Movies starring Paul Giamatti
It takes something lackluster like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to remind viewers why movies like Captain America: The Winter Soldier are considered superior. In the superhero genre, it's too easy to become sloppy and fall back on clichés. The fifth S...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-05-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Marc Webb
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, ...
The Ant Bully is a sore disappointment to anyone hoping for a turnaround to the recent downward quality spiral of animated films. In fact, this movie may represent a new nadir for 3D animation. Although it's pretty enough to look at (although now...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-07-28
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: John A. Davis
Cast: (voices) Zach Tyler, Cheri Oteri, Lily Tomlin, ...
Consider Cinderella Man to be a Depression era Rocky. While that may at first seem like a glib way to describe Ron Howard's rags-to-riches boxing drama, a careful examination of the storyline reveals numerous similarities between this drama and Sy...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Connor Price, ...
The chief pleasure to be derived from watching Cold Souls is that it's a journey into the unexpected. To one degree or another, even the best screenplays tend to follow projectable trajectories, even when the specifics are obfuscated. Cold Souls ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn, ...
Sometimes, even a little gratuitous nudity can't save a movie. This is one of those occasions. Cosmopolis easily trumps To Rome with Love as the biggest disappointment of 2012 from an established director. How can characters talk for so long an...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gordon, ...
When it comes to spy thrillers, Tony Gilroy knows the game. The formula for a crackling entry into this genre is simple enough: keep the action moving and the twists coming, then engage in one late innings sleight of hand that pulls the rug out fr...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkenson, ...
Making an enjoyable family Christmas comedy must be one of the most difficult things to accomplish in Hollywood, because the late-year presence of a good one in multiplexes is more rare than a White Christmas in New York City. Fred Claus, which fi...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-09
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Trevor Peacock, ...
When Yogi Berra said "It's déjà vu all over again," maybe he said it best. Then again, perhaps it was John McClane: "How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?" While neither was specifically referring to The Hangover Part II, Todd Phi...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-05-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, ...
At the heart of The Holdovers lies a cliché – something about life-lessons imparted and accepted from a mismatched companion – but the manner in which director Alexander Payne and writer David Hemingson approach this familiar trope imbues it ...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-10-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
"Et tu, Brute?" The Ides of March illustrates the universally acknowledged truism that nothing can corrupt idealism more completely than politics. The sad thing about this American tragedy is that not a single twist, turn, or betrayal is difficu...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: George Clooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...