Ryan Rodney Reynolds made his acting debut with the Canadian-American teen drama ‘Hillside’ (1991) where he played the role of ‘Billy Simpson.’ The series aired 65 episodes before going off-air in 1993. He went on to make his silver screen debut in the 1993 Canadian film ‘Ordinary Magic’ directed by Giles Walker. That same year, he also became a part of the Canadian adventure-fantasy television series ‘The Odyssey.’ The series aired its final episode in 1994. He continued to appear in television series like ‘The Outer Limits’ (1995-1998), ‘The X-Files’ (1996), ‘The John Larroquette Show’ (1996), and ‘In Cold Blood’ (1996). In 1997, he starred as ‘Howard Ancona’ in the crime comedy film ‘The Alarmist’ directed by Evan Dunsky. The film saw mixed reviews upon release. He played the role of ‘Henry Lipschitz’ in the 1999 American romantic comedy film ‘Coming Soon.’ The film received a lukewarm response from critics. That same year, he also appeared in the Andrew Fleming-directed American comedy film ‘Dick.’ The film was warmly received by critics and scored a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. He next starred in films like ‘Boltneck’ (2000), ‘We All Fall Down’ (2000), ‘Finder's Fee’ (2001), ‘National Lampoon's Van Wilder’ (2002), ‘Buying the Cow’ (2002), ‘The In-Laws’ (2003), and ‘Foolproof’ (2003).
In 2004, he portrayed Hannibal King in the American superhero horror film ‘Blade: Trinity’ directed by David S. Goyer. The film was panned by critics and was given a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The following year, he was seen playing the role of ‘George Lutz’ in the American supernatural horror film ‘The Amityville Horror.’ Despite being panned by critics, the film was a major commercial success and grossed over $108 million on a $19 million budget. Reynolds continued to star in films like ‘Smokin' Aces’ (2006), The Nines’ (2007), ‘Chaos Theory’ (2008), ‘Fireflies in the Garden’ (2008), ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ (2009), ‘The Proposal’ (2009), and ‘Buried’ (2010). The year 2011 saw the release of the American superhero film ‘Green Lantern’ where Reynolds portrayed Hal Jordan / Green Lantern. The film was marred by negative reviews from critics and was a box office disappointment. The same year, he was also seen in the American fantasy romantic comedy film ‘The Change-Up’ which also received a negative response from critics.Â
He went on to star in films like ‘Safe House’ (2012), ‘The Croods’ (2013), ‘Turbo’ (2013), ‘The Voices’ (2014), ‘The Captive’ (2014), ‘Mississippi Grind’ (2015), ‘Woman in Gold’ (2015), and ‘Self/less’ (2015). In 2016, he starred as ‘Wade / Deadpool’ in the American superhero film ‘Deadpool’ directed by Tim Miller. The film earned praise from critics and audiences alike and was a massive commercial success, grossing over $782.6 million on a $58 million budget. He next appeared in films like ‘The Hitman's Bodyguard’ (2017), ‘Deadpool 2’ (2018), ‘Detective Pikachu’ (2019), ‘The Croods: A New Age’ (2020), ‘Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard’ (2021), ‘Free Guy’ (2021), and ‘Red Notice’ (2021). He was last seen in the 2022 American science-fiction action film ‘The Adam Project’ directed by Shawn Levy. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
An American billionaire fakes his own death to form an elite team of six individuals or ‘ghosts’, consisting of a spy, a hitman, a parkour runner, a doctor, and an ex-army sniper. Their plan is to erase their past and bring down the genocidal regime of Turgistan dictator Rovach Alimov.
A private bodyguard struggles to make a living after one of his clients is assassinated on his watch. The film follows him on his latest assignment which needs him to protect a convicted hitman who is on his way to testify in the International Criminal Court.
A billionaire, diagnosed with terminal cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure, which transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. He is told that the body is artificially grown and that he must take his medicines regularly in order to prevent hallucination. Mystery begins to deepen when one day he forgets to take his medicine and hallucinate about a woman and child.
This Tim Miller’s superhero film draws from the eponymous character of Marvel Comics and is the 8th film in the X-Men film series. The movie follows an ex-special forces operative turned mercenary, Wade Wilson, who sets out to track the man who conducted torturous experiments on him, thereby leaving him with accelerated healing powers and scarred physical appearance.
Diplomatic security service agent, Luke Hobbs, and ex-British military operative, now an outcast, Deckard Shaw always walked the opposite paths. But now, Brixton Lorr, a cyber-genetically enhanced soldier possessing formidable strength, has gained control over a deadly pathogen that can permanently alter humanity. Hobbs and Shaw must keep their personal animosity aside to work together as only they can bring Lorr down.
Margaret Tate, a successful executive editor-in-chief of a New York publisher, learns that she is about to be deported back to Canada for violating visa terms, and quickly hatches a plan to marry her timid and abused assistant Andrew Paxton. Now having an upper hand, Andrew agrees to her plan despite both being closely monitored for committing fraud.
