Movies starring Ben Barnes
Despite being adapted from a generally well-liked French film, The Big Wedding feels like nothing more ambitious than a big screen sit-com. It's tired and dated with too few laughs to justify the stultifying attempts at drama and the impossible-to-...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Justin Zackham
Cast: Robert De Niro, Patricia Rae, Robin Williams, ...
For the second installment of The Chronicles of Narnia, director Andrew Adamson has caught a severe case of Lord of the Rings-itis. While the 2005 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe kept close to the tone of the book, Prince Caspia...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: William Moseley, Liam Neeson (voice), Vincent Grass, ...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is fantasy-lite. With its PG rating and aversion to anything shocking or overly grotesque, it's the bastard stepchild of The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. A dull, meandering storyline an...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Will Poulter, ...
The Critic transpires during a time when critics (in this case, theater critics) wielded enormous power. A review in a daily newspaper could ruin a reputation, close a play, or elevate something from obscurity to prosperity. The film occurs in 193...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-09-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Implied violence)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, ...
Oliver Parker has made a career out of adapting Oscar Wilde, with versions of An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest already on video store shelves. For his latest, Parker has turned his attention to what may be Wilde's most famous no...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: HORROR/DRAMA
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Ben Chaplin, ...
From Stephan Elliott, the man who brought us The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert comes Easy Virtue, an adaptation of Noel Coward's play. Written in 1924, this was the playwright's 16th play, and was originally filmed in 1928 by Alfred ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, ...
Had Seventh Son been released in the 1980s, it would have been deemed an adequate - perhaps even good - fantasy adventure. However, in the three decades since Conan the Barbarian and Dragonslayer defined the genre's best big screen attempts, ther...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-02-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, ...
Nicholas Sparks wasn't involved with the development of The Words, but he might as well have been. There's a distinctly "Sparks-ian" feel to the movie, and its awkward framing device recalls the one from The Notebook. In fact, structure more than t...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-09-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, ...