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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

“Raped While Dying”, “And Still No Arrests”, “How Come, Chief Willoughby?” The text of those three billboards establishes a narrative but, although that’s the starting point for Martin McDonagh’s stellar Three Billboards Outside...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2017-11-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, ...

The Varsity is once again showing mainstream fare. The Elgin and Roy Thompson Hall are quiet. The airport is buzzing as the lasts guests and festival-goers wait for their planes. The critics are dotting the final i's and crossing the final t's of ...

Titus

Unlike many of Shakepeare's plays, "Titus Andronicus" has not always been met with universal acclaim. The first of the Bard's tragedies, "Titus Andronicus" is also his bloodiest - filled with gruesome deaths, dismemberments, and other unspeakable ...

Run Time: 2:42
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, ...
Titus

Unlike many of Shakepeare's plays, "Titus Andronicus" has not always been met with universal acclaim. The first of the Bard's tragedies, "Titus Andronicus" is also his bloodiest - filled with gruesome deaths, dismemberments, and other unspeakable ...

Run Time: 2:42
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, ...
Tolkien

Tolkien represents a classic standard-order biopic – a high-level profile of someone with minimal flesh on the bones. More like the dramatization of an Encyclopedia Britannica entry than a fully rendered movie, Tolkien provides details about ...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (War Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Dome Karukoski
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Derek Jacobi, ...
Trance

Trance is a member of the movie category defined by the likes of Shutter Island and Inception - films in which the concept of "reality" is flexible and the reliability of the narrative is indeterminate. Even at the end, once all has been explained ...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, ...
Tree of Life, The

At its least, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is an ambitious slice of cinema by a major filmmaker. Striving for no less than the pinnacle of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Tree of Life falls short of masterful but retains a power ...

Run Time: 2:18
U.S. Release Date: 2011-05-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, ...
True Story

True Story can be seen as a true crime story but it's primarily about the relationship between a criminal and the journalist interviewing him; the details of the quadruple murder come in a distant second. The ironically titled narrative is about ...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2015-04-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Rupert Goold
Cast: Jonah Hill, James Franco, Felicity Jones
Trust the Man

Trust the Man is the latest feature from Bart Freundlich, who came to many people's attention in 1997 with The Myth of Fingerprints. Since then, Freundlich's resume has been spotty but, based on the $8 million payout by Fox Searchlight for this mov...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2006-08-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Bart Freundlich
Cast: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, ...
Twilight

In a statement that borders on the obvious, this review is not being written for the legions of loyal fans who have made Stephanie Meyer's novel Twilight the most popular piece of young adult literature to come along since Harry Potter left Hogwart...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANCE/HORROR
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, ...