Movies starring Alexander Skarsgard
It’s apparent that writer/director Brandon Cronenberg has a fascination with what constitutes identity. That question, posed existentially without the involvement of religion or spirituality, lies at the core of both Cronenberg’s dark, trippy ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, ...
The Northman is Hamlet. Or at least both were derived from the same source material, a Norse legend set in the early 900s about the revenge of a prince upon the uncle who murdered his father and wed his mother. However, while there was a surfeit o...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-04-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, ...
The realities that human beings create around themselves are, by their nature, fragile things – some more fragile than others. In her directorial debut, actress Rebecca Hall addresses the malleability of identity via her adaptation of Nella ...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Racism)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Rebecca Hall
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland, ...
This review contains spoilers, although if you have watched the trailers, you already know what the “spoilers” entail…If you experience a sense of déjà vu while watching Godzilla vs. Kong, it’s probably not because of a flashback to t...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-03-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Monster Mayhem)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Adam Wingard
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Demian Bichir, Kyle Chandler, ...
When I see a romantic comedy, I’m not expecting Ozu or Bergman or Truffaut or Scorsese. All I want – and I think it’s a perfectly reasonable desire considering the genre – is to fall in love with the characters as they fall in love wit...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael, ...
Although it’s being marketed as a love story, The Aftermath is more about grief and recovery than romance. In fact, the film’s illicit relationship is a cold, passionless affair that generates as much heat as a dying ember in a snowstorm. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-03-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Kent
Cast: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, ...
Somewhere, buried within the innards of writer/director Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project, is the skeleton of a compelling techno-thriller. Unfortunately, Nguyen overreaches in attempting to add an element of meaning to what works best a...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-03-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Kim Nguyen
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, ...
In 2016, one wonders whether there’s a place in cinema for the 104-year old Tarzan. To make the character more relevant to a modern audience, screenwriters Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, along with director David Yates (who helmed the final four ...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Adventure
Director: David Yates
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, ...
Since Jeff Bridges optioned the rights to Lois Lowry's The Giver shortly after its 1993 publication, the tale has been on a slow track to production. Bridges, however, didn't give up and, although his original choice for the title character passed ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, ...
Disconnect, Henry Alex Rubin's meditation on how we communicate in the age of electronics and social media, is a deeply flawed motion picture containing moments of brilliance that illustrate its strong thematic content. A triptych of tales connecte...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Cast: Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, ...