Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Marc Forster Quick Impressions: Last night as I lay awake despite my best efforts to sleep, I got a random flash of a scene from the movie Keeping the Faith (which I haven’t seen in thirteen years). Out of nowhere, I thought, …
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes Rating: G Director: Dan Scanlon Quick Impressions: I love watching movies in a theater packed full of little children. You never have to wonder how the rest of the audience is reacting to any given moment on screen. You know. I wish adults would watch …
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes Rating: R Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Quick Impressions: Leaving the theater, I said to my husband, “Coming of age movies about boys are always so baffling from a girl’s point of view. Why is it that every story about becoming a man and taking charge of …
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Zack Snyder Quick Impressions: Normally I come out of a movie knowing what I think of it, but I’m not sure that’s the case with Man of Steel. Watching it, I was really all over the place. For a while, I felt …
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: R Directors: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Quick Impressions: It’s so exciting when a movie opens on a Tuesday because that’s our date night. At first we planned to see Kings of Summer (which has been likened to Superbad), but when I realized that This Is …
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Louis Leterrier Quick Impressions: I’m very surprised to report that Now You See Me is my favorite film of the summer so far. I was not expecting that. At all. So here’s to the Louis Leterrier for pulling off that amazing trick! Had I realized …
Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutesRating: PG-13Director: M. Night Shymalan Quick Impressions:An average fourteen-year-old boy walks around on Earth for a few days—not the most enticing premise. But how about this? Quentin Tarantino writes a leading role especially for Will Smith—in a movie that becomes an Oscar-winning box office hit—and …
Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes Rating: PG Director: Chris Wedge Quick Impressions: My stepson (who is ten) has been very excited to see this movie, so its marketing campaign obviously worked. We saw this on Friday at 5:45 in a packed house full of children. Based on the crowd noise …
Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutesRating: PG-13Director: J.J. Abrams Quick Impressions: As a young child (before kindergarten), I had a very clear idea of who the world’s most attractive men were. The first, of course, was Sean Connery. The third was the guy who used to do those 7-Up commercials …
Runtime: 2 hours, 22 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Baz Luhrmann Quick Impressions: I don’t understand how anyone can be surprised or disappointed by this movie. Perhaps some people won’t like it, and perhaps they have very good reasons. But if you’ve read The Great Gatsby and seen any Baz Luhrmann …
