Movies with music written by James Newton Howard

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After Earth

The sad truth about After Earth is that not only is it difficult to find things it does well, but there are numerous examples of outright incompetence dotting the landscape. Outside of some nice visuals, it's impossible to find a reason to recommen...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Jaden Smith, Will Smith
Atlantis

What would summer be without a new animated spectacle from Walt Disney Pictures? In recent years, the arrival of warm weather in the Northern Hemisphere has augured the coming of the latest feature-length animated saga from the mega-corporation th...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 2001-06-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED/ADVENTURE
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Cast: (voices) Michael J. Fox, Leonard Nimoy, Jacqueline Obradors, ...
Batman Begins

Of all the major comic book characters to transition to a less static visual media, none has been more mistreated than the Bat-Man. As originally envisioned by creator Bob Kane in 1939, Batman was a dark character who walked the tightrope between ...

Run Time: 2:20
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, ...
Blood Diamond

To an extent, Blood Diamond is a victim of its own length. While the film includes a number of disturbing political and sociological insights, the adventure story is tepid and loses momentum as the storyline bogs down. The main character, played b...

Run Time: 2:23
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, ...
Bourne Legacy, The

The total worldwide box office gross for the first three Jason Bourne movies (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) is nearly one billion dollars (more if adjusted for inflation). With that kind of money in play, was ther...

Run Time: 2:15
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Stacy Keach, ...
Collateral

Collateral is a classic example of how casting against type can sometimes result in a remarkable success. Here we have Tom Cruise, who has spent the majority of his career playing the good-looking, likeable, action/romantic lead, placed into the r...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2004-08-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, ...
Concussion

Regarding a concussion as a serious brain injury is a relatively recent phenomenon. For many years, “getting your bell rung” (as the expression goes) was something people were expected to shrug off. For sports, the fix was to take a coupl...

Run Time: 2:03
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Landesman
Cast: Will Smith, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, ...
Confessions of a Shopaholic

It has been a long time since I came as close to walking out of a movie as I did with Confessions of a Shopaholic. Not only did I find this production to be irritating, unfunny, and lacking in entertainment value, but I found its underlying slavis...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 2009-02-13
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, ...
Dante's Peak

Where are the flying cows when you really need them? Dante's Peak is obviously predicated on the dubious idea that bigger is better. 1996's Twister brought in hundreds of millions at the box office by showcasing relatively small (if something s...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 1997-02-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, ...
Defiance

For some reason, the Nazis are popular during the holiday season of 2008. They occupy central positions in Valkyrie and Good, flitter around the periphery of The Reader, and are rarely seen but very much present in Defiance. Edward Zwick's adapta...

Run Time: 2:17
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, ...