151. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Taron Egerton, Julianne Moore, Mark Strong, Channing Tatum, Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry
Plot: The Gentleman's Spy agency The Kingsman suffers an attack that leaves their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage. All is not lost, however, as the British agency learns of a second secret agency in the United States. The two elite groups will have to come together in order to bring down a common, and very deadly, threat.
152. Downsizing
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: Kristen Wiig, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Sudeikis, Alec Baldwin
Plot: With overpopulation threatening mankind, scientists have discovered a way to shrink people to just 5 inches, in order to save resources and space. Paul and his wife, Audrey, see this as an opportunity to escape their stressed-out lives in order to shrink themselves and live in mini-luxury at a government-run downsizing community - but this new, small life comes with its own set of adventures.
153. The Foreigner
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan, Charlie Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Orla Brady, Rory Fleck Byrne
Plot: When his daughter is killed in a terrorist bombing, a businessman seeks answers to who is behind it. When he is stonewalled at every turn, he returns to a life long buried - and starts to play a cat-and-mouse game with a government official whose own dark past may hold the key to finding terrorists responsible.
154. A Cure for Wellness
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Harry Groener, Celia Imrie, Ivo Nandi
Plot: A young, idealistic executive is sent on assignment to retrieve their absent CEO from a "wellness center" located in a remote location in the Swiss Alps. Upon arriving, he can't shake the feeling that something is off about the spa's miraculous healing powers. But he finds himself shaken and questioning his sanity when he comes down with the same illness that keeps all the other guests there, hoping for a cure.
155. Atomic Blonde
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Leitch
Actors: Sofia Boutella, Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan
Plot: MI6 Agent Lorraine Broughton is as beautiful as she is deadly. At the height of the Cold War another agent is found dead in Berlin. Broughton must join forces with an embedded station chief David Percival in order to smuggle out a priceless dossier.
156. Ghost in the Shell
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rupert Sanders
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Juliette Binoche, Michael Wincott
Plot: Based on the acclaimed sci-fi property, the film follows The Major, a unique cyborg-human operative working for Section 9. The secretive agency works to stop the worst threats to humanity in a future in which cybernetics and online connectivity have transformed the fundamental function of the world. As Section 9 investigates a man who wants to take down Hanka Robotics and their stop their advancement in cyber technology, The Major comes to realizes it all connects to her past - and how she came to be what she is now.
157. Jungle
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Greg McLean
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Thomas Kretschmann, Alex Russell, Lily Sullivan, Jacek Koman, Yasmin Kassim
158. 1922
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zak Hilditch
Actors: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Neal McDonough, Brian d'Arcy James, Dylan Schmid, Kaitlyn Bernard
Plot: Wilfred James hides out in a hotel room in order to confess to a terrible crime. His crime - he killed his wife, Arlette. Where her death should be the end of his story, it turns out to be just the beginning.
159. Thank You for Your Service
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jason Hall
Actors: Haley Bennett, Miles Teller, Amy Schumer, Kate Lyn Sheil, Joe Cole, Keisha Castle-Hughes
Plot: The effects of war linger on long after the men and women serving in the armed forces come home. Adam Schumann is one such soldier and the film explores how PTSD affects him, and those closest to him.
160. Thelma
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Romance/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Eili Harboe, Okay Kaya, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vanessa Borgli, Anders Mossling
Plot: A young woman exits her strict, religious family life in order to attend university in Oslo. Once there, she finds herself having seizures that seems to coincide with her attraction to a fellow female student. But these seizures are just a symptom of something inside her - an overwhelming power that is tied to her past and that she will have to learn how to control to secure her future.
