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For her feature debut, writer/director Zoe Cassavetes has elected to tread into territory where even the best stories feels like clichés. Broken English is competently made and features a solid performance from lead actress Parker Posey, but it's...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
Cast: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, ...
Broken Flowers shows the kind of offbeat spin that a quirky independent director like Jim Jarmusch can put on a Hollywood standby: the road picture. Using equal parts understated drama and comedy, Jarmusch takes us on a trip through the present to...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, ...
If not for the high-energy performance of lead actress Geraldine Viswanathan, The Broken Hearts Gallery would feel like a lesser ‘90s-style rom-com where following a preordained path is more important than taking the time to show two people ...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-09-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Natalie Krinsky
Cast: Geraldine Viswanathan, Dacre Montgomery, Molly Gordon, ...
Bronson, loosely based on the life of "the most violent prisoner in Britain," is more of a collage of interrelated scenes than it is a straightforward narrative. Amped up and kinetic, the film stands little chance of boring the viewer, but its sel...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Tom Hardy
With Brooklyn's Finest, director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter Michael C. Martin use the ensemble approach of Crash to tell the minimally entwined stories of three Brooklyn cops, all of whom have reached a crossroads of one kind or another. Storie...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-03-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, ...
Brothers is arguably the most successful remake of a foreign film since Martin Scorsese reworked Infernal Affairs into The Departed and won the Oscar. By remaining rigorously faithful to Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish feature, Brodre, screenwriter Dav...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, ...
The Brothers Bloom is a victim of timing. Originally slated to be released late in 2008, it was pulled by Summit Entertainment because the distributor wanted to find a more comfortable slot than the crowded end-of-the-year meat market. Instead of...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Occasional Profanity, Mild Violence, Brief Rear Female Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/COMEDY
Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, ...
Are a few good laughs worth wasting 100 minutes of time? For me, the answer is a resounding "No!" There are far more promising avenues to explore in the quest for laughter than the dead-end represented by Jim Carrey's latest endeavor, Bruce Almig...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman
Bruno allows Sacha Baron Cohen to bring another member of his rogues' gallery of misfits to the big screen. This is a worthy successor to Borat and employs the similar tactic of exploiting the stupidity, ignorance, and prejudice of Americans as a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Frontal Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten
If you're tired of conventional horror movies, try Bubba Ho-Tep, a cinematic oddity from director Don Coscarelli. Based on indisputable facts, the film finally reveals what really happened to Elvis and why so many people are reluctant to admit that...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-09-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Don Coscarelli
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy