Shooter (2007)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Plot: A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
American Gangster (2007)
Director: Ridley Scott
Plot: In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.8 / 10
Biography, Crime, Drama
Back to the Future (1985)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Plot: A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.
My rating: 10 / 10
Movie rating: 8.5 / 10
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Serendipity (2001)
Director: Peter Chelsom
Plot: A couple reunite years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.8 / 10
Comedy, Romance
Mutluluk (2007)
Director: Abdullah Oguz
Plot: When an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.5 / 10
Drama
If Only (2004)
Director: Gil Junger
Plot: It takes a tragedy to teach the young businessman Ian to put love ahead of work and open up to his musician girlfriend Samantha.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
City of Angels (1998)
Director: Brad Silberling
Plot: Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage's buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Death Sentence (2007)
Director: James Wan
Plot: Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Beowulf (2007)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Plot: The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.3 / 10
Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Stardust (2007)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Plot: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
My rating: 10 / 10
Movie rating: 7.6 / 10
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
I Am Legend (2007)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Plot: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.2 / 10
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Director: Andrew Adamson
Plot: Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Waitress (2007)
Director: Adrienne Shelly
Plot: Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Kingdom (2007)
Director: Peter Berg
Plot: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7 / 10
Action, Drama, Thriller
Amélie (2001)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Plot: Amelie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.3 / 10
Comedy, Romance
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Director: Werner Herzog
Plot: A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Viet Nam War.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.3 / 10
Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Director: Tim Burton
Plot: A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Plot: Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10
Horror, Sci-Fi
Ratatouille (2007)
Director: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
Plot: A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 8.1 / 10
Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Grindhouse (2007)
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie
Plot: Quentin Tarantino and Rober Rodriguez's homage to drive-in double features in the 60s and 70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.5 / 10
Action, Horror, Thriller
Planet Terror (2007)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Plot: After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10
Action, Horror
Fast Track (2006)
Director: Jesse Peretz
Plot: A slacker is forced to work for his father-in-law after his pregnant wife steps away from her high-paying job.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 5.4 / 10
Comedy, Romance
Atonement (2007)
Director: Joe Wright
Plot: Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.8 / 10
Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Director: Paul Greengrass
Plot: Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
My rating: 10 / 10
Movie rating: 8 / 10
Action, Thriller
Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Director: Chris Nahon
Plot: A betrayed intelligence officer enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.6 / 10
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Director: Michael Davis
Plot: A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.6 / 10
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Director: David Frankel
Plot: A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Director: Adam Shankman
Plot: The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.
My rating: 10 / 10
Movie rating: 7.3 / 10
Drama, Romance
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Director: Bille August
Plot: GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10
Biography, Drama, History
Superman/Doomsday (2007)
Director: Lauren Montgomery, Bruce W. Timm, Brandon Vietti
Plot: When LexCorps accidentally unleash a murderous creature, Doomsday, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10
Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi