101. 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
102. 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.
103. 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
104. Happy Death Day
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Landon
Actors: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Rachel Matthews, Charles Aitken, Jason Bayle
Plot: Tree Gelbman has been murdered. But the college student finds herself reliving the same day over and over again and the only way out is to find out who is killing her... and why.
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. 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
108. 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.
109. 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.
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
