Nocturnal Animals

One of the best movies of the year. Amy Adams , art gallery owner, and Jake Gyllenhaal, budding novelist, are divorced when Adams receives a draft of a novel written by Jake detailing the brutal and gripping murder and rape of Jake's  wife and  daughter. As the movie switches from present to novel, sub plots are everywhere making this a movie that you'd better bring your A brain to keep up with. The first 5 minutes are bizarre and intriguing only to be out done by the ending.
After viewing I'd suggest going to www.slashfilm.com and enter Nocturnal Animals to see just how much you missed in the movie.
The title refers to people who stay up all night.  3 1/2 bananas

Allied

Brad Pitt teams up with an unknown woman French resistance fighter to assassinate a high level Nazi officer in this WWll drama. Once their job is completed they marry, have a child and  he continues to work for the Canadian air force only to be told by his superiors that his wife may be a German spy. Is she or isn't she is the meat of this movie. A couple of very unusual scenes in this spy caper but over all a somewhat dull movie. 2 bananas

Arrival

Amy Adams stars as a linguist brought on by the army to try and communicate with  aliens who have arrived in huge egg shaped space ships. Interesting in the fact that communication is so totally different, exactly what it should be from a foreign visitor. Good, fun Sci-Fi movie.  3 bananas

Hacksaw Ridge

True WW2 story of solider who enlists but refuses to carry a gun hoping to become a medic. What follows is the usual rough stuff in training camp but the heroics of private Doss under fire retrieving 75 men left to die is truely amazing. No big name stars makes this movie shine. 3 1/2 bananas

Inferno

Tom Hanks continues his role as professor Langston. This time he is on the trail of a virus so deadly that half the world population will die. Obviously there are evil forces out there doing battle to prevent Hanks from stopping the virus contamination. Hard to figure out who is the good guy for a long time. Beginning and ending are heart stoppers. 2 bananas

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

2nd movie in the Jack Reacher book series starring Tom Cruise. Reacher is drawn back to his MP days in the military when a Major is jailed to hide a conspiracy at the highest levels. Of all the Reacher books this is one of the weakest. Usual mayhem follows Jack around but Tom Cruise as the 6"4" 240 Reacher is a joke. @ bananas

The Accountant

Ben Affleck is an autistic accountant with a special trade, a deadly killer. While growing up  ben's father seeing he will need to protect himself,  subjects he and his brother to all sorts of physical combat. As an accountant Ben has the rare gift of getting to the bottom of a problem very quickly; thus setting the stage for this movie as Ben is called into a high tech company to examine the books. Finding what what isn't supposed to be found sets off a chain of murders culminating in a somewhat surprising ending. 3 bananas

The Girl on the Train

Emily Blunt is a divorced, depressed, suffering from blackouts alcoholic who rides a commuter train to  work every morning and views from her seat  her ex as well as others who become entangled in a very confusing murder. While the end is not surprising, getting to it is only because the other two women involved look so much alike. Dark and Dreary sets the tone. 2 1/2 bananas

Deepwater Horizon

Incredible recreation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. May not win best picture of the year but sure is the most INTENSE movie of the year. I found myself holding my breath on numerous occasions. Special effects along with what a deep water drilling rig looks like up close, makes this movie a sure fire see it. Mark Wahlberg stars as a chief electrical engineer. 3 1/2 bananas

The Mechanic: Resurection

If you like Jason Statham, and who doesn't, and want to see an action packed with no holes barred take down movie, see The Mechanic. Statham is retired and living in the South Pacific when an old 'friend'  blackmails him into killing three notorious criminals, as usual no buddy messes with our hero. An entertaining movie for a lousy day.  3 bananas