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"Kate & Leopold" is a preposterous time-travel romance in which the third Duke of Albany leaves the New York of 1876 and arrives in the New York of Meg Ryan . Well, of course it's preposterous: Time travel involves so many paradoxes that it is wise, in a romantic comedy like this, to simply ignore them. The movie is not really about time travel anyway, but about elegant British manners vs. American slobbiness. Like the heroine of one of those romance novels her best friend reads, our gal Meg is swept off her feet by a wealthy and titled English lord.

Ryan plays Kate, who works in market research and is responsible for promoting products of dubious value. She's dating Stuart ( Liev Schreiber ), a half-loony inventor who discovers an opening in the matrix of time, jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge, finds himself in 1876--and returns with his own great-great-grandfather, Leopold, duke of Albany ( Hugh Jackman ).

It is inevitable that Kate will overcome her lukewarm affection for Stuart and fall in love with the dashing Englishman (even though the first time she sees him in military costume, she thinks he's dressed as Sgt. Pepper). Meg Ryan does this sort of thing about as well as it can possibly be done, and after " Sleepless in Seattle " and " You've Got Mail ," here is another ingenious plot that teases us with the possibility that true love will fail, while winking that, of course, it will prevail.

"Kate & Leopold" wisely does not depend on the mechanics of the developing romance for its humor. Instead, it uses its fish-out-of-water plot to show Leopold as a proper, well-behaved English aristocrat, astonished by what he finds in modern Manhattan. He's struck not so much by the traffic and the skyscrapers as by the manners. Walking a dog, he's asked by a cop if he plans to scoop the poop, and draws himself to his full height to intone: "Are you suggesting, madam, there exists a law compelling gentlemen to lay hold of canine bowel movements?" Both Leopold and his descendant, Stuart, are inventor types. Leopold, we learn, designed the Brooklyn Bridge and invented the elevator. Stuart not only discovered the portal in time, but had enough confidence in his calculations to jump off the bridge and trust that it would open for him. Why he lands on his feet instead of falling to his death in the 1876 river is a question the movie prudently ignores.

The movie, directed by James Mangold (" Heavy ," "Girl Interrupted") and written by Mangold and Steven Rogers , has some droll scenes after Kate enlists Leopold to appear in a TV commercial for Farmer's Bounty, a low-calorie spread. Leopold's accent and his sincere conviction are perfect, and the spot goes well until he actually tastes the product, and compares it to saddle soap or raw suet: "It's revolting!" Kate tries to calm him: "It's diet. It's supposed to taste awful." One of the reasons the movie works is because we like the goodness of the characters; it's wise, I think, to let Schreiber get over his romantic disappointment as quickly as possible, and become a co-conspirator for love. (Apart from any other reason, Stuart knows that unless Albany returns to 1876 and starts a family, Stuart will never exist.) We know there will be scenes where Kate the practical and cynical girl is swept off her feet by old-fashioned romance, and there are: a candlelit rooftop dinner, and a moment when Leopold tucks her in, she asks him to stay, and he does, in full uniform.

I have here a precautionary message from Will Shank of Toronto, Ontario, who writes that before I review "Kate & Leopold" there are a couple of things I should know: "Prince Leopold, the duke of Albany, was a hemophiliac and, although he has been described as daring and high-spirited, would not have been foolish enough to participate in the dangerous stunts seen in the trailer. He was sickly all his life and his mother, Queen Victoria, expressed surprise that he lived long enough to be married and have a child. Also, Victoria and her children spoke German among themselves, not English. People who knew them related that when they did speak English, it was with a strong German accent." Thanks, Will. The next time I meet James Mangold, I'll ask him why he didn't make "Kate & Leopold" the story of a hemophiliac with a German accent who was afraid to jump off bridges. Sounds like a movie we are all waiting to see.

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Kate & Leopold (2001)

Rated PG-13 For Brief Strong Language

118 minutes

Meg Ryan as Kate

Liev Schreiber as Stuart

Hugh Jackman as Leopold

Breckin Meyer as Charlie

Natasha Lyonne as Darci

Bradley Whitford as J.J. Camden

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Hugh Jackman and Meg Ryan star in 'Kate & Leopold.' Photo via Getty Images

Even if you’re an avid fan of the genre, there’s a good chance Kate & Leopold slipped under your rom-com radar. (If you were so lucky, you might’ve found it on a quest to watch Hugh Jackman’s entire filmography, as we all must do at some point.) The 2001 film follows Meg Ryan and Jackman as the titular couple, a 21st-century ad executive and the 19th-century nobleman who travels through time and woos her with old-fashioned affection.

As Kate & Leopold turns 20 this December, its status as a hidden gem of the genre makes some sense. It came out on Christmas, but it’s not a holiday movie; it’s Meg Ryan, but it’s not Nora Ephron. But this in-between-ness makes the film all the more intriguing. Like Kate, your world probably doesn’t look like the vibrant, autumnal oases seen in When Harry Met Sally... or You’ve Got Mail. It might be less cozy, less charming — isolating enough that you’ve considered shifting just to see if those TikTok teens were onto something. (Of course, loving the movie’s message isn’t license to go full born-in-the-wrong-decade. Leopold’s era sucked in its own ways, too.)

If you haven’t rewatched Kate & Leopold recently, there are some fascinating details that might stick out after a fresh viewing. From clues that point to the big twist to concerning time travel implications that rival the ick of Marty McFly and his mom in Back to the Future , it’s time for a Kate & Leopold deep dive.

It Has One Of The Most Brutal Lines, Ever

This movie wastes no time establishing just how unhappy Kate is with her life and her ex, Stuart. In fact, within the first 15 minutes, one of the harshest comebacks in cinematic history tells us everything we need to know. (It also happens to be a line from the 1952 I Love Lucy episode featured in Being the Ricardos. ) When Kate laments that she blew her best years on him, he responds, “Those were your best?” Ouch.

In Kate’s defense, if she really was so unpleasant the whole time, perhaps it was nature’s attempt to prevent her from unwittingly hooking up with her great-great-grandson on the regular. Yeah, the time travel is high-key horrifying, but more on that later.

The Twist Was Teased From The Beginning

More astute viewers might have caught this right away, but the film’s romantic twist (that is, Kate hopping through time to live with Leopold in the past) is foreshadowed from the start. “Who is that? I feel as if I’ve seen her,” Leopold says when he first meets Kate. Ultimately, he had seen her — at his uncle’s party in 1876. It just hadn’t happened on Kate’s timeline yet.

The Plot Is Familiar

A mysterious storybook stranger arrives in modern-day New York and challenges the beliefs of an unlucky-in-love professional? Swap Amy Adams for Hugh Jackman, and you’ve got Enchanted.

So Is The Supporting Cast

Ryan was a bona fide rom-com queen by the time she starred in Kate & Leopold . For his part, Jackman was already clawing his way toward superhero fame after debuting as Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men. But the film also features a supporting cast of very familiar faces before they went on to land their career-defining roles, including Viola Davis as the police offer who schools Leopold on modern laws.

Back in 1876, you can even catch Bob’s Burgers star Kristen Schaal as a guest at Leopold’s dance — her very first film role.

There’s A Toothpaste Easter Egg

From the toilet to the disposable razor, Leopold is fascinated by everything in Stuart’s modern bathroom, but you have to wonder what he thought about the tube of Colgate toothpaste he found. William Colgate was the kind of industrialist Leopold would have grown up learning about. Per the Colgate website , the entrepreneur started selling jarred toothpaste in 1873, three years before Leopold peaced-out of the century.

Hugh Jackman Invented Berries And Cream

Twenty years before the advent of Berries and Cream TikTok, Leopold served this delicious dish to Kate — specifically, strawberries and mascarpone on nine-grain toast. It’s also hilarious that one of the dreamiest things Jackman does in this already very swoon-worthy role is make breakfast. But here we are!

What Is It About Butter Commercials?

To borrow a phrase from Phineas and Ferb , if I had a nickel for every time a butter commercial was used as a major rom-com plot point (hi, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ), I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

The Princess Diana Reference Is Spot-On

It makes sense that Kate’s views on love might have been soured by Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s dream-turned-nightmare of a romance — after all, Kate & Leopold came out just four years after Diana’s death. But when Kate calls the royal saga “a cautionary tale” and proof that “you can’t live a fairytale,” the reference feels timely as ever. As Dana Schwartz put it for Bustle last year, we’re in the midst of a Dianaissance. From The Crown to Spencer, the late royal’s tragic story continues to captivate audiences decades later.

