Movies with music written by Mychael Danna
Fracture is refreshingly different from the average mystery thriller in that it does not bombard the audience with "shocking" twists and "surprise" turns. This is a good thing, since those kinds of gimmicky plot elements more often than not derail...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-04-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, ...
Every actor or actress has his or her pet project - something they put their whole heart and soul into getting on the screen. For some, especially those who flirt only briefly (or not at all) with the spotlight of public adulation, this can be...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-12-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, ...
To date, no motion picture has adequately captured the soaring highs and devastating lows associated with a long distance relationship, but Going the Distance comes as close as any movie has. Nannette Burstein's feature gets many of the highlights...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-09-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Nanette Burstein
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, ...
The Good Dinosaur, although an adequate family film, lacks qualities that have made many of Pixar’s previous productions classics. Less a major animated effort than a late-autumn “filler”, the movie offers enough to enthrall childre...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-11-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Peter Sohn
Cast: (voices) Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, ...
Perceptive is the best single word I can come up with to describe The Ice Storm, Ang Lee's near-masterpiece that deconstructs the American family. For, although the film is provocative, entertaining, and impeccably crafted, its greatest streng...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, ...
If I was a teacher and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was a student's paper, I would give it an "incomplete." After all, how can one assess a project whose nature was irrevocably altered when the lead actor died? Whatever vision director Ter...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, ...
Robert Frost famously wrote, "Good fences make good neighbors," and that's one of the first phrases that comes to mind while watching Lakeview Terrace, the latest thriller from Neil LaBute. LaBute began his filmmaking career with the scathing In...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington
Life of Pi is a curious juxtaposition of the mundane and the majestic; a film that strives for something grander than what it perhaps achieves. At times, the simple story - one of spirituality and survival - exudes a quiet, hypnotic power, but ther...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Animal violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, ...
It takes a deft hand to fashion a feel-good movie with plenty of laughs and an upbeat ending out of a story that includes drug addiction, a suicide attempt, a death, Nietzsche, and Proust. Despite treading through a minefield of tone shifts, co-di...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-08-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, ...
The Man Who Invented Christmas conflates the biography of Charles Dickens (at least until 1843) with the events of one of his seminal works, A Christmas Carol. Watching the film leads one to the conclusion that, although the story might have w...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-11-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cast: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, ...