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In addition to scaring the living daylights out of millions of movie-goers and putting a cramp in the revenue stream of nearly every North American beach resort, two significant developments can be attributed to Jaws. With its more than $250 milli...
U.S. Release Date: 1975-06-20
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Brief Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, ...
Two words that come to mind when considering The Judge are generic and predictable. It's also well-intentioned and earnest (perhaps to a fault). There are some good scenes and instances of strong acting but the project as a whole is so familiar tha...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton, ...
The process of transforming beloved animated classics into live-action versions has become a modern cottage industry. This self-cannibalization has included titles like Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and now The Jungle Book (with Beauty and...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-04-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Neel Sethi, Ben Kingsley, Baloo, ...
Regardless of the genre, there’s an art to making a successful family feature. It involves crafting a storyline that’s straightforward enough to engage younger viewers yet sufficiently sophisticated that it keeps the attention of the paren...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-01-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Bullying, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Joe Cornish
Cast: Louis Ashboure Serkis, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, ...
Quentin Tarantino fans have been waiting six long years for the release of the director's follow-up to Jackie Brown. So what do they get for their patience? An incomplete movie, artlessly cleft in the middle. Cinema interruptus. A film whose ed...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-10-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, ...
Two things are readily apparent about Kill Bill Volume 2. First, unlike its predecessor, this is a complete movie. It stands on its own. It is possible to see and enjoy Volume 2 in a way that was not true of Volume 1. Viewed in retrospect, the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-04-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, ...
Legends of the Fall is the sort of epic melodrama that only Hollywood can do this well. It's a spectacle more than a show, with soaring moments of triumph and tragedy. Words like "restraint" and "subtle" are meaningless in this context. The late...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-01-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/DRAMA
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, ...
As written by Victor Hugo, the 19th century classic novel Les Miserables is a long, sprawling epic that encompasses everything from the political upheaval of post-Revolutionary France to the intimate orchestrations of the heart. Over the years, mi...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-05-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Bille August
Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, ...
Billy Wilder, one of the titans of cinema during the 1940s and 1950s, won his first Best Director Oscar for 1945's The Lost Weekend (he would go on to win another for 1960's The Apartment). Over a span of 21 years beginning in 1940 and concluding ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, ...