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Perhaps Robert Frost put it best when he said, "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." Once, practicing law was considered a worthy, honorable career. No longer. In a bloated legal system where technicaliti...
U.S. Release Date: 1979-09-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, ...
It is said there's nothing new under the sun, but watching Annapolis created a powerful sense of déjà vu the likes of which I rarely experience while watching a movie. Not only did I know everything that was going to happen from start to finish,...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: James Franco, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, ...
It may be fair to consider Away We Go as Sam Mendes' penance for Revolutionary Road. The director's late-2008 Winslet/DiCaprio reunion was an immersion in bile - an acidic trip underneath the placid exterior of mid-20th century suburbia to a rot t...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: John Krasinski, Melanie Lynskey, Chris Messina, ...
Beginners comes as close to presenting a first person perspective as a movie can without employing distracting gimmicks. Told from the point-of-view of the protagonist, Oliver (Ewan McGregor), the narrative follows not only his activities in the pr...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-06-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, ...
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon may be the best horror spoof no one has ever seen. Or at least, that was the case when Starz/Anchor Bay dumped the film into a small number of theaters during mid-March 2007 with little publicity and no ad...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Scott Glosserman
Cast: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Robert Englund, ...
Sometimes, within the bubble of film festival, a well-liked film can become a hot property. That may have been the case with Blindspotting, one of Sundance 2018’s darlings which is finally reaching theaters in the vacuum left by the departing...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-07-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada
Cast: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, ...
Bloodshot suffers from a world-building failure. With too little time and emphasis placed on crafting the setting and exploring some of the rich possibilities of the milieu in which events transpire, the movie turns into little more than a ho-...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-03-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Dave Wilson
Cast: Vin Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez, Guy Pearce, ...
Note: If anyone cares, there's a reference in the next-to-last paragraph that enters spoiler territory. As in end-of-the-movie spoiler territory. For the laughably bad debacle that is The Boy Next Door, I won't necessarily blame credited w...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-01-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, John Corbett, Kristin Chenoweth, ...