Marion Cotillard Archives

Big Fish (2003)

Rating: ★★

Mar 9, 2004Tall Tales

Tim Burton film where Albert Finney plays a habitual teller of tall tales whose son sets out to find the truth. Burton's characteristic quirkiness seems buried by such a blandness you suspect he has been replaced by a clone of Ron Howard

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, …

Category: Fantasy

9 March 20045 July 2026 by Roog

Inception (2010)

Rating: ★★★★★

Sep 23, 2010Dream Espionage

Christopher Nolan's The Matrix. Concerning an action theme that invade people's dreams, this is a bold, brilliantly original SF film driven by ideas - a film that succeeds beautifully on all levels

Director: Christopher Nolan

Actors: Leonard DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page/Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 September 201017 April 2026 by Roog

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 5, 2011Man Timeslips to 1920s Paris Comedy

Appealingly lightweight whimsy from Woody Allen in which Owen Wilson keeps timeslipping between the present and 1920s Paris to meet the artistic/literary greats

Director: Woody Allen

Actors: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, …

Category: Fantasy

5 June 201124 April 2020 by Roog

Contagion (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Sep 9, 2011Plague Outbreak

Steven Soderbergh turns to making a plague outbreak film that uncannily predicted a great deal of what happened when Covid-19 struck. A reasonable star cast line-up suborn themselves to a cool sober script

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Actors: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 September 201124 February 2026 by Roog

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 19, 2012Comic-Book Superhero

The Dark Knight is a hard act to follow and Christopher Nolan almost does but not quite. The story keeps Batman off-screen for half the film. Tom Hardy's Bane dominates the show, while Catwoman is surprisingly subdued

Director: Christopher Nolan

Actors: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, …

Category: Fantasy

19 July 201227 February 2026 by Roog

The Little Prince (2015)

Rating: ★★½

Mar 20, 2016Animation/Young Boy Alien Visitor Fable

On its own terms, a frequently lovely film. The director made a big thing of how much he loved the Saint-Exupery original but makes a completely different story with only occasional Little Prince interludes

Director: Mark Osborne

Actors: Mackenzie Foy, Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Riley Osborne, …

Category: Fantasy

20 March 20163 July 2026 by Roog

Assassin’s Creed (2016)

Rating: ★★

Mar 4, 2017Videogame Adaptation/Quest Through Past Lives

Adaptation of the popular videogame that is lumbered with the game's inherently uncinematic premise where people only sit around and watch what has already happened in the past

Director: Justin Kurzel

Actors: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, …

Category: Fantasy

4 March 201719 November 2025 by Roog

Dolittle (2020)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 29, 2020Doctor That Can Speak to Animals

This revival of the classic children's character who can speak to animals took a critical battering but I kind of liked it. It has a completely madcap slapstick tone and more crucially returns to the stories and banishes any bad memory of Eddie Murphy

Director: Stephen Gaghan

Actors: Robert Downey Jr, Harry Collett, Carmel Laniado, Michael Sheen, …

Category: Fantasy

29 February 20204 April 2021 by Roog

Annette (2021)

Rating: ★★★★

Sep 11, 2021Surrealist Musical

As a follow-up to Holy Motors, Leos Carax returns with of all things a musical. As might be expected of Carax, this is a wildly surrealistic film, not the least of which is one of the characters is a singing puppet

Director: Leos Carax

Actors: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell

Category: Fantasy

11 September 202118 November 2025 by Roog