Hotel Mumbai (2018)

6 stars of 10

★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆

Starring: Dev Patel, Armie Hammer

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes

Director: Anthony Maras

Writer: John Collee, Anthony Maras

Production: Screen Australia, Xeitgeist Entertainment Group, South Australian Film Corporation, Arclight Films, Adelaide Film Festival, Double Guess, Screenwest, Lotterywest, Hamilton Films, Thunder Road Pictures, Electric Pictures

Country: Australia, India, United States

Apollo 13 (1995)

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6 stars of 10
★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆

Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutes

Director: Ron Howard

Writer: William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert, Jim Lovell (book), Jeffrey Kluger (book)

Production: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Country: USA

The Founder (2016)

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6 stars of 10
★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆

Starring: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Director: John Lee Hancock

Writer: Robert Siegel

Production: The Weinstein Company, FilmNation Entertainment, Faliro House Productions

Country: USA

Truth (2015)

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7 stars of 10
★★★★★★★ ☆☆☆

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes

Director: James Vanderbilt

Writer: James Vanderbilt, Mary Mapes (memoir)

Production: Sony Pictures Classics, Echo Lake Entertainment, RatPac Entertainment

Country: USA

The Favourite (2018)

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7 stars of 10

★★★★★★★ ☆☆☆

Starring: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Writer: Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Film4, Waypoint Entertainment, Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, TSG Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland, USA

We Were Soldiers (2002)

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6 stars of 10

★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆

Starring: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War

Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes

Director: Randall Wallace

Writer: Randall Wallace, Hal Moore (book), Joseph L. Galloway (book)

Production: Icon Entertainment International, Motion Picture Production GmbH & Co. Erste KG, Wheelhouse Entertainment

Country: USA, Germany

Dunkirk (2017)

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7 stars of 10
★★★★★★★ ☆☆☆

Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden

Genre: History, War

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writer: Christopher Nolan

Production: Syncopy, Warner Bros., Dombey Street Productions, Kaap Holland Film, 

Country: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA

Hidden Figures (2016)

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8 stars of 10

★★★★★★★★ ☆☆

Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutes

Director: Theodore Melfi

Writer: Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Margot Lee Shetterly (book)

Production: Levantine Films, Chernin Entertainment, Fox 2000 Pictures

Country: USA

Free State of Jones (2016)

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6 stars of 10
★★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali

Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 19 minutes

Director: Gary Ross

Writer: Gary Ross, Leonard Hartman (story)

Production: Bluegrass Films, Larger Than Life Productions, Route One Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment

Country: USA

Jackie (2016)

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7 stars of 10
★★★★★★★ ☆☆☆

Starring: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Director: Pablo Larraín

Writer: Noah Oppenheim

Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures, LD Entertainment, Wild Bunch, Protozoa Pictures, Why Not Productions, Bliss Media

Country: USA, Chile, France

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

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9 stars of 10
★★★★★★★★★ ☆

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 19 minutes

Director: Mel Gibson

Writer: Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight

Production: Cross Creek Pictures, IM Global, Icon Productions, Pandemonium, Permut Presentations, Windy Hill Pictures, Vendian Entertainment, Kilburn Media

Country: USA, Australia

JFK (1991)

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7 stars of 10

★★★★★★★ ☆☆☆

Starring: Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Runtime: 3 hours, 9 minutes

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, Jim Garrison (book), Jim Marrs (book)

Production: Warner Bros., Lee Studio Canal+, Regency Enterprises

Country: USA

Spotlight (2015)

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8 stars of 10 

★★★★★★★★ ☆☆

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes

Director: Tom McCarthy

Writer: Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer

Production: Anonymous Content, First Look Media, Participant Media, Rocklin/Faust

Country: USA

Bridge of Spies (2015)

7 out of 10 stars

★★★★★★★☆☆☆

Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda

Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Runtime: 142 minutes

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Matt Charman, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Production: Amblin Entertainment, Dreamworks SKG, Fox 2000 Pictures,

Marc Platt Productions, Participant Media, Reliance Entertainment, TSG Entertainment
Country: USA

Taong 1957 nang arestuhin si Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) sa Brooklyn, New York City matapos siyang mapatunayan na isang espiya mula sa Soviet Union. Upang magkaroon ng makatarungang paglilitis hiningi ng gobyerno ng US ang tulong ng abogadong si James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) upang ipagtanggol ang nasasakdal.

Hindi inaasahan ng lahat na seseryosohin ni Donovan ang kaniyang trabaho sa pag-dedepensa kay Abel sa kabila ng pagiging magkalaban nilang dalawa, dahil dito ay nagkaroon ng death threats ang abogado at maging ang pamilya, katrabaho at kababayan ni Donovan ay nagalit sa kaniya dahil sa pagtulong niya sa espiya. Gayunpaman ay malakas ang ebidensya laban kay Abel at napatunayan itong guilty sa korte at sa huli ay hinatulan siya ng kamatayan.

Heneral Luna (2015)

8 out of 10 stars

★★★★★★★★☆☆

Starring: John Arcilla, Mon Confiado, Arron Villaflor

Genre: Action, History

Runtime: 118 minutes

Director: Jerrold Tarog

Writer: Monching Barado

Production: Artikulo Uno Productions

Isang epiko na karapat-dapat lang isama sa listahan ng mga pelikulang Pilipino na may katuturan at hindi sasayangin ang iyong oras na ilalaan sa panonood nito. Ang pelikula ay ang bayograpiya ni Heneral Antonio Luna sa panahon ng digmaan sa pagitan ng Pilipinas at Amerika. Dito ipapakita ng palabas kung papaanong matapang na hinarap ni Heneral Luna (John Arcilla) ang  pagsalakay ng mga Amerikano sa Pilipinas at kung paano nito ipinaglaban ang karapatang maging malaya ng mga Pilipino sa sarili nilang bansa.

Ngunit ang katapangan na ito ay hindi pa sapat upang maatim ang ninanais na kasarinlan ni Heneral Luna dahil ang pagiging makabayan nito ay taliwas sa pagiging makabayan ng kapwa niya Pilipinong sina Felipe Buencamino (Nonie Buencamino) at Pedro Paterno (Leo Martinez) kung saan suportado nila ang pakikipagkalakalan ng Pilipinas sa mga Amerikano. Gayunpaman ay ipinagpatuloy parin ni Luna ang kaniyang ipinaglalaban sa tulong na rin ng iba pang Heneral ngunit ang hindi niya alam, ang lahat ng ito ay mauuwi lang sa pagtataksil mula sa kapwa niya Pilipino dahil ang tunay na kalaban ay hindi ang mga Amerikano kundi ang mga sarili niyang kababayan.