The Movie Introduced Hugh Jackman To A Major Collaborator

In 'Kate & Leopold,' Hugh Jackman was directed by James Mangold. Photo via Getty Images

James Mangold, who directed Jackman in both The Wolverine and Logan, also directed Kate & Leopold. The range!

Leopold Makes An Excellent Point About The Sunday Scaries

It’s no secret that the dread you feel on Sunday nights can sometimes creep into the afternoon. Or the morning. Or, in Kate’s case, the second the clock strikes midnight. As she tells Leopold, who has little concept of a 9-to-5, “Sunday is the day before the day I work, so it gets poisoned.”

Later on, Leopold suggests Kate just, you know, quit her job. “Is this what you do at work, Kate? Research methods to deceive people? Refine lies until they resemble truth? It’s no wonder you dread your workweek,” he tells her. Kate promptly says it’s not so easy. Of course, if you’re as unhappy as Kate, here’s hoping you can find a new job/partner/situation instead of resorting to sketchy time travel. Speaking of which...

The Time Travel Logic Is So Confusing (And Terrifying)

The movie’s time crimes start out fairly innocuous. Like, if Leopold leaving his timeline prevents him from ever inventing the elevator, why do all elevators disappear but everyone still knows what they are?

But that’s quaint compared to the central problem of the movie. Apparently, Stuart is Leopold’s great-great-grandson — at least, going by reviews of the film from when it first came out (thank you, Roger Ebert). Though early descriptions of Kate & Leopold ’s plot feature this detail, later versions of the movie appear to have scrubbed references to Stuart’s great-great-grandpa from the film altogether. Stuart does, however, mention the importance of returning Leopold to 1876 for the sake of his descendants.

Unless Leopold had children with someone else before meeting Kate and just hasn’t mentioned them (OK, fair), then it’s pretty much implied Kate will be his wife and, thus, mother of his future generations. Including Stuart. Kate’s ex. The guy she — ew.

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This early 2000s movie proves love transcends space and time.

Hugh Jackman in Kate & Leopold.

Before James Mangold took Wolverine to Japan in the 2013 X-Men movie, the director took Hugh Jackman on a time travel adventure. While Mangold and Jackman are best known for their X-Men films, The Wolverine and Logan , the two first collaborated in a 2001 romantic comedy.

But it wasn’t just any romantic comedy. It’s one fused with a science fiction premise that starred a rom-com icon and helped transform Hugh Jackman from the gritty, action hero audiences saw in 2000’s X-Men to the charming leading man he’s known as today. That movie is none other than Kate & Leopold .

More than 20 years later, Kate & Leopold remains an enjoyable sci-fi romp. Here is why you need to watch Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman in the heartfelt comedy, now streaming on HBO Max.

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Kate & Leopold follows the story of Leopold (Hugh Jackman), an aristocrat living in 19th-century New York who accidentally falls through a time portal and travels to the early 21st century. Leopold’s predicament was caused by his great-great-grandson Stuart (Liev Schreiber), a physicist who discovered the portal, time traveled, and roused Leopold’s suspicions, leading the nobleman to chase Stuart back to the future.

Reasonably, Leopold is stunned to discover himself in an entirely new century, and much of the movie’s comedy derives from his antiquated, over-the-top reactions to early 2000s technology. The film quickly lets Leopold on the loose (after Stuart accidentally tumbles into an empty elevator shaft), and that’s when he meets Stuart's ex‑girlfriend, Kate (Meg Ryan), and her brother, Charlie (Breckin Meyer).

With Stuart gone, Kate and Charlie become Leopold’s defacto guides to living in modern-day New York. Both don’t believe he time traveled but think he’s an actor who is entirely too committed to this craft. Kate’s cynicism is a stark contrast to Leopold's utter sincerity. She can’t take him seriously, but his presence demands nothing less. It results in plenty of entertaining chemistry-filled banter.

Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman star in Kate & Leopold.

Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman star in Kate & Leopold .

But Leopold’s unwavering earnestness wins over Kate, and before you know it, the two begin to fall in love. That doesn’t come without its complications. The longer Leopold stays in the 21st century, the more the ramifications of his time-traveling begin to manifest. In this fictional tale, Leopold is the inventor of what would be the elevator, and his hesitation to return to the past has elevators across New York City malfunctioning.

If Leopold were to go back to the 19th century, he would have to leave Kate, who the movie paints as an independent, career woman — a far cry from the women in Leopold’s time. But this is a romantic comedy where love and fate are tightly intertwined and ultimately compatible. Kate & Leopold uses that logic to deliver a classic rom-com ending, but it doesn’t quite pull it off. It also leaves you wondering about its time travel element, which is full of contrivances and plot holes. Without spoiling the movie, one example is how the ending makes Kate’s past relationship with Stuart very strange and problematic in hindsight.

Yet, upon one’s first viewing, it’s impossible not to be swept away by Leopold’s grand overtures and the chemistry that blossoms between the film’s two stars. However you feel about the ending, there’s no doubt that Kate & Leopold was a great beginning for another new relationship at the time. After all, the ongoing collaboration between James Mangold and Hugh Jackman would eventually bring us another heart-stopping adventure, Logan , one of the best superhero films of all time.

Kate & Leopold is now streaming on HBO Max .

This article was originally published on Jan. 12, 2022

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“Reminiscence:” Hugh Jackman Tackles Time and Travel to the Past

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The budget for Hugh Jackman’s new film “Reminiscence” was $68 million. For this, you get a peek at Miami “after the flood” caused by global warming and a journey into a nearly submerged Miami constructed by “West World” creator and first-time film director Lisa Joy. The sets for sunken Miami were built in New Orelans in an abandoned theme park. Debut Director Lisa Joy says that one of her greatest thrills was walking on set for the first time. This is a futuristic world in which a machine designed, originally, to interrogate prisoners via their dreams, is now used in a post-war society as a way to  stroll down memory lane.

A private investigator of the mind ( Hugh Jackman as Nick Bannister ), assisted by his former partner in the military ( Thandiwe Newton as Emily “Watts” Sanders ), helps clients take a stroll through time in a world where “nostalgia never goes out of style” and “the past is addictive.” Jackman has the right hypnotic vocal quality to guide time travelers. He fills the bill as the Bogart-like centerpiece of a noir thriller that has more than its share of original scenes and images. ( Death-by-piano and Nick’s head submerged in a tank full of electric eels, giving his sidekick Thandiwe Newton a chance to play a kick-ass female rescuer were firsts.)

Various customers come and go in the converted bank building that Nick and Emily use as their dream-trip headquarters. Each individual  gets in an immersion  tank, has electrodes attached to his/her head, and receives a shot in the neck, which helps him or her to revisit the past. Each filmed memory becomes a part of the plot puzzle, a plot that is tremendously complicated. There are so many threads of the plot that must come together to form a complete whole that it destroys some of the film’s momentum.

The holographic images used for the dream sequences were also fantastic, created by Cinematographer Paul Cameron who said, “It needed a certain holographic reality, so the challenge, for me, was to create this illusion for the memories live on set.” Cameron, who had worked with Director Lisa Joy on “West World,” used halo gauze material, a projection system, and a curved screen. The thin mesh was stretched in the shape of a half cylinder and three 20K projectors mapped on the circular screen, including a Sony Venice 4K camera using TODD AO 2X anamorphic lenses for soft vintage-looking rear projection.

The cinematographer can take a huge bow. As he said, “You’re laser projecting onto this fabric that has been stretched into this curved shape that’s a little out of focus.” Said Cameron, “It’s a layer within a layer and so that becomes the syntax of the film. It gets very tricky with Jackman and Ferguson, popping in and out of memory, especially when he even steps into hers for the most surreal moment.”

Let’s talk for a moment about that “most surreal moment.” Even made-up worlds usually have rules about how they work. I commented to my companion that it didn’t seem “right” that Jackman’s character could simply step into a dream sequence that is being replayed, when it  was originally a scene between Rebecca Ferguson’s lead female character Mae and the crooked cop Cyrus Boothe (Cliff Curtis). Some of the “rules” of this future world are spelled out for us. For instance, we know that when a subject is in the tank, if they are asked to summon a memory that they don’t have, they have a fit, like little kids watching  video games who sometimes fall to the floor and have seizures. I wanted to know the “rules” for one character, stepping into the memories of another on replay. Nevertheless, I  enjoyed the “step into my dream” sequence, despite wondering if it was really “allowed” in this Future World.

