Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo Quick Impressions: After a whirlwind trip to Chicago—which was about 85 percent riding in the car, singing along to Muppets Most Wanted songs, and wondering desperately if we’d ever get there—we came home eager to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier and …
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. …
