Stronger
Stronger (Movie Reviews, Last Update Dec 2017)
Based on a true story, Stronger follows the life of Jeff Bauman (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), who was a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Yet with help from friends and family, he finds reason to hope in the face of great tragedy.
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Happy Death Day
Happy Death Day (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2018)
If you had to pick one day to live over again, would you chose a birthday? Well, Tree Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) wishes that wasn't the case for her because she has somehow gotten stuck reliving her big day ... and has discovered she gets snuffed out before the candles.
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049 (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2018)
A new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling) discovers a dark secret that has could jeopardize his struggling society. The only hope for the future appears to be tracking down Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who disappeared thirty years earlier.
Bumblebee
Bumblebee (Movie Reviews, Last Update Apr 2019)
The best of the often tedious "Transformers" franchise, "Bumblebee" is set in 1987 and features an injured Autobot hiding out in a California junkyard in the form of a VW Beetle. Bumblebee is found and repaired by a girl named Charlie (Hailee Seinfeld) before the duo are caught up in the struggle with the Decepticons.
The Big Sick
The Big Sick (Movie Reviews, Last Update Sep 2017)
Cultural expectations and differences are a big problem for Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani), a Muslim man born in Pakistan, and Emily (Zoe Kazan), a Caucasian, American woman. Their affair remains a secret until Emily becomes seriously sick and Kumail meets her parents (Ray Romano, Holly Hunter) in the hospital waiting room.
Battle of the Sexes
Battle of the Sexes (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2018)
In 1973, the former male tennis star Bobby Riggs challenged the number one female tennis champion Billie Jean King to a match, to prove which gender was the best. This well-publicized game is dramatized in this movie, with Steve Carell playing Riggs, and Emma Stone in the role of King.
mother!
mother! (Movie Reviews, Last Update Dec 2017)
A couple, who are only know as Him and mother (Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence), find their sense of peace and safety shaken after the arrival of some unexpected company at their country home.
American Assassin
American Assassin (Movie Reviews, Last Update Dec 2017)
After the loss of his fiancee in a terrorist attack, Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) sets out to get revenge. Recruited by the CIA, he receives training by Stan Hurley and Irene Kennedy (Michael Keaton and Sanaa Lathen) who use his anger to track down a rogue agent (Taylor Kitch) intent on starting a war in the Middle East.
9/11
9/11 (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2018)
On the fateful day of September 11, 2001, a building supervisor (Whoopi Goldberg) tried to help five people (Charlie Sheen, Gina Gershon, Luis Guzmán, Wood Harris, Olga Fonda) who got stuck in an elevator in one of the World Trade Centers in New York City.
Unlocked
Unlocked (Movie Reviews, Last Update Nov 2017)
Interrogating suspects is all in a day's work for CIA operative Alice Racine (Noomi Rapace). But about the time she senses something isn't right about her latest assignment, things suddenly turn terribly wrong. Now the agent is unsure who to trust in a case of terrorists and biological warfare.
Home Again
Home Again (Movie Reviews, Last Update Dec 2017)
Reese Witherspoon plays a single mom whose life gets complicated when she takes in three young men as boarders (Pico Alexander, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky), has an affair with one of them ... and then her ex-husband (Michael Sheen) comes home again.
It
It (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jan 2018)
When some children, including Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), goes missing in a small town, none of the adults seem interested in finding out who is behind the crime. So a group of seven young friends decide to find out what "it" is that the grown-ups won't talk about. This movie, starring a creepy clown, is based on a horror novel by Stephen King.
Gifted
Gifted (Movie Reviews, Last Update Jul 2017)
A custody battle ensues over a gifted math prodigy (Mckenna Grace) when her Uncle Frank (Chris Evans) wants to let the six-year-old be a normal kid, but her Grandmother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) wants her to pursue her talents.
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