Besides the Cinematographer’s revolutionary achievements, the sunken world created by the special effects and set people were truly outstanding. Some have mentioned “Inception” as a similar film. That is not surprising, considering that Jonathan Nolan (a producer on this film and husband of the director) is Christopher Nolan’s brother.

Other films mentioned that have the same futuristic look are “Blade Runner,” “Inception,” “Minority Report,” “Strange Days,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “Vanilla Sky,” “Total Recall,” “Déjà vu” and, of course, television’s “West World,” the previous work experience of the director.

The noir attitude, lighting and theme are similar to “Chinatown” and “L.A. Confidential.”

While I thought Hugh Jackman was solid in his role,  I wasn’t as firmly onboard with the casting of Rebecca Ferguson, the Swedish and British actress who starred opposite Tom Cruise in “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” (and is set to star in the next “Mission Impossible” film. ) Even though Ferguson appeared in “The Greatest Showman” with Jackman previously, portraying Jenny Lind, as a romantic duo they don’t generate “heat” onscreen. It’s hard to define what this quality is, but when the couple onscreen has it and it works, you know it. When it doesn’t, you may find yourself saying, “What does he see in her?” or “What does she see in him?”

Rebecaa Ferguson, for me, was curiously unconvincing as a femme fatale who instantly mesmerizes at least four of the male characters while performing in seedy nightclubs. She was distant, uninvolved emotionally, and could have been replaced by any attractive female leading lady. (SPOILER) When she ingested some mysterious drug and jumped off a building, I didn’t mourn her passing.

The song “Where or When” is integral to the plot. We hear Ferguson singing it. Her singing, as well, is so-so.  It was hard for me to understand how Ferguson could so reliably captivate so many men so quickly.

Rebecca Ferguson, for me, was part of the reason the film as a whole did not “work.” She is an oddly inert presence throughout. She doesn’t engage us. She is remote. Detached.  Is it because Ferguson’s character ( Mae) in the script is ambivalent, presented as both bad and good? For much of the film we are convinced she is a scheming manipulator. However, from Jackman’s POV, she is his angelic dream girl. Which is correct? It takes the entire film to find out. It is hard to root for her or to root against her, because we are not told whether she is good or bad. She does have an extremely ritzy wardrobe for a girl without electricity in her apartment, and is pictured in clothes-with-midriff-cutouts in nearly every color. Very high fashion. I jotted “Quite the wardrobe for someone with no money for electricity!”

THE SCREENPLAY

Many have expressed their unhappiness with the script. It was on the Black List, as it is called, for some time, which is a list of the best scripts out there that have not yet been made into films.

But what about the actual words the characters speak?

Here are some lines from the script. Decide for yourself if they are good or bad lines:

“The past can haunt a man.”

“Just a series of moments, each one perfect. A bead on the necklace of time.”

“It’s us who haunt the past.”

“Late is a construct of linear time.  We don’t deal in that.”

“Time is no longer a one-way stream.”

“The past is addictive.”

“You can’t remember something that never made an impression.”

“We’re all haunted by something.”

“Memories are like perfume: better in small doses.”

“There is no such thing as a happy ending.”

“To find where she’d gone, I had to know where she’d been.”

“You’ve been had and you don’t even know why.”

“Stay here in this life. Stay here with me.”

“The barons stay alive by drowning everyone else.  Only the rich mold the world to their delusions.”

“When you’re young, you think the future will play out like dominoes.  You have no idea the things that are lined up.”

“Nothing’s an accident with Mae.”

“When the waves came they washed away our lives.”

“You’re an empty man looking for a woman to blame.”

“The truth is not gonna’ set you free.  It’s gonna’ damn you.”

“I was so stupid to think that falling in love could save me.”

“Love is the thing we cling to.”

“Missing people is a part of the world.”

Look back at the films listed that “Reminiscence” is like. If you enjoyed those, you’ll probably like this one—perhaps not as much as the classics I listed, but “Reminiscence” is definitely cut from the same bolt of cloth.

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Connie (Corcoran) Wilson (www.ConnieCWilson.com ) was the Quad City Times film and book critic for 15 years and has continued reviewing film uninterruptedly since 1970. She also publishes books in a variety of genres (www.quadcitieslearning.com), has taught writing or literature classes at 6 Iowa/Illinois colleges or universities as adjunct faculty, was Yahoo's Content Producer of the Year 2008 for Politics, is the author of It Came from the 70s: From The Godfather to Apocalypse Now, and writes on a variety of topics at her own blog, www.WeeklyWilson.com. Weekly Wilson is also the name of her podcast on the Bold Brave Media Global Network on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. (CDT).

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Kate And Leopold

  • Hugh Jackman
  • Breckin Meyer
  • Natasha Lyonne
  • Liev Schreiber
  • James Mangold
  • Steven Rogers
  • Cathy Konrad
  • 118 minutes

Kate McKay is a modern female executive in New York City whose drive to succeed in the cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance. When her genius ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time, and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it, a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century.

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2002 Golden Globes

  • Best Original Song
  • Best Actor - Comedy/Musical

2002 Academy Awards

  • Best Music - Original Score

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Kate & Leopold - Shining Knight

Kate & Leopold - Shining Knight

When Kate's purse is stolen, Leopold chases the thief the old fashioned way, on horseback. In the scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman)

Kate & Leopold - Talking Telegram

Kate & Leopold - Talking Telegram

Leopold attempts to use the "talking telegram." In the scene: Leopold (Hugh Jackman), Stuart (Liev Schreiber)

Kate & Leopold - You Require a Chaperone

Kate & Leopold - You Require a Chaperone

Leopold is concerned about Kate's date with her sleazy boss, JJ. In the scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman)

Kate & Leopold - The Hereafter

Kate & Leopold - The Hereafter

Leopold, a man out of time, awakens in 21st Century New York. In the scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman)

Kate & Leopold - Romancing The Buffoon

Kate & Leopold - Romancing The Buffoon

Leopold offers Charlie old school courting tips. In the scene: Leopold (Hugh Jackman), Charlie (Breckin Meyer)

Kate & Leopold - Duke on the Roof

Kate & Leopold - Duke on the Roof

Leopold prepares a romantic rooftop dinner for Kate. In the scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman)

Kate & Leopold - A Woman in Trousers

Kate & Leopold - A Woman in Trousers

Kate meets Leopold, who has already been warned about her sly ways. In the scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman)

Kate & Leopold - Pick the Poop Up

Kate & Leopold - Pick the Poop Up

Leopold, a Duke in his own time, is not used to rules of modern society. In the scene: Leopold (Hugh Jackman), Police Officer (Viola Davis)

Kate & Leopold - Can You Go Away?

Kate & Leopold - Can You Go Away?

After several glasses of wine, Kate gets fed up with Leopold's "act" and has a simple request. In the scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman), Charlie (Breckin Meyer)

Kate & Leopold - This Old House

Kate & Leopold - This Old House

After Leopold takes Kate to his home from the past, she begins to believe his story. In this scene: Kate (Meg Ryan), Leopold (Hugh Jackman)

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Reminiscence trailer: hugh jackman travels back in time using his memories.

Take a trip into the past with the new trailer for Warner Bros.' Reminiscence, a twisty sci-fi mystery starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson.

Warner Bros. unveils the newest trailer for the Hugh Jackman-starring  Reminiscence .  In his first proper film role since 2019's  Bad Education, Jackman plays private investigator Nick Bannister. Nick has a very special occupation: He offers clients the opportunity to relieve lost memories. His life changes forever when he meets Mae (Rebecca Ferguson), leading to a passionate love affair. However, when Mae disappears without a trace, Nick must search the past to fully uncover who she is. Directed by  Westworld creator Lisa Joy,  Reminiscence also stars Thandiwe Newton , Cliff Curtis, and Daniel Wu.

Reminiscence was originally slated to debut in April of this year with an exclusive theatrical run. However, following numerous changes caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Warner Bros. bumped the twisty sci-fi mystery to late summer. Now expected to premiere on August 20,  Reminiscence will also be one of the Warner Bros. movies to release day and date on HBO Max; it will be available to stream for one month, just like the studio's other 2021 releases.

Related:  HBO Max: Every Movie & TV Show Coming In June 2021

On Thursday, Warner Bros. debuted the official trailer for  Reminiscence.  This comes after Jackman shared a tantalizing teaser in February, though the new video provides a deeper look at what's to come. From the sunken Miami where Nick has set up shop to the tech Jackman and Newton's characters use on their clients, the full trailer plunges viewers right into the world of  Reminiscence.  Check it out below.

