Kevin Costner Archives

Field of Dreams (1989)

Rating: ★★★★★

Feb 15, 2002Mystical Baseball Field with Ghost Players

Beautiful fantasy where Kevin Costner hears a voice that directs him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield where dead players to return to life. A genteel fantasy filled with nostalgia for lost Americana and the 1960s

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Actors: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield, …

Category: Fantasy

15 February 20021 February 2026 by Roog

Waterworld (1995)

Rating: ★★

Jan 18, 2003Post-Holocaust Drowned Earth

The most expensive film ever made at the time, a Kevin Costner epic in which he is a lone mariner in a drowned world where survivors cling to shantytowns floating on the surface. Essentially a Mad Max film located on water.

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 January 200314 May 2026 by Roog

The Postman (1997)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 7, 2011Post-Holocaust

Kevin Costner directs David Brin's post-holocaust tale as an epic Western. Most audiences ridiculed the film's ardent flag-waving but you cannot deny that Costner makes a stirring and undeniably interesting film

Director: Kevin Costner

Actors: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Olivia Williams, Larenz Tate, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 January 201130 October 2021 by Roog

Dragonfly (2002)

Rating: ★★

Jun 14, 2002Haunting

Kevin Costner believes his late wife is trying to communicate with him. Comedy director Tom Shadyac makes his first serious film but it is so respectable and with all the horror element bled out of it as to be dull

Director: Tom Shadyac

Actors: Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, Joe Morton, Jacob Vargas, …

Category: Horror

14 June 200214 October 2025 by Roog

Mr. Brooks (2007)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 31, 2007Serial Killer

Overlooked effort where Kevin Costner, in a surprisingly dark and undeniably effective turn, plays an everyday man who has a dark side as a serial killer. A very impressively outing on all levels

Director: Bruce A. Evans

Actors: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, …

Category: Horror

31 December 200716 October 2025 by Roog

Man of Steel (2013)

Rating: ★★

Jun 14, 2013Comic-Book Superhero

Zack Snyder's reboot of Superman leaves you irritated in the first half of the film at its throwing chunks of comic-book canon out the window and the second half bored with the mass destruction orgy that drags on

Director: Zack Snyder

Actors: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 June 20136 August 2026 by Roog

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 27, 2016DC Comics Superhero Team-Up

It took DC Comics the better part of a decade to catch up with the massive success Marvel Comics are having on screen in crossing their characters over. Zack Snyder comes to the party offering up THE biggest headline double-bill in superherodom

Director: Zack Snyder

Actors: Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, …

Category: Science Fiction

27 March 201627 February 2026 by Roog

Criminal (2016)

Rating: ★★

May 28, 2016Transplanted Memories/Action Film

Everything indicates this should have been a hit – an impressive star line-up, big polished action sequences – only it tanked. Much has been assembled in the service of a hackneyed idea where the memories of an FBI agent are implanted into criminal Kevin Costner

Director: Ariel Vroman

Actors: Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 May 20163 October 2025 by Roog