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The career aspirations of Mathilda (Natalie Portman) aren't those of the average 12-year old girl. Instead of wanting to be a doctor, fashion model, teacher, lawyer, or nuclear physicist, Mathilda has decided to follow in the footsteps of her best...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-11-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, ...
Repo Men feels like it was cobbled together using pieces of other, often better motion pictures. I could provide a list of titles but it would be more comprehensive simply to state that if a movie is set on a less-than-optimistic future Earth, some...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-03-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, ...
Secretary is just your regular, garden-variety romantic comedy with heavy doses of S&M/B&D. For those used to Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks exchanging chaste kisses, the content of this motion picture is going to seem awfully far out on the proverbial li...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-09-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Steven Shainberg
Cast: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, ...
Back toward the beginning of her career, a then- 29 year old Helen Hunt appeared in a movie called The Waterdance. The film dealt frankly with the way disability impacted the sexual relationship between her character and the one played by Eric Stol...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ben Lewin
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, ...
There’s a trick to doing a psychological thriller right. Hitchcock understood it. So did Chabrol and the Coens. Paul Feig, however, needs to brush up a little more on his technique. Tone is one of the biggest problems with A Simple Favor, a...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-09-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Paul Feig
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, ...
“Someday, my prince will come…” So sang Adriana Caelotti in the Depression-era classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the film that proved Walt Disney was more than Mickey Mouse. Some 90 years later, amidst a wave of cash-grabs that have ...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-03-21
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Musical
Director: Marc Webb
Cast: Rachel Zegler, George Salazar, Jason Kravits, ...
Stepmom is the kind of bad movie that can be blamed on just about everyone involved except, perhaps, the actors. There's nothing wrong with any of the performances, although they're wasted in the service of inferior material. The script is a mish...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris, ...