U.S. Release Date: 1980-05-30
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Cast: Arrin Skelley, Daniel Anderson, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Bill Melendez
At its best, it captures the flavor of the beloved comic strip gang but things start to drag after a jaunty first half-hour or so.
U.S. Release Date: 1986-06-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, William Zabka, Adrienne Barbeau, M. Emmet Walsh, Terry Farrell, Paxton Whitehead, Robert Downey Jr., Keith Gordon, Burt Young, Sally Kellerman, Ned Beatty
The movie is pure Dangerfield – a thinly-sketched narrative providing a clothesline onto which the comedian could pin a long string of gags and one-liners.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Cast: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Mick Jagger
The final 30 minutes of this would-be Hitchcockian caper film prove unable to deliver on the promise of the early acts.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse, Kathleen Byron, Esmond Knight, Sabu, David Farrar, Jean Simmons, May Hallatt
The technical aspects – although impressive considering the special effects limitations of the era – represent a lukewarm reason to see the film and the storyline adds little in the way of a sweetener.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-02-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew Heckler
Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson, Andrea Riseborough, Crystal Fox, Usher Raymond
A parable about the redemptive power of love, it's too long and many of its beats have been appropriated from other movies about Southern racism.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-02-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Cathy Yan
Cast: Margot Robbie, Ewan McGregor, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Ella Jay Basco, Chris Messina
A glorious, hyperkinetic mess and, although it never quite takes flight, it at least holds the attention.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita, based on the novel by Shichiro Fukazawa
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yuko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Seiji Miyaguchi, Keiko Ogasawara Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Feels drawn-out, like a film school short that has been stretched beyond its natural length.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Adult Themes, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Cast: Mbissine Therese Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinck, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene
A sincere, urgent look at issues that have since metastasized to create problems that plague contemporary Europe.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-12-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Hedges
Cast: Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton, Rachel Bay Jones
By adding cumbersome elements to the narrative, it ultimately detracts from the core human story.
U.S. Release Date: 2018-11-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Joseph Mazzello, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, Aidan Gillen, Mike Myers, Aaron McCusker
What saves "Bohemian Rhapsody" from being an historically inaccurate train wreck is the strength of the musical sequences, which are electric.