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Captain America: The Winter Soldier represents the first film from Marvel Studios since The Avengers to capture the true superhero spirit: plenty of derring-do, action, adventure, and an ending that doesn't fall apart. A sequel to 2011's Captain Am...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-04-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, ...
Welcome to "Spoilerville." Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie trod a precarious line between exploitative horror and serious social commentary. On the one hand, the movie represented the ultimate revenge fantasy for bullie...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-10-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Disturbing Images)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, ...
Considering the rancid, nightmarish quality of his books, it's somewhat amazing that a writer like British author Ian McEwan could have three of his works filmed by now. In addition to The Cement Garden, The Comfort of Strangers has been made into...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Andrew Birkin
Cast: Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coultard, ...
It's a curious thing. Whenever this much talent is assembled for a motion picture, the result inevitably seems to be a letdown. And to say that Charlie Wilson's War is topheavy with talent is to understate the matter. The cast features three Osc...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Violence, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, ...
It’s refreshing to find a teen romance that doesn’t feel obligated to end with a confession of undying affection. In real life, which Chemical Hearts seeks to emulate, high school love affairs may result in fumbling in the dark, loss of vi...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Richard Tanne
Cast: Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, ...
Watching Cheri, I felt like someone had turned back the clock by about 15 years. The early-to-mid-1990s were a fertile time for literate, lavish adaptations of period piece literature, with frequent destinations being Europe between the early-1800...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-06-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, ...
For the second installment of The Chronicles of Narnia, director Andrew Adamson has caught a severe case of Lord of the Rings-itis. While the 2005 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe kept close to the tone of the book, Prince Caspia...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: William Moseley, Liam Neeson (voice), Vincent Grass, ...
As the bean counters toil, Eustace waits. So does Jill. And Polly and Digory, too. Walden Media has optioned all seven of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia books, but whether the other six (or, more likely, five - since The Horse and His Boy seem...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-09
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, ...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is fantasy-lite. With its PG rating and aversion to anything shocking or overly grotesque, it's the bastard stepchild of The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. A dull, meandering storyline an...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-12-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Will Poulter, ...
Is it too much to ask that a narrative film have a beginning, a middle, and an end? Apparently in the case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, a loose adaptation of Darren Shan's Vampire Blood trilogy, the answer is "yes." Developed with...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE/HORROR
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Chris Massoglia, Salma Hayek, Willem Dafoe, ...