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With its kinetic style, visceral approach, compelling storyline, and powerful social message, Fight Club makes a commanding case to be considered the '90s version of A Clockwork Orange. In a time when so few motion pictures leave an impact, Fight ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-10-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, ...
Like Raging Bull, Foxcatcher is a dark drama masquerading as a sports movie. Also like Raging Bull, Foxcatcher is based on a true story. Although such comparisons risk overselling Bennett Miller's new movie, Foxcatcher isn't afraid of venturing int...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, ...
Freakonomics is a most atypical documentary indeed. Comprised of a collection of shorts by noted filmmakers Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), Seth Gordon (The King of Kong), and He...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Seth Gordon, Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Cast: Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
Alfred Hitchcock used the term "refrigerator movie" to describe certain films. According to the great director, refrigerator movies are well-paced thrillers that work effectively while being watched, but fall apart upon later examination (whil...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, ...
There seems to be little doubt that Ruben Fleischer, the director behind the well-received Zombieland and the less well-received 30 Minutes or Less, is a Brian De Palma fan. How else to explain the kinship that exists between Fleischer's latest, Ga...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-01-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, ...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo belongs to a rare genre: the literate motion picture murder mystery/thriller. (Coincidentally, I saw another good example, the Korean Mother, earlier in the week, but this one is better.) It unfolds not with the br...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-03-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Peter Haber, ...
The dark seeps out of the screen like living thing, evidence that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is more than a paycheck to director David Fincher, who has improbably affixed his own imprint on a movie that comes weighted down with possibilities a...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Daniel Craig, Geraldine James, Joely Richardson, ...
Early every autumn, there's one excellent studio movie released - a way to kick off the Oscar race and remind adult viewers that it's still possible to find intelligent, compelling movies in theaters. In 2014, that film is Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-10-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, ...
Despite the allusion in the title, Guess Who is not a remake of the classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. In fact, other than borrowing the underlying premise (girl brings home boyfriend of a different race to meet her family), there are few simil...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Cast: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, ...