Movies starring Naomi Watts
The Glass Castle, based on the memoir of the same name by Jeannette Walls, comes across as an offbeat coming-of-age story whose integrity is impeded by the need for closure. Real life doesn’t work that way but movie-goers don’t like loose ...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-08-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Cast: Brie Larson, Woddy Harrelson, Naomi Watts, ...
After seeing two previews for David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees, I had no idea what it was about. Now, having seen the movie, I still feel like I'm on the outside looking in. I certainly realize why the preview is so obtuse. There's no way that tw...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-10-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts, ...
The Impossible is a disaster movie. Not a Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay/Jerry Bruckheimer disaster movie, but a disaster movie nonetheless. Set against the backdrop of the 2004 tsunami that devastated large portions of coastal southern As...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, ...
In my review of Divergent, the opening installment of the four-movie series of which Insurgent is the second part, I wrote the following: "As an entry point into a new world, Divergent provides a worthwhile portal. This is the kind of reality an...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-03-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller, ...
The International possesses the look and feel of a thriller, but not the heart or soul of one. With a cold, clinical precision, director Tom Tykwer establishes the complex narrative and weaves in a few extraneous action sequences, but it's an exerc...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-02-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Tom Tykwer
Cast: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, ...
Who knew the life story of J. Edgar Hoover could be so arid? Actually, that's unfair, but there are stretches of J. Edgar when the proceedings seem to drag. Counterbalancing the occasional bursts of tedium, however, are a tremendous lead performanc...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, ...
Spoiler Alert: This review assumes that the reader is familiar with the story of King Kong, including the ending. If you're not, and don't want to be spoiled, it's best to stop reading after the fourth paragraph and return once you have seen the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, ...
There was a time when David Lynch made coherent, challenging motion pictures. Love it or hate it, there's no doubt that Blue Velvet was one of the most talked-about motion pictures of the 1980s. Some consider it to be a masterpiece, while others vi...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, ...
The marketing for Ophelia needs only one sentence to describe the film’s mission statement: “A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.” Although an intriguing way to deconstruct and reassemble a story familiar to most pe...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Claire McCarthy
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, ...
The Painted Veil, based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, takes viewers on a journey into early 20th century rural China, where a cholera epidemic becomes the backdrop for shifts and growing pains in a fractured marriage. Due in large part to e...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Curran
Cast: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, ...