Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes Rating: R Director: Craig Johnson Quick Impressions: I remember (not that long ago) when Saturday Night Live was basically The Kristen Wiig & Bill Hader Show, and that was fine with me. Both Wiig and Hader have a rare spark, an uncanny talent for sketch comedy. Yes, by …
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes Rating: PG Director: Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi Quick Impressions: We’re big fans of stop-motion animation at our house. I mean, how can anyone not be impressed by stop-motion? The work that goes into each stop-motion feature is staggering! And when artists dedicate that much …
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Rating: R Director: Ned Benson Quick Impressions: Once again, I want to see almost everything out this week, and I almost picked The Maze Runner. Since the weekend, I’ve been going back and forth between titles, trying to make up my mind, and The Maze Runner does look …
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: R Director: Michaël R. Roskam Quick Impressions: Following a painful, protracted dearth of watchable new movies, three films I wanted to see came out at once last Friday. The Drop is the one I’ve wanted to see most, partially because I love Gone Baby Gone (adapted from …
Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: R Director: John Michael McDonagh Quick Impressions: I probably would have seen this movie sooner if I hadn’t misread the title as Cavalry and mistaken the bullet holes in the shape of a cross on Brendan Gleeson’s vestments in the movie poster for buttons on a …
Last September deciding on a #1 movie for my review took all of one second. Now You See Me pleasantly surprised me last May and remained my favorite film all summer long. I still love that movie and now own it and wish I watched it more often. Most years, picking a …
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Rating: PG Director: Lasse Hallström Quick Impressions: The movie As Above, So Below is new this week, and based almost entirely on its captivating poster art, I thought, Looks cool! I’m there. The more I researched this idea, the better and better it seemed. The theater closest …
Now we come to the bottom half of my top ten films of the summer. I liked every one of these movies, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they all turn up in my home video library eventually. The movies in this tier earn an (A-) from me because while …
This hardly deserves to call itself a tier. It’s more like a convenient catch-all featuring two movies that did enough right to deserve better than a dreary (B-) plus one (far, far) better effort that didn’t do quite enough to sneak its way into my top 10. Dividing nineteen movies …
I actually liked all the movies in this tier and would gladly re-watch any of them. Are they perfect? No. Are they prime examples of great cinema? No. Are they entertaining movies? Absolutely. I’ve spent all day reshuffling these four films. Ranking them has been agony. Part of the problem is a …
