Runtime: 2 hour, 14 minutes Rating: R Director: Dee Rees Quick Impressions:As I was periodically glancing over at my laptop yesterday afternoon, watching the results of the LA Film Critics Association Awards gradually trickle in, I saw they named Mary J. Blige runner-up Best Supporting Actress and thought, Well, I …
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: Martin McDonagh Quick Impressions: I loved this movie so much. It’s my favorite film this year by a very wide margin. To my delight, my husband felt the same way. As the credits rolled, he leaned over to me and whispered, “I …
Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina Quick Impressions: I’ll begin this review with two pieces of advice. 1.) If you get a chance this holiday season, try to watch Coco. 2.) Try not to watch it with my two-year-old son. That second thing …
Runtime: 2 hours Rating: PG-13 Director: Zack Snyder Quick Impressions: Like the latest incarnation of Batman, I’m going to be brave but crazy and begin this review with a bold statement. I liked Justice League. It’s my favorite of these new DC movies so far (except for Wonder Woman and …
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes Rating: R Director: Greta Gerwig Quick Impressions: Immediately after seeing Murder on the Orient Express with my parents last weekend, my eight-year-old daughter gushed to me, “Mom! We got the best preview. I forgot what it was called, but it was so funny! We have …
Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Seeing this film was an event for my family. It was a very close second to The Last Jedi as our most anticipated film of the year. Well, actually, for my mother, I’m sure that The Last Jedi …
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutesRating: PG-13Director: Taika Waititi Quick Impressions:If you like broad shoulders and broad humor, then the Thor movies just keep getting better and better. This one is full of engaging action, charismatic actors, and relentless (often physical) humor. It’s almost slapstick. (If they keep on like this, …
Runtime: 2 hours, 44 minutes Rating: R Director: Denis Villeneuve Quick Impressions: Although like most people, I consider the original Blade Runner a great film, I don’t have any deep, personal attachment to it. When I do call the 1982 Blade Runner to mind, I think immediately of the color …
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Patty Jenkins Quick Impressions: My first novel was about Wonder Woman. I wrote it when I was four-and-a-half in a spiral notebook with a Cabbage Patch Kid on the cover. It took up half a page, red ink, all caps. “OH HELLO. …
Runtime: 1 hours, 34 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen Quick Impressions: Pixar does excellent work, but perhaps because I’m now so pregnant I look like Violet Beauregarde (immediately pre-juicing) from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I haven’t been all that excited about Inside Out. I’ll be honest. …
