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Purge, The: Election Year

The Purge: Election Year represents writer/director James DeMonaco’s attempt to squeeze one more movie out of a premise that has run dry. The first movie of the series offered little more than The Concept - an alternate universe tale that took ...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: James DeMonaco
Cast: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, ...
Raid, The: Redemption

When it comes to The Raid: Redemption, there are no pretentions. Pure and simple, this is about violence. As we used to say, "kickin' ass and takin' names." The body count is ridiculously high. Not three-digit high, but getting close. Yet, because ...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 2012-03-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Doni Alamsya, ...
Raya and the Last Dragon

Distilled to its essence, Raya and the Last Dragon could best be called “quintessential Disney” in that it incorporates many of the tropes viewers have come to associate with the Magic Kingdom’s generic animated films. Although the film�...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 2021-03-05
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Director: Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada
Cast: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Izaac Wang, ...
Rhythm Section, The

Sign #1 that there might be something wrong with a film: its release date has been pushed back twice. Sign #2 that there might be something wrong with a film: the final release date is in January. With those two strikes against it, The Rhythm ...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2020-01-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Reed Morano
Cast: Blake Lively, Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, ...
Road to Perdition, The

Tom Hanks as a cold-blooded hit man? Say it ain't so, Forrest! Over the course of his illustrious career, which is well into its third decade, Hanks has played a cross-dresser, a man infatuated by a mermaid, the manager of a women's baseball te...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2002-07-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Sam Mendes
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, ...
Rules of Attraction, The

Once you get past all of the wild camera tricks and visual gimmickry, you arrive at the core of The Rules of Attraction and find out that it's really about something other than replicating the party life at a New England college. Working from his ...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: 2002-10-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Roger Avary
Cast: James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, ...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Arguably, the biggest hurdle to clear for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is its title. Let's be frank - how many viewers will be excited by the prospect of seeing a movie about salmon fishing in the Middle East? And the name is neither allegorical nor...

Run Time: 1:47
U.S. Release Date: 2012-03-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/DRAMA
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas, ...
Scorpion King, The

Watching The Scorpion King, the question that came to mind was whether Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson could become a Schwarzenegger for the '00s. Having asked that, however, it's worth considering whether Schwarzenegger in his prime could have had th...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: 2002-04-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Chuck Russell
Cast: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Steven Brand, Kelly Hu, ...
Season of the Witch

It's the 14th century somewhere in the middle of Europe. In the name of verisimilitude, the filmmakers of Season of the Witch have covered everyone with dirt and filmed only at night and on cloudy days. At times, it looks like Monty Python and the ...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2011-01-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Dominic Sena
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, ...
Sessions, The

Back toward the beginning of her career, a then- 29 year old Helen Hunt appeared in a movie called The Waterdance. The film dealt frankly with the way disability impacted the sexual relationship between her character and the one played by Eric Stol...

Run Time: 1:31
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ben Lewin
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, ...