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Random thoughts about 2024, including the Top 10. (Excerpted from end-of-the-year essays originally published at the ReelViews Patreon site.)

Ride with the Devil

Most Civil War films - and there have been quite a few over the years - have a tendency to skew their perspective towards the Northern viewpoint. It's not hard to understand why - the old South may have been North America's final refuge for a gent...

Run Time: 2:15
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: WESTERN
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, ...
Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill is the third movie in which screen icons Robert De Niro and Al Pacino both appear, but only the second in which they share screen time. 13 years ago, Michael Mann scored a coup by filming the first scene with these two sitting oppos...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson, ...
Road, The

The Road is undoubtedly one of the fall's most anticipated offerings, in part because it has been lingering on the horizon of the cinematic landscape for a year. Originally scheduled for a release in late 2008, it was delayed when filmmaker John H...

Run Time: 1:59
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: John Hillcoat
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, ...
Robert the Bruce

Robert the Bruce could be seen as a sort-of unofficial sequel to 1995’s Braveheart; in both films, Angus Macfadyen plays the role of the 14th century King of Scotland. The new movie, which Macfadyen co-wrote, transpires between one and two y...

Run Time: 2:04
U.S. Release Date: 2020-04-24
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Gray
Cast: Angus Macfadyen, Anna Hutchinson, Zach McGowan, ...
Roman de Gare (Cross Tracks)

The term "Hitchcockian" has become overused in recent years, but here is a movie to which it deserves to be applied. Roman de Gare is the most recent motion picture from veteran French director Claude Lelouch, and it's easily his best work in over...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, ...
Rosewater

Jon Stewart takes the true story of Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari, who was held captive and subjected to deprivation and interrogation in Iran for 118 days during 2009, and injects elements of wit and humor into an otherwise brutal tale. By det...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Jon Stewart
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Shohreh Aghdashloo, ...
RRR

Although some aspects of RRR may seem foreign to mainstream North American movie-goers, the meat of the tale – an epic adventure featuring two mighty figures – is the kind of thing that American motion pictures used to do well. RRR tosses asid...

Run Time: 3:07
U.S. Release Date: 2022-03-25
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Cast: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, ...
Ruby in Paradise

When Ruby Lee Gissing (Ashley Judd, the daughter of country singer Naomi Judd, and younger sister to Wynonna) makes it out of her Tennessee home town "without getting pregnant or beat up," she considers it quite a feat. With all her belongings in ...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Victor Nunez
Cast: Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, ...
Rum Diary, The

There are times when the story behind the making of a film is more interesting than the finished product. This is one of those occasions. The Rum Diary was written by Hunter S. Thompson in the 1960s but was not published until 1998, after actor Joh...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, ...