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R.I.P.D.

Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, Mary-Louise Parker, Marisa Miller, Robert Knepper, James Hong, Mike O'Malley, Devin Ratray, Kachina Dechert, Catherine Kresge, Larry Joe Campbell, Josh Sussman, Alexandra East
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Studio: Universal Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 5.4 (10,271 votes)
Release: Jul 2013
Summary: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.
 

Rabbit Hole

Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart
Genre: Television
Studio: Lionsgate
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.0 (29,932 votes)
Release: Apr 2011
Summary: What happens after the unthinkable happens? "Rabbit Hole", based on the Tony-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire and deftly directed by John Cameron Mitchell, slowly reveals the answer: something else unthinkable. "Rabbit Hole" is a moving, dark character study of what happens to a happily married couple, Becca and Howie (Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart), who suddenly lose the love of their life, their 4-year-old son. As in real life, the grief portrayed in "Rabbit Hole" takes peculiar twists and turns, and the deep sorrow and tragedy of the story is leavened by dark humor--much of it coming from Kidman. While "Rabbit Hole" is not an upbeat film, it's emotionally resonant in the ways of some of the best films on similar subjects--like "Ordinary People", "Revolutionary Road", "In the Bedroom". Both Kidman and Eckhart bring true humanity to roles that could have been one-dimensional. Kidman, especially, rejects the platitudes offered by the grievance support groups and well-meaning friends. When one acquaintance explains the loss of her own child as, "God needed another angel," Kidman's Becca snaps. "Then why wouldn't He have just made another angel? He's God, after all. Why not just "make" another angel?" The beauty and power of "Rabbit Hole" comes from showing how Becca and Howie make it back to a life they can bear--and, just maybe, to each other. The excellent supporting cast includes Sandra Oh (another member of the support group) and Dianne Wiest as Becca's mom, who's been through something similar. Everything about "Rabbit Hole" feels genuine, almost delicate, from the cinematography to the gentle but extremely moving score. "Rabbit Hole" is one of the most moving dramas and one of the saddest films a viewer will feel gratified to embrace. --"A.T. Hurley"
 

The Raid: Redemption

Director: Gareth Evans
Starring: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Donny Alamsyah, Yayan Ruhian, Pierre Gruno
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Studio: Pt. Merantau Films
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 8.0 (19,697 votes)
Release: Apr 2012
Summary: In the Jakarta slums, a derelict apartment building has become a no-go area - even the police are unwilling to enter. It has become a safe-house for the most dangerous killers and gangsters. A SWAT team infiltrate the building, under the cover of darkness, to remove its owner - a notorious drug lord named Tama.
 

Raising Arizona

Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Frances McDormand
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Fox Home Entertainme
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.5 (12 votes)
Release: Aug 2002
Summary: "Blood Simple" made it clear that the cinematically precocious Coen brothers (writer-director Joel and writer-producer Ethan) were gifted filmmakers to watch out for. But it was the outrageously farcical "Raising Arizona" that announced the Coens' darkly comedic audacity to the world. It wasn't widely seen when released in 1987, but its modest audience was vocally supportive, and this hyperactive comedy has since developed a large and loyal following. It's the story of "Ed" (for Edwina, played by Holly Hunter), a policewoman who falls in love with "Hi" (for H.I. McDonnough, played by Nicolas Cage) while she's taking his mug shots. She's infertile and he's a habitual robber of convenience stores, and their folksy marital bliss depends on settling down with a rug rat. Unable to conceive, they kidnap one of the newsworthy quintuplets born to an unpainted-furniture huckster named Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), who quickly hires a Harley-riding mercenary (Randall "Tex" Cobb) to track the baby's whereabouts. What follows is a full-throttle comedy that defies description, fueled by the Coens' lyrical redneck dialogue, the manic camerawork of future director Barry Sonnenfeld, and some of the most inventively comedic chase scenes ever filmed. Some will dismiss the comedy for being recklessly over-the-top; others will love it for its clever mix of slapstick action, surreal fantasy, and homespun family values. One thing's for sure--this is a Coen movie from start to finish, and that makes it undeniably unique. "--Jeff Shannon"
 

Rambo

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Lionsgate
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: R
Release: May 2008
Summary: John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand. On the nearby Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year. But Rambo, who lives a solitary life in the mountains, has long given up fighting. That all changes when a group of human rights missionaries search out John Rambo. When Sarah and Michael Bennett approach him, they explain that since last year's trek to the refugee camps, the Burmese military has laid landmines along the road. They ask Rambo to guide them up the Salween and drop them off, so they can deliver medical supplies and food to the Karen tribe. Rambo takes them, dropping off Sarah, Michael and the aid workers. Less than two weeks later, pastor Arthur Marsh finds Rambo and tells him the aid workers did not return and the embassies have not helped locate them. The lone warrior knows what he must do.
 

Rambo III

Director: Peter MacDonald
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc de Jonge, Kurtwood Smith, Spiros Focás
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Lions Gate
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.8 (73 votes)
Release: Nov 1988
Summary: The third entry in the ultra-macho Rambo action movie series finds muscle-bound warrior John Rambo (co-writer and star Sylvester Stallone) refusing a request from his former Vietnam superior, Green Beret Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna). Trautman is to lead a mission to aid the mujahedeen rebels fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns his friend down. When the mission goes awry and Trautman is subsequently captured and tortured within a prison fortress, Rambo launches a rescue effort of his own, armed with his trademark bow and exploding arrows. Along the way, he allies himself with the freedom fighters and runs afoul of the villainous Russian commander Zaysen (Marc de Jonge). At the time of its release, Rambo III -- released in the same month in 1988 that Russian troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan -- was the most expensive film ever made, at 63 million dollars. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
 

Rambo: First Blood

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Lions Gate
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.6 (113,573 votes)
Release: Nov 1982
Summary: John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but what Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested, as he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff's department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand. - John Wiggins
 

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Steven Berkoff, Julia Nickson-Soul
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Studio: Lions Gate
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.2 (75,481 votes)
Release: May 1985
Summary: The dark-horse box-office hit First Blood spawned this even more successful sequel in which Sylvester Stallone, reprising his role as ex-Green Beret loner John Rambo, is extricated from prison by his former superior Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna) for a top-secret operation to bring back POWs still held in Vietnam. Teamed up with a female Vietnamese freedom fighter (Julia Nickson), Rambo embarks on a "reconnaissance" mission. A love interest develops in the beautiful young guide -- she dies by enemy fire; he seeks revenge. Of course, there are also corrupt American officials behind the mission, and Rambo saves them for last. Over the course of the film, Rambo kills enough communist bad guys to fill the Rose Bowl, using everything from fishing line to exploding arrowheads to rocket launchers. Stallone mumbles, grunts, and groans his way through this laughable and often insulting film intended to exploit anti-communist fervor at the height of the Reagan years. ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi
 

Rampart

Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jon Bernthal, Stella Schnabel, Jon Foster, Ben Foster
Genre: Crime, Drama
Studio: Lightstream Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.0 (2,533 votes)
Release: Feb 2012
Summary: Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.
 

