181. First Reformed
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Michael Gaston, Cedric the Entertainer, Van Hansis, Victoria Hill
Plot: Reverend Ernst Toller presides over a dwindling congregation in the historic First Reformed Church in upstate New York. As the church prepares for a 250th anniversary celebration, Toller, who struggles with depression and loneliness, finds his life slipping out of control when he tries to help a pregnant parishioner.
182. Mudbound
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dee Rees
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Banks, Jason Clarke, Kerry Cahill
183. Mr. Turner
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Tom Wlaschiha, Timothy Spall, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Lesley Manville, Richard Bremmer, James Fleet
Plot: Explores the last half-century in the life of British artist J.M.W. Turner
- a brilliant, if somewhat eccentric, painter.
184. Tickled
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve
Actors: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, David Starr, Hal Karp
185. Chef
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Sofía Vergara, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Emjay Anthony
Plot: A failed chef starts up a food truck in order to jump start his creative process while at the same time attempting to reconnect with his estranged family.
186. Ida
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Actors: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Jerzy Trela
Plot: In 1960s Poland, a young woman is on the verge of taking her vows to
become a nun when she uncovers a dark secret involving her family dating
back to the Nazi occupation.
187. God's Own Country
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Francis Lee
Actors: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart, Liam Thomas, Melanie Kilburn
188. Prophet, A ( prophète, Un )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci
Plot: A young Muslim man, incarcerated for attacking police officers, unwillingly becomes part of a dangerous game of racial and prison politics.
189. Blindspotting
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carlos López Estrada
Actors: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ethan Embry, Tisha Campbell-Martin
Plot: Three days before his probation officially ends, Oakland native Collin, doing everything he can to keep clean (curfew, avoiding drugs and holding down a job), witnesses a police officer gunning down a defenseless man. This throws his world off balance as he contends with his hot-headed friend Miles and tries to reconcile with his girlfriend, Val.
190. Black Panther
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ryan Coogler
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett
Plot: Following the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the advanced nation of Wakanda in order to take the throne and rule his land. But he soon finds that forces from both outside and within his country conspire to bring ruin and drag Wakanda in to a new world war. But with the power of the Black Panther, along with help from CIA agent Everett K. Ross and the Dora Milaje - Wakanda's special forces, T'Challa will stop at nothing from saving his homeland - and his father's legacy.
