Cloverfield (2008) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Cloverfield (2008) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Matt Reeves

Written by: Drew Goddard

Starring: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Annable

Runtime: 84 min

A surprise going-away party between friends is interrupted when a monster of massive dimensions starts to destroy New York City. They need to leave the city before a heavy weapon is unleashed on it and rescue as many of them as they can.

J.J. Abrams is one of the best producers in movie/television history, so a film with him and with the direction of Matt Reeves is definitely worth taking a peek.

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Black Panther (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Black Panther (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Ryan Coogler

Written by: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole

Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis

Runtime: 135 min

Synopsis: Black Panther is the last Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) entry before the highly expected Avengers: Infinity War and it tells the story of T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) rise to become King of Wakanda. Right after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Black Panther returns to the isolated nation of Wakanda, but an old enemy reappears and the King's throne is put to the test. A conflict ensues and the fate of the whole world becomes in danger.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos

Written by: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou

Starring: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Rafey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Bill Camp

Runtime: 119 min

Yorgos Lanthimos brings us a metaphorical story about Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell), a well-known surgeon, and the link between his actions through life, his family and Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teenager who Steven is secretly taking care of.

As Martin becomes to being closer to the family, his true purpose unfolds and threatens the family's well-being as well as it sets Steven's past menacingly in check.

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Wes Ball

Written by: T. S. Nowlin

Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rosa Salazar, Dexter Darden, Giancarlo Esposito, Patricia Clarkson, Aidan Gillen, Barry Pepper

Runtime: 141 min

The Maze Runner franchise comes to the end with its last installment, The Death Cure. Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers move towards a climactic battle against WCKD to save their friends.

They will have to break into the unknown Last City, where WCKD headquarters are located. A deadly mission that can finally put an end to all of the unanswered questions that they have since the maze.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Written and Directed by: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, Lucas Hedges, Peter Dinklage

Runtime: 115 min

The movie with the biggest title of 2017 (I think?!) tells the story of how Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) handles her daughter's murder, which still does not have any suspect after several months. She pays for three billboards with a clear message to the chief of Ebbing's police, William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson).

Jason Dixon (Sam Rockwell), a violence-driven officer and close friend of William, join the fight against Mildred and a very dark comic drama unfolds.

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Wes Ball

Written by: T. S. Nowlin

Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen, Barry Pepper, Lili Taylor, Patricia Clarkson

Runtime: 120 min

Wes Ball continues as the director of the Maze Runner franchise and counts with T. S. Nowlin to help him with the book-to-movie adaptation of The Scorch Trials.

The second installment picks up right where the first one ended. Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers keep searching for clues about the real purpose of WCKD while teaming up with a resistance group of survivors in the middle of the Scorch, a destroyed landscape with virus-infected humans.

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The Maze Runner (2014) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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The Maze Runner (2014) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Wes Ball

Written by: Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, T.S. Nowlin

Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Aml Ameen, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Ki Hong Lee, Blake Cooper

Runtime: 114 min

Wes Ball directs the movie-adaptation of the famous novel written by James Dashner, The Maze Runner. Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up to find out he is stuck inside a huge maze with other young males, who have built a community on a "field" surrounded by massive walls in the center of the said maze.

With his memory erased, he has to figure out who he really is, what a mysterious organization named W.C.K.D. has to do what all of that and, of course, a way to escape.

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Stronger (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Stronger (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: David Gordon Green

Written by: John Pollono

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Clancy Brown

Runtime: 119 min

David Gordon Green brings the real events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing to the movie screen.

Also based on the book written by the main character of this film, Jeff Bauman's (Jake Gyllenhaal) inspirational and heroic life is narrated through an emotional and heartfelt screenplay.

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Wind River (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Wind River (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Written and Directed by: Taylor Sheridan

Starring: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal

Runtime: 111 min

Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water) writes and directs a thriller about a girl's murder on a Native American Reservation, which is being investigated by Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen), a newbie FBI agent.

She teams up with Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a local hunter with exceptional tracking skills, a profound connection to the community and a particularly haunted past, in order to solve the mystery.

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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Taika Waititi

Written by: Eric Pearson

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Mark Ruffalo, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, Anthony Hopkins

Runtime: 130 min

In the third film of the series, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) finds himself imprisoned on the other side of the universe and in the need to get back to Asgard, in order to prevent Ragnarok (the end of Asgard and its civilization) at the hands of Hela (Cate Blanchett), a new very powerful threat.

However, to return to his homeworld he has to fight through a gladiator-like battle in a gladiator-like pit against ... his old friend and fellow Avenger, the Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)!

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