Rapture-Palooza

Director: Paul Middleditch
Starring: Anna Kendrick, John Francis Daley, Ken Jeong, Rob Corddry, Thomas Lennon, Tyler Labine, Ana Gasteyer, Paul Scheer, Craig Robinson
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Jun 2013
Summary: Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.
 

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Director: Jalmari Helander
Starring: Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila, Tommi Korpela, Rauno Juvonen, Per Christian Ellefsen
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Studio: Agnès b. Productions
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.7 (12,655 votes)
Release: Dec 2010
Summary: On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there's Santa's elves, who are determined to free their leader...
 

Ratatouille

Director: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
Starring: Ian Holm, Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Studio: Walt Disney Video
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 8.0 (281,808 votes)
Release: Jun 2007
Summary: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.
 

Raze

Director: Josh C. Waller
Starring: Zoë Bell, Rachel Nichols, Tracie Thoms, Sherilyn Fenn, Doug Jones, Bruce Thomas, Rebecca Marshall, Adrienne Wilkinson, Allene Quincy, Bailey Anne Borders, Nicole Steinwedell, Jordan James Smith, Tara Macken, Amy Johnston, Victoria Cruz, Olivia Harewood, Brianna Gage
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Studio: Cinipix
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 5.0 (346 votes)
Release: Apr 2013
Summary: After Sabrina is abducted, she finds herself in an underground lair, forced to do battle with other innocent women for the amusement of unseen spectators. Each of these reluctant warriors has something to lose, but only one will remain when the game is done.
 

Real Genius

Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, Jon Gries
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Delphi III Productions
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.8 (17,139 votes)
Release: Aug 1985
Summary: An underrated little picture, "Real Genius" offers a rare college comedy that doesn't rely on gross-out humor--and a look at Val Kilmer before he turned into a star. A high school whiz kid (Gabriel Jarret) arrives at a brainy college, where the crème de la crème of the science students are marshaled under an ambitious professor (expert villain William Atherton). Unbeknownst to them, the kids are working on a weapons system that the prof plans on selling to the government. The star student, and chief rabble-rouser, is played by Kilmer, in good early form as a cocky genius who hasn't lost touch with his goofy side. The director is Martha Coolidge, whose "Valley Girl" was one of the brightest (and most unexpected) of '80s comedies; she keeps the movie perking along and never worries about dumbing down a film that just happens to be about smart people. "--Robert Horton"
 

Real Steel

Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis, James Rebhorn, Marco Ruggeri, Karl Yune, Olga Fonda, John Gatins, Sophie Levy, Tess Levy, Charlie Levy, Gregory Sims
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.3 (48,642 votes)
Release: Oct 2011
Summary: In the near-future, when the sport of boxing has gone hi-tech, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
 

RED

Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Studio: Summit Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.0 (135,052 votes)
Release: Jan 2011
Summary: Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life are his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Franks past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous.
 

RED 2

Director: Dean Parisot
Starring: Bruce Willis, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, David Thewlis, Neal McDonough, Byung-hun Lee, Titus Welliver, Neve Gachev, Lee Asquith-Coe, George Georgiou, Paul Hopkins, Garrick Hagon
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Release: Jul 2013
Summary: Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
 

Red Dragon

Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes
Genre: Thriller
Studio: Universal Studios
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.2 (135,120 votes)
Release: Oct 2002
Summary: A lot could've gone wrong in "Red Dragon", but the movie exceeds expectations. Replacing the acclaimed "Manhunter" as an "official" entry in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this topnotch thriller--the second adaptation of Thomas Harris's first Lecter novel--returns to the fertile soil of "The Silence of the Lambs", serving as both prequel and heir to the legacy of Lecter as portrayed, with mischievous menace, by the great Anthony Hopkins. Familiar faces and locations reappear (along with "Lambs" screenwriter Ted Tally) as Lecter coaches FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward Norton) in tracking the horrific "Tooth Fairy" killer (Ralph Fiennes), whose transformative killing spree is inspired by a William Blake painting. By dutifully serving Harris's potent material, Tally and director Brett Ratner craft a suspenseful film worthy of its predecessors, bringing Hopkins full circle as one of the cinema's all-time greatest villains. With overtones of "Psycho" and a superb supporting cast, "Red Dragon" succeeds against considerable odds. "--Jeff Shannon"
 

Red Hill

Director: Patrick Hughes
Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom, Christopher Davis
Genre: Action, Foreign, Thriller, Western
Studio: Hughes House Film
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 8
Release: Nov 2010
Summary: Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
 

Red Obsession

Director: David Roach, Warwick Ross
Starring: Sara Eisen, Debra Meiburg
Genre: Documentary
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 6.0 (258 votes)
Release: Sep 2013
Summary: For centuries, Bordeaux has assumed a mythical status in the world of fine wine as a leitmotif of wealth, power and influence, but its prosperity has always been linked to the capricious nature of markets and the shifting fortunes of global economies. Now change is coming to Bordeaux, with traditional customers like the US and the UK falling away, as China's new rich push prices to stratospheric levels. The demand is unprecedented, but the product is finite and this new client wants it all. Will the China market be the bubble that never bursts or the biggest threat yet to Bordeaux's centuries old reputation?
 

