Rating: 2 hours, 4 minutes Runtime: PG-13 Director: Jason Reitman Quick Impressions: “Now I remember how long two hours is!” my six-year-old declared as Ghostbusters: Afterlife ended. My husband who had the dubious honor of sitting next to him looked ready for the sweet release of the impending apocalypse. Unlike …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Director/Writer: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Two questions gnawed at me as I watched this film. 1) Is Kenneth Branagh teasing that he’s going to make a third Hercule Poirot film based on Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party? (My mom used to watch the one starring …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes Director: Pablo Larraín Quick Impressions:We got the strangest preview package with this movie. After a few trailers played, I began to worry that we had wandered into the wrong auditorium. This sense only intensified with time. Then as the movie started and I …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes Director: Wes Anderson Quick Impressions: I had just convinced my husband that he would secretly love to watch a film that was a conversation between two couples, in which one couple’s son had murdered the other couple’s son. This took some work on …
Best Picture: # 75 Original Release Date: December 27, 2002 Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes Director: Rob Marshall Quick Impressions:As we picked up coffee after school the other day, my daughter and I came up with what we first thought was a hysterical joke. What if someone made …
Best Picture: #74 Original Release Date: December 21, 2001 Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes Director: Ron Howard Quick Impressions: When A Beautiful Mind first came out, it reminded me of events in my own life and filled me with a visceral revulsion. I didn’t like the movie. It …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 35 minutes Director: Denis Villeneuve Quick Impressions: When I first heard that Denis Villeneuve was making Dune with Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, I was beside myself with joy. (Villeneuve seemed like the ideal director to do justice to Dune. And Chalamet is so perfectly …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 32 minutes Director: Ridley Scott Quick Impressions:I said I would see Dune on the biggest screen available at my first opportunity, but I lied. I considered it. In the middle of the night, I hovered over the available seats for some time. And then (after …
Best Picture: #73 Original Release Date: May 5, 2000 Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 35 minutes Director: Ridley Scott Quick Impressions:While we were watching our favorite scene in Gladiator (in which Falco ever-so-slowly tells Commodus about the wiles of a certain sea snake), my daughter exclaimed in shock, “You know, …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes Director: Michael Showalter Quick Impressions: We saw this movie in the theater! On a Friday night! With other people! Not too many other people, thankfully. That’s one reason I love that theater. It’s usually sparsely populated. Also, they show the movies I’m most …
