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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.