With its noir-style mystery and fascinating sci-fi concept,  Reminiscence  is positioned to be a breakout hit. Original sci-fi movies are a bit hard to come by these days, which can give this film an edge. Sure, it doesn't have the backing of established IP, but  Reminiscence 's intriguing plot, the combined star power of the cast, and Joy's  Westworld chops make for an appealing mix. This full trailer does a good job of establishing the world Joy has created (doubly so, as she's also the sole writer), and it paints a compelling mystery. Just who is Mae, and what is she mixed up in? Audiences will find out the answer in August.

Jackman remains a major star, and it'll be exciting to see him dig into a wholly new character. Much of his recent projects have seen him play real people or previously established characters.  Reminscience will give Jackman the chance to explore a universe that hasn't been touched by anyone else. Plus, for fans of  The Greatest Showman ,  this project will see him reunite with Ferguson, albeit in a very different position than in the 2017 musical.  Reminiscence could fall apart under its ambitious weight, but this early look is quite promising.

More:  Every Major Role Hugh Jackman Turned Down

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Like Robert Downey Jr. and Tony Stark, or Patrick Stewart and fellow X-Men favorite Professor Xavier, it’s near impossible to separate Hugh Jackman from Wolverine, the comic book character he helped immortalize on the big screen, so let’s just get that right out of the way. Jackman will forever be associated with the self-healing mutant with the adamantium claws, and now that he’s officially done playing the character, good luck to whoever attempts to fill his shoes next.

Outside of the X-Men universe , though, Jackman has also proven to be a multi-faceted leading man, starring in romantic comedies ( Kate & Leopold , Scoop ), sweeping adventures ( Australia , Pan ), family films ( Happy Feet , Real Steel ), musicals ( Les Misérables , The Greatest Showman ), mysteries ( The Prestige , Prisoners ), and just about everything in between. It’s no wonder some of the biggest directors working today, from Christopher Nolan to Darren Aronofsky to Denis Villeneuve, have sought his talents for their films. And in 2024, he’s returning to Wolverine with the third Deadpool film. To celebrate his eclectic career, we’ve pulled together all Hugh Jackman movies and ranked them by Tomatometer, so have a look and see where your favorites land.

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Logan (2017) 93%

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Bad Education (2019) 94%

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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) 90%

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Missing Link (2019) 88%

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X-Men (2000) 82%

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Prisoners (2013) 81%

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Eddie the Eagle (2016) 81%

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The Prestige (2006) 77%

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Happy Feet (2006) 76%

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Rise of the Guardians (2012) 74%

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Flushed Away (2006) 73%

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The Wolverine (2013) 71%

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Les Misérables (2012) 70%

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Real Steel (2011) 60%

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The Front Runner (2018) 58%

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Australia (2008) 54%

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The Fountain (2006) 53%

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Kate & Leopold (2001) 52%

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Someone Like You (2001) 42%

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Scoop (2006) 41%

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How to watch Hugh Jackman in ‘Reminiscence’: Release date, how to stream, cast, trailer

  • Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

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“Reminiscence” premieres in theaters and on HBO Max August 20, 2021. (Warner Bros. Studios/YouTube)

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A thriller film focused on memories is coming to theaters and streaming services this week.

“Reminiscence” opens in theaters and for streaming on HBO Max on Friday, Aug. 20. Tickets to in-person showings of the film are available on Fandango .

Hugh Jackman plays Nick Bannister a private investigator who helps clients, including Mae (Rebecca Ferguson) recover lost memories. The sci-fi thriller involves time travel and a murder case.

In a recent interview , Jackman said parts of the film when his character time travels to nostalgic parts of his life will resonate with audiences due to the ongoing pandemic.

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“With what we’re going through right now, where there’s a lot of loss. The idea of being able to escape and live in an idyllic version of our past or the greatest hits of our memories is super enticing,” Jackman said in the interview. “I think as the movie says, it would be lovely. And I’d certainly go back and revisit a few things.”

Alongside Jackman and Ferguson, “Reminiscence” cast includes Thandiwe Newton, Cliff Curtis, Marina de Tavira, Daniel Wu, Mojean Aria, Brett Cullen, Natalie Martinez, Angela Sarafyan and Nico Parker.

Where can I watch ‘Reminiscence’?

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Before there was Logan there was… the frothy, time-traveling rom-com Kate & Leopold ?

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With When Romance Met Comedy , Caroline Siede examines the history of the rom-com through the years, one happily ever after (or not) at a time.

Would you give up the right to vote in order to marry Hugh Jackman? That’s essentially the question at the heart of Kate & Leopold , a 2001 time travel rom-com about a sensitive 19th-century duke (Jackman) and the cynical modern day New Yorker (Meg Ryan) who winds up falling for him after he tumbles through a crack in time. And it’s a testament to just how good Hugh Jackman is in this movie that even the most ardent feminist might need a second to consider their options. By the time Ryan’s Kate McKay has made the impulsive choice to follow her out-of-time beau back to 1876, you kind of get it. Who needs airplanes, tampons, and access to penicillin when you can have Jackman take you in his arms and waltz you around a ballroom?

Yet the weirdest thing about Kate & Leopold isn’t anything that happens in its wacky time travel plot, which at one point involves Liev Schreiber falling several stories down an empty elevator shaft. It’s the fact that this gauzy romantic comedy was written and directed by James Mangold, who would later re-team with Jackman to make Logan , one of the bleakest, most critically respected superhero films of all time.

At first glance, there’s very little about Kate & Leopold that seems like a natural fit for Mangold’s filmmaking interests, which usually lean toward grizzled dad movies like 3:10 To Yuma , Walk The Line , and Ford V Ferrari . In fact, Mangold was specifically drawn to the idea of helming an escapist studio rom-com because he wanted a change of pace after bursting onto the scene with heavier dramas like Cop Land and Girl, Interrupted . But once you look past the waistcoats and candlelit rooftop dinners, you can actually start to see Mangold’s touch all over this frothy romance.

For one thing, Kate & Leopold is absolutely obsessed with men and their relationships to one another, a go-to subject matter for Mangold. The ensemble is rounded out with major roles for Kate’s scatterbrained ex-boyfriend Stuart (Schreiber), who figures out how to time travel and inadvertently brings Leopold back to the present; her skeevy boss J.J. (Bradley Whitford), who dangles a promotion and a potential romantic relationship as if they’re one and the same; and her boyish brother Charlie (Breckin Meyer), a struggling actor with a floundering love life. Weirdly enough, Mangold’s take on The Wolverine   has more well-rounded female characters than this romantic comedy where the female lead has top billing in the title. There are whole stretches of the movie that leave Kate behind entirely to focus on Leopold and Charlie’s burgeoning friendship, as the old-fashioned duke teaches his modern-day counterpart some lessons in how to successfully court a woman.

While other time travel rom-coms have used their central conceits as metaphors for everything from marriage to maturation , Mangold is interested in shifting ideals of masculinity. The initial fish-out-of-water comedy of Leopold’s arrival in modern-day New York gives way to a study in contrasts between the immature, emotionally stunted men of the present and the noble confidence of a man from the past—whose chivalry isn’t a means to an end, but a genuine code for trying to be a better, more caring person. Kate & Leopold isn’t interested in manhood as it relates to machismo swagger or bro-y gross-out humor, but as it relates to ideals of integrity, honesty, respect, and, most unexpectedly of all, emotional openness. Leopold’s biggest piece of advice to Charlie is that he shouldn’t awkwardly half-flirt with his crush while trying to suss out her interests. “Make your intentions known,” Leopold advises. “Think of pleasing her, not vexing her.”

Of course, it’s wildly ahistorical to think that the person best-suited to teach us how to live sensitive, respectful 21st-century lives is an aristocratic man from the 1800s—even if Leopold is supposed to be a forward-thinking inventor who goes on to patent the elevator. In a lot of ways, it probably would’ve made more sense for Kate & Leopold to be a Thor -style comedy where the displaced outsider learns his lesson, rather than an Enchanted -style story where they change the world around them for the better.

But as Mangold repeatedly points out in the film’s DVD commentary, Kate & Leopold isn’t actually about contrasting the 1870s with the 2000s so much as paying homage to an Old Hollywood style of romantic filmmaking. Beyond its overt nods to Breakfast At Tiffany’s ,   Kate & Leopold has a dreamily timeless quality that evokes movies like   The Apartment   and The Shop Around The Corner .

