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Gigli

I saw Gigli for much the same reason that a good portion of the movie's eventual audience will see it. Jen and Ben? No. Morbid curiosity? Yes. After all, it had become fashionable to rip Gigli. The advance word on this film was so vicious tha...

Run Time: 2:04
U.S. Release Date: 2003-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Martin Brest
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, ...
Gingerbread Man, The

Combine the talents of director Robert Altman and actors Kenneth Branagh and Robert Duvall, and you have the apparent recipe for a motion picture worth waiting for. But, although The Gingerbread Man is a finely-tuned example of mainstream entertai...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 1998-01-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., ...
Giver, The

Since Jeff Bridges optioned the rights to Lois Lowry's The Giver shortly after its 1993 publication, the tale has been on a slow track to production. Bridges, however, didn't give up and, although his original choice for the title character passed ...

Run Time: 1:34
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Brenton Thwaites, ...
Glory

Glory is, without question, one of the best movies ever made about the American Civil War (a.k.a. "The War Between the States"). The reason isn't just the way in which Kevin Jarre's script illuminates a frequent oversight of history books, nor is ...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 1989-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: WAR
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, ...
Going My Way

The success of Going My Way, a mediocre, light drama with a few songs, is a testimony to the overall popularity of the musical genre in the '30s, '40s, and '50s. There's nothing special or memorable about this overlong endeavor, the first of two m...

Run Time: 2:06
U.S. Release Date: 1994-05-03
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, ...
Gold

Rags to riches stories are a Hollywood staple. They’ve been around for as long as movies have been around because viewers love a yarn about how a ne’er-do-well, propelled by a combination of luck and hard work, makes good. It’s a dr...

Run Time: 2:01
U.S. Release Date: 2017-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Stephan Gaghan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramirez, Bryce Dallas Howard, ...
Good Night, and Good Luck

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana It's astounding that a treatment of a factual incident from five decades ago could have such powerful resonance today. Lessons learned, it seems, are not taken t...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-14
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: George Clooney
Cast: David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, ...
Good Shepherd, The

The Good Shepherd is Robert DeNiro's fictionalized account of the birth and early years of the CIA. While the names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent, many of the characters have real-life counterparts. The lengthy movie (15 minute...

Run Time: 2:45
U.S. Release Date: 2006-12-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Robert De Niro
Cast: Matt Damon, John Turturro Tammy Blanchard, William Hurt, ...
Graduate, The

Like fine wine, some film age well. The passage of years or decades does little to limit their capacity to provoke tears, laughter, or some other feeling. Then there are the vinegar vintages – movies that may be highly regarded at the time o...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, ...
Grand Budapest Hotel, The

From The Royal Tenenbaums to Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson's movies have always been quirky with exaggerated characters and surreal settings. The Grand Budapest Hotel is instantly recognizable as the director's output - it possesses all the quali...

Run Time: 1:39
U.S. Release Date: 2014-03-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/ADVENTURE
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, ...