The 10+ rating is honest evaluation. Pete Docter directing his feature debut.
Seen it four times across decades. The 10 rating is honest evaluation.
Gladiator is the film that revived the Hollywood epic. The 9 rating is honest evaluation.
Cruel Intentions is the best classical adaptation American teen cinema has produced. The 10 rating is honest evaluation.
Seen it three times across years. The 9 rating is honest evaluation.
The 7.5 rating is honest evaluation. Taylor Kitsch as Lieutenant Alex Hopper.
Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best American thrillers of the past fifteen years and one of the most controversial mainstream films of the post-2001 perio. She became the first woman to win that award.
Young Frankenstein is one of the great American comedies and the highest achievement in Mel Brooks's filmography. Mel Brooks directed and cowrote the screenplay with Gene Wilder.
The Wreck-It Ralph duology demonstrates one of the more visible quality declines between original Disney animated production and direct sequel extension. The 2012 original delivered substantial creative achievement within video game source framework.
Nora Ephron had been one of the most accomplished American romantic comedy writers and directors of the late twentieth century. The play had been previously adapted as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan,…
Allan Heinberg wrote the screenplay from a story by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs. Patty Jenkins had previously directed Monster in 2003, the production that won Charlize Theron her Academy Award for Best Actress.
Wizards is one of the substantial adult animated productions of the late 1970s and one of the most distinctive Ralph Bakshi feature productions. He had directed Fritz the Cat in 1972, Heavy Traffic in 1973, and Coonskin in 1975 before…
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