Production Company(ies)
Participant Willi Hill Killer Content
 
Distributor
Apple TV+
 
Release Type
Streaming
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for language and some sexual content.
 
Year of Release
2022
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Brad Garrett, Leslie Mann, Vanessa Burghardt, Evan Assante, Raul Castillo, written by Cooper Raiff, directed by Cooper Raiff, produced by Ro Donnelly, Erik Feig, Dakota Johnson, Cooper Raiff, Jessica Switch, comedy/drama, R-rated, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Shannon Keating, Danny Leigh, Michael Phillips, Bilge Ebiri, Amy Nicholson, Robert Levin, Nathaniel Rogers, Ruben Peralta Rigaud, Kent Garrison, Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, David Bax, Ruth Maramis, Andrew, Domino, Lola, stepdad Greg, bar mitzvahs, motivational dancing, New Jersey, college graduate, unconventional love, emotional honesty, Apple TV+
 

Cast & Crew

Cooper Raiff

Dakota Johnson

Vanessa Burghardt

Evan Assante

Leslie Mann

Andrew

Domino

Lola

David

Andrew’s Mom

Cooper Raiff – Andrew
Dakota Johnson – Domino
Vanessa Burghardt – Lola
Evan Assante – David
Leslie Mann – Andrew’s Mom
Brad Garrett – Stepdad Greg

 

Cooper Raiff

Cooper Raiff

Ro Donnelly

Erik Feig

Dakota Johnson

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Cooper Raiff
 
Writer(s)
Cooper Raiff
 
Producer(s)
Ro Donnelly, Erik Feig, Dakota Johnson, Cooper Raiff, Jessica Switch

 

Film Festivals
Sundance, Tribeca
 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 1 nomination
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Shannon Keating

Danny Leigh

Michael Phillips

Bilge Ebiri

Amy Nicholson

BuzzFeed News

Financial Times

Chicago Tribune

New York Magazine/Vulture

FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)

CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH
 All Critics (203) | Top Critics (50) | Fresh (175) | Rotten (28)
 A loving, tender-hearted, and very funny portrait.
 
 June 23, 2022
 
 Shannon Keating
 BuzzFeed News
 TOP CRITIC
 Raiff is good at marking out how maddening adult compromises can look at 22. It helps too that for all his occasional camera-hogging, he makes room for fine performances from co-stars.
 
 June 23, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Danny Leigh
 Financial Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Raiff most likely wanted to make a movie about a well-intentioned guy in his early 20s who gradually finds his way to a better life. What undermines his efforts is a creeping smugness and self-regard…
 
 June 23, 2022 | Rating: 1.5/4
 
 Michael Phillips
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 What’s ultimately so disappointing about Cha Cha Real Smooth is its shallow vision of growing up, which might explain why the protagonist does so little of it.
 
 June 22, 2022
 
 Bilge Ebiri
 New York Magazine/Vulture
 TOP CRITIC
 This is a charmer that just did not work on me — at all, in the slightest.
 
 June 21, 2022
 
 Amy Nicholson
 FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
 TOP CRITIC
 The world needs a comedy about bar mitzvahs. This is not it.
 
 June 20, 2022 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Robert Levin
 Newsday
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s a fun if inessential watch but bonus points for that sly stronger-than-it-has-to-be Dakota Johnson turn as Andrew’s slightly older married object of affection.
 
 July 8, 2022 | Rating: B
 
 Nathaniel Rogers
 The Film Experience
 Cha Cha Real Smooth is once again a comforting work that reminds us of what it means to stumble through life as a human being, falling over and over again. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 July 7, 2022
 
 Ruben Peralta Rigaud
 Cocalecas
 Hopefully Raiff continues to explore his unique comedic voice.
 
 July 6, 2022 | Rating: A-
 
 Kent Garrison
 Mad About Movies Podcast
 A touching dramedy about a twenty-something college grad who demonstrates a remarkable gift for empathy and kindness
 
 July 4, 2022 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
 Spirituality & Practice
 Raiff the director clearly possesses a lot of empathy but he might just have an even bigger strength for casting.
 
 July 2, 2022
 
 David Bax
 Battleship Pretension
 A funny & touching coming-of-age indie gem … Cooper Raiff is sweet and likable but it’s the enigmatic + alluring Dakota Johnson who’s the true scene-stealer.
 
 July 1, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/5
 
 Ruth Maramis
 FlixChatter Film Blog…

 

Plot
Fresh out of college and unsure of his future, Andrew takes a job as a motivational dancer at bar and bat mitzvahs, where he befriends a local mom and her daughter and discovers a new path in life in the touching dramedy Cha Cha Real Smooth.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Dakota Johnson delivers a “sly stronger-than-it-has-to-be” performance as Andrew’s love interest in Cha Cha Real Smooth, according to one critic.
 

 
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Tagline

 
Production Company(ies)
Buddy Pic, Foreign Language, Topical
 
Distributor
Janus Films
 
Release Type
THEATRICAL, THEATRICAL (LIMITED)
 
Filming Location(s)
Liege, Belgium
 
MPAA / Certificate
NR
 
Year of Release
2023
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
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Film Festivals
Berlin, Cannes, Telluride
 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

 
Trivia

 
Goofs
NA
 
Quotes
NA
 
Credits

 
Alternate Versions
NA
 
Soundtracks
NA
 

 
Production Company(ies)
Greenwich Film Productions,
 
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., United Artists
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
 
Filming Location(s)
Cheetah’s Topless Club – 2112 Western Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated NC-17 for nudity and erotic sexuality throughout, and for some graphic language and sexual violence
 
Year of Release
1995
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama/Lgbtq+
 
Keyword(s)
starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, Gina Ravera, directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Joe Eszterhas, drama, LGBTQ+, NC-17 rating, box office gross $19.3M, produced by Charles Evans, reviewed by William Thomas, Gene Siskel, Richard Corliss, Anthony Lane, Jay Boyar, Quentin Crisp, Mal Vincent, Margaret A McGurk, Mike Massie, Elizabeth Berkley Lauren, Nomi Malone, Zack Carey, Cristal Connors, James Smith, Al Torres, Tony Moss
 

Cast & Crew

Elizabeth Berkley Lauren

Kyle MacLachlan

Gina Gershon

Glenn Plummer

Robert Davi

Nomi Malone

Zack Carey

Cristal Connors

James Smith

Al Torres

Elizabeth Berkley Lauren – Nomi Malone
Kyle MacLachlan – Zack Carey
Gina Gershon – Cristal Connors
Glenn Plummer – James Smith
Robert Davi – Al Torres
Alan Rachins – Tony Moss

 

Paul Verhoeven

Joe Eszterhas

Charles Evans

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Paul Verhoeven
 
Writer(s)
Joe Eszterhas
 
Producer(s)
Charles Evans

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
10 wins & 10 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

William Thomas

Gene Siskel

Jason Bailey

Richard Corliss

Anthony Lane

Empire Magazine

Chicago Tribune

Flavorwire

TIME Magazine

New Yorker

SHOWGIRLS
 All Critics (66) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (51)
 Showgirls would be offensive if it hadn’t been hyped (“Leave your inhibitions at the door” winked the US publicity). But it has.
 
 August 11, 2020 | Rating: 1/5
 
 William Thomas
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Is it sexy? Not when you’re laughing.
 
 March 29, 2019 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 The thin, terrible people of ‘Showgirls’ are equally loathsome; you don’t have a rooting interest in Nomi or her “dream,” and as a result, ‘Showgirls’ is 131 minutes of watching trashy, vapid people being terrible to each other.
 
 May 27, 2016
 
 Jason Bailey
 Flavorwire
 TOP CRITIC
 Showgirls… is one of those delirious, hilarious botches that could be taught in film schools as a How Not To.
 
 June 12, 2013
 
 Richard Corliss
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Berkley’s acting début is a joy, if you can call it acting: she jumps up and down a lot to indicate excitement.
 
 June 12, 2013
 
 Anthony Lane
 New Yorker
 TOP CRITIC
 One thing I’ll say for Showgirls, it’s educational. But sadly, it isn’t much else.
 
 June 12, 2013 | Rating: 1/5
 
 Jay Boyar
 Orlando Sentinel
 TOP CRITIC
 [Showgirls], which the world condemned utterly, I enjoyed. It moved fast, it looked glossy, and it had a plot. What more can one ask?
 
 April 4, 2022
 
 Quentin Crisp
 Christopher Street
 Too tacky to have been in any top Vegas feather show.
 
 March 29, 2022
 
 Mal Vincent
 The Virginian-Pilot
 Perhaps you have been tempted by the hype over this movie’s rating to go see what all the fuss is about. Crush that impulse.
 
 August 19, 2021 | Rating: 0/4
 
 Margaret A. McGurk
 Cincinnati Enquirer
 The entire picture isn’t an exercise in eroticism as much as it’s a jumbled series of excuses to have the cast take off their clothes.
 
 June 28, 2021 | Rating: 2/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 This is a camp masterpiece and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
 
 December 30, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Trace Thurman
 Horror Queers Podcast
 Showgirls’ Camp influences, even shades of deliberate Camp, aren’t so much the film itself but in-universe productions compartmentalizing excess into metatext.
 
 September 22, 2020
 
 Matt Cipolla
 The Spool…

 

Plot
All alone in the world, Nomi Malone, making her way to Las Vegas, is determined to make a name as a dancer while putting her unspoken past behind her. Her tough, streetwise veneer is not as infallible as she would like, she, as she arrives in Vegas, becoming more cautious in the way she approaches strangers who seem willing to help her purely out of the goodness of their heart. Her talent and connections in combination are only able to get her a job at the Cheetah Club, a strip joint. Her first true friend in Vegas, Molly Abrams, works as the costumer for Goddess, the topless production at the Stardust. It is through Molly that Nomi catches the eye of Goddess’ headliner, Cristal Connors. Nomi has a love/hate feeling toward Cristal: she doesn’t much like her but wants to become her. Being at the Stardust, Nomi also catches the eye of Cristal’s boyfriend, Zack Carey, Stardust’s entertainment director. Through these contacts, Nomi is presented opportunity after opportunity to be part of the Stardust/Goddess family. She has to decide how far she will go to achieve her dream. James Smith, a struggling dancer/choreographer who works whatever odd jobs he can get and who is also attracted to Nomi largely for her natural albeit very raw talent, doesn’t see Nomi’s chosen path as the one she should pursue as he considers Goddess illegitimate: while the Cheetah is what it appears on the surface, Goddess is the Cheetah hiding behind its big name. Through it all, Nomi will discover the good, the bad and the very bad about Vegas life, especially among the rich and beautiful.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The critic consensus for Showgirls on Fresh Kernels describes the film as “vile, contemptible, garish, and misogynistic — and that might just be exactly Showgirls’ point.”
 

 
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Production Company(ies)

 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Acapulco – 385 North La Cienega Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1987
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Héctor Elizondo, Timothy Carhart, Stephen McHattie, Theresa Randle, John Saxon, directed by John Landis, written by Steven E de Souza, comedy, action, R rating, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Anderson Jones, Gene Siskel, Peter Rainer, Jeff Shannon, Steven Rea, Jay Boyar, James Croot, Mike Massie, James Kendrick, Matt Brunson, Dennis King, Stephen Hunter, Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme, counterfeit money operation, Wonder World amusement park, Detroit cop, California, Beverly Hills, Detective Billy Rosewood, Jon Flint, security force, MPAA rating, Eddie Murphy as Det Axel Foley, Judge Reinhold as Det Sgt William ‘Billy’ Rosewood, Héctor Elizondo as Jon Flint, Timothy Carhart as Ellis De Wald, Stephen McHattie as Steve Fulbright, Theresa Randle as Janice
 

Cast & Crew

Eddie Murphy

Judge Reinhold

Héctor Elizondo

Timothy Carhart

Stephen McHattie

Det. Axel Foley

Det. Sgt. William ‘Billy’ Rosewood

Jon Flint

Ellis De Wald

Steve Fulbright

Eddie Murphy – Det. Axel Foley
Judge Reinhold – Det. Sgt. William ‘Billy’ Rosewood
Héctor Elizondo – Jon Flint
Timothy Carhart – Ellis De Wald
Stephen McHattie – Steve Fulbright
Theresa Randle – Janice

