41. Nocturnal Animals
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Ford
Actors: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Plot: Twenty years after their marriage fell apart, Susan receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward titled "Nocturnal Animals". The violent thriller, about a family vacation turning deadly, seems to Susan a probable revenge and perhaps a veiled threat from the man she once loved, and the story withing a story causes her to confront some dark truths about her past.
42. 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.
43. Love & Friendship
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Whit Stillman
Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Justin Edwards, Tom Bennett
Plot: In the 1790s, the widow Lady Susan Vernon decides to visit the estate of her in-laws while rumors of her dalliances dies down. While there, she is determined to find a match for her debutante daughter, Frederica and maybe herself as well.
44. Under the Shadow
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Babak Anvari
Actors: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi, Behi Djanati Atai
Plot: Stranded in their flat during the Iran/Iraq war, a young Iranian mother and her daughter are haunted by an evil spirit.
45. Loving
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Nichols
Actors: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Alano Miller
Plot: In 1958 Richard and Mildred Loving wed but the interracial couple finds their love facing the ultimate test when Virginia law finds them sentenced to prison.
46. I, Daniel Blake
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ken Loach
Actors: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann, Dylan McKiernan, Micky McGregor
47. Fences
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Denzel Washington
Actors: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Saniyya Sidney, Russell Hornsby, Stephen Henderson
Plot: Based on the award-winning Broadway production. Fences follows the life of Troy, an African-American father and husband trying to cope with race relations in the 1950s while also coming to terms with his own life.
48. Kung Fu Panda 3
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jennifer Yuh
Actors: Jack Black, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, Angelina Jolie, Bryan Cranston, Rebel Wilson
Plot: Po is finally reunited with his birth father - who takes him home to a secret panda paradise. But just as soon as he begins to settle in, a supernatural foe appears, wrecking havoc across China by taking down all kung fu masters he can find. Now Po must teach his skills to his brethren - an army of kung fu pandas to save the day.
49. Dheepan
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers, Faouzi Bensaïdi, Marc Zinga
Plot: A former Tamil warrior in Sri Lanka finds himself having to make an exit after coming out on the wrong side of a civil war. Finding a woman and child, he picks them up along the way, hoping this new "family" will lead to a better chance at asylum. They find themselves in Paris, struggling to find a life and home but even after finally settling into some sense of normalcy, violence still finds them and the man finds the warrior still inside will have to come out to protect those he has come to love.
50. The Accountant
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Actors: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Tambor
Plot: A small-town CPA who is a savant with numbers, but not so good with people, uses his skills to covertly work as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. But as the Treasury Department's Criminal Division closes in, he takes on a legitimate client in the form of a robotics company where a discrepancy turns up costing the company millions. Yet the closer he gets to the truth of the matter, the more bodies start to pile up.
