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With each new outing, the Final Destination movies are getting better. At this rate, by the fifth or sixth entry in the series, one of them will finish the year in my Top 10. Or maybe the films' relentless pursuit of creative mayhem and murder is...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-02-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: James Wong
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chelan Simmons, Crystal Lowe, ...
Vin Diesel as a Joisey mobster? As improbable as it might sound, Diesel offers a credible turn as Giacomo 'Jackie D' DiNorscio, one of about 20 members of the Lucchese crime family to go on trial for violation of the RICO (Racketeering Influenced ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-03-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Vin Diesel, Linus Roache, Ron Silver, ...
If it's Disney (or its subsidiary, Miramax), it must be "inspired by true events." Or maybe it just seems that way. Those words, which appear in a caption at the beginning, are chose with care (more care than the similar preface to Hidalgo). Fin...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-12
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Marc Foster
Cast: Johnny Depp, Luke Spill, Dustin Hoffman, ...
Mitchell Y. McDeere (Tom Cruise) has just graduated in the top five of his class from Harvard Law School. With a record like his, there are understandably a lot of people interested in employing him. Offers abound from the large, the prestigious,...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-06-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorne, ...
It's something of a mystery how three accomplished comic actresses like Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Better Midler found themselves in the midst of an atrocious mess like The First Wives Club. My best guess is that the story looked better --...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-09-20
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Hugh Wilson
Cast: Diane Keaton, Philip Bosco, Maggie Smith, ...
Flight is about addiction. In particular, it's about the long spiral that comes between the period when a person begins imbibing too much and when he acknowledges that he no longer has control and needs help. This is valid dramatic material, but it...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-11-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, ...
Flightplan is the latest motion picture to take an intriguing premise and flush it into the septic tank. Despite the participation of selective, talented actress Jodie Foster and a screenplay that borrows heavily from The Lady Vanishes, Flightplan...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, ...
Let me say up front that I have never been especially fond of Canadian geese. Sure, they're cute when they're young, but they are long past the adorable stage when they first take to the air. Now that I've made that admission, you might be surpri...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-09-13
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Carroll Ballard
Cast: > Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, Dana Delany, ...
Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, was an observer of and participant in many of the key events of the 20th century. History has not been more kind to him than his critics have been, so McNamar...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-12-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Errol Morris
Cast:
When you think of Christopher Guest, the first thing likely to spring to mind is fake documentaries. He has made his reputation in the arena. From This Is Spinal Tap (which he co-wrote but did not direct) to A Mighty Wind, Guest has turned his came...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-11-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Christopher Guest
Cast: Catherine O'Hara, Ricky Gervais, Jane Lynch, ...