The Dark Crystal (1982) RT 72% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Oct 1999
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race ... (more)
GENRES: Fantasy
DIRECTION: Frank Oz • Jim Henson
CAST: Jim Henson • Kathryn Mullen • Frank Oz • Dave Goelz
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) RT 82% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Dec 2011
Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Rupert Wyatt
CAST: Andy Serkis • Karin Konoval • Freida Pinto • James Franco
Yes Man (2008)
Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything. (more)
GENRES: Comedy
DIRECTION: Peyton Reed
CAST: Jim Carrey • Zooey Deschanel • Rhys Darby • Sasha Alexander
The Island (2005) RT 40% / Audience 64%
DVD release: Dec 2005
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Michael Bay
CAST: Ewan McGregor • Scarlett Johansson • Djimon Hounsou • Sean Bean
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) RT 78% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Nov 2007
Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Family • Fantasy • Mystery
DIRECTION: David Yates
CAST: Daniel Radcliffe • Rupert Grint • Emma Watson • Michael Gambon
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
The NeverEnding Story (1984) RT 82% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Sep 2001
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Wolfgang Petersen
CAST: Barret Oliver • Gerald McRaney • Noah Hathaway • Chris Eastman
Lost Horizon (1937) RT 100% / Audience 82%
DVD release: Aug 1999
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • Fantasy • Mystery
DIRECTION: Frank Capra
CAST: Ronald Colman • Jane Wyatt • Edward Everett Horton • John Howard
John Carter (2012) RT 51% / Audience 60%
DVD release: Jun 2012
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Andrew Stanton
CAST: Taylor Kitsch • Mark Strong • Willem Dafoe • Ciarán Hinds
Wild (2014) RT 90% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Mar 2015
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Jean-Marc Vallée
CAST: Reese Witherspoon • Mo McRae • Michiel Huisman • Gaby Hoffmann
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
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure
DIRECTION: Steven Spielberg
CAST: Harrison Ford • Karen Allen • Paul Freeman • Ronald Lacey
Romancing the Stone (1984) RT 87% / Audience 69%
DVD release: Aug 2001
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Comedy • Romance
DIRECTION: Robert Zemeckis
CAST: Michael Douglas • Kathleen Turner • Danny DeVito • Zack Norman
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) RT 96% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Apr 2003
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Animation • Drama • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Hayao Miyazaki
CAST: Minami Takayama • Rei Sakuma • Kappei Yamaguchi • Keiko Toda
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
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor's newer, bigger Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Richard Marquand
CAST: Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Billy Dee Williams
The Goonies (1985) RT 70% / Audience 91%
DVD release: Aug 2001
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Richard Donner
CAST: Sean Astin • Josh Brolin • Jeff Cohen • Corey Feldman
Spider-Man 2 (2004) RT 93% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Nov 2004
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Sam Raimi
CAST: Tobey Maguire • Kirsten Dunst • James Franco • Alfred Molina
Letters to Juliet (2010) RT 40% / Audience 61%
DVD release: Sep 2010
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Gary Winick
CAST: Amanda Seyfried • Marcia DeBonis • Gael García Bernal • Giordano Formenti
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) RT 76% / Audience 61%
DVD release: Apr 2006
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been ... (more)