ReelViews for R movies
"What this film does for the drag scene is what Sean Connery did for the secret service. It glamorizes it." - Michael Hamlyn, producer of Priscilla The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is about the most fun you can have with...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Stephan Elliot
Cast: Terrence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, ...
"A few years ago, a friend sent me a book about the prosecution of animals in the Middle Ages... These trials read like modern courtroom dramas. Since the animals were given a full defense counsel and were prosecuted with the whole rigor of the la...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Leslie Magahey
Cast: Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Nicol Williamson, ...
Writer/director Paul Schrader has always been fascinated by the line between sanity and madness, and what it takes to push a man over the edge. This theme stands out in two of Schrader's best known scripts, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, both of whi...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, ...
Over the past 15 years with Lars von Trier as its poster boy, Danish cinema has gained an international reputation as cynical and severe. The humor is grim, the drama is grimmer, and the production values are ascetic. So After the Wedding is a fr...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård, Sidse Babett Knudsen, ...
I admire filmmakers who take chances and defy expectations. Admittedly, that sort of thing doesn't always work, and there are flaws aplenty in After.Life, but the criss-crossing between drama, thriller, and horror is nothing if not arresting. It ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-04-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Content, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: HORROR/DRAMA
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Cast: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long, ...
Although it’s being marketed as a love story, The Aftermath is more about grief and recovery than romance. In fact, the film’s illicit relationship is a cold, passionless affair that generates as much heat as a dying ember in a snowstorm. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-03-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Kent
Cast: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, ...
Professional sports are a mixture of athletic achievements and multibillion-dollar business elements. When it comes to sports-based movies, the vast majority focus on the former, often paying lip-service (if that) to the latter. Air joins the like...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, ...
If you take away Albert Nobbs' twist, all that's left is a project that would have been at home on Masterpiece Theater during its heyday. It's the "downstairs" portion of Upstairs, Downstairs - a tale of servants and service during the twilight of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Rodrigo Garcia
Cast: Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson, ...
To sum up Alexander in three words, I would choose the following: three-hour miscalculation. Although some aspects of Oliver Stone's sword-and-sandals epic are worthy of mention (and even praise), they are dwarfed by the missteps and examples of b...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, ...
When it comes to movies about dysfunctional family relationships and emotionally damaged individuals, few active filmmakers do a better job than veteran French director André Techiné (whose films, especially Wild Reeds, have been modest art-house...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-08-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Andre Téchiné
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret, Mathieu Amalric, ...