41. 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.
42. 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.
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. 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.
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. Swiss Army Man
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Dano, Timothy Eulich, Richard Gross, Marika Casteel
Plot: Hank finds himself in the worst situation of his life when he becomes stranded on a deserted island. When he gets to the point he is willing to take his own life, a dead body washes up on short. Naming the body "Manny", Hank finds he can talk to the corpse, which also shows a surprising number of abilities. The two start a surreal journey which may just be able to lead Hank back home.
47. 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
48. 10 Cloverfield Lane
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr., Suzanne Cryer, Bradley Cooper, Douglas M. Griffin
Plot: Following a car accident, a young woman wakes up in a strange place. The man keeping her in his basement claims a chemical attack has left the outside world uninhabitable.
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. Everybody Wants Some!!
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman, Wyatt Russell, Dora Madison
Plot: In this spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused, the film follows a college baseball players in college as they navigate a weekend full of freedom and responsibilities as they face the realities of life in the face of looming adulthood.
