Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: J.C. Chandor Quick Impressions: All is Lost is not the kind of movie that ordinarily excites me. It’s very bare bones. It’s just a man and a boat and the sea. That’s it. No family. No friends. No human antagonists. No tigers. No …
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Quick Impressions: We’re big Tangled fans at our house. Tangled was the first movie my daughter saw in the theater. (She had just turned two and kept folding up into her seat because she wasn’t heavy enough to keep it in …
Runtime: 2 hours, 26 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Francis Lawrence Quick Impressions: Ordinarily as I walk out of the theater after a movie, I’m already thinking about what I plan to say in my review, but as I left Catching Fire I was thinking, “How can I trick someone into taking me …
Runtime: 2 hours, 55 minutes Rating: NC-17 Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Quick Impressions: If you don’t leave this movie craving spaghetti, then you are not human. (Okay, that might be hyperbole. Maybe.) Still in Blue is the Warmest Color, we spend almost three hours watching protagonist Adèle do two things—eat spaghetti and …
Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes Rating: R Director: Steve McQueen Quick Impressions: I was so impressed with Steve McQueen’s last feature, Shame, that when I heard he was reteaming with Michael Fassbender to direct a historical drama starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, I got incredibly excited. Ejiofor and Fassbender are two of my …
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Alan Taylor Quick Impressions: My four-year-old daughter is a much bigger fan of Thor than I ever realized. (Apparently, she’s watched the original with Grandma and Grandpa quite a few times on our date nights.) She’s been dying to see Thor: The Dark World, and …
Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Gavin Hood Quick Impressions: I’ll confess I’ve been wondering how on earth anyone was going to pull off a successful, mainstream movie adaptation of Ender’s Game ever since I read the book. Of course, I read the book last week, so this hasn’t preoccupied …
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: Alexander Payne Quick Impressions: Tonight I was lucky enough to catch a pre-release screening of Alexander Payne’s Nebraska at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the just launched New York Film Critics Series. After the film, we saw a live simulcast Q&A session with …
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes Rating: R Director: Ridley Scott Quick Impressions: When we left the theater, my husband remarked, “I think the most important thing I learned from that movie is that I’m not sure I want to see Blade Runner 2.” Clearly Ridley Scott has reached a stage in his …
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes Rating: R Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quick Impressions: We’re playing catch up this week, first Cloudy 2 and now Don Jon. My husband and I have noticed over the years that Joseph Gordon-Levitt somehow does not ever make bad movies. Ever. We’ve discussed this several times. Is he exceptionally …
