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In making IF, writer/director John Krasinski’s heart was almost certainly in the right place. The movie wants to be an ode to the innocent magic of childhood and how we might be in a better place as adults if we could remember those qualitie...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-05-17
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy
Director: John Krasinski
Cast: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, ...
Watching Imagine That, I was beset by a feeling of intense depression. Is this what Eddie Murphy has become? Once moviedom's most high-octane comedian, a combustible mixture of raunchy, non-holds-barred verbal repartee and kinetic physical mayhem...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-12
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Yara Shahidi, Thomas Haden Church, ...
The chief pleasure to be found in any version of Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is the dialogue, and Oliver Parker's re-interpretation is no different. All of the great lines are here: "The very essence of romance is uncertai...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-05-24
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, ...
Moody. Mournful. Slow. Languorous. Long takes. Deep colors and deeper shadows. Images that linger. All of these thoughts, observations, and impressions come to mind while watching Wong Kar-Wai’s 2000 feature, In the Mood for Love. The film w...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-02-02
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Cast:
There have been countless movies reflecting upon life in the 1960s. Most of those focus on the hippie movement, the civil rights explosion, and Vietnam. In the Shadow of the Moon reminds us that the '60s and early '70s weren't all gloom and unres...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-14
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: David Sington
Cast: Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, ...
The problem with An Inconvenient Truth isn't the message; it's the messenger. If the film's goal is to educate and warn about Global Warming, why use one of the most divisive political figures of the last decade as the spokesman? I don't have a p...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-05-26
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: Al Gore
Sequels generally exist for one of two reasons: because there’s a creative, story-based purpose or because the earlier film made a ton of money. Like most of the Pixar sequels, Incredibles 2 has been brought to the screen because Disney saw ...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-06-15
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, ...
The Incredibles may become the first Disney/Pixar film not to dominate at the box office. That statement has nothing to do with the film's quality - in fact, The Incredibles is among the best of Pixar's digitally animated movies. However, it's go...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-05
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: (voices) Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, ...
The explosive (and not entirely unexpected) success of Raiders of the Lost Ark ensured that the movie-going public would meet Indiana Jones again. And, indeed, as soon as Harrison Ford removed the mantle of Han Solo for the final time, he once aga...
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, ...
With a premise as potentially rewarding as that of Inkheart, one can be forgiven for being a little disappointed by the final result. When placed alongside other PG-rated fantasy adventure tales, this one struggles to capture the imagination. Par...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-23
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE/FANTASY
Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Hope Bennett, Paul Bettany, ...