Movies with cinematographer Darius Khondji
If nothing else, Alien Resurrection emphasizes something that became apparent five years ago with Alien 3 -- the series hasn't only run out of steam, it's getting thin on new ideas. No one seems willing to take any chances with the franchise, ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-11-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, ...
Films can be tremendous vehicles for escapism - paths to freeing oneself from worldly concerns and considerations. They can also be a means of getting in touch with essential elements of humanity such as love, sacrifice, and mortality. Those three ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Everyone has their own coming-of-age story. For most, it has meaning for only one person; it’s rare that a coming-of-age experience translates into a universal story. Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is an example of one that does. James Gray’s Arm...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-01-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Gray
Cast: Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, ...
Let me start with a disclosure: I have not read the Alex Garland novel upon which The Beach is based, so I'm not in a position to discuss firsthand whether or not it butchers its source text (according to some reports, it does). The film represen...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, ...
Watching Cheri, I felt like someone had turned back the clock by about 15 years. The early-to-mid-1990s were a fertile time for literate, lavish adaptations of period piece literature, with frequent destinations being Europe between the early-1800...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, ...
In 1991, the creative team of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro introduced movie-goers to their nightmarish view of a post-apocalyptic world where troglodytes inhabited the underground and a butcher relied on apartment tenants to keep his meat cabin...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Cast: Daniel Emilfork, Ron Perlman, Judith Vittet, ...
As bold and dazzling a spectacle as Evita is, it's missing a soul. This brash, glitzy, energetic entertainment has the power to hold an audience enraptured, but, at the same time, there's a sense that what we're experiencing is just candy for ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, ...
Note: It is difficult to present a meaningful discussion of Funny Games without giving away major plot points. As a result, there are two reviews. This is the non-spoiler review, which limits spoilers to a bare minimum. For a more full discussio...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/HORROR
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart, ...
Note: You have reached the spoiler review for Funny Games. Click here for the non-spoiler review. We've seen the set-up before: a nice middle-class family held captive by a pair of psychopaths. This time, however, things aren't going to turn o...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/HORROR
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart, ...
The Interpreter is a cut above the average politically-based thriller. Although the events depicted in the film are fictional (as is the country in which some of the action transpires), they bear a more-than-passing resemblance to incidents that h...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, ...