Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
PETER RABBIT™
The Phantom Menace
The highest-grossing Star Wars film and the 12th highest-grossing film of all time.
Phone Booth
Planet Of The Apes
The Playboys
Shane Connaughton’s love letter to a vanished island.
The Program
Prometheus
Not a prequel to Alien, so much as a universe of new ideas.
Rio
Imagined and directed by the gifted Brazilian-American Carlos Saldana as a musical tribute to his homeland. Grossed $484 million worldwide and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Real in Rio.”
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Technological advances made possible the first film with a sentient animal protagonist.
Road To Perdition
Robots
Chris Webb and Blue Sky Studios’ second picture.
Rocket Gibralter
McCaulay Culkin’s first movie and Burt Lancaster’s last.
Roxanne
Studio and filmmakers tested a dozen different noses.
School Daze
Spike Lee’s first film with a major studio.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Life Of Bees
Sexy Beast
Shallow Hal
Shame
She’s The One
Sideways
The best-reviewed movie of 2004. Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Siege
Ed Zwick’s prescient pre-9/11 cautionary tale.
Simpsons Movie
D’oh! Earned a worldwide gross of $527,068,706.
Soul Food
Won several Image Awards. Spawned a follow-up cable television show on Showtime that aired from 2000-2004.
SPIDER-MAN™: HOMECOMING
Stealing Beauty
Bertolucci referred to this film as “first tango in Paris.”
Stranger Than Paradise
Jim Jarmusch’s groundbreaking film, winning the Caméra d’Or award for debut films at the Cannes Film Festival. Heralded the dawn of a new movement in American independent film.
The Sum Of Us
Won awards from the Australian Film Institute and launched Russell Crowe’s career, in a most unexpected way.
T2 TRAINSPOTTING
Taken
Thank You For Smoking
Dying is easy, satire is hard. Jason Reitman’s directorial debut. Won two Golden Globe nominations: Best Picture and Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.
That Thing You Do
Written and directed by Tom Hanks. Eponymous song “That Thing You Do!” nominated for a Golden Globe as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
There’s Something About Mary
One of the American Film Institute’s 100 funniest movies of the 20th century.
Thirteen
Academy Award nominations for Holly Hunter for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Both Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood were nominated for Golden Globes, respectively for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in a Drama.
This Means War
The Three Stooges
To Live
From the often controversial Zhang Yimou. Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language. Won the Grand Jury Prize and Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.
To Sleep With Anger
Charles Burnett is one of the little known, but most exceptional, American indie directors of the 1980s. Won four Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay (Charles Burnett), Best Male Lead (Danny Glover), and Best Supporting Female (Sheryl Lee Ralph). Also won Best Screenplay at the National Board of Review and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
The Transporter
The Tree Of Life
The incomparable Terrence Malik. Nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography. Won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Truly Madly Deeply
The marvelous film debut of the late Anthony Minghella, who went on to fulfill all of the early promise this movie shows. His untimely death In 2008 deprived the world of many more great films and of a great human being.
Under The Same Moon
Unfaithful
Diane Lane won awards for best actress from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Unstoppable
Director Tony Scott’s final feature film. No one ever shot real life action as well as he did, making this breathtaking ride with almost no CGI effects.
The Van
Waiting To Exhale
A social phenomenon. The first time African American women were portrayed in a positive and complete fashion in mainstream studio filmmaking. High time indeed.