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When it comes to favorite Christmas tales on the screen, there are probably two. There's no confusion about the first, because there is only one It's a Wonderful Life. In fact, Frank Capra's classic is so expertly wrought that no one has even att...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, David Collings, ...
With all apologies to It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is probably the best-loved, most often retold Christmas story of them all. There's something in its message of spiritual rebirth an...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, David Collings, ...
At the tender age of seven, Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc) becomes fascinated by the game of chess. Without giving up little league baseball, he learns how to play, hanging out with Vinnie (Laurence Fishburne) and a group of speed chess hustlers...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-08-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Steven Zaillian
Cast: Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, ...
To the extent that there’s a difference between “big screen cartoons” and “animated features,” The Secret Life of Pets 2 comes closer to the former than the latter on the spectrum of non-live-action motion picture entertainment. The ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-07
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Chris Renaud
Cast: Patton Oswalt, Bobby Moynihan, Dana Carvey, ...
About 20 minutes into The Secret Life of Pets, an entertaining but inconsequential animated movie, I was struck by a powerful feeling of déjà vu. It didn’t take long for me to ascertain the cause. The Secret of Pets is pretty much...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney
Cast: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, ...
One could make a compelling argument that The Secret Life of Walter Mitty does what a good remake should do: it takes the essential premise of the original and, while retaining some of the names and touchstones of its predecessor, moves in a new di...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Sean Penn, ...
In content, setting, and cast choice, The Secret of Roan Inish is a departure for writer/director John Sayles. The creative force behind such memorable and diverse films as Matewan, City of Hope, Eight Men Out, and Passion Fish, has taken pen and ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Jeni Courtney, Mick Lally, Richard Sheridan, ...
Secretariat joins Disney's pantheon of sports movies about underdogs that defy odds and become champions. Of all the movies in this group (which includes Remember the Titans, The Rookie, Invincible and Miracle), this is the least effective, in lar...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Randall Wallace
Cast: Diane Lane, Otto Thorwath, Dylan Baker, ...
Going into Selena, I didn't know or care much about the life of the late Tex-Mex singer, whose death in 1995 came just as she was attempting to break into the mainstream American pop market. As far as I was aware, Selena's tragic end was just anot...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-03-21
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jon Seda, ...
It's a curious thing that the best 1995 adaptation of a Jane Austen book happens to be of her worst novel. Sense and Sensibility was the author's first published work and, as is often the case with early writing efforts, displays an undeniable shal...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, ...