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5x2 is a departure for François Ozon, at least from his recent films. This is a simpler, more basic story than Swimming Pool or Under the Sand, and does not star either Charlotte Rampling or Ludivine Sagnier. Throughout his career, Ozon has deligh...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Stéphane Freiss
Ali, Michael Mann's attempt to chronicle ten pivotal years in the life of former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali, suffers from the most common ailment of motion picture biographies – trying to do too much in a limited time. While Al...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Will Smith, Michael Michele, Nona M. Gaye, ...
With its whiplash-inducing tonal inconsistencies and sloppily assembled narrative, Amsterdam often feels like a pastiche of (take your pick) Monty Python, The Coen Brothers, or Wes Anderson grafted onto a crime caper/espionage thriller with a ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-12-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Rami Malek, Zoe Saldana, ...
Mike Nichols, the director of such well-received films as The Graduate and Working Girl, has taken the outrageous 1978 French farce, La Cage aux Folles, and, by tweaking, updating, and Americanizing it, come up with a huge winner. The Birdcage, as...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-03-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman, ...
Birdman (subtitled Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is an ensemble film about theater life that occasionally takes time away from its dramatic/comedic narrative to skewer the pop culture sensibilities that have given rise to the so-called "mo...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Cast: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, ...
Bottoms exists somewhere in between a satire and an homage to John Hughes-style teen rom-coms, reimagined for today’s LGBQT+ friendly audiences. When it works, which is quite often, it does so for the same reason that Hughes’ best-known offeri...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-08-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Emma Seligman
Cast: Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, ...
It would be fair to characterize Bridget Jones’s Baby as a huge step up from the previous Bridget Jones outing, 2004’s The Edge of Reason, although it’s not quite in the same league as 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary. Why w...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Sharon Maguire
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, ...
After watching the Coen Brothers spend years mowing their way through genres and upending conventions, one question comes to mind: Is there anything these guys can't do. Common wisdom suggests "no" and, after winning Oscars early this year for No...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, ...
There is an almost overpowering desire to write this review in the style of Dr. Seuss, but I will resist it - primarily because the end product is more Mike Myers and overblown production design than it is the clever text of one of the most beloved...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FAMILY
Director: Bo Welch
Cast: Mike Myers, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, ...
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón's adaptation of the P.D. James novel, takes a look at England in an apocalyptic near-future, when standards of law and order have broken down and the country is ruled by a fascist dictator. The movie is set in 2027...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, ...