Red State

Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Deborah Aquila, John Goodman
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Studio: Lions Gate
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.2 (34,829 votes)
Release: Oct 2011
Summary: Three teenaged boys are lured to the town of Cooper’s Dell with the promise of a party. But instead of enjoying the night of their dreams, the teens are plunged into the nightmarish world of Pastor Abin Cooper and the Five Points Trinity, a fundamentalist group with a stockpile of weaponry and a deadly moral agenda. When word of the teens’ disappearance reaches the authorities, a military task force is mobiliz ed. With Cooper’s Dell teetering between salvation and damnation, the ATF braces for a furious gun battle with Cooper and his heavily armed followers in this fever-pitched action thriller from writer-director Kevin Smith.
 

Reign of Fire

Director: Rob Bowman
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott Moutter
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.1 (73,804 votes)
Release: Nov 2002
Summary: "The Road Warrior" meets "Dragonslayer" in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller "Reign of Fire". "Reign of Fire" exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic "Dragonslayer", and in that regard, the special effects are mightily impressive; the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure, "Reign of Fire" is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive survivalism, "X-Files" alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget, establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. With a steady supply of crowd-pleasing highlights, "Reign of Fire" is a pyrotechnical treat. "--Jeff Shannon"
 

Repo Men

Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Liev Schreiber
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Universal Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.3 (62,545 votes)
Release: Jul 2010
Summary: In the future, artificial internal organs will be widely available, but their high cost will lead to a thriving, if bloody, repossession business--at least that's the idea in "Repo Men", whose title characters must carry scalpels, and not scruples. When clients default--and, at 19 percent interest rates, it happens all the time--it's up to Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker), the two most swashbuckling field operatives at the Union company, to reclaim the merchandise. The film's reviewers largely seemed to miss the wicked humor that underlies "Repo Men"'s kooky futuristic world, as Remy's domestic situation is portrayed with typical backyard barbecues and typical nagging wife who wants hubby to ask his boss about that promotion, already. Everything's amusingly typical, that is, except for the fact that Remy regularly charges into people's apartments and grabs their kidneys. It would be nice to report that director Miguel Sapochnik was able to maintain the initial air of satire ("RoboCop" comes to mind at least as often as an obvious inspiration such as "Brazil"), but this movie begins to stumble in its middle section, as Remy himself becomes a subject for organ replacement. (His efforts at self-medicating procedures, especially a climactic surgery sequence, leave Patrick Swayze's similar efforts in "Road House" far behind.) Sudden shifts to a woman-in-peril scenario--with capable Alice Braga as the target of Union's organ hunters--make for an even more puzzling turn, and the jumbled rhythm of the second act suggests a certain amount of postproduction futzing around. The soundtrack is rife with Guy Ritchie-style song cues, some of which are fun, and Liev Schreiber has a good time smirking his way through his role as Remy's cold-hearted boss. The biggest problem here is that once the movie is over, a great many things don't make any logical sense, and a last-minute switcheroo only muddies the waters. Which are pretty bloody to begin with. "--Robert Horton"
 

Rescue Dawn

Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.4 (60,320 votes)
Release: Nov 2007
Summary: In the tradition of "The Great Escape" and "The Deer Hunter", "Rescue Dawn" is Werner Herzog's take on the pulse-pounding POW genre. Unlike most such efforts, however, his isn't just based on a true story, it's a remake of his 1997 documentary "Little Dieter Needs to Fly". German-born Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale, who first made his mark in Steven Spielberg’s prison camp drama "Empire of the Sun") has longed to pilot a plane since he was a boy. When he joins the Navy during the Vietnam War, he gets his wish. Then he's shot down over Laos. Though he survives, Dengler is captured by the Pathet Lao. Through his internment, he meets Duane Martin (Steve Zahn in his finest performance), with whom he becomes fast friends. While Dengler is arrogant and resourceful, Martin is patient and humble. With Dengler's assistance, the prisoners escape, but the untamed wilderness turns out to be just as dangerous (cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger ably captures its cruel beauty). Those who've seen "Little Dieter" know how this tale ends. Suffice to say, Herzog's reenactment makes for rousing entertainment. If the film has a flaw, it's that the rah-rah finale plays like something from out of a mainstream sports movie. That quibble aside, the actors, including Jeremy Davies as a delusional campmate and Toby Huss as a fellow flyer, are aces. And Herzog, who's been concentrating on nonfiction, like "Grizzly Man", proves he can direct a Hollywood-style action epic with the best of 'em. --"Kathleen C. Fennessy"
 

The Rescuers

Director: Art Stevens, Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery
Starring: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, Jim Jordan, John McIntire, Michelle Stacy, Bernard Fox, Larry Clemmons, James MacDonald, George Lindsey, Bill McMillian, Dub Taylor
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 7
Release: Jun 1977
Summary: What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss Bianca respond to orphan Penny's call for help. The two mice search for clues and, with the help of an old cat named Rufus, track Penny to the clutches of the evil Madame Medusa in a dilapidated ship in Devil's Bayou. It turns out that Medusa is using Penny to locate and retrieve the Devil's Eye Diamond--a stone she'll stop at nothing to possess. With a cunning plan, courageous acts, cooperation from local animal life, and lots of faith, Bernard and Miss Bianca help Penny find the diamond and escape from Medusa. The result of their adventure is that Bernard and Miss Bianca become close friends and Penny gets adopted.
 

Resident Evil

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Heike Makatsch, Colin Salmon, Indra Ové, Martin Crewes, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce, Anna Bolt, Joseph May, Jaymes Butler, Stephen Billington, Fiona Glascott, Pasquale Aleardi, Liz May Brice
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio: Constantin Film Produktion, Davis-Films, Impact Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.6 (137,022 votes)
Release: Mar 2002
Summary: When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain are charged with leading the mission. But they only have three hours before the pathogen becomes airborne and infects the world.
 

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Kacey Barnfield, Shawn Roberts, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Boris Kodjoe, Sienna Guillory, Fulvio Cecere, Spencer Locke
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio: Constantin Film Produktion, Davis-Films, Impact Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Sep 2010
Summary: In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
 

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Director: Alexander Witt
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sandrine Holt, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti, Jared Harris, Mike Epps, Matthew G. Taylor, Zack Ward, Iain Glen
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio: Constantin Film
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.0 (105,059 votes)
Release: Sep 2004
Summary: As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet.
 

