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In Private Life, writer/director Tamara Jenkins speaks as if from experience, capturing not only the precise technical details of her subject but accurately representing the roller coaster that is IVF. For those who haven’t gone through the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, ...
My lack of enthusiasm about the 1977 theatrical feature, Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, makes me feel a little like a Scrooge or a Grinch. The sad truth is, however, that as important as the Peanuts Gang was to those growing up in the ‘6...
U.S. Release Date: 1977-08-24
MPAA Rating: ""
Genre: Animated
Director:
Cast: Duncan Watson, Stuart Brotman, Gail Davis, ...
Rebel in the Rye, which tells the story of author J.D. Salinger, falls into the pernicious trap that ensnares many a bio-pic: trying to present too broad a chronology in too limited a time. Utilizing an unwieldy structure that involves a flash...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, War Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Danny Strong
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, ...
When it comes to movies that touch the heart, few have a more delicate yet undeniable impact than Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Secret Life of Bees. Adapted from the novel by Sue Monk Kidd, the production achieves something few literary interpretati...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifa, Jennifer Hudson, ...
To the extent that there’s a difference between “big screen cartoons” and “animated features,” The Secret Life of Pets 2 comes closer to the former than the latter on the spectrum of non-live-action motion picture entertainment. The ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-07
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Chris Renaud
Cast: Patton Oswalt, Bobby Moynihan, Dana Carvey, ...
About 20 minutes into The Secret Life of Pets, an entertaining but inconsequential animated movie, I was struck by a powerful feeling of déjà vu. It didn’t take long for me to ascertain the cause. The Secret of Pets is pretty much...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney
Cast: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, ...
One could make a compelling argument that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty does what a good remake should do: it takes the essential premise of the original and, while retaining some of the names and touchstones of its predecessor, moves in a new di...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, ...
James Marsh's The Theory of Everything is an unremarkable bio-pic about a remarkable man. Its ordinariness is in large part compensated for by an extraordinary performance from lead actor Eddy Redmayne. Those looking for a chronology of the life of...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-11-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Adult Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Eddy Redmayne, Felicity Jones, David Thewlis
This Boy's Life is based on the autobiographical book by Syracuse University professor Tobias Wolff. It tells of his early life in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Concrete, Washington. Tobias (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mother, Caroline (Ellen Barki...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-04-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin
Haunting and disturbing, Time is the kind of motion picture that gets under your skin and doesn't let go. It lingers long after the final credits have rolled and, for those who see it with friends, it will provoke endless post-movie discussions. A ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-07-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Kim Ki-duk
Cast: Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-yun, Sung Hyun-ah