Production Company(ies)
Ensemble, Orion Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, United Artists Releasing
 
Distributor
United Artists Releasing
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited), Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG-13
 
Year of Release
2022
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

Jessie Buckley

Rooney Mara

Claire Foy

Judith Ivey

Ben Whishaw

Jessie Buckley

Rooney Mara

Claire Foy

Judith Ivey

Ben Whishaw

Jessie Buckley –
Rooney Mara –
Claire Foy –
Judith Ivey –
Ben Whishaw –
Frances McDormand –
Director: Sarah Polley –
Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand –
Writer: Sarah Polley

 

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

Dede Gardner

Jeremy Kleiner

Frances McDormand

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Sarah Polley
 
Writer(s)
Sarah Polley
 
Producer(s)
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand

 

Film Festivals
Telluride, Toronto
 
Awards & Nominations
2 Oscars
53 wins & 154 nominations
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Kevin Maher

Jessie Thompson

Donald Clarke

Deborah Ross

Danny Leigh

Times

Independent

Irish Times

The Spectator

Financial Times

WOMEN TALKING All Critics (239) | Top Critics (58) | Fresh (216) | Rotten (23) It’s heavy material, and it might have sunk the movie had Polley not buoyed it with such a knockout cast.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Kevin Maher Times (UK) TOP CRITIC Quietly, confidently and without fanfare, Polley has made the first piece of great post-MeToo cinema. What it depicts, and a homogenising hashtag doesn’t, is that there is no singular response to abuse.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 5/5  Jessie Thompson Independent (UK) TOP CRITIC Polley allows bursts of weirdness and humour to punctuate deliberation that, though often abstract, never becomes alienatingly cerebral.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Donald Clarke Irish Times TOP CRITIC It is compelling, gripping, powerful, as tense as a thriller. Think of it this way: it’s like Twelve Angry Men, but in this instance it’s Eight Angry Women (in a hayloft).  February 10, 2023  Deborah Ross The Spectator TOP CRITIC Polley never condescends to us by spelling it out, but the film lands both as timeless and acutely relevant in 2023.  February 9, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Danny Leigh Financial Times TOP CRITIC Experiment enters the mainstream to create a new feminist cinema.  February 9, 2023 | Rating: 5/5  Lillian Crawford Little White Lies TOP CRITIC Women in a traditional Mennonite colony who have been traumatized by systematic sexual abuse meet in a dim hayloft to decide what to do, in this harrowing and humane ensemble drama.  February 10, 2023  Alison Gillmor Winnipeg Free Press Sarah Polley should be applauded for tackling the subject of sexual violence so sensitively – even if it means selling so few tickets.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Grant Rollings The Sun (UK) Polley is not especially subtle in her allegory, and nor does she need to be: the exceptionally well-made Women Talking gets to the point in its sheer, righteous invective.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Christopher Machell CineVue Moving, vibrant, and compelling. At first glance, it might seem an unpromisingly static set-up, in danger of speechifying, but Polley’s direction manages to avoid these pitfalls.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Markie Robson-Scott The Arts Desk Superbly written, compellingly acted.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 4/5  Paul Whitington Irish Independent As you would expect, the acting is superb and it’s hard to fault the writing. But the film is undermined by its own theatricality.  February 10, 2023 | Rating: 3/5  Brian Viner Daily Mail (UK)…

 

Plot
In Women Talking, the women of an isolated religious community in 2010 must decide whether to do nothing, stay and fight, or leave when faced with a brutal reality that challenges their faith.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Nettie identifies as a man name “Melvin”. The Mennonite do not allow members to identify as anything other than their biological sex and gender. In real life, Nettie would have been excommunicated.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Horizon Pictures,
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Big Bear City, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for language and crude humor
 
Year of Release
2001
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson, directed by Betty Thomas, written by Nat Mauldin, Larry Levin, comedy, PG-13, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Leonard Klady, Derek Adams, Neil Smith, Russell Smith, Susan Stark, Noel Murray, Tim Brayton, Ed Grant, Michael Dequina, Jon Popick, Anthony Miele, Robin Clifford, talking animals, animal whisperer, mental institution, childhood ability, animal friends, family feature, scatological gags, Henson people, 20th Century Fox, John Davis, Joseph Singer, David T Friendly
 