Resident Evil: Damnation

Director: Makoto Kamiya
Starring: Courtenay Taylor, Robin Sachs, Carolyn Lawrence, Matthew Mercer
Genre: Animation, Horror, Science Fiction, Foreign
Studio: Digital Frontier, Capcom, Sony Pictures Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.4 (8,181 votes)
Release: Sep 2012
Summary: U.S. federal agent Leon S. Kennedy sneaks into the "East Slavic Republic" to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war, which the U.S. and Russia are making preparations to jointly intervene in. Right after his infiltration, the U.S. government orders him to leave immediately. Determined to uncover the truth, Leon ignores the order and enters the battlefield to end the chain of tragedies caused by the BOWs.
 

Resident Evil: Extinction

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Mike Epps, Ashanti, Christopher Egan, Spencer Locke, Matthew Marsden, Linden Ashby, Jason O'Mara, Joe Hursley, James Tumminia, Madeline Carroll
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio: Constantin Film
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.2 (102,702 votes)
Release: Sep 2007
Summary: Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
 

Resident Evil: Retribution

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Oded Fehr, Bingbing Li, Johann Urb, Colin Salmon, Aryana Engineer, Boris Kodjoe, Robin Kasyanov, Ofilio Portillo, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller, Megan Charpentier, Anna Bolt, Indra Ové, Heike Makatsch, Liz May Brice, Sandrine Holt
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Studio: Davis-Films, Impact Pictures, Constantin Film International, Davis Films/Impact Pictures (RE5)
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 5.2 (62,336 votes)
Release: Sep 2012
Summary: The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
 

Restrepo

Director: Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington
Starring: Artist not provided
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Virgil Films and Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.5 (10,920 votes)
Release: Dec 2010
Summary: RESTREPO is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you.
 

Rewind This!

Director: Josh Johnson
Starring: Atom Egoyan, Cassandra Peterson, Lloyd Kaufman, Jason Eisener, Mamoru Oshii, Frank Henenlotter, Kevin Tenney, Charles Band
Genre: Documentary, History
Studio: Imperial PolyFarm Productions
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 7.1 (181 votes)
Release: Mar 2013
Summary: In the 1980s, few pieces of home electronics did more to redefine popular culture than the videocassette recorder. With it, the film and television media were never the same as the former gained a valuable new revenue stream and popular penetration while the latter's business model was forever disrupted. This film covers the history of the device with its popular acceptance opening a new venue for independent filmmakers and entrepreneurs. In addition, various collectors of the now obsolete medium and its nostalgically esoteric fringe content are profiled as well.
 

Richard III

Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne
Genre: Drama, War
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.4 (9,094 votes)
Release: Dec 1995
Summary: This film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. This is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr.) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerizing portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. Directed by Richard Loncraine ("Bellman and True"). "--Tom Keogh"
 

Riddick

Director: David Twohy
Starring: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff, Jordi Mollà, Bokeem Woodbine, Nolan Gerard Funk, Noah Danby, Neil Napier, Keri Hilson, Dave Bautista, Matthew Nable
Genre: Action, Sci Fi, Thriller
Studio: One Race Productions
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Sep 2013
Summary: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
 

The Right Stuff

Director: Phillip Kaufman
Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Studio: Warner Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 7.9 (32,330 votes)
Release: Oct 1983
Summary: Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the "Mercury" astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that "Apollo 13" would later become; "The Right Stuff" is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining history (both established and revisionist), grand mythmaking (and myth puncturing), adventure, melodrama, behind-the-scenes dish, spectacular visuals, and a down-to-earth sense of humor, "The Right Stuff" chronicles NASA's efforts to put a man in orbit. Such an achievement would be the first step toward President Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon, and, perhaps most important of all, would win a crucial public relations/morale victory over the Soviets, who had delivered a stunning blow to American pride by launching "Sputnik", the first satellite. The movie contrasts the daring feats of the unsung test pilots--one of whom, Chuck Yeager, embodied more than anyone else the skill and spirit of Wolfe's title--against the heavily publicized (and sanitized) accomplishments of the "Mercury" astronauts. Through no fault of their own, the spacemen became prisoners of the heroic images the government created for them in order to capture the public's imagination. The casting is inspired; the film features Sam Shepard as the legendary Yeager, Ed Harris as John Glenn, Dennis Quaid as "Gordo" Cooper, Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, Fred Ward as Gus Grissom, Scott Wilson as Scott Crossfield, and Pamela Reed and Veronica Cartwright are superb in their thankless roles as astronauts' wives. "--Jim Emerson"
 

Rio

Director: Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Will i Am, Wanda Sykes, George Lopez, Jamie Foxx, Rodrigo Santoro, Jemaine Clement, Jake T. Austin, Tracy Morgan, Carlos Ponce, George Lopez
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 6.9 (90,258 votes)
Release: Apr 2011
Summary: From the makers of the hit "Ice Age" series comes "Rio," a comedy adventure about taking a walk on the wild side. Blu is a domesticated Macaw who never learned to fly, living a comfortable life with his owner and best friend Linda in the small town of Moose Lake, Minnesota. Blu and Linda think he's the last of his kind, but when they learn about another Macaw who lives in Rio de Janeiro, they head to the faraway and exotic land to find Jewel, Blu's female counterpart. Not long after they arrive, Blu and Jewel are kidnapped by a group of bungling animal smugglers. With the help of street smart Jewel, and a group of wise-cracking and smooth-talking city birds, Blu escapes. Now, with his new friends by his side, Blu will have to find the courage to learn to fly, thwart the kidnappers who are hot on their trail, and return to Linda, the best friend a bird ever had.
 

