Movies starring Elizabeth Banks
Brightburn can at least boast an interesting premise – not that it does anything with it. The underlying conceit is as simple as it is pregnant with promise: what if a Superman type, having arrived on Earth as an infant in a space capsule, w...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Yarovesky
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, ...
Perhaps no duo has reached farther and deeper into current pop culture than Phil Lord & Christopher Miller. Their recent movies have plundered the DC Universe, an alternate version of the MCU, and even a little bit of the Galaxy Far, Far Away....
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Adventure
Director: Mike Mitchell
Cast: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, ...
“These aren’t the Muppets,” director Brian Henson might remind us, but his smile and wink would hint at what he really thinks. The son of Muppets creator Jim Henson and the man who filled his dad’s shoes directing The Muppet Christmas C...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-08-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence, Drugs, Puppet )
Genre: Comedy
Director: Brian Henson
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Bill Barretta, Elizabeth Banks, ...
Spoiler Warning! Because I reveal things about the ending of Pitch Perfect 2 in this review, I am duty-bound to warn readers in case they wish to stop now. (Of course, if you don't care, feel free to continue…) I am as far from the targ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Musical
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, ...
Apologists will no doubt argue that bifurcating Suzanne Collins' final novel in The Hunger Games cycle, Mockingjay, is the right way to go. There's no doubt that stretching it over 4+ hours allows for a more complete adaptation, but movies are diff...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Jeffrey Wright, Elizabeth Banks, ...
Legos. They seem to have been around forever (actually, since 1949). As a kid, some 40 years ago, I can remember playing with them: colored plastic bricks that snapped together. Since then, the Lego empire has expanded, venturing into arenas previ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-02-07
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Cast: (voices) Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, ...
Have we reached a point where the term "young adult literature" has become pejorative? Have books like Twilight and its ilk promulgated a negative connotation? If Stephenie Meyer's scribblings represent an exhibition for the prosecution, perhaps Su...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Jeffrey Wright, Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...
Pitch Perfect looks, sounds, and feels like pretty much every other movie that features a singing or dancing competition. With all the effort invested in the musical numbers, the dramatic elements feel like warmed-over John Hughes. And it's not eve...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-09-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: MUSICAL/COMEDY
Director: Jason Moore
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Hana Mae Lee, ...
The Hunger Games comes charging out of the gate with a daunting task: fill the chasm in the fangirl cinematic franchise machine created by the completion of the Harry Potter saga and the impending end to all things Twilight. The Hunger Games cycle ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-03-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Lennie Kravitz, Elizabeth Banks, ...
Okay, so maybe after seeing Tom Cruise scale the tallest building in the world in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, 21 stories doesn't seem that high... but it's still a long way down. And I'd be willing to bet Sam Worthington didn't do all his...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Asger Leth
Cast: Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell, Elizabeth Banks, ...