Movies starring Matt Damon
Elysium is a thoroughly entertaining science fiction/action spectacle that reinforces the argument that director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) has what it takes to enthrall audiences. However, I can't help but wishing this material had been given "th...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-08-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, ...
It’s said that the sports movie format works best when telling a true story. Director James Mangold, after having spent some time in the X-Men universe (he helmed both The Wolverine and Logan), has returned to the real world to direct two A-...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-11-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Matt Damon, Tracy Letts, Ray McKinnon, ...
The Good Shepherd is Robert DeNiro's fictionalized account of the birth and early years of the CIA. While the names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent, many of the characters have real-life counterparts. The lengthy movie (15 minute...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Robert De Niro
Cast: Matt Damon, John Turturro Tammy Blanchard, William Hurt, ...
In essence, Good Will Hunting is an ordinary story told well. Taken as a whole, there's little that's special about this tale -- it follows a traditional narrative path, leaves the audience with a warm, fuzzy feeling, and never really challenges o...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, ...
If this is the future for motion pictures, god help us all. A major collaboration between the Chinese film industry and Hollywood, The Great Wall features a primarily Asian cast with a few big-name American actors sprinkled in. The brainless story is...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-02-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, ...
When the invasion of Iraq transpired in 2003, assurances came down from on high that this act was necessary to remove the clear and present danger represented by Sadaam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (this is when the acronym WMD entered the...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-03-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, ...
It's safe to say that, as a director, Clint Eastwood shows no fear. Only a few years beyond telling the story of Iwo Jima from the Japanese point-of-view, Eastwood ventures down another little traveled cinematic avenue by making what is essentiall...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Frankie McLaren, ...
Under the control of a different director, The Informant! might have been a reasonably straightforward thriller. With Steven Soderbergh at the helm, however, this has become a whimsical, semi-comedic romp, complete with a score by Marvin Hamlisch ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-09-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, ...
Christopher Nolan has never shied away from a challenge and the one he has taken on with Interstellar may be his most prodigious thus far - bigger than delivering an end-to-start chronology in Memento, more impressive than the mind-bending contortion...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Intense Action, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: John Lithgow, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, ...
With the election of Barack Obama, we have apparently entered a kinder, gentler world in which films about racial harmony and goodwill to all men are becoming commonplace (at least during awards season). How else to explain the presence of both Th...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon