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Good Bye, Lenin!

There's certainly no shortage of rich threads woven into the tapestry of Good Bye, Lenin! Wolfgang Becker's movie (produced by Stefan Arndt, who has been involved in everything by Tom Tykwer, from Run Lola Run to Heaven) offers the touching story ...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2004-02-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Wolfgang Becker
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Kathrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, ...
Greatest Movie Ever Sold, The

It's probably a safe assumption that everyone reading this review is aware of the incestuous relationship that exists between advertising and movies. It's more than a company paying a fee to have a product appear on-screen; there's cross-marketing,...

Run Time: 1:30
U.S. Release Date: 2011-04-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Cast: Morgan Spurlock
Hurlyburly

Hurlyburly is a talky film - the entire movie is constructed around lengthy sequences of dialogue where the characters talk and talk and talk, often saying nothing. However, because the vocal rhythms are so perfect, the words are so well-chosen, a...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Drugs, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Anthony Drazan
Cast: Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright Penn, ...
Hustle & Flow

Hustle & Flow takes a clich? and imbues it with new life through the virtues of directorial flair and talented acting. For most of its running time, Hustle & Flow follows familiar patterns, deviating only during a third act that brings the street'...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs, Brief Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Terrence Dashon Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, ...
Hysteria

Hysteria's "hook" is that it chronicles the development of one of the 20th century's most popular home appliances: the vibrator. However, although the details surrounding the deplorable state of women's medicine during the Victorian era are intrigu...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Tanya Wexler
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, ...
I've Loved You So Long

I've Loved You So Long is a meditative French drama about awakening from a metaphorical death. It's about how a shared past can inform present expectations and about whether relationships can bridge a gulf of years and extend beyond a tragedy that...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Philippe Claudel
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, ...
Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The

If I was a teacher and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was a student's paper, I would give it an "incomplete." After all, how can one assess a project whose nature was irrevocably altered when the lead actor died? Whatever vision director Ter...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, ...
In the Company of Men

In the Company of Men is one of those rarest of rare breeds -- a movie that doesn't just ignore Hollywood conventions, but openly flouts them. The film, which premiered to great critical acclaim at 1997's Sundance Film Festival, initially had trou...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 1997-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards
Inconvenient Truth, An

The problem with An Inconvenient Truth isn't the message; it's the messenger. If the film's goal is to educate and warn about Global Warming, why use one of the most divisive political figures of the last decade as the spokesman? I don't have a p...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2006-05-26
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: Al Gore
Interview

Interview is a remake of the 2003 Theo Van Gogh film of the same name. Van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004 by a Muslim extremist, had planned to helm the English-language version himself. In his absence, Steve Buscemi stepped in. The finished prin...

Run Time: 1:25
U.S. Release Date: 2007-07-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Steve Buscemi
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Sienna Miller