Movies with cinematographer David Lanzenberg
Note: This review includes spoilers for the movie Interstellar, believe it or not. The Age of Adaline wants viewers to think of it as a modern-day fairy tale. Such a conceit, however, can be seen as an excuse for slipshod writing. The need to judg...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-04-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Cast: Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Ellen Burstyn, ...
The Oscar triumph of Green Book and box office success of The Upside reflects a thirst among some movie-goers for stories about racial harmony. The Best of Enemies arrives into this environment intent on hydrating psyches parched by the race-re...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-04-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Racial epithets)
Genre: Drama
Director: Robin Bissell
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Taraji P. Henson, Babou Ceesay, ...
Celeste and Jesse Forever wants to be marketed as an "anti-romantic comedy," but, despite its somewhat unconventional storyline, it's very much about what draws people together into relationships and what pulls them apart. It explores the reality o...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-08-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Cast: Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Ari Graynor, ...
Paper Towns is the third coming-of-age story to reach screens during the summer of 2015, following in the wake of the vastly superior Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Dope. Based on the novel by John Green, Paper Towns is an exercise in artifice. T...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-07-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Jake Schreier
Cast: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, ...
In 2018, vigilantism is all the rage. I wonder whether that says something about our current culture or whether it’s just something Hollywood has latched onto as a way of making a buck. Peppermint is the third such high-profile film to come t...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-09-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, ...
The Signal ends up as a completely different movie than it is at the start. This pretty much guarantees that, although the astute viewer might intuit some of the twists and turns, at least some surprises will remain. In fact, although the movie pro...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-06-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: William Eubank
Cast: Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, ...