 

John Landis

Steven E. de Souza

Mace Neufeld

Robert Rehme

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
John Landis
 
Writer(s)
Steven E. de Souza
 
Producer(s)
Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
6 wins & 4 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Anderson Jones

Gene Siskel

Peter Rainer

Jeff Shannon

Steven Rea

Detroit Free Press

Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles Times

Seattle Times

Philadelphia Inquirer

BEVERLY HILLS COP III
 All Critics (55) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (50)
 Wholly unsatisfying, we know every twist, turn and loop-de-loop of Beverly Hills Cop III. This is like a Wonder World rollercoaster we’ve been on way too many times. And it may be time for Eddie to get off and explore the rest of the park.
 
 April 26, 2022 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Anderson Jones
 Detroit Free Press
 TOP CRITIC
 A dismal third outing for Eddie Murphy as Detroit cop Axel Foley.
 
 August 16, 2017 | Rating: 1/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s one of the most cynically engineered sequels ever.
 
 May 2, 2014
 
 Peter Rainer
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Landis relies on routine action — and cameos by such noted filmmakers as George Lucas, John Singleton, Martha Coolidge and others — to hide the fact that there’s no engine under his movie’s hood.
 
 May 2, 2014 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Jeff Shannon
 Seattle Times
 TOP CRITIC
 The mix of violence and laughs never gels, the rejoinders are snapless, the pace slack.
 
 May 2, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4
 
 Steven Rea
 Philadelphia Inquirer
 TOP CRITIC
 The movie… isn’t nearly as fresh as the first Cop flick was. But I must admit that it’s a whole lot more enjoyable than the contemptible crashathon known as Beverly Hills Cop II.
 
 May 2, 2014 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Jay Boyar
 Orlando Sentinel
 TOP CRITIC
 One of the worst action movies of the ’90s.
 
 February 7, 2022
 
 James Croot
 Stuff.co.nz
 This time around, the situations aren’t nearly as funny or thrilling as in the last two entries and Murphy appears far less enthusiastic and energetic.
 
 September 10, 2020 | Rating: 3/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 easily the worst entry in the series-an almost shockingly dull police procedural set in a fictional amusement park that lacks the first film’s brash fish-out-water comedy and the second’s visual bombast
 
 February 11, 2020 | Rating: 1.5/4
 
 James Kendrick
 Q Network Film Desk
 A routine programmer.
 
 January 19, 2020 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 Looks like it’s time for Axel Foley to hang up his Detroit Lions jacket and retire his badge and gun.
 
 May 2, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4
 
 Dennis King
 Tulsa World
 The movie is like an advertisement for the 19 recently banned assault weapons.
 
 May 2, 2014 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Stephen Hunter
 Baltimore Sun…

 

Plot
Three years after the events in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), the street-wise Detroit detective, Axel Foley, invades the posh city once more, after the assassination attempt on Captain Andrew Bogomil. Against the backdrop of a seemingly endless string of violent and well-orchestrated smash-and-grab robberies known as the “Alphabet Crimes”, Detectives Billy Rosewood and John Taggart struggle to solve the case; nevertheless, in vain. Now, a lethally beautiful hitwoman linked to an international arms trafficking ring is the mysterious and elusive prime suspect. Can the brazen and sassy Axel and his partners solve this thorny case, too?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no specific tidbit about the cast, but the critics consensus mentions that Eddie Murphy’s performance in Beverly Hills Cop III is “uncharacteristically lethargic.”
 

 
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Technical Specs
Color: NA
Sound mix: NA
Aspect ratio: NA
Language(s):
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Original premiere:
Newest season premiere:
 
Genre(s)
Horror, Music, War
 
Keyword(s)
Foreign Language, Movies Directed by Nick Cheung, Movies Written by Nick Cheung, Movies Starring Nick Cheung, Movies Starring Amber Kuo, One Cool Film Production Movie, Movies from Hong Kong, Cantonese Language, Mandarin Language, Asian Director, Asian Writer, Asian Lead Cast
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

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