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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Don't Breathe (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Don't Breathe (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Fede Alvarez

Starring: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang

Runtime: 89 min

Three friends decide to break into a house of a blind man when they discover he might have over 300K saved somewhere in his home. They never did cash robberies before, only a few small jobs, but due to the amount of money involved and to the fact that they'd have to deal with a blind person, the rules changed.

After all, it was an easy job ... They thought.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Revie

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Revie

Directed by: David Yates

Written by: J.K. Rowling

Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Colin Farrell

Runtime: 132 min

J. K. Rowling published a new book from the same universe as Harry Potter's a few months ago, so we knew a movie was coming soon ... And here we are, starting a whole new saga of, apparently, 5 movies. For the first time, Rowling decided to also be part of the movie development, contributing as the screenwriter for this film and for the ones to come, so there's a lot of high expectations for this series.

70 years before the events on Harry Potter, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) is looking around New York City for some magical creatures that escaped his unusual suitcase and trying to catch them before other wizards do. These creatures are feared by the magical community who defines them as dangerous, but Newt thinks the opposite: the beasts are friendly and kind for the ones that are the same to them, so this makes his mission secret, complicated and with a lot of adventures.

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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Travis Knight

Starring: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, Rooney Mara, Matthew McConaughey

Runtime: 101 min

Kubo and the Two Strings is a stop-motion animated film which tells the story of Kubo (Art Parkinson), a kid who finds himself on an adventure with a beetle and a monkey, searching for three specific objects in order to defeat an evil power from his past.

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Doctor Strange (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Doctor Strange (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Scott Derrickson

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Wong

Runtime: 115 min

The last movie of Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU) of this year has finally arrived! Doctor Strange is an origin story about a know-it-all doctor named Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who is famous (and extremely arrogant) for his incredible skill to save lives through science and medicine.

After a car accident (don't text while driving!), he finds himself alive, but without his "special power" ... His hands are no longer functional at the level he needed them to be so, after giving up on the "normal" methods to try to fix them, Strange travels to the East where he finds The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and starts discovering new worlds and possibilities ... Until the bad guys show up ... Hum, did I experience this kind of plot before? Interesting.

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Warcraft (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Warcraft (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Duncan Jones

Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Rob Kazinsky, Daniel Wu

Runtime: 100 min

The biggest video game ever is adapted to film with the early mythology story of Warcraft and the expectations (especially for gamers) were as high as the level of the game.

The orc's world is basically dying, so Gul'dan, a powerful warlock (sorcerer-like), opens up a portal to Azeroth, the world where humans live among other races, in order to save his race by literally collecting life out of humans' bodies. These have to defend themselves against the invaders before the rest of the horde gets through the portal, but they're not alone since an orc's group doesn't agree with Gul'dan's disrespect for their tradition and honor. Therefore, an alliance with the humans might be the right path to follow since there's a bigger evil that needs to be stopped.

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Swiss Army Man (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Swiss Army Man (2016) - SPOILER-FREE Review

Directed by: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Runtime: 95 min

Weird. This movie is SO weird. I'll try my best to introduce it ... Swiss Army Man involves a guy named Hank (Paul Dano), who is stranded on an island and about to commit suicide, but when a supposed dead body appears near the sea, he stops and goes check it out. That dead body is Daniel Radcliffe's character, Manny ... And he can do basically anything! He can snap his fingers and start a fire or become a motor boat by farting. Yes, farting ... I told you this movie was weird! The story has its focus on Hank and Manny trying to escape and go back to civilization, but not without some life lessons between their adventures.

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