Best Picture: #46Original Release Date: December 25, 1973Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 9 minutesDirector: George Roy Hill Quick Impressions:Two things jumped out at me when watching The Sting. One is that the young Robert Redford is so incredibly handsome. I guess I didn’t realize that because the older, present day Redford …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutesDirector: Lee Isaac Chung Quick Impressions:My husband and I rented Minari on our date night and enjoyed it so much that we watched it a second time (as I began writing this review) so that my daughter and my dad could see it within the …
Best Picture: #45Original Release Date: March 24, 1972Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 55 minutesDirector: Francis Ford Coppola Quick Impressions:I’m watching The Godfather right now as I write this review. My daughter enjoyed it so much (ranking it #10 on her list) that when our eighteen-year-old mentioned he’d never seen it, she …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 6 minutesDirector: Shaka King Quick Impressions:Watching Daniel Kaluuya actually get to give his speech for Best Supporting Actor was an early highlight of the Golden Globes. I had no emotional investment in the win itself for the simple reason that I hadn’t seen the performance yet. …
Best Picture: #44Original Release Date: October 9, 1971Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 44 minutesDirector: William Friedkin Quick Impressions:My mother hated The French Connection. I can’t so much as think of the title without imagining my mom raving about how awful it was. In fact, she frequently cited it as the nadir …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: Paul Greengrass Quick Impressions:We finally got a new TV this weekend. Our beloved ten-year-old plasma screen has been treating us to pink popcorn as it warms up for quite a while now. The new OLED my husband picked out was supposed to come two …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 47 minutesDirector: Chloé Zhao Quick Impressions:What a beautiful film! I went into Nomadland expecting to like it. After all, it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It’s been called the frontrunner for Best Picture for months. I’ve also heard wonderful things about director …
Best Picture: #43Original Release Date: April 22, 1970Rating: PGRuntime: 2 hours, 52 minutesDirector: Franklin J. Schaffner Quick Impressions:Before watching this film, my daughter and I found its theatrical trailer on YouTube, and…um…wow. That left us with quite a strange (and strong) impression of the movie. For one thing, unlike the …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: J. Blakeson Quick Impressions:I’m dying to see Nomadland, but we skipped date night this week because we were preoccupied, trying to process what on earth happened to us at the beginning of the week when we lost power for 59 hours in the middle …
Best Picture: #42Original Release Date:Rating: R (Originally X)Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutesDirector: John Schlesinger Quick Impressions:This week we spent fifty-nine hours without power, including one night when the temperature outside was six degrees for several hours. During that time, I couldn’t use a computer, but I still did plenty of …
