Movies starring Tommy Lee Jones
Hope Springs has the unusual distinction of providing a sample of what an Ingmar Bergman movie might be like if made for mass American consumption. The production leavens the painful psychological introspection that defined the Swedish director's b...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carrell
The last scene of In the Valley of Elah may be the most ridiculously ham-fisted and over-the-top moment in all of 2007’s supposed prestige cinema. This image is so blatant and cheesy that it makes one wonder whether director Paul Haggis’ succes...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, ...
Fourteen years after the release of The Bourne Identity, the Bourne movies have deviated so drastically from Robert Ludlum’s source novels that, like James Bond, the film character exists separately from his written inspiration. Over the course...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, ...
One of the many, many smart decisions made by director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner when developing Lincoln was not to make it a traditional bio-pic of the 16th U.S. president. Instead, they confined the main story to a one-month ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, ...
The men in black at Columbia Pictures made the right decision when they elected not to screen Man of the House for critics. The film fails in so many ways that it's impossible to imagine it getting more than a handful of positive reviews; all but ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-02-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: Stephen Herek
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, R. Lee Ermey, Brian Van Holt, ...
Have you ever seen a tabloid headline like this: "Woman gives birth to son of six-headed alien"? Men in Black, the new science fiction comedy from cinematographer-turned-director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty), postulates that such stories are not...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-07-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, ...
Men in Black II would be a thoroughly entertaining affair if it wasn't for one thing: the plot. The annoying and pointless storyline is a constant irritant because it diverts our attention from the real reason to see this movie - the easygoing ch...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-07-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle, ...
The problem with some franchises is that the studios don't know when it's time to quit. The lackluster nature of Men in Black II should have been a hint to Sony that the Men in Black series had run its course. Now, at least ten years beyond the "s...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, ...
Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was rem...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-08-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., ...
Expecting normalcy from a Coen Brothers production is a pointless endeavor, but anticipating brilliance isn't outlandish. Their latest feature, which has about zero box office potential, provides plenty of the latter and a little of the former. It�...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, ...