Movies starring Emily Mortimer
At the end of the 1964 film Mary Poppins, the character of Bert (played by Dick Van Dyke) offers this final wish: “Goodbye, Mary Poppins, don't stay away too long.” Walt Disney Pictures hopes that 54 years – the longest span between a mot...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Musical
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Emily Blunt, David Warner, Angela Lansbury, ...
In my review of Woody Allen's previous misfire, Melinda and Melinda, I wrote the following: "Lately, Allen's films have sunk into a state of heightened mediocrity - sporadically entertaining, but often disappointing, at least for those clinging to ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, ...
Lately, comedies seem to come in two flavors: profane raunch-fests that seek to garner laughs via shock tactics and big-screen sit-coms. Despite Zooey Deschanel's repeated utterance of the word "fuck" and a dud of a threesome, Our Idiot Brother fal...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jesse Peretz
Cast: Paul Rudd, T.J. Miller, Rashida Jones, ...
Sally Potter’s quirky The Party owes a lot to a generation’s worth of French “gathering” films in which a bunch of characters come together for dinner (or something similar) and all hell breaks loose. Commonalities among these films in...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-02-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Sally Potter
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, ...
I approached The Pink Panther 2 with the firm belief that, no matter how ill inspired it might be, it certainly couldn't be worse than its 2006 predecessor, which set a new low bar for all things Clouseau. In fulfilling those expectations, The Pin...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-02-06
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, John Cleese, ...
There are only two reasons to see The Pink Panther, and neither has anything to do with Steve Martin or his bastardization of Inspector Clouseau. The first is the opening credits cartoon - no matter how bad the movie, at least the title character,...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-02-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyoncé Knowles, ...
Most directors, upon entering a genre with which they lack familiarity, adhere strictly to "the book." David Mamet, however, throws "the book" out the window. The resulting movie, a mixed martial arts concoction called Redbelt, is different than ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ACTION/DRAMA
Director: David Mamet
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Allen, Alice Braga, ...
They say the third time's a charm. In the case of the Scream movie series, the Wes Craven/Kevin Williamson collaboration credited for having revived the slasher genre in the '90s, this cliché proves to be a falsehood. The most recent (and hopefu...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Neve Campbell, Deon Richmond, Emily Mortimer, ...
Watching The Sense of an Ending, I was struck by the realization that this should have been a good movie. Unfortunately, as is too often the case, something didn’t translate from the written page to the big screen. The source material, Julian B...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-03-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, ...
Spoiler Alert: Although every effort has been made to limit the revelations in this review, it's difficult to provide a coherent discussion of Shutter Island without giving away something, so readers are hereby placed on alert. If you're familiar...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, ...