Movies starring Hayden Christensen
As is often true of "high concept" movies like this one, the most interesting aspect - the hook that gets us into the theater - does little more than add some color. Awake, the writing/directing debut of Joby Harold (who might not be given another...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joby Harold
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, ...
One of the cardinal rules when making a motion picture about a superhero, especially one no one has heard of, is not to make the integrity of the story depend on the existence of a sequel. Unfortunately, that's a rule that director Doug Liman brea...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, ...
New York, I Love You is the second in a planned five-film series of anthologies that explores different meanings of love. The first movie, Paris, I Love You, was released in 2007. There are also projected excursions to Jerusalem, Rio, and Shangha...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Andy Garcia, Christina Ricci, ...
Middle episodes in trilogies have the potential to be fundamentally dissatisfying. Thankfully, George Lucas has managed to avoid that pitfall for Episode II of the Star Wars saga, Attack of the Clones. Admittedly, the primary purpose of this film...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-05-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Kenny Baker, Ahmed Best, ...
The saga is complete. What George Lucas began in 1977 as a little movie that took the box office by storm, he has completed in 2005 with the most heralded motion picture of the year. With the arrival of Revenge of the Sith, Lucas places the missi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, ...
Attack of the Clones suffers from "middle episode syndrome" - the tendency of the second volume in a trilogy to feel incomplete and, as a result of that incompleteness, to fail to satisfy. (A problem George Lucas was able to avoid with The ...
U.S. Home Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, ...
Revenge of the Sith is the most technically accomplished of all the Star Wars movies. Putting aside other important aspects of the cinematic experience (like storytelling, for example), it’s hard to argue that the special effects work in the th...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: George Lucas
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, ...
Takers is a standard-order heist flick that stays mostly true to its B-movie roots until the end, when director John Luessenhop attempts to inject a little seriousness (there's some slow-motion and even an operatic score) into an otherwise unpreten...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-08-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: John Luessenhop
Cast: Paul Walker, Idris Elba, Tip 'T.I.' Harris, ...