The Sentinel (2006)

The Sentinel (2006)

[6] Michael Douglas plays a secret service agent framed as a mole trying to assassinate the president. While the secret service, led by Kiefer Sutherland, chase him down, Douglas tries to prove his innocence by identifying the real mole before…
Hollywoodland (2006)

Hollywoodland (2006)

[8] Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Thin Red Line) plays a '50s Hollywood detective investigating the mysterious death of actor George Reeves, played by Ben Affleck (Gone Girl, The Town). Hollywoodland is based on the true story of Reeves, who…
Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

[7] Judi Dench plays a cranky old teacher who befriends a new, younger teacher played by Cate Blanchett. Blanchett quickly confides in the older woman and thinks she's made a new friend. But Dench's aims are more sinister than that.…
Slither (2006)

Slither (2006)

[7] Writer/director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) serves up this horror/comedy about citizens of a rural South Carolina town who find themselves in the middle of a parasitic alien invasion. Part of the fun of Slither is discovering how…
Running Scared (2006)

Running Scared (2006)

[5] I watched this movie several weeks ago and I still don't quite know how to review it. An assault on the senses? Psychotic in tone? Punishingly serendipitous? Insane?... Yes, it's all those things. But it's also a riveting in…
Running with Scissors (2006)

Running with Scissors (2006)

[6] Writer/director Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Glee) brings Augusten Burroughs' memoir to the big screen. Joseph Cross plays young Burroughs, a thirteen-year-old whose emotionally unstable mother hands him off to her therapist. Running with Scissors is primarily about Burroughs trying to…
Half Nelson (2006)

Half Nelson (2006)

[5] Ryan Gosling stars as an inner-city junior high teacher with a drug habit. When one of his students finds him in a crack-induced stupor on the bathroom floor, the two strike up an unlikely relationship. Gosling and the girl…
Blind Dating (2006)

Blind Dating (2006)

[6] Chris Pine stars as a young blind man trying to enter the dating world. His brother (American Pie's Eddie Kaye Thomas) steers him in plenty of wrong, comedic directions before Pine realizes he's attracted to the young Indian receptionist…
Surrender, Dorothy (2006)

Surrender, Dorothy (2006)

[6] After her daughter dies in a car accident, a mother spends a month with the deceased woman's friends to try and learn more about her in this talkative made-for-TV drama. Diane Keaton stars as the mother, whose abrasive presence…
300 (2006)

300 (2006)

[8] When it comes to graphic novels brought faithfully to cinematic life, 300 is one to beat. It's the simple story of how three hundred proud Greek soliders stood valiantly against overwhelming Persian forces in the Battle of Thermopylae. More…