Films featuring
Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Dark Knight (2008)

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Do I look like a guy with a plan?

Comic book movies are all grow’d up and, boy, are they gloomy. Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to his brilliant Batman Begins goes beyond its predecessor and gives us a rich, multi-layered story with one of the more original takes on the comic book villain I can remember. With the creative success of this movie, we can officially write off the Tim Burton Batmans as an unfortunate detour (and the Joel Schumacher films as a large pothole in that detour).

Why So Serious

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World Trade Center (2006)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

We prepared for everything. Not for this.

Okay, admit it. When you heard that Oliver Stone was going to make a movie about the events of September 11, 2001, a lot of you rolled your eyes and thought, “Oh, my God, what’s he going to do now?” Was he going to have Richard Nixon rising from the grave to plant explosives in the twin towers? How were the Grassy Knoll gunmen who killed John Kennedy involved? And how did it all tie back to the Vietnam War?

World Trade Center

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Director:  | Released:  | 129 min. | Rated:  | Genres: