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Now that Disney has joined Fox and Dreamworks in abandoning traditional animation for that of the 3-D computer generated variety, hand-drawn animation has become an endangered species (although, given the cyclical nature of this sort of thing, it wil...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: (voices) Emily Mortimer, Jean Simmons, Christian Bale, ...
"Out of hope, out of rope, out of time." - William Cobbs in the opening narration of The Hudsucker Proxy Tim Robbins has a knack for finding his way into superior satires. After taking the lead role in Robert Altman's The Player and starring...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-03-11
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, ...
With Hugo, Martin Scorsese has accomplished what few in Hollywood are willing to try: make a movie for adults that arrives without sex, violence, or profanity and earns a PG-rating. It's a fairy tale for mature viewers, but the airy exterior hides ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-23
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, ...
There's something gentle, charming, and old-fashioned about The Hundred-Foot Journey, a family-friendly motion picture from director Lasse Hallstrom based on the book by Richard C. Morais. A non-confrontational movie about the power of food and fa...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, ...
When Paramount Pictures greenlit production for The Hunt for Red October, there was no thought of it becoming the first film in a “Jack Ryan” series. Red October, Tom Clancy’s debut as an author, became an international best-seller but wa...
U.S. Release Date: 1990-03-02
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Courtney B. Vance, Tim Curry, ...
Hats off to 20th Century Fox. Through a marketing campaign which can be considered nothing less than astonishing, the studio has managed to convert Ice Age from an adequate (but hardly superlative) example of family entertainment into one of 2002'...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-03-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Chris Wedge
Cast: (voices) Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth installment in this lamentably long-lived animated franchise, is the last Ice Age movie I intend to see. In a way, this review is superfluous. That’s because Ice Age: Collision Course isn’t a movie. Oh...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Mike Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu
Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, ...
With the Ice Age movies, you get what you expect. This is the fourth installment of a franchise that has been around since 2002. (In this case, it was decided against recasting all the voices and re-telling the first story with only a few cosmetic ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-07-13
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Steve Martino, Michael Thurmeier
Cast: (voices) Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, ...
With each release, Pixar explores new themes and ideas. Meanwhile, animation studios like Fox retread tired "franchises" like Ice Age. Never representative of more than mediocrity from a technical or story-based standpoint, the Ice Age series has...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-01
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier
Cast: (voices) Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, ...
Despite its popularity with children, Ice Age represented, at the time, a nadir for digital animation. Although entertaining, the film couldn't stand toe-to-toe with its Pixar and Dreamworks competitors. Ice Age: The Meltdown represents a further...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-03-31
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: (voices) Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, ...