Movies starring Michael Gambon
The King's Speech delivers solid drama with a rousing climax - a fully satisfying and uplifting period piece that achieves its dramatic potential without sacrificing historical accuracy. Unless you count Hitler, who is seen from afar, the narrative...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tom Hooper
Cast: Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Gambon, ...
Layer Cake is the latest in the recent cluster of British gangster/caper films begun by Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Matthew Vaughn, the director and co-producer of Layer Cake, held the producing credit for Lock and Ritchie's...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, George Harris, ...
Layer Cake is the latest in the recent cluster of British gangster/caper films begun by Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Matthew Vaughn, the director and co-producer of Layer Cake, held the producing credit for Lock and Ritchie's...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, George Harris, ...
Whatever his faults as a filmmaker may be, Kevin Costner certainly understands the Western. Although Open Range is not on the same level as Dances with Wolves, it's a respectable effort that is only slightly marred by the unnecessarily protracted ...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-08-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: WESTERN
Director: Kevin Costner
Cast: Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, ...
Quartet is as safe, conventional, and uncontroversial a film as one could imagine. The straightforward screenplay is elevated considerably by a series of sterling performances. If one wanted to bolster an argument about the importance of acting t...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-01-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Dustin Hoffman
Cast: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Pauline Collins, ...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is about 70% style and 30% substance. It has a plot and characters, but those are almost beside the point. They are devices that function as hooks upon which first-time director Kerry Conran can hang his amaz...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-09-17
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Kerry Conran
Cast: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, ...
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is as stylish and atmospheric as any motion picture to arrive in theaters this year. Unfortunately, those aspects are its lone strengths. The film suffers from tepid performances, feebly drawn characters, and a meanderi...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon, ...
If there's anything disgusting or grotesque that The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover doesn't dabble in, I'm at a loss to figure out what it is. This film, a wildly exuberant, bitingly satirical examination of excess, bad taste, and grea...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NC-17" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, ...
The winner of 1992's "worst film to sport a great trailer" is Toys. The good-natured, humorous spots that advertise this film (featuring Robin Williams in a field delivering quirky, amusing one-liners) bear little resemblance the actual product. ...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, ...
Victoria and Abdul, based on (mostly) true events as related in Shrabani Basu’s historical chronicle of the same name, is effectively a sequel to the 1997 film, Mrs. Brown. That movie, directed by John Madden, detailed Queen Victoria’s fri...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Olivia Williams, ...