Cast & Crew

Eddie Murphy

Ossie Davis

Oliver Platt

Peter Boyle

Richard Schiff

Dr. John Dolittle

Archer Dolittle

Dr. Mark Weller

Calloway

Dr. Gene Reiss

Eddie Murphy – Dr. John Dolittle
Ossie Davis – Archer Dolittle
Oliver Platt – Dr. Mark Weller
Peter Boyle – Calloway
Richard Schiff – Dr. Gene Reiss
Kristen Wilson – Lisa Dolittle

 

Betty Thomas

Nat Mauldin

John Davis

Joseph Singer

David T. Friendly

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Betty Thomas
 
Writer(s)
Nat Mauldin, Larry Levin
 
Producer(s)
John Davis, Joseph Singer, David T. Friendly

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
3 wins & 6 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Leonard Klady

Derek Adams

Neil Smith

Russell Smith

Susan Stark

Variety

Time Out

BBC.com

Austin Chronicle

Detroit News

DR. DOLITTLE
 All Critics (52) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (30)
 Slim on story and rife with scatological jokes, the film may strike a chord with pre-teens but misses for an older crowd despite some nifty effects and broad humor.
 
 March 26, 2009
 
 Leonard Klady
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Murphy’s likeable, the script’s laden with a gaggle of one-liners, and there’s even a vague message nestling beneath the zoological chaos.
 
 January 26, 2006
 
 Derek Adams
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 Murphy himself is rather dull in the straight man role, and the jokes are pretty coarse for a family film. But it’s certainly better than the lacklustre sequel, which finds Eddie playing second fiddle to a performing bear.
 
 July 24, 2001 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Neil Smith
 BBC.com
 TOP CRITIC
 With a middle-school class clown’s lowbrow cunning, Dr. Dolittle’s creators have zeroed right in on the key element of successful audience ingratiation, the benign and endearing lead character.
 
 January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2.5/5
 
 Russell Smith
 Austin Chronicle
 TOP CRITIC
 January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Susan Stark
 Detroit News
 TOP CRITIC
 Doctor Doolittle seems to have borrowed the idea from the execrable Theodore Rex that if your anthropomorphic creature can’t say anything interesting, you should just keep him talking fast in the hope no one will notice.
 
 January 1, 2000
 
 Noel Murray
 Nashville Scene
 TOP CRITIC
 The only thing that keeps this even a little bit tolerable is the superlative work by the Henson people.
 
 January 17, 2020 | Rating: 1/5
 
 Tim Brayton
 Alternate Ending
 This gimmicky animal tale is crude but funny.
 
 January 1, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Ed Grant
 Common Sense Media
 Even star Eddie Murphy seems bored.
 
 April 1, 2009 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Michael Dequina
 TheMovieReport.com
 It’s quite funny for the first thirty minutes, but after that it’s kind of like beating a dead horse. A dead talking horse.
 
 January 7, 2009
 
 Jon Popick
 rec.arts.movies.reviews
 Dr. Dolittle is destined to be a money maker, since kids will see the talking animals and be instantly taken in, but it is the film’s utter lack of anything wholesome that causes its downfall.
 
 December 6, 2005 | Rating: 1/5
 
 Anthony Miele
 Film Threat
 One of the things about Dr. Dolittle that helps raise it above kiddy-fare and give the accompanying adults a bit of amusing entertainment are the not-so-kid-targeted jokes.
 
 April 9, 2005 | Rating: B
 
 Robin Clifford
 Reeling Reviews…

 

Plot
Dr. John Dolittle the beloved doctor is back, but this time around he plays cupid to bumbling circus bear Archie as he’s so smitten by a Pacific Western bear female, Ava. Dr. Dolittle must help a group of forest creatures to save their forest. But with the aid of his mangy, madcap animal friends, Dr. Dolittle must teach Archie the ways of true romance in time to save his species and his home before their habit is gone. So John held a meeting for every animal in the forest to not give up without a fight no matter what kind of animal expression they have and everyone agrees to do it and save their home.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh kernels critic reviews mention that Eddie Murphy’s performance in Dr. Dolittle is rather dull in the straight man role.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
CNN Films, Statement Pictures,
 
