Zero Dark Thirty (2012) RT 92% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Mar 2013
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • Thriller
DIRECTION: Kathryn Bigelow
CAST: Jessica Chastain • Jason Clarke • Mark Strong • Joel Edgerton
Almost Famous (2000) RT 89% / Audience 92%
DVD release: Mar 2001
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Music
DIRECTION: Cameron Crowe
CAST: Kate Hudson • Billy Crudup • Frances McDormand • Jason Lee
Blue Jasmine (2013) RT 91% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Jan 2014
Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Woody Allen
CAST: Cate Blanchett • Alec Baldwin • Sally Hawkins • Bobby Cannavale
The Fighter (2010) RT 90% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Mar 2011
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: David O. Russell
CAST: Mark Wahlberg • Christian Bale • Amy Adams • Melissa Leo
End of Watch (2012) RT 85% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Jan 2013
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: David Ayer
CAST: Jake Gyllenhaal • Michael Peña • Natalie Martinez • Anna Kendrick
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
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
Million Dollar Arm (2014) RT 63% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Oct 2014
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein (Jon Hamm) dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Craig Gillespie
CAST: Jon Hamm • Bill Paxton • Lake Bell • Suraj Sharma
Boy A (2007) RT 88% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Oct 2008
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield) finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama
DIRECTION: John Crowley
CAST: Andrew Garfield • Katie Lyons • Peter Mullan • Alfie Owen
Big Eyes (2014) RT 72% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Apr 2015
The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Tim Burton
CAST: Amy Adams • Christoph Waltz • Krysten Ritter • Danny Huston
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
127 Hours (2010) RT 93% / Audience 85%
DVD release: Mar 2011
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Danny Boyle
CAST: James Franco • Kate Mara • Amber Tamblyn • Sean Bott
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) RT 89% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Nov 2001
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Lasse Hallström
CAST: Johnny Depp • Leonardo DiCaprio • Juliette Lewis • Darlene Cates
The Wrestler (2008) RT 98% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Apr 2009
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Darren Aronofsky
CAST: Mickey Rourke • Marisa Tomei • Evan Rachel Wood • Ajay Naidu
Captain Phillips (2013) RT 93% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Jan 2014
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Paul Greengrass
CAST: Tom Hanks • Catherine Keener • Max Martini • Chris Mulkey
Fruitvale Station (2013) RT 94% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Jan 2014
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Ryan Coogler
CAST: Michael B. Jordan • Octavia Spencer • Melonie Diaz • Ahna O'Reilly
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
Saving Private Ryan (1998) RT 92% / Audience 95%
DVD release: Nov 1999
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • War
DIRECTION: Steven Spielberg
CAST: Tom Hanks • Tom Sizemore • Dennis Farina • Max Martini
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)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Jonathan Levine
CAST: Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Seth Rogen • Anna Kendrick • Bryce Dallas Howard
The Pianist (2002) RT 96% / Audience 95%
DVD release: May 2003
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • War
DIRECTION: Roman Polanski
CAST: Adrien Brody • Thomas Kretschmann • Frank Finlay • Maureen Lipman
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