Rio Lobo

Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: Paramount
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 6.6 (4,611 votes)
Release: Dec 1970
Summary: The final film by the legendary director Howard Hawks, released in 1970, found him paired with longtime leading man John Wayne in a story slightly similar to their more familiar "Rio Bravo" and "El Dorado". Set at the end of the Civil War, the story finds Wayne playing a Union army colonel who recovers some stolen gold and roots out a traitor. Though a little creaky (Hawks had been making films since 1926), "Rio Lobo" nevertheless has his trademark, crackling dialogue, appealing characters, and ensemble spirit among the cast. This was a worthy finish to a fantastic career by a first-rank filmmaker. "--Tom Keogh"
 

Rise of the Guardians

Director: Peter Ramsey
Starring: Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Khamani Griffin
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Studio: Dreamworks Animation
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 7.3 (45,237 votes)
Release: Nov 2012
Summary: When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
 

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Director: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: James Franco, Andy Serkis
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 8
Release: Aug 2011
Summary: At the story's heart is Caesar (Andy Serkis), a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug. Raised like a child by the drug's creator, Will Rodman (James Franco) and a primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto), Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno. Seeking justice for his fellow inmates, Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary - putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever.
 

The Road

Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.3 (111,372 votes)
Release: Dec 2009
Summary: In many ways a close adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's grim novel, "The Road" dutifully plods through the basics of McCarthy's nightmarish post-apocalyptic landscape: a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) try to survive as they trek along through the sodden, sunless remnants of some awful disaster. Scrounging for food and huddling together to stay warm, they spend most of their time trying to avoid the cannibalistic marauders who roam the highways. The film strikingly demonstrates that McCarthy's book was almost entirely dependent on his extraordinary language for its literary life; the story, such as it is, is so skeletal and spare it doesn't translate well into movie terms. "The Proposition" director John Hillcoat brings his grungy physicality to the material, so in the matters of the damp clothes and starved bodies and cheerless forests, the movie rings true. But the longer it trudges on, the more it seems a thoroughly conventional conclusion is at the end of this dystopian tale. "The Road" has one notable selling point: the performance of Viggo Mortensen. In his character's fierce determination to live--but also the gentle sighs he lets forth when confronted with, say, his first sip of whisky in years--Mortensen is completely in the moment, and all too human in the post-human world." --Robert Horton"
 

Road to Perdition

Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Hanks, Liam Aiken, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Craig Spidle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7
Release: Feb 2003
Summary: Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. However after his son is witness to a killing he has done Mike Sullivan finds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him. Jude Law co stars as a hit man hired to kill Sullivan.
 

Robin Hood

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Pat Buttram, Ken Curtis, George Lindsey, Barbara Luddy, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Andy Devine, Terry-Thomas, Johnny Withaker, Billy Withaker, Elizabeth Hartman, John Fiedler, Sean Marshall, Roddy McDowall
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Comedy
Studio: Buena Vista Distribution Company
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 6.7 (137,324 votes)
Release: Nov 1973
Summary: With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.
 

Robocop

Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Orion Pictures Corporation
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Oct 2001
Summary: When it arrived on the big screen in 1987, Paul Verhoeven's "RoboCop" was like a high-voltage jolt of electricity, blending satire, thrills, and abundant violence with such energized gusto that audiences couldn't help feeling stunned and amazed. The movie was a huge hit, and has since earned enduring cult status as one of the seminal science fiction films of the 1980s. Followed by two sequels, a TV series, and countless novels and comic books, this original "RoboCop" is still the best by far, largely due to the audacity and unbridled bloodlust of director Verhoeven. However, the reasons many enjoyed the film are also the reasons some will surely wish to avoid it. Critic Pauline Kael called the movie a dubious example of "gallows pulp," and there's no denying that its view of mankind is bleak, depraved, and graphically violent. In the Detroit of the near future, a policeman (Peter Weller) is brutally gunned down by drug-dealing thugs and left for dead, but he survives (half of him, at least) and is integrated with state-of-the-art technology to become a half-robotic cop of the future, designed to revolutionize law enforcement. As RoboCop holds tight to his last remaining shred of humanity, he relentlessly pursues the criminals who "killed" him. All the while, Verhoeven (from a script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner) injects this high-intensity tale with wickedly pointed humor and satire aimed at the men and media who cover a city out of control. --"Jeff Shannon"
 

Robot & Frank

Director: Jake Schreier
Starring: Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Studio: Dog Run Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 7.2 (6,817 votes)
Release: Sep 2012
Summary: In the near future, Frank is a retired catburglar living alone while his successful son, Hunter, tries to care for him from afar. Finally, Hunter gets him a robot caretaker, but Frank soon learns that it is as useful as a burglary aide. As Frank tries to restart his old profession, the uncomfortable realities of a changing world and his worsening dementia threaten to take beyond what any reboot can do for him.
 

Robots

Director: Chris Wedge
Starring: Robin Williams, Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Paula Abdul, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Jennifer Coolidge, Lucille Bliss, Terry Bradshaw, Jim Broadbent, Paul Giamatti, Marshall Efron, Damien Fahey, Will Denton
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 4
Release: Mar 2005
Summary: Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place … until the evil Ratchet takes over Big Weld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams -- like those of his friends, including motor-mouthed Fender -- are in danger of becoming obsolete.
 

RocknRolla

Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Idris Elba, Thandie Newton, Mark Strong
Genre: Action, Adventure
Studio: Warner Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.3 (129,986 votes)
Release: Jan 2009
Summary: Writer/director Guy Ritchie bounces back from the subpar "Revolver" with "RocknRolla", proof that all rapidly edited, tough-talking, plot-twisting gangster movies are not the same. Two low-level hoods (Gerard Butler of "300" and Idris Elba from "The Wire") try to get into real estate, only to run afoul of a much bigger crook (Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton")--who, thanks to the machinations of a bored accountant (Thandie Newton, "Crash"), runs afoul of some very nasty Russian mobsters. But at the center of this web is drug-addled punk rocker (Toby Kebbell, "Control"), who unexpectedly proves to be just as adept at violence, scheming, and smartass quips as anyone else. Everyone seems to be having an infectiously good time; the convoluted plot holds together just enough to keep the action flowing smoothly, though when it's over you'll be hard-pressed to explain how one event led to another. What's most curious about the movie is how Ritchie is completely uninterested in women, even as sex objects. "RocknRolla" features what must be the most perfunctory heterosexual sex scene in movie history, while lavishing attention on muscular chests, tough mugs, and manly banter. "RocknRolla" is candy entertainment, fun and fizzy while it unfolds, disposable the moment it's over. There's nothing wrong with that; if all pop cinema was this energetic and cheerful, we'd be living in a much more entertaining world. "--Bret Fetzer"
 

Rocky

Director: John G. Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Jimmy Gambina, Bill Baldwin, Al Silvani, George Memmoli, Jodi Letizia, Diana Lewis, George O'Hanlon, Larry Carroll, Tony Burton, Lloyd Kaufman
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance, Sport, Sports Film
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 8.1 (198,171 votes)
Release: Nov 1976
Summary: When world heavyweight boxing champ Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers pick palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark.
 

