Trapped in Paradise

"...John Ashton, Madchen Amick, Donald Moffat and Richard Jenkins. Trapped in Paradise? How about Trapped in the Third Ring..."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Trapped

"...would suggest, but still ill-advised from most every angle, Trapped is a messily plotted, spottily engaging thriller. Really it..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Trapped and the War on Women's Health Care

Doc highlights impact of anti-choice laws in the South

"...delicately captured in filmmaker Dawn Porter’s latest feature-length documentary, Trapped. Porter traces how abortion clinics in the South –..."

March 11, 2016 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

Trapped in the Alamo

Trapped in the Closet's new chapters at the Alamo.

"...at the Alamo South Lamar, where chapters 13-22 of Trapped in the Closet will be screened at midnight. This..."

Aug. 20, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Groundhog Day

The delightful romantic comedy is back … again.

"...amazingly restricting idea -- that weatherman Bill Murray is trapped in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on February 2, forced to live..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

World Trade Center

This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.

"..."harrowing"; with blithe abandon after spending so much time trapped with these two unlikely survivors in the groaning rubble..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crawl

Chompy creature feature is the savior of summer horror

"...down to find him, only to discover that he's trapped in the crawl space. Why's he trapped? Because there..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

New sharks, who dis?

"...to the first film is the idea of being trapped with sharks, but instead of the first's rough riff..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The 33

Antonio Banderas stars in this story about the trapped Chilean miners

"...film. Still, this account of the 33 Chilean miners trapped a half-mile below ground for 69 days after the..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

127 Hours

An unrelenting tour de force thanks to Simon Beaufoy's clever script, Danny Boyle's inspired direction, and James Franco's amazing performance, 127 Hours is primarily an unforgettable examination of the human spirit under extreme duress.

"...his Slumdog Millionaire collaborator, Simon Beaufoy, adapts Aron Ralston's "trapped in the wilderness" memoir with hellishly gripping aplomb. In..."

Nov. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Christmas

The film has the perfect formula for holiday cheer: redemption through sentimentality, salvation through schmaltz.

"...her 20 years ago. His sister Lisa (King) is trapped in a loveless marriage to a cold-hearted philanderer. And..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Cube

"...series' most popular outings, the tale of five strangers trapped inside a giant cylindrical object with no means of..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Friend of the Deceased

"...in Kiev, where the intellectual professor Anatoli (Lazarev) is trapped performing menial jobs to make ends meet. Since the..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cold Wind Blowing

Chilling horror with friends trapped in a storm

"...at press time. Chilling horror as friends find themselves trapped in a storm...."

March 11, 2022 Movie Review

Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night

New adaptation of the MMORPG anime

"...means" and "want to watch an anime about being trapped in one."..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

High adventure and fun times in an unexpectedly entertaining sequel

"...This time, a quartet of modern high schoolers get trapped in its rules, but rather than the world of..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lady Macbeth

A violent, desperate housewife plots murder

"...murdering anyone or anything that stands in her way. Trapped in an unconsummated marriage-by-contract to a seemingly impotent English..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dunkirk

A harrowing new World War II classic

"...being some 350,000 British, French, Belgian, and Canadian troops trapped on the beach at Dunkirk, France, just miles and..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Beguiled

A steamy and engrossing Civil War thriller

"...Corporal John McBurney, who is tended to and then trapped by the residents of a Confederate state boarding school..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

47 Meters Down

It's this year's The Shallows (but not as good)

"...playing. For most of the movie, Moore’s Lisa is trapped with her sister Kate (Holt) in a shark cage..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

It Comes at Night

A lean, mean descent into primitive tribalism

"...focusing on the trip-wire frailty of a nuclear family trapped in the hungry, thirsty days of the dead –..."

June 9, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fences

Denzel Washington scores big in August Wilson's great American play

"...Rose, patient with her husband’s gin-fueled tirades but also trapped in a marriage that has incrementally gone rancid. Caught..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nine Lives

Kevin Spacey gets trapped inside the body of his family's cat

"...real estate developer and businessman (dingdingding!) who finds himself trapped inside the body of a fussy feline called “Mister..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lights Out

Prepare for an onslaught of jump scares

"...Rebecca (Palmer). They all end up at Sophie’s house, trapped with the, um, lights out, armed with a hand-crank..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Seth Rogen learns that girls just want to have fun

"...verge of selling their homestead but instead find themselves trapped (in 30-day escrow – how could they not know..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Final Girls

Smart homage to the cheesy campsite horror films of the Eighties

"...horny Reagan-era camp counselors terrorized by a bloodthirsty maniac. Trapped in the Friday the 13th-ish film for its duration,..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

’71

A kinetic chase movie uses the Troubles of Northern Ireland as its setting

"...Hook gives chase, and ends up savagely beaten and trapped behind enemy lines. All of this happens in about..."

March 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pyramid

A team of U.S. archeologists becomes lost and hunted in the labyrinthine catacombs of a buried pyramid.

"...– and, of course, not alone – within a booby-trapped labyrinth...."

Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program A

Three remarkable stories of people's reaction to oppression.

"...that turned violent when thugs built a wall that trapped protesters in and then opened fire. There are four..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card's supposedly unfilmable militaristic sci-fi novel makes the leap to screen.

"...novel is a tightly constructed, thought-provoking meditation on adolescence trapped by permanent war footing, alloyed with some of the..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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