Cinderella Man (2005) RT 80% / Audience 91%
DVD release: Dec 2005
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state. (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • Romance
DIRECTION: Ron Howard
CAST: Russell Crowe • Renée Zellweger • Paul Giamatti • Craig Bierko
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009) RT Audience 85%
DVD release: Sep 2009
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Thomas Carter
CAST: Cuba Gooding, Jr. • Kimberly Elise • Aunjanue Ellis • Ele Bardha
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) RT 82% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Jan 2015
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • History
DIRECTION: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
CAST: Farhan Akhtar • Sonam Kapoor • Divya Dutta • Pavan Malhotra
The Karate Kid (2010) RT 66% / Audience 67%
DVD release: Oct 2010
12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama • Family
DIRECTION: Harald Zwart
CAST: Jaden Smith • Jackie Chan • Taraji P. Henson • Yu Rong-Guang
The Walk (2015) RT 84% / Audience 78%
DVD release: Jan 2016
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Robert Zemeckis
CAST: Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Ben Kingsley • Charlotte Lebon • Ben Schwartz
Erin Brockovich (2000) RT 84% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Aug 2000
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Steven Soderbergh
CAST: Julia Roberts • Albert Finney • Aaron Eckhart • Marg Helgenberger
The Theory of Everything (2014) RT 79% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Feb 2015
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: James Marsh
CAST: Felicity Jones • Emily Watson • Harry Lloyd • David Thewlis
October Sky (1999) RT 90% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Jul 1999
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Family
DIRECTION: Joe Johnston
CAST: Jake Gyllenhaal • Chris Cooper • Laura Dern • Chris Owen
The Blind Side (2009) RT 66% / Audience 85%
DVD release: Mar 2010
Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: John Lee Hancock
CAST: Sandra Bullock • Quinton Aaron • Kathy Bates • Tim McGraw
The Way (2010) RT 82% / Audience 83%
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Emilio Estevez
CAST: Emilio Estevez • Martin Sheen • Deborah Kara Unger • James Nesbitt
Moneyball (2011) RT 94% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Jan 2012
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Bennett Miller
CAST: Brad Pitt • Jonah Hill • Robin Wright • Philip Seymour Hoffman
Departures (2008)
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Yôjirô Takita
CAST: Masahiro Motoki • Tsutomu Yamazaki • Ryoko Hirosue • Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Kung Fu Panda (2008) RT 87% / Audience 82%
DVD release: Nov 2008
When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Mark Osborne • John Stevenson
CAST: Jack Black • Dustin Hoffman • Angelina Jolie • Jackie Chan
The Dreamers (2003)
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Bernardo Bertolucci
CAST: Michael Pitt • Eva Green • Louis Garrel • Anna Chancellor
I Origins (2014) RT 53% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Dec 2014
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Mike Cahill
CAST: Michael Pitt • Brit Marling • Astrid Bergès-Frisbey • Steven Yeun
The Age of Stupid (2009) RT 73% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Aug 2010
The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary • History • War
DIRECTION: Franny Armstrong
CAST: Pete Postlethwaite
The King's Speech (2010) RT 95% / Audience 92%
DVD release: Apr 2011
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History
DIRECTION: Tom Hooper
CAST: Colin Firth • Geoffrey Rush • Helena Bonham Carter • Guy Pearce
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) RT 67% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Mar 2007
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Gabriele Muccino
CAST: Will Smith • Thandie Newton • Brian Howe • James Karen
Happy (2011) RT Audience 79%
DVD release: Sep 2012
Happy is a 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary
DIRECTION: Roko Belic
CAST: Gregory Berns • Roy Blanchard • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • The Dalai Lama
50/50 (2011) RT 94% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Jan 2012
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease. (more)