Rocky Balboa

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Milo Ventimiglia, Geraldine Hughes, James Francis Kelly III, Tony Burton, A.J. Benza, Talia Shire, Henry G. Sanders, Antonio Tarver, Pedro Lovell, Ana Gerena, Angela Boyd, Louis Giansante, Maureen Schilling
Genre: Drama, Sport, Sports Film
Studio: MGM
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 7.2 (106,583 votes)
Release: Dec 2006
Summary: When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Itallian Stallion to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior.
 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Director: Jim Sharman
Starring: Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Jonathan Adams, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, Nell Campbell, Charles Gray
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction, Music
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.2 (67,282 votes)
Release: Sep 1975
Summary: It's the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when they car halts in the rain. They both look for contact only to find themselves at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter a transvestite. A place to stay is offered, but will Brad and Janet want to remain there? Especially when a large group of Transylvanians dance to the 'Time Warp', Dr. Frank-N-Furter builds his own man and a whole host of participation for the audience to enjoy.
 

Rocky II

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton, Joe Spinell, Leonard Gaines, Sylvia Meals, Frank McRae, John Pleshette, Stu Nahan, Bill Baldwin, Jerry Ziesmer
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Sports Film
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.9 (75,521 votes)
Release: Jun 1979
Summary: After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
 

Rocky III

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton, Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, Ian Fried, Al Silvani, Wally Taylor, Jim Hill, Don Sherman, Dennis James, Jim Healy
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Sports Film
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.4 (66,308 votes)
Release: May 1985
Summary: Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring. His lifestyle of wealth and idleness is shaken when a powerful young fighter known as Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter rival Apollo Creed to help him regain his form for a rematch with Lang.
 

Rocky IV

Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton, Michael Pataki, Dolph Lundgren, Stu Nahan, R.J. Adams, Al Bandiero, Dominic Barto, Danial Brown, James Brown, Rose Mary Campos
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport, Sports Film
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 6.4 (75,860 votes)
Release: Nov 1985
Summary: Rocky must come out of retirement to battle a gargantuan Soviet fighter named Drago, who brutally punished Rocky's friend and former rival, Apollo Creed. Seeking revenge in the name of his fallen comrade and his country, Rocky agrees to fight Drago in Moscow on Christmas, and the bout changes both fighters -- and the world.
 

Role Models

Director: David Wain
Starring: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Jane Lynch
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Universal Studios
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.9 (132,178 votes)
Release: Nov 2008
Summary: Danny and Wheeler, well into their 30s, lack something: Danny feels stuck; he's sour and has driven away his terrific girlfriend. Wheeler chases any skirt he sees for empty sex. When they get in a fight with a tow-truck driver, they choose community service over jail and are assigned to be big brothers - Danny to Augie, a geek who loves participating in a weekend Medieval reenactment society, and Wheeler to Ronnie, a pint-size foul-mouthed kid. After a rocky start, things start to go well until both Danny and Wheeler make big mistakes. Can the two men figure out how to change enough to be role models to the boys?
 

The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling

Director: Peter Whitehead, Mick Gochanour
Starring: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman
Genre: Documentary, Music, Television
Studio: Because Entertainment (II)
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 9.2 (6 votes)
Release: Sep 2012
Summary: A documentary on the Rolling Stones that was shot in 1965 on a two-stop tour of Ireland, just as "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was becoming a worldwide sensation.
 

Rome: The Complete Series

Director: Michael Apted, William J. MacDonald, John Milius
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Ciarán Hinds, Nicholas Woodeson, Alex Wyndham, Allen Leech, Chiara Mastalli, Max Baldry, Zuleikha Robinson, Simon Woods, Lyndsey Marshal, Lee Boardman, Max Pirkis, Tobias Menzies, Kenneth Cranham, David Bamber, Lindsay Duncan, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Kerry Condon, Indira Varma, Karl Johnson, Rick Warden, Robert Purvis, Matt Patresi, Anna Patrick, Eliza Darby, Andrew Greenough, Stu Rosen, Alexandra Stordy, Michele Pettini, Antonio Ragusa, Carla Cagnetti, Vittorio Amandola
Genre: Television, Action, Drama, History
Studio: HBO Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: NR
Release: Nov 2005
Summary: Family dysfunction. Treachery. Betrayal. Coarse profanity. Brutal violence. Graphic (and sometimes brutal) sex. No, it's not The Sopranos, it's Rome, HBO's madly ambitious series that transfixed viewers with its lavishly mounted spectacle and human dramas of the historical figures and fictional characters. Set in 52 B.C., Rome charts the dramatic shifts in the balance of power between former friends Pompey Magnus (Kenneth Cranham), leader of the Senate, and Julius Caesar (Ciaran Hinds), whose imminent return after eight years to Rome after conquering the Gauls, has the ruling class up in arms. At the heart of Rome is the odd couple friendship between two soldiers who fortuitously become heroes of the people. Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) is married, honorable, and steadfast. Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson) is an amoral rogue whose philosophy is best summed up, "I kill my enemies, take their gold, and enjoy their women." Among Rome's most compelling subplots is Lucius's strained relationship with his wife, Niobe (Indira Varma), who is surprised to see her husband alive (but not as surprised as he is to find her upon his homecoming with a newborn baby in her arms!). Any viewer befuddlement over Rome's intrigues and machinations, and determining who is hero and who is foe, disappears the minute Golden Globe-nominee Polly Walker appears as Atia, Caesar's formidable niece and a villainess for the ages. In the first episode alone, she offers her already married daughter as a bride to the recently widowed Pompey, and the viewer eagerly awaits to see what (or who) she'll do next.
Season 2 begins in the wake of Julius Caesar's assassination, and charts the power struggle to fill his sandals between "vulgar beast" Mark Antony (James Purefoy) and "clever boy" Octavian (Simon Woods), who is surprisingly named Caesar's sole heir. The series' most compelling relationship is between fellow soldiers and unlikely friends, the honorable Lucius Vorenus and Titus "Violence is the only trade I know" Pullo, who somewhat reverse roles when Vorenus is overcome with grief in the wake of his wife's suicide. Season 2 considerably ups the ante in the rivalry between Atia, who is Antony's mistress, and Servilia (Lindsay Duncan) with attempted poisonings and sickening torture. Another gripping subplot is Vorenus's estrangement from his children, who, at the climax of the season opener are presumed slaughtered, but whose true fate may be even more devastating to the father who cursed them.
Rome is a painstakingly mounted production that earned well-deserved Emmy nominations in such categories as costumes, set design, and art direction. In writing Rome's epitaph, we come to praise this series, not to bury it. Although two seasons was not enough to establish a Rome empire, it stands as one of HBO's crowning achievements. --Donald Liebenson
 

