Movies starring Giovanni Ribisi
Screened in standard (non-IMAX) digital 3D. Avatar has been described as a "game-changer," and perhaps it is. I'll leave that for future historians to determine. What I can say with some assuredness is this is the most technically amazing motio...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, ...
The majority of this review is taken from what I wrote in 2009. I have tweaked and edited it to update it for 2022. Following the main review are a few new comments written following my re-watching of the film on September 23, 2022.Avatar has been d...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-09-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, ...
These days, few things are hotter than the stock market, and everyone who isn't making a killing on Wall Street is feeling very left out. Of course, for every millionaire secretary who struck it rich by buying low and selling high, there are stori...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ben Younger
Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Taylor Nichols, Nia Long, ...
It's not often that, when the primary thread of a movie fails, the secondary storylines are compelling enough to make the overall experience a positive one. However, that occurs with Cold Mountain, a Civil War era romance where the love affair fiz...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Charlie Hunnam, ...
Contraband is the kind of thriller that offers just enough in the way of effective elements to assemble a two-minute trailer. When it comes to a 110-minute feature, however, the sketchiness of the plotting and the director's lack of sure-handedness...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Giovanni Ribisi, ...
There seems to be little doubt that Ruben Fleischer, the director behind the well-received Zombieland and the less well-received 30 Minutes or Less, is a Brian De Palma fan. How else to explain the kinship that exists between Fleischer's latest, Ga...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-01-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, ...
The Gift is an example of how superior craftsmanship can transform a ho-hum genre entry into a sporadically gripping thriller. On the surface, there's nothing special about this movie - it's a run-of-the-mill supernatural murder mystery with all o...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-01-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, ...
Heaven represents the fusion of stoic contemplation with kinetic mysticism – German filmmaker Tom Tykwer's adaptation of the final screenplay by the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski (who wrote it with longtime partner, Krzysztof P...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-10-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi
Simply put, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is an amazing motion picture. There may be some controversy over whether she truly wrote the screenplay on her own (there are sequences that argue that she at least had help from someone with a littl...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, ...
It would be inaccurate to claim that A Million Ways to Die in the West is devoid of humor. It isn't. However, Seth MacFarlane's hit-and-miss spoof of Westerns has far more "misses" than "hits" and the actor-director-writer (Ted) doesn't seem to rea...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-05-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Seth MacFarlene
Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, ...