Movies with screenplay written by Joshua Oppenheimer
Rarely have I felt as conflicted as I did while watching Joshua Oppenheimer’s 2012 documentary, The Act of Killing. Over the course of its nearly three-hour running time, the movie does many things, some of which are wrenching, some of which...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-07-19
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Cast: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto
The popularity of Conan the Barbarian peaked during the early 1980s, with no fewer than three monthly comic books to go along with the books and the first Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. The success of the 1982 film begot a horrible sequel, Conan the...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: FANTASY/ACTION
Director: Marcus Nispel
Cast: Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, ...
Sahara takes the action/adventure story to new heights of preposterousness. In a way, that's not a bad thing, since it allows a certain level of guilty enjoyment. You're never expected to take anything in the movie seriously, because the characte...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Breck Eisner
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn, Penelope Cruz, ...
A Sound of Thunder takes a thought-provoking science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury and turns it into a noisy, messy Hollywood action/adventure extravaganza. This approach isn't unique or inherently bad (it worked, for example, with Blade Run...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, ...