U.S. Release Date: 2018-07-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Angela Bassett, Vanessa Kirby, Michelle Monaghan, Wes Bentley, Alec Baldwin
Proves that this kind of adrenaline-fueled spy thriller isn’t dead – it just needs a strong leading man and an accomplished director.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-07-20
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Animated
Director: Mari Okada
Cast: Manaka Iwami, Miyu Irino, Yuki Kaji, Ai Kayano, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Yoko Hikasa
Despite the fantasy setting and aesthetic, it’s a human tale about relatable characters with real emotions.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-07-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Musical
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Lily James, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Cher, Andy Garcia, Jeremy Irvine, Josh Dylan, Hugh Skinner, Jessica Keenan Wynn, Alexa Davies, Meryl Streep
The first movie does a better job of everything this one does rendering the second installment redundant – painless but purposeless.
U.S. Release Date: 1993-05-07
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Tanie Kitabayashi
Remains one of Miyazaki’s most memorable endeavors and is among the handful of “must see” animated films produced in the last 40 years.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-05-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Bullying)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Jim Loach
Cast: Blake Cooper, Judy Greer, Luke Wilson, Liana Liberato, Donald Sutherland, Danielle Rose Russell, Beau Knapp, Luke Benward
If the most important thing in any coming-of-age story is for the main character to evolve, "Measure of a Man" gets it right.
U.S. Release Date: 1980-02-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Nankin, David Wechter
Cast: David Naughton, Stephen Furst, Andy Tennant, Maggie Roswell, Eddie Deezen, Brad Wilkin, Michael J. Fox, Alan Solomon, Debi Richter, Kirsten Baker
"Midnight Madness" probably lives in the memories of some as an engagingly dumb slice of ‘80s moviedom and it’s better left there.
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-15
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sexual Content, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roi-ha, Song Jae-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Go Seo-hee
Despite not offering a conventionally pleasing resolution, it is in many ways more satisfying because it deviates from familiar formulas within an often-predictable genre.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-03-23
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Amanda Sthers
Cast: Toni Collette, Harvey Keitel, Rossy De Palma, Michael Smiley, Tom Hughes
Rossy de Palma is great but she’s not in enough scenes to salvage a movie that lacks substance and focus.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-03-02
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Cast: Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, Eamon Farren, Justin Rain, Jonathan Huber, Robert Longstreet, Noah Segan, Ian Colletti
The muddling of historical fiction with the Grand Guignol is an uneven mix that never fully gels.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-03-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Julius Ramsay
Cast: Alex Essoe, Dylan McTee, Perla Haney-Jardine, Ward Horton
The movie works as a tightly-plotted excursion into the terror that evolves when circumstances prod normal people to commit ugly acts.