Movies starring Emma Thompson
The new Ivan Reitman/Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy is a one-joke affair, and it takes surprisingly little time for the potential humor in the situation to wear thin. As a result, the viewer is left with about ninety minutes of suffering through S...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-11-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, ...
Last Chance Harvey is a standard-order romantic comedy with a couple of unusual ingredients that make it worthy of notice. It is common, of course, for movies of this genre to focus on young, photogenic individuals. While not unheard of, romantic...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Joel Hopkins
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker, ...
If Richard Curtis watches Last Christmas, he will likely do so with a smile on his face. In approach, tone, and intent, this is very much like the kind of film Curtis makes and bears more than a passing resemblance to his unlikely now-classic ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-11-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson, ...
Love Actually doesn't have a cynical frame in its celluloid. It's for all those romantics who think there aren't enough happy endings. Richard Curtis' movie dips so deep into the well of feel-good sentiment that it will threaten to send some audi...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-11-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Hugh Grant, Billy Bob Thornton, Emma Thompson, ...
The problem with some franchises is that the studios don't know when it's time to quit. The lackluster nature of Men in Black II should have been a hint to Sony that the Men in Black series had run its course. Now, at least ten years beyond the "s...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, ...
If I used words like “tiresome” and “lazy” to describe this pointless remake/reboot, it wouldn’t be sufficient to express the apathy I feel for Columbia Pictures’ sad attempt to exhume a franchise that was pronounced dead by the ti...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Action
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, ...
Men, Women & Children seeks to explore issues of communication in the digital era. The wide-ranging net ensnares a variety of subjects: the implications of ubiquitous pornography, the chasm separating the world views of children and parents, and th...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Adam Sandler, Elena Kampouris, Ansel Elgort, ...
After the misstep of Mistress America, The Meyerowitz Stories (full name: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)) represents a “return to form” for writer/director Noah Baumbach. Less pretentious and self-indulgent than some of his mumb...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-10-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, ...
Much Ado about Nothing is Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of one of Shakespeare's better-known comedies. Centered around two romances - Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thomps...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-05-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Nudity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, ...
Nanny McPhee is an excellent movie… if you're a seven-year old girl. That's less a negative evaluation than it is a statement of fact. This isn't a "family film;" it's a "children's film." What's more, it's for girls who are old enough to unde...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-27
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: FAMILY/ADVENTURE
Director: Kirk Jones
Cast: Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Kelly Macdonald, ...