U.S. Release Date: 2019-08-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Kiera Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Indira Varma
Effective as both a drama and a cautionary tale and the lessons it teaches are possibly more relevant in today’s world than they were 15 years ago.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-07-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino, Margaret Qualley, Dakota Fanning, Timothy Olyphant, Luke Perry, Austin Butler
Made by a movie-lover for movie-lovers. And even those who don’t qualify may still enjoy the hell out of it.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-10-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park, Woo-sik Choi, Sun-kyun Lee, Jung Ziso, Jeong-eun Lee, Hyae Jin Chang
Just as many of the director’s previous efforts have defied pigeonholing, "Parasite" delights in ping-ponging from one genre to another, defying expectations along the way.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-28
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Armondo Iannucci
Cast: Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Rosalind Eleazar, Ben Whishaw, Benedict Wong, Darren Boyd, Gwendoline Christie
By taking a different road, Iannucci has provided something that captures the essence of "David Copperfield" without being constrained by every detail.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-04-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Terror, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer
Cast: Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jete Laurence, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie
An effective and unnerving interpretation of King’s novel, matching the book when it comes to dread and nihilism.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Nicolas Pesce
Cast: Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa
The director’s macabre flourishes and garish visuals can’t completely camouflage the hollow space at the production’s core.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-12
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Jeff Chan & Andrew Rhymer
Cast: Jack Quaid, Maya Erskine, Ed Begley Jr.
Comes complete with a smart script, likeable leads, and a willingness to occasionally tweak a rom-com trope or two.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Rob Letterman
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Howard Clifford, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere
This isn’t a movie, it’s a cog in a multibillion-dollar media empire, a soulless feature-length example of product placement at its most blatant.
U.S. Release Date: 2020-10-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Selena Gomez, Jude Law, Diego Luna, Kelly Rohrbach, Cherry Jones
Revisits familiar themes and ideas from other, earlier films that were presented to far better effect the first time around.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-09-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Violence, Sexual content, Violence, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Adrian Grunberg
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Yvette Monreal, Paz Vega, Adriana Barraza, Oscar Jaenada, Sergio Peris-Mencheta
With its grim tone and sickening content, this gruesome gore-fest is an unwatchable piece of excrement.