Directed by: Rupert Sanders

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt

Runtime: 106 min

Ghost in the Shell (1995) is a very influential anime movie that inspired several great films (The Matrix, AI: Artificial Intelligence, ...), so a live-action adaptation felt needed. Scarlett Johansson plays Major, a cyber-enhanced human that is built to prevent and stop terrorism, something that she's uniquely qualified to do since she's the first of her kind.

As a new enemy appears, she discovers that her life might not have been saved, but yet stolen. She goes on a journey to recover what she can of her memories and try to stop it from being done to other people, while a psychological battle around humanity and life takes place throughout the film.

Directed by: Daniel Espinosa

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya

Runtime: 103 min

A six-member crew of the International Space Station (ISI) have the mission of retrieving the first ever evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. However, as the research goes on, this life form starts evolving and proving everyone that it (he? she?) is smarter than everyone thought.

Directed by: Bill Condon

Starring: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Audra McDonald, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson

Runtime: 129 min

Disney brings us a new live-action film from another very known childhood's movie: Beauty and the Beast. Following the success of The Jungle Book, this time we have the pleasure to watch once again the story of Belle (Emma Watson), a beautiful, simple and ahead-of-her-time woman, who gets imprisoned in a castle by its Beast (Dan Stevens).

While staying true to the original story, costumes and score, we also receive some new music and a few changes in the characters and screenplay ... Good changes or not really?

Directed by: James Mangold

Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen

Runtime: 135 min

Logan is set in 2029, (almost) all of the mutants died and a drunk, isolated and depressed Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), aka Logan, is spending the rest of his life near the Mexican border with a mutant named Caliban (Stephen Merchant) and a sick Professor X (Patrick Stewart).

When a woman comes asking for his help to take her "special" daughter to safety, Logan sees himself in a live-or-die mission that might finally take him through his long-searched destiny's path, similarly to Hugh Jackman's supposedly last portrayal of this epic character.

Directed by: Damien Chazelle

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno, Jessica Rothe, Tom Everett Scott, Josh Pence

Runtime: 128 min

After the success of Whiplash, Damien Chazelle brings us an original musical about the journey of pursuing our dreams and all of the hope and pain that that path leads us through.

Mia (Emma Stone) is an aspiring actress, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) is a passionate jazz musician and both of them are struggling to reach their similar dream: to live doing what they love the most.

Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan

Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson

Runtime: 135 min

Kenneth Lonergan directs his own original story with the help of Casey Affleck, who portrays Lee Chandler, a man who lived a very tragic past and he's now his nephew's guardian due to his brother's death.

This is something that he wasn't expecting and a trip to Manchester (by the sea), the city where he was born and raised (and where all of the tragic events happened), makes him go through all of those horrible memories while trying to help his spirited nephew.

Directed by: Barry Jenkins

Starring: Naomie Harris, Andre Holland, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monae, Alex R. Hibbert, Jaden Piner, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Jharrel Jerome

Runtime: 110 min

Barry Jenkins tells us the story about a black boy who struggles through life, in three very different chapters with a kid, teen and adult Chiron (portrayed by the same number of actors).

Bullying, drugs, parenting issues and problems finding himself are some of the topics depicted in this film, full of emotional and heartbreaking moments.

Directed by: Tom Ford

Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Karl Glusman, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney, Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen

Runtime: 115 min

Tom Ford uses three narratives combined into one to tell us an extremely complex story. Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) is an artist who receives a book written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal). She starts to visualize it and we get to follow that fictional story as well as the real story, both in the present and in the past, when they first met.

Directed by: Mel Gibson

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn

Runtime: 139 min

Hacksaw Ridge is the second movie based on a true story in a row for me, after my last review of Deepwater Horizon. This time, it's the story about Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector who saved 75 men in the middle of one of the bloodiest battles of the World War II, in Okinawa.

He strongly believed that killing is always a sin and, even if he agreed with the purpose of the war, he didn't feel like killing some Japanese, but more like to save his men and serve his country, as an army medic, without ever touching a gun.

Directed by: Peter Berg

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien, Kate Hudson

Runtime: 99 min

This is a true story based on one of the biggest man-made disasters ever: the explosion of an oil rig named Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010.

It's an homage to every men and woman that helped save lives that day, as well as a way of remembering the ones that fell. Following Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and Jimmy Harrell (Kurt Russell), we get to understand how everything went wrong and how devastating and frightening that disaster truly was.