Hell or High Water (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Hell or High Water (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Mackenzie

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham

Runtime: 102 min

Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) are two brothers that reunite after some time apart and they plan to rob banks in order to help some family issues that I don't want to spoil for you since I think not knowing makes the experience much richer.

When everything seems to be going well, Marcus (Jeff Bridges), a Texas Ranger about to retire, wants to have a last great pursuit and he decides to go after the brothers, transforming this film into a suspenseful thrilling Western.

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The Edge of Seventeen (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Edge of Seventeen (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig

Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Hayden Szeto

Runtime: 104 min

Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) is a 17-year old high-school student who was living life as good as she could until a tragic event hits her family.

After her best (and only) friend starts dating her older brother, everything seems to make her life even more miserable, turning her into a depressed and isolated girl ...

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Arrival (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Arrival (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg

Runtime: 116 min

Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is a world-known translator that helped the military on previous missions. When several alien spaceships arrive on the Earth, she's once again contacted in order to try and communicate with the extraterrestrial beings.

With the help of Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), a scientist, they have to figure out what is the alien's purpose on the planet and what do they want.

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Zootopia (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Zootopia (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush

Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba

Runtime: 108 min

Little bunny Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) lives outside Zootopia, the big city where "anyone can be anything". As a kid, she wants to be a police officer in the future to help make the world a better place and, against all odds, she's able to do it and move to the city, but life is not what she expected it to be.

A fun adventure involving cracking a case to prove her worth to Chief Bogo (Idris Elba) and more importantly to herself, develops with the help of Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a fox that happens to be a con-artist.

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Captain Fantastic (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Captain Fantastic (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Matt Ross

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Sami Isler, Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, Frank Langella

Runtime: 119 min

Ben (Viggo Mortensen) is a father of six children, who all live in a forest completely isolated from civilization. He teaches them not only to survive but everything one would learn in school and more (much more), transforming them into extraordinary kids.

After something horrible hits the family, they need to leave their perfect home and go back to lead with society, which makes Ben rethink everything he taught them and a captivating and unexpected story develops from here.

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The Accountant (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Accountant (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Gavin O'Connor

Starring: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jean Smart, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow

Runtime: 128 min

Ben Affleck portrays an accountant named Christian Wolff who suffers from a sort of autism since childhood, which provides him with a special set of skills, like being able to do some incredibly hard math, upside-down puzzles and ... killing people. A total badass.

He appears to be just a regular accountant, but in fact, he works for some highly dangerous people. After taking a job at a robotics company and being handed a problem involving missing money, discovered by his now assistant Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick), he goes on a path that can only bring more problems and more blood.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Taika Waititi

Starring: Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley, Rhys Darby

Runtime: 101 min

Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison) is a delinquent from the city that is being moved (again) to a new home with a new foster family: Uncle Hec (Sam Neill) and Aunt Bella (Rima Te Wiata). Hunt for the Wilderpeople tells the story about how Ricky and Hec managed to survive in the bush while escaping Child Welfare after something tragic happens. An adventure full of comedy and great directing skills awaits us!

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The Magnificent Seven (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Magnificent Seven (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, Matt Bomer, Peter Sarsgaard

Runtime: 132 min

Antoine Fuqua brings us a remake of The Magnificent Seven, a classic story about seven badass guys, led by Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), who accepted a request of help from a lady named Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett), to save her city from Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) and his gang. A western that was truly missing in a time where we are saturated of superhero and comics' movies.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Gareth Edwards

Starring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Forest Whitaker

Runtime: 133 min

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tells us the adventures of the team that stole the Death Star plans from the Empire, something that we knew for a fact since Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but never had the experience of actually watching it being done.

This is the first anthology movie of the series so there has been a lot of expectation since the beginning of the year. Did it reach last year's Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens amazing level or did it crumble?

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The Shallows (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

The Shallows (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra

Starring: Blake Lively

Runtime: 87 min

The Shallows tells the story of how Nancy (played by Blake Lively) got stranded 200 yards from the beach due to the sudden appearance of a great white shark. She's going to need all of her survival skills and medical background to get back to the sand without being eaten by the shark and, with this, we have a contained exciting thriller (my favorite type of movies).

Is it the great "shark-movie" that we wanted since Jaws?

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