Movies starring Ciara
Since Liam Neeson began his action star career with Taken, most of his play-for-pay films have been depressingly generic. Although far from a revelation, In the Land of Saints and Sinners rises above many of those. Perhaps that’s because the...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-03-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Robert Lorenz
Cast: Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon, Ciaran Hinds, ...
Watching The Color Purple, there were times when the split personality was enough to pull me out of the experience. Musical stage adaptations of serious novels can sometimes work because of the immediacy of the audience and the reality of the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Musical/Drama
Director: Blitz Bazawule
Cast: Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, ...
In an attempt to say something positive about an otherwise disappointing movie, I’ll admit that it has a pretty good soundtrack, especially if ‘70s songs are your thing. As a pure comedy, Paint doesn’t work – it has a poor laugh-to-running...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Brit McAdams
Cast: Owen Wilson, Ciara Renee, Michaela Watkins, ...
Over the years, there have been countless cinematic tellings and re-tellings of the Arthurian mythos, ranging from the sublime (Robert Bresson’s Lancelot of the Lake) to the ridiculous (by intent: Monty Python and the Holy Grail). There have been...
U.S. Release Date: 1981-04-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Nigel Terry, Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, ...
On the one hand, The Wonder is a fascinating examination of the war between the sacred and the scientific. On the other hand, despite its strong sense of atmosphere and an intense performance by lead actress Florence Pugh, it’s strangely uninvol...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-11-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Mystery
Director: Sebastian Lelio
Cast: Florence Pugh, Kila Lord Cassidy, Tom Burke, ...
There have been dozens of movies made about Ireland’s The Troubles. Most are hard-hitting and gut-wrenching and some are as powerful as any made about civil war and religion. With Belfast, writer/director Kenneth Branagh, now far-removed fro...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-11-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, ...
Spoiler Alert for any live-action movie with the words “Justice League” in the title.It’s bigger and longer and features a lot more slo-mo, but is Zack Snyder’s Justice League better than the hybrid Snyder/JossWhedon version that Warner...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-03-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, Joe Morton, ...
For the better part of seven years, the Russo Brothers (Joe & Anthony) have been marooned in the MCU, crafting four films: Captain America: Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. For their encore, ...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-02-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
Cast: Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, ...
First Man, a workmanlike bio-pic of astronaut Neil Armstrong, is at times compelling and at times maddening. Although inferior in its depiction of the early days of the space program to such riveting productions as The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, ...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Adventure
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Ciaran Hinds, ...
Red Sparrow is a deliciously perverse, unflinchingly violent thriller – a modern-day espionage tale that breaks with the tradition of making the spy business the purview of suave and debonair characters. With a story that argues that the Col...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-03-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, ...