Running Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Shawn Levy Quick Impressions: In the future, everything will change—except the design of Dr. Pepper cans. Robots will take over boxing. HP will be king of cell phones and tablet computers. Wind farming will increase slightly. And…that’s really it. Everything else …
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: R Director: George Clooney Quick Impressions: I feel like I’ve seen The Ides of March several times before, and I didn’t like it that much then, either. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not a bad movie. It has a phenomenal cast, most of …
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: R Director: Jonathan Levine Quick Impressions: This was definitely my favorite movie of the fall so far, which surprised me because I went in with low expectations. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t expect the movie to be bad. I just wasn’t very …
Running Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Bennett Miller Quick Impressions: This was the first movie I’ve seen this year that seems like a Best Picture contender. (Don’t get me wrong. I would not be shocked to see various Oscar nominations for Drive, Warrior, and, especially, The Help, …
Running Time: 1 hour, 53 minutes Rating: PG Director: Charles Martin Smith Quick Impressions: Dolphin Tale was a better movie than I expected it to be. I went with relatively low expectations, just glad to be able to take my two-year-old to a movie after a long stretch of very …
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: R Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Quick Impressions: I used to think that stoic silence had to do with some kind of mysterious male code and that other men understood this behavior. I’ve since come to the conclusion that when you stare at people …
Running Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Gavin O’Connor Quick Impressions: The Fighter was my favorite Oscar contender last year, and although the premise of Warrior looked uncannily similar, I still wanted to see this film because of the caliber of actors involved and the potential for a …
I’ve seen twenty-five movies in the theater this summer, and most of them were good. I’m not sure if that means I’m highly selective (in picking movies) or not selective enough (in reviewing them) (though given my track record for seeing the positive in everything, probably the latter). Tomorrow X-Men: …
Running Time: 1 hour, 44 minutes Rating: R Director: John Madden Quick Impressions: As the opening credits rolled, I found it fascinating that Matthew Vaugn wrote the screenplay because I wasn’t aware that he wrote things he didn’t direct. When I got home, I checked to make sure it was …
Running Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Mike Cahill Quick Impressions: This movie would have been better as a music video. As interested as I am in genre theory, I rarely have revelations of this kind. I don’t think that I’ve ever once read a novel and lamented, …
