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No American animated studio has been as successful developing films that work on multiple levels as Disney/Pixar. From the beginning, they have been interested in telling stories that equally engage children and adults. Consider Toy Story 3, for exam...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-06-19
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen
Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, ...
Inside Out 2 is about the best one could hope from for a sequel to a movie whose main selling point was its unconventional perspective. The original Inside Out worked brilliantly because of its freshness but that quality is diminished in the follo...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-06-14
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animation
Director: Kelsey Mann
Cast: Kensington Tallman, Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, ...
Into the Woods left me out in the cold. The long-gestating cinematic adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's fairy tale-infused Broadway musical, Into the Woods can claim a clever screenplay and a few enjoyable performances but little else. The generic ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, ...
One corner of the genre of sports clichés is devoted to true stories of overachieving underdogs. In recent years, Disney has repeatedly raided this area, creating one inspiring story after another, most of which (like Remember the Titans and The R...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-08-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ericson Core
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, ...
Over the past few years, as studios like Disney, Dreamworks, and Fox have worked to revive motion picture animation, Warner Brothers has remained mired in the lackluster morass that nearly killed animation during the '80s. The distributor's big ef...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-08-06
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: (voices) Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Jennifer Aniston, ...
Almost everything that was true of 1993's Nightmare Before Christmas holds for 1996's James and the Giant Peach. Based (rather faithfully) on Roald Dahl's children's story, this movie uses a combination of live-action sequences and stop-motion an...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-04-12
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED/ADVENTURE
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margoyles, ...
In an era when movies are again turning to classic literature for inspiration, it was only a matter of time before a new version of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre reached the screen. One of the best-loved of all the Victorian novels, Jane Eyre combi...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-04-05
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, William Hurt, Joan Plowright, ...
In addition to scaring the living daylights out of millions of movie-goers and putting a cramp in the revenue stream of nearly every North American beach resort, two significant developments can be attributed to Jaws. With its more than $250 milli...
U.S. Release Date: 1975-06-20
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Brief Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, ...
WARNING! Heavy spoilers ahead! Beginning with the fifth paragraph, this review reveals details about key plot points and the endings of both Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. Proceed at your own risk. Although released with a three mon...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-06-26
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, ...
Jesus Revolution takes a fascinating period of American history – the hippie movement and its associated fallout within the Christian community – and transforms it into a bland, TV movie-of-the-week experience. While neither badly made (the pe...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-04-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Erwin, Brent McCorkle
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, ...