with increasingly chaotic and dangerous results.
108. The Wizard of Lies
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hank Azaria, Kristen Connolly, Lily Rabe, Alessandro Nivola
109. Human Flow
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ai Weiwei
Actors: Peter Bouckaert, Wella Kouyou, Samah Nabeel, Muhammed Hassan, Israa Abboud, Boris Cheshirkov
Plot: Director and artist Ai Weiwei presents a story that has affected 65 million people around the world: whether through famine, climate change or war, the human race has never experienced this much displacement since WWII. Following families across the globe over the course of a year, from Afghanistan to Greece, Iraq to Mexico - 23 countries in all, Ai Weiwei explores the affect this has on people and families in a refugee crisis that has exploded and the very real impact it has worldwide.
110. Graduation ( Bacalaureat )
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Actors: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov
