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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)

The dark seeps out of the screen like living thing, evidence that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is more than a paycheck to director David Fincher, who has improbably affixed his own imprint on a movie that comes weighted down with possibilities a...

Run Time: 2:38
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, ...
Glory Road

Sports movies, with all the requisite clichés attached, are a dime a dozen, and no one has done them better in recent years than Disney. With every year, the roster lengthens, and now includes all of the four major sports, plus golf. The thing t...

Run Time: 1:53
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SPORTS DRAMA
Director: James Gartner
Cast: Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Austin Nichols, ...
Goldeneye

Like everything else, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) has had to change for the nineties. The venerable 007, coming off a long hiatus, has taken on his sixth face (the other five being Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, and T...

Run Time: 2:10
U.S. Release Date: 1995-11-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, ...
Gone Girl

Early every autumn, there's one excellent studio movie released - a way to kick off the Oscar race and remind adult viewers that it's still possible to find intelligent, compelling movies in theaters. In 2014, that film is Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn...

Run Time: 2:25
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, ...
Good Dinosaur, The

The Good Dinosaur, although an adequate family film, lacks qualities that have made many of Pixar’s previous productions classics. Less a major animated effort than a late-autumn “filler”, the movie offers enough to enthrall childre...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2015-11-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Peter Sohn
Cast: (voices) Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, ...
Grey Zone, The

Auschwitz, 1944. One of the darkest times in one of the darkest places in recent human history. The images are stark and unforgettable: furnaces belching black smoke, lifeless corpses piled atop one another like firewood, and gray ash - the inci...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2002-10-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Mature Themes, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Cast: David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, David Chandler, ...
Grey, The

Some would argue that the best way to see Alaska is through the images captured by an expert photographer. As breathtaking as the views may be, the climate can be unforgiving, with weather, terrain, and fauna that might give even notable survival e...

Run Time: 1:57
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/DRAMA
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Dallas Roberts, Frank Grillo, ...
Halloween

This is the sequel Halloween fans have been awaiting for four decades. With John Carpenter whispering in his ear (the original director returned in an “advisory” capacity and as co-composer), David Gordon Green has taken the series back to...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, ...
Haunted Mansion

Back in the early 2000s, Walt Disney Pictures, operating from the motive of strip-mining every conceivable asset in the quest for cash, decided to make movies based on its two most recognizable theme park rides: “The Pirates of the Caribbean” ...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2023-07-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Lame Scares)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Justin Simien
Cast: LaKieth Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, ...
He Was a Quiet Man

Here's a film that evokes, at different times and in different ways, Joe Versus the Volcano, Brazil, and Taxi Driver. It's an effective and affecting movie about the crushing power of office servitude and the soul-sapping impact of office politics...

Run Time: 1:36
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Frank Capello
Cast: Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy, ...