Movies starring Diane Kruger
I have never been a Raymond Chandler fan nor am I enamored with the pulp detective genre that was oh-so-popular during the early decades of the 20th century. Consequently, my only exposure to Philip Marlowe (Chandler’s most popular character) ha...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, ...
The spy movie category isn’t so sparsely populated that the arrival of a mediocre entry like The 355 is going to excite anyone. Notable exclusively for having a quintet of female leads, the movie resides somewhere above Ocean’s 8 and below...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-01-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Simon Kinberg
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penelope Cruz, ...
JT LeRoy, Justin Kelly’s adaptation of Savannah Knoop’s memoir, strives to be more than a run-of-the-mill biopic about two women who perpetrate a con on the literary world. It wants to address issues of gender fluidity and hypocrisy. It wa...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-04-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Justin Kelly
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Jim Sturgess, ...
Although the events depicted in Fatih Akin’s In the Fade are fictional, their implications and consequences are grounded in reality. Terrorist events are becoming sadly commonplace and, although news reports focus on the immediate action, ra...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-12-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Disturbing Images, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Johannes Krisch, ...
The story told by The Infiltrator - an undercover cop begins to confuse his true identity with that of the “character” he plays - may be familiar but the film’s tone is not. As directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer), this movi...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Brad Furman
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, ...
Sometimes with a movie like The Host, it's tough to determine whether the fatal flaws lie in the source material or the adaptation. Considering that the author of the source material is Stephenie Meyer, who singlehandedly defanged vampires and decl...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/DRAMA
Director: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, ...
Yes, Unknown is preposterous. That in and of itself is not a reason to avoid the movie. The problems lie in the way the absurdity is presented and the manner in which the screenplay resolves once the "truth" is revealed. Alfred Hitchcock rarely me...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-02-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, ...
With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction. He has also made what could arguably be considered the most audacious World War II movie of all-time. If you think there are rules for this sort of motion pi...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/WAR
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, ...
The line between epic spectacle and overblown bore is often as unclear as it is easily crossed. So it's no surprise that Wolfgang Petersen's Troy navigates that demarcation like a drunk driver on a twisty two-lane highway. There are times when T...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-05-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Brad Pitt, Julian Glover, Saffron Burrows, ...
How to review a movie that's essentially a copy of its predecessor? The temptation is to simply copy what I wrote about the first National Treasure into this space with a few minor edits to account for name and location changes. Everything from t...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, ...