Movies with music written by Elliot Goldenthal
Here’s a link to my original review of Heat, published in December 1995.At the time of its 1995 release, Heat was heralded primarily as offering the first on-screen pairing of legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Although the two had shared t...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Natalie Portman, William Fichtner, ...
Unlike many of Shakepeare's plays, "Titus Andronicus" has not always been met with universal acclaim. The first of the Bard's tragedies, "Titus Andronicus" is also his bloodiest - filled with gruesome deaths, dismemberments, and other unspeakable ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Rhys, Angus MacFadyen, ...
"It's my considered opinion that in the fullness of time, history will record the greatness of [Michael] Collins and it will be recorded at my expense." -- Eamon De Valera, President of the Republic of Ireland, 1966 Of the more than five dozen...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-10-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, ...
Unlike many of Shakepeare's plays, "Titus Andronicus" has not always been met with universal acclaim. The first of the Bard's tragedies, "Titus Andronicus" is also his bloodiest - filled with gruesome deaths, dismemberments, and other unspeakable ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Rhys, Angus MacFadyen, ...
There's something almost old-fashioned about Michael Mann's Public Enemies, a mostly factual re-telling of the descent and death of John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), one of the 1930s most infamous bank robbers. More drama than thriller, the movie does...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, ...
It's lighter, brighter, funnier, faster-paced, and a whole lot more colorful than before. There's a new actor underneath the cape, a new girlfriend on his arm, and a new partner by his side. The director is different and the composer has changed....
U.S. Release Date: 1995-06-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, ...
Computer gaming fans have two reasons to rejoice during the summer of 2001: Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. However, although both are based on best-selling software, the approach taken by the filmmakers (Simon West for Tomb Ra...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-07-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ANIMATED/FANTASY
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Cast: (voices) Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, ...
It's the nature of our society to put people on pedestals. Some wear the title of "hero" like a mantle; to others, it is an albatross. You need look no further than the O.J. Simpson story to see this. So what defines greatness? This question, i...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ron Shelton
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich
Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Mike Nicols' Wolf. Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein. Suddenly, horror of the old genre (as opposed to the '80s slasher flicks) is back with a vengeance. The latest, and arguably the most ambitious, to enter this p...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-11-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, ...
One could never argue that Across the Universe isn't ambitious. However, like many ambitious movies, this one fails spectacularly. Glenn Kenny of Premiere magazine called it "the perfect disaster" and, while I think that's a little harsh, I underst...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: MUSICAL/DRAMA
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, ...