• December 27, 2016
• At Home, Drama

Denzel Washington takes the directorial reigns in the big screen adaptation of playwright August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of an African-American couple in 1950s Pittsburgh. Denzel knows this story,...

• December 30, 2014
• Action, At Home

Based on the TV series of the same name, The Equalizer stars Denzel Washington as Robert McCall, a retired special-forces agent of some sort, who faked his own death...

• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Drama

Spike Lee’s sprawling labor of love Malcolm X was released in 1992, the same year as the explosive race riots prompted by the beating of Rodney King by L.A....

• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Denzel Washington is just so damn good that he can play a bad guy so despicable and sleazy that it nonetheless takes most of a film for the audience...

• September 23, 2013
• Action, At Home, Thriller

My friend and I, I’m sure, were the only people at the Unstoppable screening who high-fived each other in excitement at the mention of a train full of Molten...

• February 3, 2010
• At Home, Crime, Drama

It’s beefy, both in running time and content, and filled from open to close with bad guys, good buys, flying bullets, violence, drugs, murder, chase sequences and some stellar...

• June 12, 2009
• Action, At Home, Crime, Thriller

Washington is everyman Walter Garber, an NYC transit-control operator, who happens to be overseeing the system when hulking villain “Ryder” (John Travolta) and his henchmen commandeer a subway train...

• November 22, 2006
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Got it? Good, because then maybe you can watch the movie without the knotted brain and perplexed expression that overcame me about 30 minutes in and lasted through the...

• March 24, 2006
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

There are a number of things I didn’t understand in director Spike Lee’s latest film, and I subsequently wound up leaving the theater a little confused. I’m pretty sure...

• March 28, 2003
• Action, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Thank God for Viggo Mortensen. Without him I would never have watched Crimson Tide, and I would have missed out on a fantastic, edge-of-your-seat, nail-biter of a movie. Any...