Mangold encouraged Jackman to play Leopold less as a realistic historical figure and more as a cross between Errol Flynn and Cary Grant. The genius of casting Jackman is that he’s an actor who can be both utterly masculine and gracefully feminine all at the same time. Jackman perfectly embodies the contradictions of Leopold, who has the arrogance of Mr. Darcy mixed with the unending politeness of Clark Kent. He commits to the role just as intensely as he’d committed to his debut as Wolverine the year before .

The film’s laugh-out-loud comedy comes from the fact that Jackman plays Leopold’s befuddlement with modern society completely straight—from his shock at the idea of picking up dog poop to his impassioned rant about the “General of Electric” and his disregard for building an effective toaster. Jackman delivers the comedy with the same intensity as his proclamations of love, leaving Leopold as a man whose unfailing principles are both his biggest strength and his most frustrating flaw. It’s a fantastic performance on every level.

Saddled with a less well-written character, Ryan struggles to hold the screen in the same way. The movie vaguely introduces the idea that Kate is a woman in a man’s world. “You skew male,” J.J. tells her at one point. “You’re like a man. A man who understands women, their desires, their needs. You understand them, but you’re not really one of them.” But it doesn’t really drive home that thread with any specificity beyond the standard “overworked rom-com heroine” archetype—an archetype that isn’t really Ryan’s strong suit anyway.

She’s not bad, exactly, and in fact some of her reaction shots are genuinely lovely. This just isn’t among Ryan’s best work in the rom-com genre, and Kate never fully clicks as a character. Kate & Leopold is too distracted by its men to spend enough time on Kate and the question of what she might lose or gain by following Leopold back into the past. So what stands out most is how inexplicably pointy her hair is.

In contrast, Schreiber, Meyer, and Whitford shine because they’re playing characters who are specific in their quirks and eccentricities. At one point Mangold pauses the plot just to give Stuart an extended monologue about the pain of being called crazy for his open scientific mind. And while it’s a strange diversion for a movie with such nonsensical time travel logic, Schreiber sells the hell out of it. Elsewhere, Jackman and Meyer are so sweet together that there are moments where it feels like the movie should’ve just been a love story between Leopold and Charlie. And in terms of Whitford’s best smarmy performances, I’d rank Kate & Leopold right up there with Billy Madison and Get Out . “The Duke Of Margarine thinks me a serpent,” he scoffs at one point after Leopold has been hired as the spokesperson for a diet butter spread.

I’m both proud and embarrassed to say that I watched this movie so many times during my middle-school years that I can still recite Leopold’s “fresh creamery butter” commercial by heart. And while I’m sure I’m not alone in imprinting on this movie at just the right age for it to become an obsession, for the most part Kate & Leopold is a romantic comedy that’s been a little bit lost to time—fitting considering its subject matter. These days it’s probably best remembered as the film that helped secure Jackman’s rise to leading man status in the years between X-Men and X2 . He was nominated for a Golden Globe and consistently singled out as a highlight across Kate & Leopold ’s mixed reviews. And beyond kicking off his partnership with Mangold, it also seems to have unlocked Jackman’s love of playing forward-thinking Gilded Age men. You could consider Kate & Leopold the first part of an unofficial trilogy with The Prestige and The Greatest Showman .

For all its flaws and forgettability ,   Kate & Leopold works better than it has any right to, mostly thanks to its talented cast and Mangold’s subtly graceful filmmaking, which is filled with long takes and elegant camera moves. There’s something undeniably cozy about this film, even if it never quite lives up to its potential—either in its theatrical edition or its slightly longer director’s cut, which introduces the idea that Leopold is Stuart’s great‑great‑grandfather and gives Kate a few more notes of cynicism.

In either version, Kate & Leopold works best when it leans into the idea that its whole story is a fairy tale. In his commentary, Mangold talks about the movie being sweet and open-hearted in a way that was swiftly falling out of fashion in the early aughts. And his greatest insight of all is that if you need someone to sell your old-fashioned fairy-tale romance, there’s no better Prince Charming than Hugh Jackman.

Next time: Charade is a perfect rom-com thriller for the Halloween season.

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WATCH: Hugh Jackman Goes on a Time-twisting Journey in ‘Reminiscence’ Trailer

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Warner Bros. has just unveiled the trailer for their new sci-fi thriller from Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy. Starring Hugh Jackman, the film titled Reminiscence follows a man who taps into the past through a futuristic machine.

Watch the trailer below:

Set in a bleak not-too-distant future, the film centers on Nick Bannister, who makes a living through a machine that allows his clients to relive memories through their minds. He also uses this technology to search for the love of his life by reliving his own past, only to discover that a much bigger conspiracy is at play.

Alongside Jackman are stars Thandiwe Newton, Rebecca Ferguson, Marina de Tavira, Cliff Curtis, and Daniel Wu. They are also joined by Mojean Aria, Brett Cullen, Natalie Martinez, Angela Sarafyan, and Nico Parker.

The film is the directorial debut of Lisa Joy, from her own original screenplay. Joy’s creative team for Reminiscence also includes names from Westworld , including director of photography Paul Cameron, production designer Howard Cummings, editor Mark Yoshikawa, and composer Ramin Djawadi.

The film is set for release in US theaters and HBO Max this August 20 .

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Reminiscence review: Hugh Jackman stumbles into a silly time-lord mystery

Leah Greenblatt is the critic at large at Entertainment Weekly , covering movies, music, books, and theater. She is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, and has been writing for EW since 2004.

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"The past can haunt a man. That's what they say," Hugh Jackman 's Nick Bannister intones more than once in Reminiscence . So too, alas, can a movie that makes no sense. Writer-director Lisa Joy ( Westworld ) seems to be aiming for an Inception -style metaphysical mind-bend, with the sci-fi jolt of Minority Report and a bleak splash of Waterworld . But her intentions get lost in some cloudy marine layer in between, sunk by hammy hard-boiled dialogue and a story that leaves logic at the door.

It's the near future, and things have not gone well environmentally; Miami is a lake now, a soggy wasteland engulfed by rising sea levels and governmental corruption. Jackman's Bannister at least has managed to carve out his own income stream: He's the sole proprietor of a machine that can lift memories from people's brains and project them onto a kind of private hologram stage. And for a fee, he and his assistant, Watts ( Thandiwe Newton ) — both veterans of an ugly but unspecified border war — allow customers to revisit happier times: bodies untouched by injury, tender moments with lovers who've passed on.

It's all quotidian stuff until the day a nightclub singer named Mae ( Mission: Impossible — Fallout 's Rebecca Ferguson ) walks in, asking for a session to retrieve her lost house keys. Never mind that she looks like the living embodiment of Jessica Rabbit, a purring femme fatale so slinky her red satin dress should come with its own googly eyes. She's soon slipping out of that gown anyways, straight into Nick's memory tank and then his heart. A whirlwind romance follows — the kind you know must be true love because it comes in montage form, with lots of sun-dappled hand-holding and splendor in the grass. And then the lady vanishes, leaving a devastated Nick to hunt her down using all the tricks he knows.

Mae, it turns out, is not who she said she was; there's a drug lord in New Orleans (Daniel Wu), a corrupt cop (Cliff Curtis), and a smorgasbord of other shady underworld figures who know her name too well. But Nick, who's supposed to be a decorated soldier, keeps charging into danger like a lovesick teenager to find her, only to be rescued again and again by either Watts or phenomenal luck. Worse, he can't stop philosophizing in the voiceover: It's as if Raymond Chandler got stuck in a Zen-koan generator. ("The past is just a series of moments. A bead on the necklace of time.")

Which feels like more of a shame because the premise is intriguing — who wouldn't want to relitigate their own memories, or at least find out what happens when you do? — the mood is Blade Runner cool, and the actors are working so hard to make the best of dim material. Ferguson tries valiantly to add melancholic layers to her pulp-fiction siren, and Newton embodies the relative voice of reason in most scenes; her default response to Nick is essentially, "Snap out of it." But by the time he's narrating the unraveling of the movie's central mystery exactly while it happens on screen , the whole thing tips overboard, sunk by the weight of its own silliness. Grade: C–

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Warner Bros. has released a teaser trailer for Hugh Jackman ’s upcoming time travel thriller Reminiscence , which comes from Westworld co-creator Lisa Joy . Joy made her feature film directing debut with the film, and as you’ll see with this teaser, she is trying to capture the same kind of mysterious tone of a Christopher Nolan film.

Reminiscence  “follows Nick Bannister (Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, who navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae ( Rebecca Ferguson ). A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae’s disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?”

