Movies with cinematographer Russell Carpenter
21 is a perfect example of how something that's "based" on a true story can nevertheless exist mainly in the realm of fiction. While it's true that the source material for the movie, Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House relates events that actuall...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, ...
Ant-Man, as obscure a superhero title as has been released since the inception of the so-called "MCU" (Marvel Cinematic Universe), may test the perception that Marvel can do no wrong. The general public knows Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain A...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-07-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, ...
It’s finally here. After years of missed release dates related to postproduction issues, James Cameron’s oft-delayed sequel to 2009’s Avatar has finally arrived. Was it worth the 13-year wait? Unquestionably. It’s difficult to overstate ho...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-12-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Partial Nudity)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, ...
As is often true of "high concept" movies like this one, the most interesting aspect - the hook that gets us into the theater - does little more than add some color. Awake, the writing/directing debut of Joby Harold (who might not be given another...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joby Harold
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, ...
When Charlie's Angels first hit the TV airwaves in the 1976-77 season, it was a national phenomenon. Every Wednesday night, millions of household sets would be tuned into ABC for the further adventures of the three "legs" of millionaire private in...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-11-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: McG
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Sam Rockwell, Luke Wilson, ...
Take a deep breath and prepare to suspend your disbelief, because in bringing us this summer's first (and probably only) pure action film, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo have given new meaning to the word "preposterous". Chance Boudreaux (Va...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-08-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: John Woo
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, ...
Jobs could have been so much more but the desire to rush it into production and get it out fast (it started filming about six months after the ex-Apple CEO's death) has transformed it into a missed opportunity. A standard-order, scattershot bio-pic...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-08-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, ...
One of my fears when watching movies about characters coping with cancer is that they will turn into Lifetime disease-of-the-week melodramas: shallow, plot-by-numbers chronologies of the disease's progression that become either manipulative tear-je...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nicole Kassell
Cast: Kate Hudson, Gael Garcia Bernal, Peter Dinklage, ...
Monster-in-Law is appalling misfire of a comedy - a motion picture that takes a situation ripe for the blackest vein of satire and reduces it to a puerile and edgeless pile of goo. Forgive me for a moment if I bemoan the lost potential here. Give...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, ...
Since they burst upon the motion picture scene with Dumb and Dumber, the Farrelly Brothers, Bobby and Peter, have been known as the Kings of Vulgar Comedy. So, given the Farrellys' reputation and a title with the word "shallow" in it, one might ea...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-11-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, ...