Romeo + Juliet, William Shakespeare's

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Harold Perrineau, Pete Postlethwaite
Genre: Drama
Studio: 20th Century Fox
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.8 (108,281 votes)
Release: Mar 2002
Summary: Baz Luhrmann ("Strictly Ballroom") takes a shot at reinventing Shakespeare's story of star-crossed lovers as a visual pastiche inspired by MTV imagery, Hong Kong action-picture clichés, and Luhrmann's own taste for deliberate, gaudy excess. The result is explosive chaos, both in terms of bullets and visual sensibility, which some may find impossible to stick with for more than a few minutes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the leads, though not with much distinction, while Pete Postlethwaite makes a huge impression as this movie's version of Friar Laurence. The film is successful in spots, but overall its fever-dream game plan is difficult to ride out. "--Tom Keogh"
 

Ronin

Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.2 (105,132 votes)
Release: Sep 1998
Summary: Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, a.k.a. "ronin." With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors with nothing but time on their hands. Their mission, as defined by the woman who hires them (Natascha McElhone), is to get hold of a particular suitcase that is equally coveted by the Russian mafia and Irish terrorists. As the scheme gets underway, De Niro's lone wolf strikes up a rare friendship with his French counterpart (Jean Reno), gets into a more-or-less romantic frame of mind with McElhone, and asserts his experience on the planning and execution of the job--going so far as to publicly humiliate one team member (Sean Bean) who is clearly out of his league. The story is largely unremarkable--there's an obligatory twist midway through that changes the nature of the team's business--but legendary filmmaker John Frankenheimer ("Seconds", "The Manchurian Candidate") leaps at the material, bringing to it an honest tension and seasoned, breathtaking skill with precision-action direction. The centerpiece of the movie is an honest-to-God car chase that is the real thing: not the how-can-we-top-the-last-stunt cartoon nonsense of Richard Donner ("Lethal Weapon"), but a pulse-quickening, kinetic dance of superb montage and timing. In a sense, "Ronin" is almost Frankenheimer's self-quoting version of a John Frankenheimer film. There isn't anything here he hasn't done before, but it's sure great to see it all again. "--Tom Keogh"
 

Room 237

Director: Rodney Ascher
Starring: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns, John Fell Ryan, Jay Weidner
Genre: Documentary
My Rating:
Rated: Unrated
Rating: 6.8 (2,114 votes)
Release: Mar 2013
Summary: A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining. The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they'll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.
 

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Director: Tom Stoppard
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Livio Badurina, Tomislav Maretic
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Image Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: PG
Rating: 8
Release: Mar 2005
Summary: Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers as important as the questions? Will Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (or Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) manage to discover the source of Hamlet's malaise as requested by the new king? Will the mysterious players who are strolling around the castle reveal the secrets they evidently know? And whose serve is it?
 

Rounders

Director: John Dahl
Starring: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Paul Cicero, Ray Iannicelli, John Malkovich
Genre: Crime, Drama
Studio: Miramax
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.3 (84,137 votes)
Release: Feb 1999
Summary: A little drunk on its own arcane exotica as a gambling movie, "Rounders" is a film that takes us inside a world of high-stakes card players but falls short on such essentials as character development, relationships, that sort of thing. Still, it is a real curiosity, written by a couple of guys (David Levien and Brian Koppelman) who appear to know something about the dark underbelly of card hustling for fun and profit. Matt Damon stars as a reluctant law student who can't put aside his subterranean career of playing poker and blackjack for big money. After he loses his post-grad nest egg to a weird Russian kingpin (John Malkovich)--and also loses his disgusted girlfriend (Gretchen Mol) in the process--Damon's character turns to an unreliable old buddy (Edward Norton) for a dangerous game of sharking wherever there happens to be a game underway: frat boys, cops, bad dudes, you name it. Norton appears to be living out every young actor's fantasy of re-creating Robert De Niro's prototypical head case in Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets", and while his performance is burdened by obvious quotation marks, his estimable talent still shines through. Damon's charm and intelligence bring some oomph to the curiously flat proceedings, and while his hushed, soul-bearing scenes with Martin Landau (as a law professor who takes a shine to the kid) seem gratuitous, they're still nice to watch. Behind all this is director John Dahl ("Red Rock West"), who is not exactly at the top of his game here but who brings his distinctive toughness to the crime-noir tone. "--Tom Keogh"
 

The Royal Tenenbaums

Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Studio: DIS
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 7.5 (137,480 votes)
Release: Dec 2001
Summary: In a fitting follow-up to "Rushmore", writer-director Wes Anderson and cowriter-actor Owen Wilson have crafted another comedic masterwork that ripples with inventive, richly emotional substance. Because of the all-star cast, hilarious dialogue, and oddball characters existing in their own, wholly original universe, it's easy to miss the depth and complexity of Anderson's brand of comedy. Here, it revolves around Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), the errant patriarch of a dysfunctional family of geniuses, including precocious playwright Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), boyish financier and grieving widower Chas (Ben Stiller), and has-been tennis pro Richie (Luke Wilson). All were raised with supportive detachment by mother Etheline (Anjelica Huston), and all ache profoundly for a togetherness they never really had. The Tenenbaums reconcile somehow, but only after Anderson and Wilson (who costars as a loopy literary celebrity) put them through a compassionate series of quirky confrontations and rekindled affections. Not for every taste, but this is brilliant work from any perspective. "--Jeff Shannon"
 

Rubber

Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida and Wings Hauser
Genre: Horror
Studio: Elevation Sales
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 5.7 (14,502 votes)
Release: Apr 2011
Summary: When Robert, an inanimate tire, discovers his destructive telepathic powers, he soon sets his sights on a desert town; in particular, a mysterious woman becomes his obsession.
 