The movie also stars Thandie Newton ,  Cliff Curtis ,  Marina de Tavira ,  Daniel Wu ,  Mojean Aria ,  Brett Cullen ,  Natalie Martinez ,  Angela Sarafyan , and  Nico Parker .

Joy also wrote the script and produced with  Westworld  co-creator Jonathan Nolan ,  Michael De Luca , and  Aaron Ryder .

Reminiscence  will be released in theaters and on HBO Max September 3, 2021.

You're going on a journey through memory. All you have to do is follow my voice. #Reminiscence , in U.S. theaters and streaming starting 9.3.21. (Internationally in theaters starting 8.25.21). @hbomax @wbpictures pic.twitter.com/OBwC3g3cM7 — Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) February 19, 2021

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“Reminiscence” Trailer Shows Hugh Jackman in a Time-Traveling-Sci-Fi-Romance Film

The former Marvel icon has yet to leave action films behind. Hugh Jackman once again plays a grizzled protagonist in this stylish , post-apocalyptic , mystery movie from Westworld creator, and wife to Jonathan Nolan , Lisa Joy . While this expansive, desolate universe appears heavily inspired by the likes of Blade Runner , it seems to also bring in the memory chasing aspect that captivated audiences in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . Check out just how those thematic languages intermingle by watching the trailer below:

“ Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae’s disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love? “ – Warner Bros.’ “Reminiscence” Official Synopsis via: Collider.com

The noir factor is truly something spectacular in the footage . Jackman’s Nick Bannister is clearly wrapped in some sort of sinister plot involving a twisted memory wiping procedure, but the details are sketchy. In a world where reliving the past can be done by the simple flick of a switch, to what end and for what purpose have these antagonistic forces erased Mae ‘s memories? One thing is for sure, something evil is running amok, and it will take every last ounce of creative thinking and brutal resilience on Bannister’s part to uncover the dark enigmas at hand.

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Reminiscence is directed by Lisa Joy, stars Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson , and Thandiwe Newton , and releases in theaters and on HBO Max on August 20 , 2021 .

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1. Erskineville Kings (1999)

90 min | Drama

Barky, 25, lost soul, left home two years ago to escape his abusive father leaving behind everything in the world that was important to him; now that his father's dead, he thinks it's safe to come home.

Director: Alan White | Stars: Marty Denniss , Hugh Jackman , Andrew Wholley , Aaron Blabey

2. Paperback Hero (1999)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

An Australian truck driver writes romance novels. His engaged, tomboyish, crop duster best friend's name, Ruby Vale, is unasked used as author. Complications arise when his novel takes off. Will they remain friends or...?

Director: Antony J. Bowman | Stars: Claudia Karvan , Hugh Jackman , Angie Milliken , Andrew S. Gilbert

Votes: 2,342

3. X-Men (2000)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart , Hugh Jackman , Ian McKellen , Famke Janssen

Votes: 643,466 | Gross: $157.30M

4. Someone Like You (2001)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

After being jilted by her boyfriend, a talk show talent scout writes a column on the relationship habits of men which gains her national fame.

Director: Tony Goldwyn | Stars: Ashley Judd , Greg Kinnear , Hugh Jackman , Marisa Tomei

Votes: 27,374 | Gross: $27.34M

5. Swordfish (2001)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to help him.

Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: John Travolta , Hugh Jackman , Halle Berry , Don Cheadle

Votes: 195,718 | Gross: $69.77M

6. Kate & Leopold (2001)

PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Meg Ryan , Hugh Jackman , Liev Schreiber , Breckin Meyer

Votes: 88,796 | Gross: $47.12M

7. X2 (2003)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart , Hugh Jackman , Halle Berry , Ian McKellen

Votes: 573,639 | Gross: $214.95M

8. Halifax f.p. (1994–2001) Episode: Profile of a Serial Killer (1997)

Not Rated | 101 min | Crime

When a shocking massacre in a small-town diner leaves no clues, Forensic Psychologist Dr. Jane Halifax (Gibney) teams up with Senior Detective Eric Ringer (Jackman) for one of the toughest cases of their careers.

Director: Steve Jodrell | Stars: Rebecca Gibney , Shane Connor , Hugh Jackman , Susan Lyons

9. Van Helsing (2004)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Hugh Jackman , Kate Beckinsale , Richard Roxburgh , Shuler Hensley

Votes: 283,201 | Gross: $120.18M

10. Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004 Video)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Short, Action

In this animated prequel to Van Helsing (2004), Van Helsing travels to Victorian London to catch the mysterious, inhuman serial killer, Mr. Hyde.

Director: Sharon Bridgeman | Stars: Hugh Jackman , Robbie Coltrane , David Wenham , Grey Griffin

Votes: 3,396

11. Stories of Lost Souls (2005)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Directors: Illeana Douglas , Deborra-Lee Furness , William Garcia , Paul Holmes , Mark Palansky , Col Spector , Toa Stappard , Andrew Upton | Stars: Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña , Naomi Allisstone , William Ash , Nicholas Audsley

12. Happy Feet (2006)

PG | 108 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Directors: George Miller , Warren Coleman , Judy Morris | Stars: Elijah Wood , Brittany Murphy , Hugh Jackman , Robin Williams

Votes: 199,030 | Gross: $198.00M

13. Flushed Away (2006)

PG | 85 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

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Reminiscence

2021, Sci-fi/Mystery & thriller, 1h 56m

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Although Reminiscence isn't lacking narrative ambition, its uncertain blend of sci-fi action and noir thriller mostly provokes memories of better films. Read critic reviews

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Reminiscence has some great ideas, but clunky dialogue and flat characters keep this sci-fi noir from ever really coming to life. Read audience reviews

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Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), a private investigator of the mind, navigates the darkly alluring world of the past by helping his clients access lost memories. Living on the fringes of the sunken Miami coast, his life is forever changed when he takes on a new client, Mae (Rebecca Ferguson). A simple matter of lost and found becomes a dangerous obsession. As Bannister fights to find the truth about Mae's disappearance, he uncovers a violent conspiracy, and must ultimately answer the question: how far would you go to hold on to the ones you love?

Rating: PG-13 (Sexual Content|Drug Material Throughout|Some Strong Language|Strong Violence)

Genre: Sci-fi, Mystery & thriller

Original Language: English

Director: Lisa Joy

Producer: Michael De Luca , Lisa Joy , Jonathan Nolan , Aaron Ryder

Writer: Lisa Joy

Release Date (Theaters): Aug 20, 2021  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2021

Box Office (Gross USA): $3.9M

Runtime: 1h 56m

Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Co: FilmNation Entertainment, Michael De Luca Productions, Kilter Films

Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Hugh Jackman

Nick Bannister

Rebecca Ferguson

Thandiwe Newton

Emily "Watts" Sanders

Cliff Curtis

Cyrus Boothe

Marina de Tavira

Tamara Sylvan

Mojean Aria

Sebastian Sylvan

Brett Cullen

Walter Sylvan

Natalie Martinez

Avery Castillo

Angela Sarafyan

Elsa Carine

Javier Molina

Norio Nishimura

Roxton Garcia

Giovannie Cruz

Woon Young Park

Burly Bouncer

Wesley Humphrey

Rey Hernandez

Gabrielle Echols

Screenwriter

Michael De Luca

Jonathan Nolan

Aaron Ryder

D. Scott Lumpkin

Executive Producer

Paul Cameron

Cinematographer

Mark Yoshikawa

Film Editing

Ramin Djawadi

Original Music

Howard Cummings

Production Design

Matthew Gatlin

Art Director

Leonard R. Spears

Set Decoration

Jennifer Starzyk

Costume Design

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Where to begin? There's the waste of this cast on such a terrible screenplay, the poorly directed action scenes, the voice-over narration as lazy world building and the design elements that lack any imagination. I'd say it was laughably bad but that would imply that there was fun to be had in viewing this interminable bore.

