From 1,129,905 votes, Shutter Island has an 8.2/10 rating from the users of IMDb. In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. Shutter Island is one of those really famous movies that are kind of mostly famous for having such a huge revelation … More #236 – Shutter Island (2010)
From 600,576 votes, Prisoners has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb. When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. I can’t really say that Prisoners is up there in my list of greatest films of … More #237 – Prisoners (2013)
Rampage only has 6.3/10 on IMDb at the point of writing and I think that’s a generously fair score. When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago. I just happened to walk into my living room as my father was putting … More Rampage (2018)
From 316,445 votes, Stand by Me has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb. After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. Based on Stephen King’s novel ‘The Body’, Stand by Me is a story about four boys on a quest to … More #238 – Stand by Me (1986)
From 696,528 votes, Gone Girl has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb. With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. Hoo boy. This one was intense. As always this will be … More #239 – Gone Girl (2014)
From 638,224 votes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb. Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort’s remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts. I was actually quite surprised that this is the only … More #240 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
From 733,480 votes, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has an 8.0/10 rating from the users of IMDb. Three decades after the Empire’s defeat, a new threat arises in the militant First Order. Stormtrooper defector Finn and the scavenger Rey are caught up in the Resistance’s search for the missing Luke Skywalker. This is another movie … More #241 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans. Watching this for the purposes of writing this review was actually my third attempt at watching this movie, and was a spur of the moment type thing. Somehow it never gripped me in the early … More Rogue One (2016)
From 685,958 votes, Mad Max: Fury Road has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb, the first movie at this time to reach that number. A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a … More #242 – Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
From 243,710 votes, Baby Driver has a 7.7/10 rating from the users of IMDb, a number that was higher prior to the Kevin Spacey revelations of late 2017. After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. This is a movie … More #243 – Baby Driver (2017)
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