Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: R Director: Quentin Tarantino Quick Impressions: We saw this movie in a packed house (at 9:20 pm) with an exceptionally responsive audience, and I was very excited about the whole thing. I love that Quentin Tarantino these days seems to have the freedom to …
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Christopher McQuarrie Quick Impressions: I’ve never liked Tom Cruise. Well, no, it’s more than that. I’ve always hated him—not as a person. As a person he’s quite intriguing and makes the world a more interesting place. (And also, I remember him rescuing …
Runtime: 2 hours, 49 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Peter Jackson Quick Impressions: When I was in fourth grade, I was completely—completely!—obsessed with The Lord of the Rings, and of course, I mean the written trilogy, not Peter Jackson’s well received films since I started fourth grade way back in the …
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Sacha Gervasi Quick Impressions: When the end credits rolled, I could swear that I saw a costumer named Grayson Kelly. I’ve been totally unable to confirm this, however, and now it’s going to bother me for the rest of the weekend. Given …
Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Rating: R Director: Joe Wright Quick Impressions: In college I took The Russian Novel as an elective because I already loved Crime and Punishment and The Adolescent. We read Dead Souls, Fathers and Sons, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna …
Runtime: 2 hours, 29 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Steven Spielberg Quick Impressions: “So other than that, Mr. Lincoln, how did you like the play?” That was my second favorite joke for a while when I was ten. (First by a mile was, “Famous last words of Eli Whitney: ‘Keep your cotton …
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Rating: R Director: David O. Russell Quick Impressions: I’ve been excited about this movie for a long time. For one thing, I almost always like David O. Russell movies. I appreciate his sense of humor and his ability to find humanizing comedy in situations others …
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes Rating: PG Director: Peter A. Ramsey Quick Impressions: My family has been excited about Rise of the Guardians all year—because the movie theater keeps telling us that we had better be. We had a full house for Thanksgiving, and the day afterward most of the …
Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes Rating: PG Director: Ang Lee Quick Impressions: I haven’t read Yann Martel’s Booker prize winning novel (yet), but I have read Herodotus, and I must say Life of Pi reminds me of the Greek story of Arion and the Dolphin. As we left the theater …
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutesRating: PG-13 Director: Sam Mendes Quick Impressions: When I was ten, my grandparents took me to the movies to see Turner & Hooch, in which Tom Hanks & a slobbery dog team up to solve a murder. Though privately I questioned their taste, I never turn …
