Movies starring Jamie Foxx
Horrible Bosses 2 (emphasis on "horrible") is an apt title for this repugnant, unnecessary sequel. Painfully unfunny and unnecessarily long, this movie is the antithesis of its predecessor, the delightfully raunchy Horrible Bosses, which chronicle...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Sean Anders
Cast: Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, ...
"Every war is different. Every war is the same." So says the voiceover narration in the closing moments of Sam Mendes' Jarhead. I might add: Every war movie is different. Every war movie is the same. This is Mendes' Gulf War answer to Apocalyp...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-11-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Brian Geraghty, ...
Just Mercy is the kind of high-minded tale about social injustice that often opens around this time of the year. Despite the whiff of “Oscar bait” surrounding the production, it’s a well-made, affecting tale about do-gooders who do good ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, ...
The Kingdom is a police procedural with a unique - and interesting - twist. While the movie employs all of the investigative techniques we have become familiar with as a result of countless TV shows, there's a little more to this movie than CSI: Sa...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, ...
The premise of Law Abiding Citizen - angry father seeks revenge on the system when his daughter's murderer gets off with a light sentence - probably sounded great in the pitch meetings but, as with all high concept motion pictures, the devil's in t...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, ...
The two best words to describe the 2006 motion picture Miami Vice are "stylish" and "intense." One of those descriptors without the other could lead one to suspect a pretentious bore or a pointless exercise in action but, by pairing them, writer/d...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-07-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, ...
Underwritten yet nevertheless enjoyable on a visceral level, Project Power is the latest Netflix film to use a familiar template: start with an intriguing premise, sign a bankable star (or two), employ an exotic (or at least non-standard) locat...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, ...
Taylor Hackford's Ray has a tremendous performance by Jamie Foxx and a soundtrack that is jammed with recordings by the late Ray Charles, but both work in service of a paint-by-numbers screenplay that runs too long and could have been developed in ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-10-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Drugs, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Richard Schiff, Curtis Armstrong, ...
When one distills Rio to its essentials, it's all about a bird traveling several thousand miles for the express purpose of getting laid. However, since such a reduction of the plot would not go over well with the parents planning to send (or accomp...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-04-15
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: (voices) Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, ...
One of the most difficult things for a filmmaker to accomplish is to craft a drama that provides emotional satisfaction without resorting to overt manipulation. Director Joe Wright has thus far achieved this twice, with a superlative adaptation of...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-04-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Jamie Foxx, ...