U.S. Release Date: 2025-11-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: David Michod
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O'Brian, Ethan Embry, Jess Gabor, Chad L. Coleman
Sydney Sweeney delivers intensity and nuance in a sports biopic that finds unexpected strength beyond its familiar setup.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-08-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schrieber, Vincent O'Onofrio, Benito Martinez Ocasio, Regina King, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Nikita Kukushkin
"Caught Stealing" gives Aronofsky the right canvas, and he delivers with enough style to lift the film above the B-movie neo-noir roots of its screenplay.
U.S. Release Date: 2025-01-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Drew Hancock
Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillen, Rupert Friend
With its AI-flavored elements, it seeks to do more with familiar tropes than merely create an unimaginative story around them.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, Scoot McNairy
Less a traditional bio-pic and more a picture of an era and an exploration of the impact of Bob Dylan on those around him.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-10-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, Isabella Rossellini, Lucian Msamati, Carlos Diaz
The acting elevates the material. All the A-list actors bring their A-games.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-04-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Wagener Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman
"Civil War" does a good job dissecting the damage done by a desensitization to violence but it botches the backstory and features an ending that belongs in another movie.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-03-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Adult Themes, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Cast: Christiana Dell’Anna, David Morse, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Federico Ielapi, Virginia Bocelli, Giancarlo Giannini, John Lithgow, Jeremy Bobb
An engaging account of a woman whose faith and personality allowed her to make a difference in the face of astronomical odds.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Musical/Drama
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Fantasia Barrino, David Alan Grier, Gabriella Wison ‘H.E.R.’, Ciara, Halle Bailey, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Corey Hawkins, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, Louis Gossett Jr.
This is high-octane showmanship but one can be justified wondering whether that represents the best choice for this material.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Spousal Abuse)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens, Williams Sanderson, Beverly D’Angelo, Robert Elkins
The characters are well-delineated and the story is sufficiently engaging for the motion picture to stand on its own merits irrespective of a viewer’s affinity for country music.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael B. Jordan
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, Wood Harris, Phylicia Rashad, Mila Davis-Kent, Jose Benavidez, Florian Munteanu
By delivering the expected and doing so with style and intensity, it lands in the top tier of the nine "Rocky" universe movies.