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Director: Kizo Nagashima, Larry Roemer
Starring: Burl Ives, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Larry D. Mann, Stan Francis
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Studio: Rankin/Bass Productions
My Rating:
Rated: G
Rating: 8.0 (7,472 votes)
Release: Feb 1964
Summary: Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...
 

Run Lola Run

Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde
Genre: Action, Thriller
Studio: Sony Pictures
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Jun 1999
Summary: It's difficult to create a film that's fast paced, exciting, and aesthetically appealing without diluting its dialogue. "Run Lola Run", directed and written by Tom Tykwer, is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with 100,000 deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni--attempting to extract the cash first from her double-dealing father (appropriately a bank manager), and then by any means necessary. From this point nothing goes right for either protagonist, but just when you think you've figured out the movie, the director introduces a series of brilliant existential twists that boggle the mind. Tykwer uses rapid camera movements and innovative pauses to explore the theme of cause and effect. Accompanied by a pulse-pounding soundtrack, we follow Lola through every turn and every heartbreak as she and Manni rush forward on a collision course with fate. There were a variety of original and intelligent films released in 1999, but perhaps none were as witty and clever as this little gem--one of the best foreign films of the year. "--Jeremy Storey"
 

Run, Fatboy, Run

Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Studio: Warner Home Video
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.6 (43,445 votes)
Release: Sep 2008
Summary: It only makes sense that a television star would turn to a fellow practitioner for his first film. With "Run Fatboy Run"--no commas, please--"Friends"' David Schwimmer doesn't reinvent the romantic comedy, but he finds the perfect lovable loser of a lead in TV vet Simon Pegg ("Faith in the Future", "Spaced"). On his wedding day, London lay-about Dennis (Pegg, who co-wrote with Michael Ian Black) deserts his pregnant fiancée, Libby ("Crash"'s Thandie Newton), seconds before the ceremony. Crippling insecurity--which remains unexplored--prevents him from finishing anything ("Not even a sentence," Libby quips). Flash-forward five years, and he's a loving dad to son Jake (the charming Matthew Fenton), but sports a small potbelly, smokes too much and entertains no ambition beyond his job as security guard at a high-end boutique. Fortunately, he has friends, like gambler Gordon ("Shaun of the Dead" co-star Dylan Moran) and avuncular landlord Mr. Ghoshdashtidar (Harish Patel). Fit American financier Whit ("Huff"'s Hank Azaria) shakes up his routine when he starts seeing Libby. To win her back, Dennis trains for the same 26-mile charity marathon as Whit. No one believes he can make it to the end, and even Dennis has doubts, but true love is a formidable motivator. It may not have been Schwimmer's intention, but there's more chemistry between the buddies than the couples. That makes the movie a must for fans of Pegg and the scene-stealing Moran--but optional for admirers of Newton and Azaria. "--Kathleen C. Fennessy"
 

The Runaways

Director: Floria Sigismondi
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Studio: Sony
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6.5 (26,993 votes)
Release: Jul 2010
Summary: In adapting Cherie Currie's memoir, "Neon Angel", Floria Sigismondi focuses on three figures. Sensing imminent stardom, Sunset Strip impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) brings together blond Bowie fanatic Cherie (Dakota Fanning) with raven-haired rocker Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart). Manufactured bands weren't a novel phenomenon in the 1970s, but the Runaways wrote their own songs and played their own instruments, paving the way for the all-girl outfits to come. With a mother (Tatum O'Neal) in Singapore and a perpetually drunk father, Cherie and her sister, Marie (Riley Keough), must fend for themselves. When the group heads out on tour, there's no adult supervision, leading to drinking and drugging from California to Japan, where the crowds go wild, but just as they're taking off in public, they're falling apart in private. Cherie tires of Fowley's tough-love tactics, while her bandmates resent the focus on their sexpot singer. The best thing about Sigismondi's film is that her risky casting choices pay off: Fanning leaves her little-girl roles behind just as easily as Stewart breaks free from her "Twilight" shackles, so it's too bad Jett has no back story and that the other players, particularly Sandy West (Stella Maeve) and Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton), don't register more as distinct personalities. Shannon's Fowley, on the other hand, steals the show with his profane performance. For a film dedicated to female empowerment, that may not have been the director's intention, but as Fowley says, "This isn't about women's lib; this is about women's libido." "--Kathleen C. Fennessy"
 

The Rundown

Director: Peter Berg
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken, Ernie Reyes Jr., Stephen Bishop, Ewen Bremner, Jon Gries
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Thriller
Studio: NBC Universal
My Rating:
Rated: PG-13
Rating: 6.6 (57,178 votes)
Release: Sep 2003
Summary: When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
 

Rush

Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Natalie Dormer, Christian McKay, Tom Wlaschiha, Pierfrancesco Favino, David Calder, Stephen Mangan, Alistair Petrie, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Genre: Action, Drama
Studio: Exclusive Media Group
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Sep 2013
Summary: Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.
 

Rushmore

Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox, Mason Gamble, Connie Nielsen, Luke Wilson, Andrew Wilson, Stephen McCole
Genre: Comedy, Indie, Drama
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
My Rating:
Rated: R
Rating: 6
Release: Dec 1998
Summary: Max Fischer, a precocious and eccentric 15 year-old, who is both Rushmore's most extracurricular and least scholarly student; Herman Blume, a disillusioned industrialist who comes to admire Max; and Rosemary Cross, a widowed first grade teacher who becomes the object of both Max's and Herman's affection.
 

Rust and Bone

Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Mourad Frarema, Jean-Michel Correia, Armand Verdure, Yannick Choirat, Fred Menut, Duncan Versteegh, Katia Chaperon, Catherine Fa, Françoise Michaud
Genre: Drama, Romance
Studio: Why Not Productions
My Rating:
Rated: R
Release: Nov 2012
Summary: Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.