Movies with screenplay written by Matthew Michael Carnahan
Despite the “based on a true story” label, Deepwater Horizon is structured not so much as a fictionalized chronicle of actual events as it is an old-fashioned disaster movie. Although the genre has recently been overrun by apocalyptic sce...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Disaster Images)
Genre: Adventure/Drama
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, ...
The Kingdom is a police procedural with a unique - and interesting - twist. While the movie employs all of the investigative techniques we have become familiar with as a result of countless TV shows, there's a little more to this movie than CSI: Sa...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, ...
Lions for Lambs is one of those movies in which the principals talk a lot but don't say much. The film is built not upon characters and plot but upon ideas. That would be fine if the ideas were revolutionary or interesting, but they're fairly com...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Redford
Cast: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, ...
The three screenwriters (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray) credited with adapting Paul Abbott's mini-series into a motion picture have done something remarkable: reduce five hours of material into less than two hours and still produ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-04-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, ...
World War Z contains some impressive set pieces - sequences that, taken on their own, are either tense or visually arresting. As a whole, however, it's a letdown with a strange mixture of epic apocalyptic material and generic zombie stuff. The epis...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-06-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Marc Forster
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, ...