Guy, a banker, discovers that in the open-world video game Free City, he is a non-player character. After the realisation dawns on him, he tries to become the hero in his world of the video game where he creates a race against time to save his friends and himself before the developers can delete it.
Friends Dave and Mitch have grown apart and lead vastly different lives. Dave is a family man and overworked lawyer while Mitch is an irresponsible adult enjoying life. After their bodies get magically switched one night, they end up with each other’s lives and must find a way to get back their own bodies.
After having her first sex education class, 10-year-old Maya Hayes coerces her father into telling her how her parents, who are preparing for a divorce, originally met. He agrees to tell her about his past life, including his encounters with three different women, leaving it to Maya to deduce whom he eventually married.
An overweight nerd, Chris Brander, is rejected as ‘just friend’ by his high-school crush, cheerleader Jamie Palamino. A decade later, Chris, now a handsome hot-shot Hollywood record producer, has to return to his hometown, with rising star Samantha in tow, following an aircraft problem. After meeting Jamie once again, he realizes that he still loves her. Will they still be ‘just friends’?
Revolving around several characters working in a fast-food restaurant, the movie mainly focuses on the lives of two friends, waiters Dean and Monty. While Dean must choose whether to become a manager or look for better opportunities, Monty must resist the temptation to have sex with 17 years old waitress Natasha.
Tired of his son’s attitude, Wilder Sr stops Van Wilder's tuition fees. Van, who has been in college for seven years, devises a way to raise money. Meanwhile Gwen, a journalist student is tasked to write a piece on Van Wilder. Spending time with her makes Van understand himself better. However, Gwen’s boyfriend does not like her spending time with Van.
After criminal Tobin Frost acquires a data storage device for an MI6 agent, he is attacked by mercenaries. He surrenders to the American consulate, who place him in a safe house under rookie agent Matt Weston. The two men then try to survive assassins and the CIA while uncovering the truth.
The human-vampire hybrid, Blade, is chased by the FBI as he has been framed for many murders. In the Syrian Desert, the vampires resurrect the original vampire, Count Dracula/Drake, to his undead state. To fight back this powerful opponent, Blade joins hands with vampire-hunters, Nightstalkers. They have only one chance to use the virus that can destroy Dracula and the vampires.
The first installment of the Wolverine trilogy, the film revolves around the early years of James Logan, his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in Weapon X, Special Forces team, and his experimentation into the mutant Wolverine.
Gerry is a struggling gambler as well as a real estate agent, who meets Curtis, a young gambler at a casino in Iowa. Curtis buys the former a drink, and Gerry returns the favor, which leads to a night of heavy drinking. Convinced that Curtis is his good-luck charm, Gerry decides to go a road trip with him for a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.
After being killed by his shrewd partner, detective sergeant, Nick Walker, is assigned to the Rest in Peace Department that is responsible for returning deados—unwilling souls hiding among the living—to the afterlife. Teamed up with veteran agent, Roy Pulsifer, Nick soon uncovers a sinister plot to reverse the flow of souls from Earth to the afterlife.
Paper Man is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a failed novelist named Richard Dunn who is suffering from writer’s block. He is emotionally dependent on his imaginary superhero friend Captain Excellent. His life takes an interesting turn after he develops a friendship with a teen girl named Abby.
Despite his strained relationship with his father, Michael, a successful novelist, decides to pay a visit to his family in the Midwest. However, he soon learns that his mother Lisa has passed away in a tragic accident. Along with his father, Charles, a professor and his sister Ryne, he attempts to come to terms with his grief.
When an industrialist-cum-anarchist tries to steal nuclear codes, the hacker entrusted with the job decides to hand over the secret to CIA. Later, he is moved to a safe house; but before his location can be conveyed to anyone the CIA operative is murdered. To find him out, CIA has the agent’s memories, secrets, and skills implanted into a death-row inmate.
The stoner comedy follows friends Harold Lee and Kumar Patel who decide to visit a nearby White Castle fast-food outlet after smoking marijuana. What follows is a series of comical misadventures, including encountering Neil Patrick Harris high on ecstasy, racist police officers, rednecks, before they can reach their favorite burgers.
Woman in Gold is a biopic which tells us the story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish woman, as she fights a lengthy legal battle, against the Austrian government, to recover artwork, which according to her, were seized by the Nazis years ago from her family.
The six-member crew aboard the International Space Station finds the first evidence of extraterrestrial life, a dormant single-celled organism, in a sample collected from Mars. When the organism devours a lab rat following an accident, it is revealed that it can grow rapidly and has multipurpose cells, and is now threatening the survival of the whole crew.
The ninth film in the Amityville Horror film series, this movie follows the strange and frightening events that occur in the lives of the Lutz family members after they move into a house where a family had been brutally murdered a year ago.
Foolproof is an action comedy crime film which tells the story of three friends, who have an unusual hobby of planning grand heists, although they never pull it off. Their lives turn upside down when they are blackmailed by a gangster, into committing a multi-millionaire dollar heist, from which they may not even return alive.
After his parents fail to fund his long-awaited summer trip to Europe, newly graduate James Brennan takes a summer job at local amusement park Adventureland. He gradually develops feelings for his co-worker Emily Lewin, but their relationship gets complicated as she is secretly having an affair, while he is distracted by seductive rides operator Lisa P.
Small-time conman and magician Buddy "Aces" Israel seeks immunity deal with FBI in exchange for testifying against ailing mob boss Primo Sparazza, who in turn declares million dollar bounty on the snitch. "Aces" soon becomes the target of a number of dangerous assassins, including a hitman, two hitwomen, a torture expert, a neo-Nazi, and the mysterious The Swede.
A dying Abin Sur appoints Hal Jordan, a confident test pilot, his successor in the intergalactic police force, Green Lantern Corps, and gives him the ring with superpowers. Hal now has to face a sinister villain Parallax, save the earth from destruction and in process earn the respect of the other Green Lanterns.
Paul Conroy, a civilian truck driver in Iraq is attacked by mutineers. He wakes up to find himself buried alive inside a coffin with his lighter, dwindling oxygen supply, dying battery of his cell phone and ever-increasing fear. With his will to survive, he awaits a rescue that may or may not happen anytime soon.
The Adam Project is a science fiction action adventure comedy film which tells the story of Adam, a time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed who crash-lands in 2022. He meets his 12 year old self, and teams up with him to save the future.
The film comprises of three segments – ‘The Prisoner,’ ‘Reality Television,’ and ‘Knowing.’ The stories of these three segments revolve around 3 men - a disturbed actor, a television show runner and a celebrated videogame designer, who try to find out the cause behind the peculiar occurrences in their seemingly unconnected lives, which sometimes appear to intersect and entwine in a mysterious way.
The daughter of a mild mannered doctor Jerry is about to get married to the son of a spy named Steve who is chasing international smugglers. However, soon Jerry is suspected by the FBI to be involved with the smugglers as well.
David is afraid of commiting to his girlfriend Sarah, who wants to get married. She soon decides to leave for New York for two months. Meanwhile, his womanizing friend Mike gets drunk one night, and mistakenly believes that he had sex with a guy. Things get complicated as he starts believing that he might be gay.
An Interpol agent attempts to hunt down one of the world’s most wanted art thieves, with the help of the latter’s rival.
Sonia, whose husband Darius is a professional assassin, is forced to contact their ex-bodyguard Michael, when Darius is threatened by a group of dangerous mobsters. They succeed in rescuing him, but soon the three find out that Europe is under threat from a vengeful and powerful madman.
Eight years after a young girl named Cassandra disappears without any trace, some disturbing incidents start to indicate that she is still alive. Her parents along with police detectives try to unravel the mystery behind her disappearance.
Dick is a 1999 comedy film which tells the story of two teen girls who wander away from their White House tour and meets US President Nixon. However, after the President eats marijuana based cookies offered by them, he ends up leaking several secrets regarding the Watergate scandal.
Blaming himself for his girlfriend's death, Deadpool makes a failed attempt at committing suicide and reluctantly joins the X-Men while recovering at the X-Mansion. His team rescues angry young mutant Russell Collins from an abusive orphanage, only to find out that Collins is being hunted by Cable, a cyborg soldier from the future, for murdering his family.
This black comedy horror film tells the story of a schizophrenic man working in a bathtub factory, who believes his pets can talk to him. He has a huge crush on his colleague, and she eventually agrees to go out with him, but things take a sinister turn, when he accidentally hits a deer with his car while dropping her home.
The animated classic revolves around the prehistoric family the Croods. Fearful patriarch Grug keeps the family safe with his over-protective nature. Things take a turn when his daughter Eep falls for Guy, a more evolved human and Grug has to trust him to save his family from the end of the world.
This animated adventure comedy film tells us the story of the prehistoric Crood family, who is searching for a safer habitat, meeting their requirements. Meanwhile, they are also challenged by the Bettermans, a family which claims to be better and more evolved than them.
Theo is a garden snail who calls himself Turbo and dreams of becoming the greatest racer in the world. When a freak accident infuses his DNA with nitrous oxide, he gains super speed. Now Turbo enters the famed Indianapolis 500 to fulfill his destiny but a villainous racer Gagné stands in his way.
John Bennett, as a child, wished that his teddy bear came to life, which was miraculously granted. He grows up into a pothead who spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking weed with Ted. However, John's life turns into a nightmare when he must choose between his crude friend and his steady girlfriend of four years.
Boasting of an ensemble cast including Seth MacFarlane, Liam Neeson, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, and Neil Patrick Harris, this Western romantic comedy, is a story about how Albert Stark, a jilted sheep farmer, finds courage to fight after being encouraged by the pistol-wielding, beautiful Anna.
Ryan Reynolds Awards
| Winner | Favorite Movie Actor | 2017 |
| Winner | Favorite Movie Superhero | 2012 |
| Deadpool | Best Comedic Performance | 2016 |
| Deadpool | Best Fight | 2016 |
