Tagged: based on a true story

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller

American Made (2017)

Bouncing back from his prior fiasco, The Mummy, Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) gets to use his effervescent charm to good effect in American Made, a slick and entertaining production based...

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

Detroit (2017)

Director Kathryn Bigelow, collaborating with favorite screenwriter Mark Boal (who penned her The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, takes on the challenge of crafting a drama based on the true events of one particular tragedy that occurred...

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2010s / Comedy / War

War Machine (2017)

When was the last time Brad Pitt (By the Sea, Fury) gave a performance that didn’t resemble an alien trying to control a human host? That’s the question I posed on Twitter shortly after screening War...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Romance

Rules Don’t Apply (2016)

Warren Beatty’s (Bulworth, Dick Tracy) first motion picture work in about fifteen years sees him a bit rusty with Rules Don’t Apply, an earnest but inconsistent attempt at a comedy with dramatic undertones that feels like...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller / War

War Dogs (2016)

Loosely based on a true story chronicled in a 2011 “Rolling Stone” article and subsequent 2015 book (“Arms and the Dudes”) by Guy Lawson, War Dogs follows two lifelong friends, struggling massage therapist and bedsheet salesman...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Set in New York during the mid 1940s, Stephen Frears’ (Philomena, The Queen) film about a real-life, upper-class heiress with a zest for music and charitable works gives Meryl Streep (Ricki and the Flash, Into the...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama

The Big Short (2015)

Absurdist slapstick comedy director Adam McKay (Anchorman 2, Talladega Nights) comes into his own with The Big Short, a semi-comedic adaptation of the Michael Lewis non-fiction novel about the build-up to the calamitous housing market crash...

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2010s / Adventure / Drama

Everest (2015)

Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns, Contraband) directs this dramatized adventure story based on the well-chronicled true events that occurred to a couple of commercial mountain climbing expeditions seeking to safely take relative novices to the...

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1970s / Action / Comedy / Drama

The Sugarland Express (1974)

The Sugarland Express tells the tale, based on true events chronicled in 1969, of Clovis (Atherton, Ghostbusters) and Lou Jean Poplin (Hawn,Foul Play), a married couple from Texas who determine to travel hundreds of miles to Sugarland,...

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2010s / Drama

Fruitvale Station (2013)

Fruitvale Station is based on the true story of the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. The event was captured by various cell phones from bystanders to...