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They say the third time's a charm. In the case of the Scream movie series, the Wes Craven/Kevin Williamson collaboration credited for having revived the slasher genre in the '90s, this cliché proves to be a falsehood. The most recent (and hopefu...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Neve Campbell, Deon Richmond, Emily Mortimer, ...
Eleven years after Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and her posse last tangled with a mad slasher/killer, the Scream series has been exhumed. Ignoring or forgetting that the final part of the original trilogy, Scream 3, underwhelmed in terms of pop...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-04-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, ...
When it comes to period piece dramas, whether or not based on true-life characters and events, few countries accomplish these productions better than France. Séraphine, which chronicles slices from the life of 20th century painter Séraphine de S...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-05
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur
Serendipity is a romantic comedy from British director Peter Chelsom (Hear My Song, The Mighty) that pairs quirky, likable John Cusack with rising star Kate Beckinsale. All of the usual adjectives apply: sweet, cute, delightful, romantic, etc. Alas...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-10-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Peter Chelsom
Cast: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, ...
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, ...
Had Seventh Son been released in the 1980s, it would have been deemed an adequate - perhaps even good - fantasy adventure. However, in the three decades since Conan the Barbarian and Dragonslayer defined the genre's best big screen attempts, ther...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-02-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, ...
In 1998, there have been two films about space debris on a collision course with Earth, two animated insect movies, and now two tales about life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Granted, there's a yawning chasm in tone between the dark, treach...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: John Madden
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, ...
The Shallows is almost a good movie. It misses by this much (hold thumb and index finger apart by an inch). For 75 of its 85 minutes, it’s a gripping woman-against-nature tale with tough, determined Nancy (Blake Lively) facing her own infirmiti...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller/Adventure
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Blake Lively
With something as controversial as Shortbus, you can never get a sense of what you're in for based on word-of-mouth, especially when there's no consensus. Some think it's a masterpiece (or nearly so). Others think it's an abomination. Such a divisi...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-10-06
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy, ...
John Woo directing a revenge-themed thriller…what could be more perfect? After all, Woo is a living legend for his acclaimed action films, The Killer and Hard Boiled, even if his English-language movies haven’t been on quite the same level. St...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Bloody Violence, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: John Woo
Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kid Cudi, ...