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As bold and dazzling a spectacle as Evita is, it's missing a soul. This brash, glitzy, energetic entertainment has the power to hold an audience enraptured, but, at the same time, there's a sense that what we're experiencing is just candy for ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Alan Parker
Cast: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, ...
The Express is the latest movie to join an ever-expanding subgenre of the "sports movie" category: fact-based films that explore the impacts of integration into various contests during the latter half of the 20th century. We have already seen prod...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gary Fleder
Cast: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Darrin Dewitt Henson, ...
The question: If it looks, sounds, feels, and tastes like a Hallmark made-for-TV movie, why has Extraordinary Measures received a theatrical release? The answer: Harrison Ford. Ford doesn't do TV, or at least he hasn't since appearing in an episod...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-01-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tom Vaughan
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Keri Russell, ...
The 2009 version of Fame, which represents the feature debut of director Kevin Tancharoen (who has a few TV credits to his name, including the series "Dancelife," and was involved in a Britney Spears tour), uses the 1980 movie of the same name as i...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-09-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Cast: Naturi Naughton, Kay Penabaker, Kelsey Grammer, ...
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it… For non comic book fans over the age of 13, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is a tedious, incoherent bore. For comic book fans of any age, it is an atrocity - the cinematic desecration o...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/AVENTURE
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, ...
While it might be a stretch to claim that Fantastic Mr. Fox is "fantastic," it's easily among the year's best animated features. If there's an argument against the film (and, admittedly, it's not much of an argument), it's that the movie may not b...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-11-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: (voices) George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, ...
It’s said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. When it comes to the former, the ramifications touch more than just the individual involved. Different cultures address death differently. Despite this, however, there’s ...
No one could accuse David M. Evans of a lack of ambition. In The Final Season, he takes a standard sports cliché - the underdog team facing a big game - and grafts onto it countless mediocre subplots. There are so many, in fact, that it would tak...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-12
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: David M. Evans
Cast: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, ...
Thirteen years after Pixar sent a Dory on a hunt for Nemo, now it’s time for a little role-reversal. Finding Dory brings back many of the favorites from the 2003 animated hit, Finding Nemo, for another go-around. And, since it has been a long t...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-17
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
Cast: Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, ...
If it's Disney (or its subsidiary, Miramax), it must be "inspired by true events." Or maybe it just seems that way. Those words, which appear in a caption at the beginning, are chose with care (more care than the similar preface to Hidalgo). Fin...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-12
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Marc Foster
Cast: Johnny Depp, Luke Spill, Dustin Hoffman, ...