Rating: RRuntime: 3 hours, 9 minutesDirector: Damien Chazelle Quick Impressions:The kids and I just read A Christmas Carol aloud together, and now, taking a page from Ebenezer Scrooge, I’m making a crazed, eleventh-hour scramble to catch up on all the movies I need to see before Oscar nominations are announced. …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutesDirector: Rian Johnson Quick Impressions:I’ll be honest. I forgot about going to the movies! (This is the strangest excuse. It ties in perfectly with Glass Onion for reasons I can’t explain. It’s the truth! I don’t mean I put off going. I forgot completely.) We …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 33 minutes Director: John Patton Ford Quick Impressions: I was surprised to enjoy the love story in this movie so much. I chose to watch Emily the Criminal only because I wasn’t in the mood to see Idris Elba fight a lion. (On paper, that looks …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Director: Halina Reijn Quick Impressions: My seven-year-old has recently agreed to watch movies with us. The catch is, he will only watch horror movies. His sister and I tried desperately to get him to watch just about everything on Disney +. He refused. …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes Director: David Leitch Quick Impressions:As I watched Bullet Train, I alternated between thinking, “This is just like Snowpiercer as a comedy,” and, “This is nothing like Snowpiercer as a comedy. You just think that because you want to jump off the train, Sarah.” …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Director: Jordan Peele Quick Impressions: Never appear in a TV show with a chimp. That’s what this movie has taught me. (Just this instant, I suddenly remembered that when I was in third grade, I had a desperate scheme to afford a pet …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 59 minutes Director: Taika Waititi Quick Impressions: It’s been a long time since I saw a movie in the theater. We bought tickets to Jurassic World: Dominion, but at the eleventh hour, it turned out that my seven-year-old “didn’t really like” Jurassic World: Dominion, after …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 17 minutes Director: Robert Eggers Quick Impressions: I’ve grown to love Robert Eggers movies. Granted, I’ve only seen three. (I guess he’s only directed three.) But I’m already at the point where I’ll gladly pay to see any movie he makes. I just like his …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Director: Tom Gormican Quick Impressions: Nicolas Cage has a body of work like none other. Lately I have not been enthusiastic enough about movies. I do not know what is wrong with me (she lied)! I didn’t even know the third installment of …
Rating: PG Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Director: Jeff Fowler Quick Impressions: This was a magical weekend for my family. Saturday, after a two-year hiatus, we resumed our tradition of going to the zoo for my birthday. Afterwards, we casually ate inside a restaurant (sans masks). My actual birthday was …
