Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 15 minutesDirector: Bradley Cooper Quick Impressions:I love Lady Gaga. It amazes me that not everyone feels the same way. Her immense talent is so self-evident. I remember first listening to her stuff around the time my nine-year-old was born, and I was drawn to her music …
Rating: PG Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes Directors: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Resig Quick Impressions: “I see,” my mother remarked five minutes into this movie, “so they’re going to subtly undermine the Ten Commandments” (the words on the tablets, not the film). I couldn’t completely agree with her. I mean, yes, …
Rating: R Runtine: 2 hours, 8 minutes Director: Michael Moore Quick Impressions: Back in 2004 when Fahrenheit 9/11 came out, I wanted to see it but hesitated to support work so brazenly partisan, so I made a point of also watching Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in the …
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 …
