31. The Nice Guys
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shane Black
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Matt Bomer, Ty Simpkins, Margaret Qualley
Plot: In 1970s LA, a private investigator finds himself in the middle of a
conspiracy when he investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn
star.
32. Tower
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Animation
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keith Maitland
Actors: Violett Beane, Josephine McAdam, Reece Everett Ryan
33. Sing Street
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Carney
Actors: Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Kelly Thornton, Lydia McGuinness
34. Hidden Figures
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Theodore Melfi
Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons
Plot: Before NASA could launch their first successful mission they had to calculate a lot of data. Included in this critical step was a group of African American women, mathematicians, whose contribution to the success of the mission was largely overlooked, until now.
35. Certain Women
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Jared Harris, James Le Gros, Rene Auberjonois
36. Embrace of the Serpent ( abrazo de la serpiente, El )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ciro Guerra
Actors: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Migue, Nicolás Cancino
Plot: Taking place in 1909 and 1940. The Amazonian last survivor shaman of his
tribe, travels
with two scientists, to look for the rare yakruna, a sacred plant. The
film is inspired by the
diaries written by the two scientists during their field work in the
Amazon.
37. For the Love of Spock
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Adam Nimoy
Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Zachary Quinto, William Shatner, J.J. Abrams, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei
38. The Dark Horse
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Napier Robertson
Actors: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, Miriama McDowell, James Napier Robertson, Xavier Horan
Plot: A film about passion, hope and resilience as one man searches for the
courage to lead while battling his own demons - all in order to pass on
his gift to the next generation and inspire a community.
39. The Jungle Book
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken, Lupita Nyong'o
Plot: An orphan boy left in the jungle is raised by a group of animals, including a bear, a pack of wolves and a black panther.
40. Eye in the Sky
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gavin Hood
Actors: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen
Plot: Colonel Katherine Powell. a UK-based military commander, control a top secret drone program with the intent of targeting terrorists in Kenya. When word of a suicide mission comes down, the project switches from surveillance to a kill order, but as US drone pilot Steve Watts closes in on the targets, a nine-year-old girl enters the scene leading to a dilemma over the moral, political and personal implications of this technological warfare.
