Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Doug Liman Quick Impressions: I have a long, tortured, clandestine relationship with Tom Cruise. (I say clandestine because he doesn’t know about it at all—unless, of course, he reads my movie reviews, which I highly doubt.) Back in the late 80s and 90s when …
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes Rating: PG Director: Robert Stromberg Quick Impressions: I’ve been trying hard not to expect anything positive from this movie. On the one hand, how could Angelina Jolie not make a magnificent Maleficent? The casting is so perfect that it’s hard to believe no one made …
Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Bryan Singer Quick Impressions: I’ve been five thousand times more excited to see X-Men: Days of Future Past than any other movie coming out this summer, so excited, in fact, that now that I’ve seen it, I feel like the summer is as good …
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Gareth Edwards Quick Impressions: We’ve been dying to see Godzilla, but last weekend we were out of town at a family wedding, and we didn’t want to see it without my stepson. He’s been looking forward to it almost as much as my …
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes Rating: R Director: Nicholas Stoller Quick Impressions: Neighbors opened this weekend, and that’s why we saw it. I usually like Seth Rogen (although the posters for Knocked Up really annoyed me at the time). I have nothing against Zac Efron. And I always have fun going to the …
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: Jon Favreau Quick Impressions: Last week, my husband and I had planned to see the Scarlett Johansson movie Under the Skin, but we had a lot going on and never made it to the theater. We thought we’d try again this week, …
Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Marc Webb Quick Impressions: On the ride home, our eleven-year-old described this as, “the best and the worst Spider-Man movie that I’ve ever seen.” All four of us agree that the action sequences were electrifying and the principal actors had great chemistry together. But …
Runtime: 1 hour, 17 minutes Rating: G Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey Quick Impressions: A few months after our wedding, my husband and I were on an exciting weekend trip with my then four-year-old stepson. While relaxing in the hotel room before dinner, we happened to catch a documentary about …
Runtime: 1 hours, 59 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Wally Pfister Quick Impressions: Wally Pfister is best known as Christopher Nolan’s go-to cinematographer. He was director of photography not just for Nolan’s Batman trilogy, but also for basically all his other famous films (Momento, Insomnia, Inception). Back when I originally heard …
Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: G Director: Carlos Saldanha Quick Impressions: When I first saw Rio in the theater, I thought it was simply an okay story with decent animation, brilliant use of color, and catchy music. But Rio is one of those movies that grows on you with multiple viewings. My mother …
