Movies starring Thomas Kretschmann
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, ...
To lump The Pianist in with all of the other Holocaust stories brought to the screen does a great disservice to this powerful, compelling motion picture. Crafted without a whiff of melodrama, this motion picture takes a steady, unflinching look at...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-12-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann
It's so easy -- too easy, in fact -- for a war movie to turn into a celebration of blood, death, and mayhem. Exploitation of wars and their dehumanizing affects has become a staple of American action films (First Blood, Missing in Action). Occasi...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: WAR
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Dominique Horwitz, Jochen Nickel, ...
Wanted provides the jolt of adrenaline one expects from solid summer entertainment. It exists solely to keep the heart pounding as it shifts from one gear to the next, decelerating only when exposition demands a reduction in pace. The movie marri...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-06-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, ...
It’s apparent that writer/director Brandon Cronenberg has a fascination with what constitutes identity. That question, posed existentially without the involvement of religion or spirituality, lies at the core of both Cronenberg’s dark, trippy ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, ...
Next represents Nicolas Cage's second superhero movie in the space of two months. However, where Ghost Rider was based on a comic book, Next takes its inspiration from a Philip K. Dick story. The result is not unlike what we have come to expect o...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-04-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, ...
Those regarding Blade II as a travelogue will not be planning their next vacation to Prague, where the bulk of the motion picture takes place. (Economic considerations caused it to be filmed there.) The Eastern European city is portrayed as a shad...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-03-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/HORROR
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, ...
The Young Victoria, which was selected as the closing film of the 2009 Toronto Film Festival (a position that often attracts mediocrity), isn't so much poorly made as it is uninspired. It's hard to determine whether the root cause is that the earl...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, ...
Raiders of the Lost Ark was a nearly perfect action movie – upon its release in the early 1980s, it redefined the genre for decades to come. It also provided a trap for co-creators Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, forcing them to repeatedly tr...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-06-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, ...