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Reminiscent of other moody sci-fi/noir mashups like Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor (oh the 1990s), I mostly wish that Reminiscence had been less devoted to film noir trappings and explored more of its intriguing sci-fi setting and implications. Set in a future where seas have covered much of Miami, Hugh Jackman plays a memory specialist who helps clients/nostalgia addicts find peace by reliving their past experiences through tech tanks. It's an interesting start and of course, as per noir rules, he'll stumble across a mysterious woman (Rebecca Ferguson) with a troubled past that he can't help but fall in love with even as it becomes clear she had ulterior motives for meeting our hero. There's an obvious and potent commentary at play about worshiping the past at the expense of the future and the consequences of our actions, played on a personal level and a larger ecological warning. The problem is that it takes far too long for me to care about the movie. As expected, the mysterious woman vanishes, and Jackman is determined to find her, but I didn't care about their relationship nor find this woman charming or anything other than a plot catalyst. We needed a more urgent sense of stakes to increase audience engagement. It wasn't like she framed Jackman who then had a certain amount of time to clear his name with bad people or the police. There's no real reason to root for Jackman to find this missing woman besides that he's sad. The Chinatown-meets-The Cell movie is written and directed by Lisa Joy (co-creator of HBO's Westworld), and there are interesting ideas to go along with its near-future world, and yet it all feels like a few drafts away from honing its real potential. I feel that the noir trappings strangle the storyline as far as what its ultimate imagination can be as it tries to fit into a familiar formula. Jumping into people's memories as an investigation seems far more exciting than pounding the flooded pavement for answers. Reminiscence is a bit more conceptional than what it can deliver. It's not terrible but it's not terribly interesting either. Why isn't there more with the police utilizing this technology to solve crimes or invade people's privacy? That seems like a better starting point for conflict than "mysterious woman comes into shop." There are some stunning visuals and points of excitement, like a fistfight that tumbles into a sunken concert hall. The ending is fitting and slightly poetic though heavily predictable given the preoccupation with repeating select conversations about the tragic nature of love stories. The problem with Reminiscence is it's too reminiscent of too many other genre influences without providing enough of a story or characters or mystery or world to stand apart. If you're a fan of Dark City, you might want to check out another stylish sci-fi/noir mashup, or you could just re-watch Dark City. Nate's Grade: C+

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Baby steps of course, but Nolan’s cheap-as-chips feature debut showed undeniable promise. Shot on weekends on black-and-white stock, with Nolan operating the camera himself, it’s an interestingly loopy yarn with hairpin narrative bends; a bit studenty, perhaps, but the kind of thing Nolan would refine in his later, more polished outings.

11. Insomnia (2002)

Nolan got his Hollywood entrée with this Alaska-set cop yarn about a sleep-deprived detective; he was in the room with studio royalty, having been supplied with Al Pacino and Robin Williams (going very much against his normally chummy persona). A remake of a cult Norwegian thriller from five years earlier, in some ways it’s Nolan’s least distinctive film – though he coped well with the labyrinthine, morally compromised plot line, and pulled off some excellent set-pieces.

Andy Serkis, David Bowie and Hugh Jackman in The Prestige.

10. The Prestige (2006)

Sandwiched between his first two Batman films, this always seemed like a bit of an outlier in the Nolanverse. Time hasn’t really altered things. The tale of 19th-century stage magicians, played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, who start a feud over an elaborate teleportation trick (which ends up involving early electricity’s magic man, Nikola Tesla, as impersonated by David Bowie), The Prestige has a distinctly steampunk vibe. Despite Nolan’s customary commitment to his material, in retrospect, he’s not in his comfort zone.

9. Tenet (2020)

Nolan earned thousands of brownie points by releasing Tenet at the height of the Covid pandemic, when the shutdown of cinemas seemed to threaten the entire Hollywood ecosystem. But, of his three grandly realised, enormous-scale sci-fi spectacles, this is probably the least satisfying. A brain-battering time-travel yarn about a terror attack from the future and the secret organisation trying to thwart it, Nolan (as ever) puts his all into the plate-spinning, timeline-juggling concept, but there’s something laboured about the narrative pacing. Though an accomplished dramatic actor, John David Washington is bit of a blank space in the central role, too.

8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Nolan put plenty of welly back into the Batman series – a relief to a forehead-mopping DC and Warner Bros, given the fan reaction to Joel Schumacher’s quips-and-gadgets efforts in the 1990s – and finished off his Christian Bale trilogy with this walloping final section. Tom Hardy’s somewhat unintelligible rasping – the result of his supervillain character Bane’s Darth Vader-style respirator – caused Nolan some critical grief, but this was an otherwise reasonable wrap-up. By bringing Batman out of the self-imposed exile in which the previous instalment had stuck him, it left the franchise in a decent place.

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7. Memento (2000)

The film with which Nolan truly announced his arrival, Memento is a fiendishly plotted noir that managed to find new life in the old memory-loss plotline, a dogeared thriller standby since the 1940s. Nolan showed he could handle top-notch performers: Guy Pearce (fresh from LA Confidential, looking like a cross of Brad Pitt and Don Johnson) is the revenger with “anterograde amnesia”; cue piles of Polaroids, myriad tattoos and hoards of notes to his future self. Using colour and black-and-white visuals to distinguish countervailing timelines (a technique he would return to), Nolan might notionally be examining themes of identity and self, but it’s really all about the totally gripping presentation.

6. Batman Begins (2005)

It might be hard for young ’uns to understand just how nervous Warner Bros was about reviving Batman after its 90s implosion; it just had to get it right. Nolan’s vision was a handbrake turn from Schumacher’s second effort, Batman & Robin. He put up a furrowed-brow Bruce Wayne – incarnated by Christian Bale, the scowliest actor of the era – who goes on a Wagnerian journey across the globe to find himself, before returning to Gotham, the Batsuit and Batmobile. Gloomy and self-involved, this was a Batman who gave the film a seriousness the fans seemed to demand. It paid off handsomely.

5. Interstellar (2014)

This galactically conceived space travel saga was the closest Nolan came to ripping off his spiritual mentor Stanley Kubrick; such was his devotion to 2001: A Space Odyssey, he even engineered an “unrestored” rerelease a few years later. Interstellar is not dissimilar: a big-ticket sci-fi that uses elaborate VFX to delve into some unvarnished human emotions. Nolan’s film doesn’t reach the same epic dimensions as Kubrick’s, but the exhaustively fleshed-out visions of alien landscapes and cosmic star fields are genuinely awe-inspiring.

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4. The Dark Knight (2008)

The monumental cinematic architecture of Nolan’s films can often overshadow and, occasionally, intimidate its human participants – but this was definitively not the case with the second chunk of his Batman series. In a line stretching from César Romero to Jack Nicholson to Joaquin Phoenix, the Joker has been a tremendous showcase for some very good performers, but Heath Ledger outdid them all with his paint-smeared, watch-the-world-burn acting fireworks, earning a posthumous best supporting actor Oscar in the process. Almost incidentally, with this – and its sequel – Nolan pushed the superhero film closer to a conventional big-budget thriller, helping it break out of comics-nerd territory and reach mass audiences.

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3. Inception (2010)

Sometimes, however silly a film gets, you just have to hold your hands up and accept it’s blown your mind. When all else has disintegrated into dust, humankind will still have a genetic memory of Inception’s amazing, vertiginous shot of the Paris street folding back over the horizon, like an Ozymandias for the digital age. Leonardo DiCaprio (in his unreliable-narrator phase; see also Shutter Island) is the investigator/manipulator called in to act like he knows what’s going on in Nolan’s dizzying dreamscape. It’s a work of berserk gloriousness: Nolan throws in every special effect known to humankind, conjuring up an entirely convincing cod-psych science with which to pummel the audience into submission. And boy, does it work.

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2. Dunkirk (2017)

Nolan’s first foray into more realist history brought some unexpected colours to his creative palette: finely judged, almost experimental shot-making, a decentred narrative path that doesn’t prize any of the identifiable protagonists, and a relaxed appreciation of broader social forces at play in momentous historic events. Released in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, its timing and themes meant it played into the hands of the anti-EU faction. Even so, this is a masterly film from an expert film-maker; a human (and humane) interpretation of the battlefield movie, equally interested in the boredom and terror of the ordinary soldier. There are brilliantly conceived combat scenes, of course, with thunderous artillery barrages and horrible deaths; but this is by no means a glorification of war, or even a love-letter to the plucky British spirit. Dunkirk shows simply the hell that people were put through, and how they responded.

1. Oppenheimer (2023)

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Nolan’s second bite at the second world war takes on a subject we can all relate to: the threat of imminent nuclear destruction. Amazingly, for a film about atom bombs, the actual explosion are sparing – although when the big one arrives, it’s pretty major. Instead, Nolan has created a beautifully machine-tooled talking-shop, fusing together timelines that take in J Robert Oppenheimer’s scientific career, his political and personal loyalties (and disloyalties), his interventions in the corridors of power, and his attempts to defend himself from a political ambush. With fewer colossal set-pieces to deploy, Nolan instead provides room for two exceptional performers. Cillian Murphy is a revelation as Oppenheimer , his glitter-eyed, thousand-yard-stare prominently on display But he is outdone by Robert Downey Jr’s wonderfully crafted turn as Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer’s ally turned nemesis. It’s almost shocking, in the age of Trump, to see how seriously the American political process is taken here – and drawing Americans’ attention to the abuse of their institutions may prove to be Oppenheimer’s most durable achievement.

