Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 44 minutesDirector: Eli Roth Quick Impressions: “I can’t believe this movie is only rated PG!” I just exclaimed to my husband and fifteen-year-old son. “Wouldn’t you expect at least a PG-13 considering how scary some of that material was?” “I didn’t think it was that scary,” …
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes Rating: R Director: Paul Feig Quick Impressions: September is not usually a great month for movies. When I first saw the trailer for A Simple Favor, I thought, “A thriller directed by Paul Feig? Sounds weird but watchable. It’s probably something we’ll have to see …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes Director: Björn Runge Quick Impressions: Isn’t September supposed to be a slow month for movies? What is going on here? For days, I agonized over which movie to see this week, A Simple Favor (a thriller by Paul Feig????) or White Boy Rick …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Director: Chris Weitz Quick Impressions: I like Jennifer Garner, so I’m going to do her a favor and pretend the movie Peppermint doesn’t exist. (I mean, why would I pay to watch a movie when I couldn’t even finish watching the whole trailer? …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes Director: Aneesh Chaganty Quick Impressions: Searching has a pretty compelling theatrical trailer, one that had me frantically staring at nearly as many screens as John Cho’s David Kim. He’s desperate to find his missing daughter, Margot. I just wanted to find a screening …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes Director: Brian Henson Quick Impressions: Ten years from now, who will be watching The Happytime Murders? That’s what I kept thinking about as I watched this movie last night–will it have any legs? I mean that metaphorically since on a literal level, the …
Runtime: 2 hours Rating: PG-13 Director: Jon M. Chu Quick Impressions: If you haven’t heard of Crazy Rich Asians, then you haven’t been to the movies in 2018. Trust me. I’m at the theater at least once a week, and Jon M. Chu’s all Asian rom-com gets promoted more often …
Runtime: 2 hours, 15 minutes Rating: R Director: Spike Lee Quick Impressions: I almost didn’t venture out to see a movie last night because I came down with the flu on Saturday and spent the entire week holed up in my house, stewing in my contagion. But by Thursday evening, …
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutesRating: RDirector: Susanna Fogel Quick Impressions:If anyone working in entertainment today seems like she’d probably have a less funny best friend who was dumped by a spy, it’s Kate McKinnon. She’s one of those people who makes a complicated first impression. (Imagine someone pointing at each …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 33 minutesDirector: Genndy Tartakovsky Quick Impressions:My three-year-old sat through this movie, a quiet victory that managed to dispel the bad mood that had enshrouded my husband for most of the morning. Though it’s bright, colorful, and visually engaging (as you’d expect from a Genndy Tartakovsky project), …
