Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: R Director: Wes Anderson Quick Impressions: Ordinarily, there’s little I love more than metadrama, but for the life of me, I could not understand why this film needed so many frame stories. On the ride home from the theater, I said to my husband, …
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes Rating: PG Director: James Bobin Quick Impressions: Chances are, if your kids watch the Disney Channel, they’re dying to see Muppets Most Wanted, and if they’ve watched Good Luck Charlie or Dog with a Blog in the past month, I can personally guarantee that they’ve already seen the opening number …
Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Quick Impressions: We’re back from seeing The Wind Rises, and my five-year-old is busily making paper airplanes and wondering if they’ll fly as far as the ones in the movie if she remembers a trick my dad taught her and uses …
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes Rating: PG Director: Rob Minkoff Quick Impressions: When I was in second grade, I didn’t like school much, so I would try to wake up as early in the morning as possible. That way, I could spend a large chunk of time doing something pleasant …
Runtime: 1 hours, 47 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Quick Impressions: I’ve actually been looking forward to Non-Stop, which is odd since I’m not a huge fan of action movies and (though I like Liam Neeson) I haven’t seen either of the Taken movies or The Grey. The preview for this was so …
Runtime: 2 hours, 22 minutes Rating: NR Director: Paolo Sorrentino Quick Impressions: On the car ride home, my husband and I remarked, pretty much in unison, “That first party scene—even though I didn’t have any idea what was going on, I could have watched it forever.” Hearing that he felt …
Runtime: 1 hours, 48 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: José Padilha Quick Impressions: Last week, my husband and I were so excited to see The Monuments Men, and then on the way to the theater, we got in a wreck. Before we could get off the highway, we saw four other wrecks …
Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Rating: PG Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Quick Impressions: My family has been looking forward to The Lego Movie for a while now. I know we’re not the only ones. It’s been a long time since Thanksgiving. For some strange reason, few families opted to take their …
Runtime: 1 hours, 34 minutes Rating: R Director: Tom Gormican Quick Impressions: That awkward moment when you go to a movie not because you expect it to be good, but because you just don’t think you can bear to sit through Labor Day… I love Kate Winslet. I like Josh Brolin. …
Runtime: 1 hours, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Kenneth Branagh Quick Impressions: Traditionally, January is a dumping ground for bad movies, and the bigger they should have been, the worse they actually are. My husband and I went to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit hoping that it might be different, however, because I …
