Movies with music written by Craig Armstrong
Spoilers: This review contains spoilers for those who haven’t read the source material and/or don’t know where the story is going. There are bad tearjerkers and good tearjerkers. There are Nicolas Sparks films and movies like Me Before...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, ...
Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge is a rigorously accurate historical account of events that occurred during the period between 1899 and 1900 in Paris' infamous Moulin Rouge nightclub. Luhrmann's meticulously researched motion picture uncovers several s...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-05-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: MUSICAL/ROMANCE
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, ...
Must Love Dogs is a product - a pre-packaged, easily-digestible motion picture designed with one particular audience in mind. You know the kind of film. You have seen it before, usually with names like Nancy Myers or Nora & Delia Ephron involved....
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Gary David Goldberg
Cast: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, ...
Taylor Hackford's Ray has a tremendous performance by Jamie Foxx and a soundtrack that is jammed with recordings by the late Ray Charles, but both work in service of a paint-by-numbers screenplay that runs too long and could have been developed in ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-10-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Drugs, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Richard Schiff, Curtis Armstrong, ...
Few would debate that the story of Edward Snowden’s life is as compelling as it is controversial. Based on Oliver Stone’s biopic, Snowden, it would also seem to be inherently non-cinematic. By opting to go with a straightforward account o...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Rhys Ifans, ...
It’s amazing that, two years in a row, a movie with the name “Frankenstein” in the title will claim a spot of dishonor on my “Turkeys of the Year” list. In many ways, 2015’s Victor Frankenstein is an even worse mov...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-11-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Horror
Director: Paul McGuigan
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Andrew Scott, ...
There are times when iconic characters should be left alone to bask in the glory of a single appearance and, unfortunately, that's the case with Gordon Gekko. The supremely charismatic, magnetically villainous central figure from Oliver Stone's 19...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-09-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, ...
Turning back the calendar to the morning of September 11, 2001 is a risky proposition for any director, and not to be undertaken lightly. Paul Greengrass succeeded brilliantly with his United 93 and now Oliver Stone, never one to back away from a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-08-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Jay Hernandez, ...