Movies starring Jon Hamm
With a title seemingly designed to get the movie placement at the top of alphabetized lists, Aardvark is a hard-to-swallow drama about sibling rivalry, mental illness, and bad therapy. Cobbled together using clichés and contrivances, Brian Shoaf...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-04-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian Shoaf
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Jenny Slate, Jon Hamm, ...
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver seeks to inject a dose of high octane into a heist film while illustrating how it’s possible to make a car chase exciting in an era when few action staples have become more boring and predictable. The film also s...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-06-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Flea, CJ Jones, ...
There was a time back in the 1990s when everyone wanted to be Tarantino. As we learned at the time, however, there’s only one Tarantino and all the attempts to mimic his style and approach felt like third generation VHS dubs. Now, some 25 ye...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller/Comedy
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, ...
Beirut is, without a doubt, an imperfect thriller. The narrative is at times too dense, some aspects of the ending are too pat, and there are some internal inconsistencies the movie never explains. But, damn, is it good to watch a movie that e...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-04-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Brad Anderson
Cast: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris, ...
One of the positive qualities often attributed to movies in which Judd Apatow claims involvement (here, he's listed as a producer) is that, beneath all the raunchiness and profanity, lies a core of sweetness. It's the Tootsie Pop philosophy of R-ra...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-05-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, ...
By all accounts, both the director (Scott Derrickson) and star (Keanu Reeves) of this 2008 film are fans of its 1951 precursor. So what went wrong? At what point did this initially promising remake lose its way? After all, Robert Wise's science ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Scott Derrickson
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, ...
Keeping up with the Joneses (not to be confused with the better 2010 film The Joneses) is a paint-by-numbers, creatively bankrupt “comedy” emerging from a studio system that has largely forgotten what it means to be genuinely funny. Lazil...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-10-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Greg Mottola
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, ...
Movies that arrive in theaters with the tagline "based on a true story" often stray far from the historical basis underlying the narrative. As it's said, "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story." Unfortunately, in presenting the tale of...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-05-16
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Jon Hamm, Madhur Mittal, Suraj Sharma, ...
The Despicable Me duology, one of the best non-Pixar animated series to reach the silver screen in recent years, was successful with kids and adults for different reasons. Older viewers appreciated its tongue-in-cheek wit and satirical aspects. Child...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-07-10
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Pierre Coffin, Jon Hamm, ...
Watching No Sudden Move, the thought came to me that, if I didn’t know the director beforehand, I might guess Steven Soderbergh or the Coen Brothers. It’s the kind of production that only those filmmakers (or their proteges) would make, using...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-07-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, ...