Roar Uthaug - great action director name or best action director name? - takes the time to embolden his main characters, a loving family of four, and capture Norway's rolling beauty. The Wave returns to those anti-Roland Emmerich proportions, pitting a small Norwegian village against a fjord-enabled tidal wave. A burning building or a sinking ship was enough terror for 90 minutes of entertainment. Why it's great: There was a time when "epic" disaster movies didn't rely on the end of the world. Where to see it right now: Rent on iTunes, Amazon, YouTube, and VOD ( watch the trailer) Film VästĬast: Kristoffer Joner, Thomas Bo Larsen, Fridtjov Såheim
#Good drama movies to watch 2016 movie
The movie can stumble into the excessive and dangerously cliché, but that's the price of depicting America's worst-case scenario with true bite.
With a down-to-Earth supporting cast - all hail action-star-in-the-making Betty Gabriel - Election Year is edge-of-your seat mayhem cut together with chainsaw grace. Regular Joes provoked by government-sanctioned bloodlust may just cut her neck for the fun of it. Her political opponents have an army to kill her. Election Year ups the relevance by hiring Grillo, whose cinematic machismo was last seen out for revenge in Purge: Anarchy, as the security detail for a presidential candidate (Mitchell) riding the anti-Purge ticket. Why it's great: With each Purge entry and each passing day in the race to the White House, the ridiculous, dystopian notion of "Purge night" - 12 hours when all crime is legal in America - becomes more like a future on the horizon. Where to see it right now: Stream on Netflix rent on iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and VOD Universal PicturesĬast: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Betty Gabriel But in this case, he's haunted by past, present, and future. Barry could be any half-black, half-white kid from the '80s. Terrell is key, steadying his character as smooth-operating, socially active, contemplative fellow stuck in an interracial divide. Barry avoids hagiography by staying in the moment, weighing race issues of a modern age and quieting down for the audience to draw its own conclusions. As Barry imagines, just days after settling into his civics class, a white classmate confronts the Barry with an argument one will find in the future President's Twitter "Why does everything always got to be about slavery?" Exaltation is cinematic danger, especially when bringing the life of a sitting President to screen.
Why it’s great: In 1981, Barack Obama touched down in New York City to begin work at Columbia University. Cast: Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Mitchell, Ashley Judd