Distributor
New Line Cinema, Warner Home Vídeo
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
 
Filming Location(s)
Gruene Hall – 1281 Gruene Road, New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for a mild barroom brawl, some language and sensuality
 
Year of Release
1996
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama/Fantasy
 
Keyword(s)
starring John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Robert Pastorelli, Jean Stapleton, directed by Nora Ephron, written by Peter Dexter, Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Jim Quinlan, produced by James Jacks, Nora Ephron, Sean Daniel, Drama, Fantasy, PG, reviewed by David Ansen, Owen Gleiberman, Emanuel Levy, Nell Minow, Mick LaSalle, James Berardinelli, Mattie Lucas, Matt Brunson, Sean Collier, Matthew Turner, Chuck O’Leary, box office gross $95.3M, budget, angel, relationships, faith, miracles, Iowa, Chicago, journalist, angel expert, heavenly charms, quirkier, off-center
 

Cast & Crew

John Travolta

Andie MacDowell

William Hurt

Bob Hoskins

Robert Pastorelli

Michael

Dorothy Winters

Frank Quinlan

Vartan Malt

Huey Driscoll

John Travolta – Michael
Andie MacDowell – Dorothy Winters
William Hurt – Frank Quinlan
Bob Hoskins – Vartan Malt
Robert Pastorelli – Huey Driscoll
Jean Stapleton – Pansy Milbank

 

Nora Ephron

Peter Dexter

James Jacks

Nora Ephron

Sean Daniel

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Nora Ephron
 
Writer(s)
Peter Dexter, Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Jim Quinlan
 
Producer(s)
James Jacks, Nora Ephron, Sean Daniel

 

Film Festivals
Cannes
 
Awards & Nominations
1 nomination
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

David Ansen

Owen Gleiberman

Emanuel Levy

Nell Minow

Mick LaSalle

Newsweek

Entertainment Weekly

Variety

Movie Mom

San Francisco Chronicle

MICHAEL
 All Critics (41) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (27)
 I feared that Nora Ephron’s angel movie, Michael, would offer another heap of predigested uplift but was pleasantly surprised to find something quirkier and more off-center.
 
 December 7, 2018
 
 David Ansen
 Newsweek
 TOP CRITIC
 September 7, 2011 | Rating: D+
 
 Owen Gleiberman
 Entertainment Weekly
 TOP CRITIC
 Travolta’s charismatic presence is the only positive element in Nora Ephron’s flawed romantic fable marred by rough narrative spots and scattered direction, again showing that Ephron lacks the most basic technical skills.
 
 December 27, 2006 | Rating: C-
 
 Emanuel Levy
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Some moments as lovely as the smell of cookies, especially the dance number.
 
 August 20, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Nell Minow
 Movie Mom
 TOP CRITIC
 June 18, 2002 | Rating: 1/4
 
 Mick LaSalle
 San Francisco Chronicle
 TOP CRITIC
 January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 James Berardinelli
 ReelViews
 TOP CRITIC
 An unfocused mess that, despite a few highlights, is one of Ephron’s weakest films.
 
 September 23, 2020 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Mattie Lucas
 From the Front Row
 Cinema as artificial sweetener.
 
 August 16, 2020 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 Even as you’re inclined to root for the film’s folksy earnestness, you’re put off by some of its bizarre plot points and general weirdness.
 
 February 24, 2020 | Rating: 4/10
 
 Sean Collier
 Box Office Prophets
 March 1, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Matthew Turner
 ViewLondon
 October 8, 2005 | Rating: 1/5
 
 Chuck O’Leary
 Fantastica Daily
 June 19, 2005 | Rating: 2/5
 
 Emanuel Levy
 EmanuelLevy.Com…

 

Plot
Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true – but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
John Travolta plays an angel in Nora Ephron’s maudlin Michael, a grating comedy that doesn’t tap into the heavenly charms of her best work.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Miramax, Shooting Gallery
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
544 Mateo Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong sexuality, language and some violence
 
