Movies starring David Thewlis
Anomalisa offers evidence that animated films are not necessarily the sole province of children. In fact, this one isn’t even designed for all adults. Charlie Kaufman has always been something of an acquired taste. Anomalisa highlights Kaufman at h...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-01-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Animated/Drama
Director: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, Tom Noonan
Those who question the authorship of Shakespeare's plays are like Climate Change deniers - despite being in a minority, they are tenacious and passionate. Though a surfeit of facts are against them, they are able to make some good points that the o...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, Jamie Campbell Bower, ...
Who would have imagined that the most appropriate word to describe Basic Instinct 2 would be "boring?" This plodding, pretentious follow-up to 1992's hit replaces Paul Verhoeven's lurid, over-the-top style with the leaden rhythms of Michael Caton-...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-03-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, ...
Possible Spoilers: Although this review does not explicitly reveal the ending of the movie, there are enough insinuations that one can make some assumptions about what might happen. The Holocaust is one of the great tragedies in recent human h...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mark Herman
Cast: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, ...
In the early summer sweepstakes, Warner Brothers has weighed in with Twister, Paramount with Mission Impossible, and now Universal with Dragonheart, director Rob Cohen's swords-and-sorcery saga. No prizes for guessing which is most likely to be th...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, ...
Perhaps the most curious and counterproductive aspect of The Fifth Estate, the so-called "Wikileaks movie," is the decision by director Bill Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer to establish the film as a thriller. The material covered in the produc...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-10-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Capaldi, Anthony Mackie, ...
It's interesting to note that, of the three Harry Potter novels thus far filmed, the longest on the written page has turned into the shortest on screen. This is a good thing, because it means that the filmmakers are becoming less literal and more ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-06-04
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Thompson, Gary Oldman, ...
If there’s one thing I have learned about Charlie Kaufman over the years, it’s that he’s a much better screenwriter than director. Collaborating with the likes of Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-09-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, ...
Almost everything that was true of 1993's Nightmare Before Christmas holds for 1996's James and the Giant Peach. Based (rather faithfully) on Roald Dahl's children's story, this movie uses a combination of live-action sequences and stop-motion an...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-04-12
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED/ADVENTURE
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margoyles, ...
In Gladiator, director Ridley Scott transported movie audiences to the year 180 AD. Five years and four motion pictures later, the Oscar-winning director has again immersed himself in the blood and gore of hand-to-hand combat, although this time t...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Alexander Siddig, Marton Csokas, ...