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10 'The Help' (2011)

Director: tate taylor.

Tate Taylor 's 2011 drama The Help stars Oscar-winner Emma Stone as Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young aspiring writer who moves back to her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963. She joins forces with a Black maid, Aibileen Clark, to write a book from the point of view of the town's maids.

In the years since its release, The Help has been rightly criticized for its clumsy treatment of race dynamics. However, the film largely works thanks to Viola Davis' brilliant performance as Aibileen. The actress is profoundly sympathetic and convincing in the role, acting as the film's emotional center and delivering a performance that earned her a second Oscar nomination, her first for Best Actress. Although far from perfect, The Help allows Davis to step into the spotlight and prove her considerable dramatic talents . The actress delivers, elevating an average screenplay and turning it into a beautiful, if not necessarily insightful, portrayal of resilience and duty.

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9 'Doubt' (2008)

Director: john patrick shanley.

Davis' first Oscar nomination came for her brief but utterly unforgettable performance in the 2008 drama Doubt . Adapted by John Patrick Shanley from his Tony-award-winning play, the film follows the imperious principal at a Catholic school who questions the relationship between a priest and a young Black boy.

Deftly handling its delicate issues, Doubt is mainly a showcase for the acting of its four main actors, all of whom earned Oscar nominations. Meryl Streep is reliably brilliant , supported by the equally great Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman . However, Davis might very well be Doubt 's strongest performer . As the mother of the young Black boy, Davis is astounding, capturing a mother's desperation and resignation at a situation she can't quite understand. Her extended scene with Streep is a true acting masterclass, with Davis not only matching but quite possibly surpassing la Streep's energy. Doubt confirmed Davis as an acting giant, effectively launching her mainstream career and, thankfully, leading to bigger and better opportunities.

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8 'The Suicide Squad' (2021)

Director: james gunn.

The now-defunct DCU received a much-needed jolt of energy with 2021's The Suicide Squad . A quasi-sequel/reboot of 2016's Suicide Squad , the film follows the titular team of villains as they travel to the island of Corto Maltese to uncover a dangerous operation with a hostile alien being. Davis reprises her role as the ruthless Amanda Waller, the squad's handler.

It's impossible to put into words just how much dignity and legitimacy Davis brings to The Suicide Squad . The actress was already perfect casting as the brutal Waller, but The Suicide Squad allows her to fully display the character's tar-black soul. Davis takes the opportunity by the horns, fully embracing Waller's cruelty and playing her villainy with unrestrained gusto . An actress of her caliber could very easily take a paycheck gig and do the bare minimum; however, Davis commits to the role, never half-doing her performance. Her choices as Waller are chilling and effective, becoming the standout in a movie full of them.

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7 'Get On Up' (2014)

The best musical biopics can be revelatory and truly surprising, depicting sides of well-known figures that audiences might've not previously seen. Get On Up does that for legendary singer and musician James Brown , played by the late Chadwick Boseman . Davis co-stars as Brown's mother, Susie Brown.

Although mainly a showcase for Chadwick Boseman's talents, Get On Up is also a worthy celebration of Davis' gifts. Susie Brown is a challenging figure, tough and complicated, a subversion of the traditional motherly role that so many biopics employ. Ever the risk-taker, Davis does a lot with her screen time, preventing surface characterization by embracing the good and bad in the role. And while the film moves away from her too soon, Davis' performance remains a high point of Get On Up , voicing Susie's concerns, fears, and insecurities with her trademark emotional touch.

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6 'Prisoners' (2013)

Director: denis villeneuve.

Denis Villeneuve 's Prisoners is among the past decade's best thrillers . Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a desperate father trying to find his missing daughter and the detective in charge of the investigation. Davis plays a supporting role as Nancy Birch, the mother of another missing child.

Prisoners is intense and unpredictable, benefitting from a sharp screenplay and Villeneuve's assured direction. The movie belongs to the two main characters, especially Jackman, but Davis is no less worthy of recognition. Despite having limited screen time, Davis crafts a proper journey for Nancy, capturing the character's desperation. As the film progresses and Jackman's character's actions become increasingly violent, Nancy struggles between her shock at his decisions and her desire to find her daughter. Prisoners highlights the conflict between what's good and what's right, and Davis understands that beautifully .

5 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020)

Director: george c. wolfe.

Davis' fourth and so far final Oscar nomination came for her second on-screen pairing with Boseman. The actress stars as the influential singer and Mother of Blues, Ma Rainey, in the 2020 period drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom , which dramatizes a fictional recording session in 1920s Chicago.

Like many stage adaptations, Ma Rianey's Black Bottom can't quite successfully translate its overwhelmingly theatrical language into the film medium. However, none of that matters, considering the jaw-dropping talent displayed on the screen. Davis delivers a powerful tour-de-force as the title character, who, like many of her previous creations, is contentious, openly antagonistic, and confident to stand her ground. Ma Rainey and Viola Davis were a match made in heaven , with the actress giving one of her best performances opposite an equally masterful Boseman.

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4 'fences' (2016), director: denzel washington.

Directed by Denzel Washington and based on August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences is an acting showcase for Washington and Davis. The pair star as married couple Troy and Rose Lee Maxson as they try to make a living in 1950s Pittsburgh while dealing with the regrets from their past.

Washington and Davis first played the roles on Broadway in the play's 2010 revival, winning Tonnys for their efforts. The film finds them in fine form, delivering suitably theatrical yet no less rich depictions of regret, longing, and the will to thrive against all odds. Davis is heartbreaking as Rose, a character that echoes the lost aspirations of millions of people . For her work in Fences , Davis won multiple accolades, including the 2017 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and it's easy to understand why: she's subtle yet indescribably compelling in a deeply humane performance that is as relatable as it is powerful.

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3 'Air' (2023)

Director: ben affleck.

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The fifth movie directed by Ben Affleck , 2023's Air tells a fictionalized version of the origins behind the Air Jordan basketball shoreline. The film especially concerns Sonny Vaccaro's efforts to recruit rookie player Michael Jordan, with Davis playing Jordan's mother, Deloris.

Air soars on the strength of Affleck's assured direction and a collection of brilliant performers, including Matt Damon , Jason Bateman , and Chris Tucker . However, it's Davis who steals the show with her charismatic and authoritative performance . With a single line, Davis commands the scene, bringing strength to this feel-good story about believing in the American Dream. Air is an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser that ultimately thrives because of the kinetic and enthusiastic collection of actors on screen. And while Davis is somewhat underutilized, what she does, she does better than anyone else.

2 'The Woman King' (2022)

Director: gina prince-bythewood.

The Woman King is the ultimate testament to Viola Davis' star power. The actress gives a passionate performance as Nanisca, the leader of the all-female Agojie warriors who protected the Dahomey kingdom from the 17th to 19th centuries.

Davis is spectacular in the role , supporting the entire film on her capable shoulders. Her portrayal is as physical as it is emotional, embodying Nanisca's warrior spirit while showing a glimpse of the emotional vulnerability she has to conceal from others. The Woman King is the perfect kind of blockbuster , effortlessly balancing exciting action with an emotional story, a tough act to pull off. Yet, the film makes it seem easy because it's Viola Davis guiding the action. Her lack of an Oscar nomination remains an egregious snub on the Academy's part, one of many embarrassing mistakes the organization has to live with.

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1 'widows' (2018), director: steve mcqueen.

It's really not an overstatement to say Widows might be the best neo-noir movie in recent years and a classic in the making. The film follows four women who attempt to steal money from a prominent politician to settle a debt their late husbands left before their deaths.

Leading an impressive ensemble, including Michelle Rodriguez and Elizabeth Debicki , Davis is a force of nature in Widows . The film is an exhilarating and affecting thriller that perfectly utilizes its impressive cast in service of a tale of betrayal and justice. Davis is utterly magnetic as the desperate Veronica, who must find the strength to carry on with the plan while fighting her every instinct to get away. Davis' internalized performance is brilliant and fascinating to behold, as the actress' eyes convey a sea of emotions behind her seemingly stoic expression. Widows is a triumph of the heist genre and Davis' crowning achievement so far —although, considering her mighty talent, it's not impossible to believe the best is yet to come for her.

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