Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes Director: Ry Russo-Young Quick Impressions: My daughter loves Nicola Yoon’s YA novel The Sun is Also a Star. Yes, she’s only ten, and the novel has a lot of profanity, but so does the fourth grade. (She was just telling me on the …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 44 minutes Director: Rob Letterman Quick Impressions: When I went to see Avengers: Endgame with my parents, my dad leaned over during the Detective Pikachu trailer and whispered, “I have absolutely no desire to see this at all.” Crestfallen, I was like, “Really?! It’s the movie I’m …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes Director: Chris Addison Quick Impressions:When I first saw the trailer for The Hustle, my immediate thought was, “Poor Anne Hathaway! Why can’t she seem to make any smash hits lately?” Based on what I saw, the movie looked doomed to fail utterly. But then …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes Director: Laura Steinel Quick Impressions: I love movies about odd and dysfunctional families, and ever since seeing Taylor Schilling in The Public last month, I love her, too. She makes being slightly unhinged look so charming. I really like the amount of energy …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 3 hours, 1 minute Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Quick Impressions: I finally saw Engame with my parents on Sunday night, an eternity after my husband, older son, and daughter watched it on Sunday afternoon. We had to go in two groups because my younger son just …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 24 minutesDirector: Madeleine Olnek Quick Impressions:This weekend, we’re seeing Avengers with our kids, but I already had a movie in mind to watch while the rest of the world was at End Game. A few weeks ago at the movie theater, as I walked to the ladies’ …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 34 minutesDirector: Chris Butler Quick Impressions:Last weekend, to my total surprise, my three-and-a-half-year old announced out of nowhere, “Okay! I’m ready to go see Missing Link!” Shocked by his enthusiasm and thrown by his random timing, I told him, “Well, we can’t go this weekend, Buddy,” …
Rating: GRuntime: 1 hour, 29 minutesDirectors: Allan Eliott and Sydney Pollack Quick Impressions:So many films playing this month could either be amazing or abysmal. With Easter just around the corner and plenty of spring events making life hectic, I was feeling risk averse and decided, “Let’s watch Amazing Grace. You …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours Director: Neil Marshall Quick Impressions: I never had any desire to see this Hellboy reboot. Neither did my husband. For months, I thought the promotional material looked sketchy at best. And I mean, why reboot Hellboy? Guillermo del Toro’s films are visual masterpieces. Ron Perlman …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutesDirector: David F. Sandberg Quick Impressions:“We’re going to see Shazam! Shazam! Shazam! Shazam!” my son sang as he danced into the theater. Honestly, when I first saw the earliest trailer for this movie, my immediate question was, “Why?” My follow up question was, “Seriously?” But …
