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Addams Family 2, The

In 2019, Sony Pictures gambled that sufficient nostalgia still existed for The Addams Family for a new motion picture iteration (animated, based on the cartoons of Charles Addams) to be lucrative. The producers who greenlit the production were...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-01
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, ...
Addams Family, The

Since debuting in a 1938 issue of New Yorker magazine, Charles Addams’ illustrated characters have become one of America’s most recognizable nuclear families. Although there have been approximately a dozen incarnations over the years, the ...

Run Time: 1:27
U.S. Release Date: 2019-10-11
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Elsie Fisher, Allison Janney, ...
Barbarians

Barbarians starts out as a tense psychological thriller unfolding against the tableau of a not-so-friendly dinner before morphing into something decidedly physical and creepy. Yet the home invasion that flips the movie at the halfway point doesn�...

Run Time: 1:30
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-10-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Charles Dorfman
Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tom Cullen, Iwan Rheon, ...
Big Short, The

Against all odds, The Big Short works. In fact, “works” is an understatement for what director Adam McKay has achieved with his improbable adaptation of Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book about the 2008 global financial crisis. Writing ...

Run Time: 2:12
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, ...
Blood Diamond

To an extent, Blood Diamond is a victim of its own length. While the film includes a number of disturbing political and sociological insights, the adventure story is tepid and loses momentum as the storyline bogs down. The main character, played b...

Run Time: 2:23
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, ...
Bombshell

As a dramatic re-creation of the events leading up to the July 2016 ouster of Fox News honcho Roger Ailes, Bombshell is effective cinema. However, for those familiar with the situation (either from reading about it or following it contemporane...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2019-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, ...
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (full title: Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!)) was the fourth and final theatrical film featuring the Peanuts gang to be overseen by their creator, Charles M. Schultz. Between 1969 and 1980, Charlie...

Run Time: 1:15
U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-30
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Cast: Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, ...
Bonnie and Clyde

In America, we love our gangsters. Even today, nothing captures our attention like a good real-life crime story. The O.J. Simpson saga dominated the news for over a year, and O.J. has none of the allure ascribed to some of the "greats." More Amer...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "M" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, ...
Borat

Overwhelmingly positive word of mouth can be a double-edged sword for a filmmaker. Although effusive praise builds anticipation, it can also elevate expectations to levels that cannot possibly be met. This is why some viewers who see a movie after...

Run Time: 1:22
U.S. Release Date: 2006-11-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Pamela Anderson
Brazil

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is one of those films whose enduring reputation is based at least in part on events surrounding its stormy distribution history. Taken at face value, Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy...

Run Time: 2:22
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Peter Vaughan, ...