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The Great Buck Howard offers John Malkovich an opportunity to do a little mugging for the camera as he plays a character who is, by nature, larger than life. Buck Howard, a fictional representation of The Amazing Kreskin, is part star and part lou...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-20
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Sean McGinly
Cast: John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, ...
It's one thing to tell people about the wounds in the fabric of this country that the Civil Rights movement attempted to repair; it's another thing to show them. Unfortunately, too many films made about racism during the first two-thirds of the 20...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Denzel Washington
Cast: Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, ...
You have to give a film maker credit for exhibiting the necessary chutzpah to take one of the most beloved classics in the English language, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, and transform it into a modern-day morality play/romance. Viewers...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-01-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, ...
The Great Gatsby is widely recognized as one of the best American novels of the 20th century, although many remember it as a book we were forced to read in high school. Thus far, there have been several attempts to convert the book into a movie (mo...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire, Carey Mulligan, ...
The Great Raid seeks to be the kind of epic war film that was popular during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. And, unlike many recent entries in the genre, it does not seek to take a revisionist look at war. The central premise is promising: a factua...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: WAR/ADVENTURE
Director: John Dahl
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Joseph Fiennes, ...
If this is the future for motion pictures, god help us all. A major collaboration between the Chinese film industry and Hollywood, The Great Wall features a primarily Asian cast with a few big-name American actors sprinkled in. The brainless story is...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-02-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, ...
Not since Robert Altman's The Player has a film been this relentless in its satirical attack. The Great White Hype takes the boxing industry and rips it open, displaying the rotting, putrid innards for all to see. There are times when this movie ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, ...
The name of "Ziegfeld" is known to many who have never heard of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Even 80 years after the final show was produced, "The Ziegfeld Follies" remain among the best-known high class song-and-dance stage spectacles to grace Broadway. ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, ...
When it comes to this sort of true-life sports story, Disney has cornered the market. In the past few years, the studio has released four fact-based tales of triumph, each centered on a different kind of game people play. First, there was Remembe...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-30
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Bill Paxton
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Josh Flitter, ...
The Greatest Hits is a time-travel movie, but not a conventional one. Instead of someone stepping inside a time machine and emerging at a date in the past, this one involves the transfer of a consciousness into a body at an earlier time. There’s...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-04-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Director: Ned Benson
Cast: Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, Justin H. Min