Year of Release
1993
 

 
Genre(s)
Mystery & thriller
 
Keyword(s)
starring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, directed by Philip Kaufman, written by Philip Kaufman, Michael Crichton, Michael Backes, mystery, thriller, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Gene Siskel, Owen Gleiberman, Richard Schickel, David Ansen, Angie Errigo, Todd McCarthy, Malcolm Johnson, Quentin Curtis, Dennis Schwartz, Emanuel Levy, Rob Vaux, MPAA rating R, Japanese corporation, Los Angeles, murder, cover-up, cultural differences, security disc, doctored, detectives, progress difficult, tension dissipates, buddy pic, culture shocker, whodunit, chemistry, character actors, anti-Japanese bias, stereotypes, high-tech element, photography forensics, action-thriller, dazed disbelief, deep trouble
 

Cast & Crew

Sean Connery

Wesley Snipes

Harvey Keitel

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Kevin Anderson

Capt. John Connor

Lt. Webster Smith

Lt. Tom Graham

Eddie Sakamura

Bob Richmond

Sean Connery – Capt. John Connor
Wesley Snipes – Lt. Webster Smith
Harvey Keitel – Lt. Tom Graham
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa – Eddie Sakamura
Kevin Anderson – Bob Richmond
Mako – Yoshida-san
Director – Philip Kaufman
Producer – Peter Kaufman
Writers – Philip Kaufman, Michael Crichton, Michael Backes

 

Philip Kaufman

Philip Kaufman

Peter Kaufman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Philip Kaufman
 
Writer(s)
Philip Kaufman, Michael Crichton, Michael Backes
 
Producer(s)
Peter Kaufman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 win & 1 nomination
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Gene Siskel

Owen Gleiberman

Richard Schickel

David Ansen

Angie Errigo

Chicago Tribune

Entertainment Weekly

TIME Magazine

Newsweek

Empire Magazine

RISING SUN
 All Critics (40) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (27)
 A major disappointment from first-class director Philip Kaufman.
 
 December 7, 2018 | Rating: 1/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 September 7, 2011 | Rating: C+
 
 Owen Gleiberman
 Entertainment Weekly
 TOP CRITIC
 It would be nice to see Connery doing something intrinsically interesting instead of trying to make something inherently dull entertaining. And it would be good to see Snipes cut loose more than he is able to here.
 
 November 5, 2008
 
 Richard Schickel
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 As the plot grows more intricate, strangely the tension dissipates, until finally the movie just seems to run out of breath.
 
 October 18, 2008
 
 David Ansen
 Newsweek
 TOP CRITIC
 What should have been a tense political thrilling blockbuster, ends up a wasted effort with a limp storyline that once again fails to give the book justice.
 
 April 9, 2008 | Rating: 2/5
 
 Angie Errigo
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 When working in genre territory before, the idiosyncratic Kaufman has shown a marked tendency to debunk or subvert conventions. Playing it straight here, he brings little to the table.
 
 April 9, 2008
 
 Todd McCarthy
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 There are moments when Rising Sun touches a raw nerve…Too often though, this film conveys what might be called the unbearable lightness of Crichton.
 
 December 7, 2018
 
 Malcolm Johnson
 Hartford Courant
 It turns out a muddle: a buddy pic and a culture shocker as well as a thriller.
 
 November 28, 2017
 
 Quentin Curtis
 Independent on Sunday
 It never rises past a second-rate thriller.
 
 February 27, 2011 | Rating: B-
 
 Dennis Schwartz
 Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
 Kaufman’s film is flawed. but not as bad as critics claim– charges of racism made this adaptation controversial even before it was seen.
 
 January 2, 2009 | Rating: C
 
 Emanuel Levy
 EmanuelLevy.Com
 Snipes at his coolest still can’t save this xenophobic piece of studio flotsam.
 
 May 13, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
 
 Rob Vaux
 Flipside Movie Emporium
 An intriguing, sensual whodunit that would have been even better had it not succumb to political correctness and changed the identity of the killer from Crichton’s novel.
 
 March 3, 2006 | Rating: 7/10
 
 Chuck O’Leary
 FulvueDrive-in.com…

 

Plot
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who’s evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate, but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up John Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there, Web thinks that everything is obvious, but Connor tells him that there’s a lot more going on.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
No goofy or funny or odd comments were found in the Fresh Kernels database for Rising Sun.
 

 
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