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After decades of neutering, it’s fun to once again encounter a vampire who is bestial and monstrous. The vampires in this movie don’t sparkle when exposed to the sun, they burst into flame and die horribly. And the king of all un-dead, the leg...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-08-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Terror)
Genre: Horror
Director: Andre Ovredal
Cast: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, ...
If you were paying attention to the news in 2015, the phrase “Panama Papers” will mean something. The Laundromat is Steven Soderbergh’s expose about the release of those documents, which provided details of more than 200,000 offshore acc...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-10-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, ...
Often, when a romantic comedy fails, it's because of the lack of chemistry between the leads. In the case of Leap Year, the problem isn't the absence of chemistry but the presence of too much of the wrong kind. The sense of cold antagonism that i...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-01-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, ...
Let Me In is the English-language remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. From the beginning, there has been controversy associated with the "Hollywood-ization" of an edgy, ambiguous vampire tale because many die-hard adherents belie...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: HORROR/ROMANCE
Director: Matt Reeves
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, ...
When it comes to romantic movies, I have adopted a philosophy. All that's really required to craft an affecting love story is that the protagonists are well-developed, the actors playing them evidence a degree of sexual chemistry, and their relati...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-05-14
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave, ...
I wish there were more movies like this. Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson’s most uplifting movie to-date, may give some viewers a flashback to the days when Cameron Crowe was at the height of his powers. It’s that kind of movie: sweet and ...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Romance/Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sean Penn, ...
The best thing that can be said about Life as We Know It is that it gets some of the details right when it comes to the experience of sharing a home with an infant. Still, all the poop, vomit, sleepless nights, and cute, joyous little moments can'...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, ...
Like Crazy is a love story, but not one of those pie in the sky/love conquers all romances. Instead, it's a little more down-to-earth. It eschews Hollywood formulas and seeks to turn a less rose-tinted lens upon the concerns of the protagonists. Al...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Drake Doremus
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, ...
In the early years of the twentieth century, on a small ranch in Mexico, the story of three sisters and their repressive mother unfolds. Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena (Regina Torne), and, as such, because of a family t...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Alfonso Arau
Cast: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torne, ...
SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals a key plot element. Although the movie discloses it within the first 40 minutes, there are those who may not want to know about it. Anyone in that category is cautioned not to read past the second paragraph unti...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-03-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Brad Furman
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, ...