Blue Valentine (2010)

Blue Valentine (2010)

[6] Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in writer/director Derek Cianfrance's (The Place Beyond the Pines) melancholy love story, Blue Valentine. The film cuts back and forth between two timelines, with Williams and Gosling playing Brooklyn lovers at both the beginning and…
The Help (2011)

The Help (2011)

[5] An aspiring writer decides to tell the stories of African-American maids during the turbulent '60s, risking community scorn to publish the truth. The Help, based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett, weaves the stories of several black and white women in…
The Wolfman (2010)

The Wolfman (2010)

[5] Benicio Del Toro plays the cursed title character in this remake of Universal Pictures' famous 1941 monster movie. After his brother is discovered mutilated, Del Toro returns home to his father's estate to find out who killed him. Anthony Hopkins brings…
King Cobra (2016)

King Cobra (2016)

[7] Christian Slater and James Franco star in this true story about rival gay porn producers fighting over a rising star named Brent Corrigan (Garrett Clayton). Slater gives Corrigan his start, but when Corrigan learns he's being paid peanuts compared to what…
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)

[7] Guillermo del Toro presents this creepy tale about a little girl (Bailee Madison) who discovers evil creatures live in the ash pit beneath her father's newly acquired mansion. While the creatures try to persuade the girl to join them, they frame…
Crawl (2019)

Crawl (2019)

[7] Director Alexandre Aja (High Tension) serves up a father/daughter survival thriller that takes place primarily in a basement full of alligators during a hurricane. Sound preposterous? Well, that's part of the charm. But Aja and screenwriters Michael and Shawn Rasmussen give…
Center of My World (2016)

Center of My World (2016)

[7] Jakob M. Erwa directs his own adaptation of Andreas Steinhöfel's novel about a 17-year-old who returns from summer camp to find his hedonistic mother and twin sister have become uncomfortably distant. At the same time, he enters into his first romantic relationship…
We’re the Millers (2013)

We’re the Millers (2013)

[7] Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston star in this comedy about at pot dealer (Sudeikis) who hires a stripper (Aniston), a lonely teen virgin (Will Poulter) and a homeless girl (Emma Roberts) to pose as his nuclear family as he smuggles an…
Steve Jobs (2015)

Steve Jobs (2015)

[7] With all due deference to his accomplishments, Steve Jobs' career isn't something I thought I needed to see a movie about. Faithful biopics generally make for uneven films, and how the hell can a dork making computers make for an exciting…
Little Fockers (2010)

Little Fockers (2010)

[3] In this third Meet the Parents film, Robert DeNiro's characters suffers a heart attack, causing renewed concern that his son-in-law, played by Ben Stiller, be able to carry on as the family's patriarch when he's gone. Little Fockers feels hastily concocted…