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Importance of Being Earnest, The

The chief pleasure to be found in any version of Oscar Wilde's play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is the dialogue, and Oliver Parker's re-interpretation is no different. All of the great lines are here: "The very essence of romance is uncertai...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2002-05-24
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, ...
Impossible, The

The Impossible is a disaster movie. Not a Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich/Michael Bay/Jerry Bruckheimer disaster movie, but a disaster movie nonetheless. Set against the backdrop of the 2004 tsunami that devastated large portions of coastal southern As...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, ...
In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom is arguably one of the year's most anticipated independent releases - a movie whose incessant buzz at Sundance carried it at the crest of a wave to Toronto, then placed it in theaters before the end of the year. For those unable to ...

Run Time: 2:16
U.S. Release Date: 2001-11-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Todd Field
Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, ...

Whoever came up with the cliche "comedy is subjective" knew what he/she was talking about. Few things are more individual than humor. One person's Monty Python is another person's Freddy Got Fingered. This makes reviewing comedies especially hard...

In the Heart of the Sea

If you go to see Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, you will get two movies for the price of one.  The first is a rousing deep sea adventure about a ship venturing into rarely-traveled waters in search of one of the era’s most val...

Run Time: 2:01
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Themes)
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, ...
Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The

When I watch a comedy like The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, I find myself wondering whether plot and character development should be considered in an evaluation of the production. After all, the movie has been made with the intention of making peop...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Don Scardino
Cast: Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi, Olivia Wilde, ...
Incredible Hulk, The

Possible Spoilers: This review reveals some of the cameos in The Incredible Hulk. Those who wish to be surprised by these appearances would do well to stop reading now. For five years, Marvel has been trying to figure out what to do with one of ...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: 2008-06-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, ...
Incredibles, The

The Incredibles may become the first Disney/Pixar film not to dominate at the box office. That statement has nothing to do with the film's quality - in fact, The Incredibles is among the best of Pixar's digitally animated movies. However, it's go...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-05
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: (voices) Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, ...
Infiltrator, The

The story told by The Infiltrator - an undercover cop begins to confuse his true identity with that of the “character” he plays - may be familiar but the film’s tone is not. As directed by Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer), this movi...

Run Time: 2:07
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Brad Furman
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Benjamin Bratt, John Leguizamo, ...
Informant!, The

Under the control of a different director, The Informant! might have been a reasonably straightforward thriller. With Steven Soderbergh at the helm, however, this has become a whimsical, semi-comedic romp, complete with a score by Marvin Hamlisch ...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2009-09-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, ...