Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Phyllida Lloyd Quick Impressions: Because I’m an obsessive fanatic (for no apparent reason) when it comes to the Oscars, I’ve been dying to see this movie. At the Critics’ Choice Awards, Viola Davis beat Meryl Streep. At the Golden Globes, Meryl …
Running Time: 2 hours, 26 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Steven Spielberg Quick Impressions: My husband and I have been unreasonably biased against this movie for some time. Everyone we know keeps saying how it looks so good and so sad. To us, based on the previews, it just looked like …
Running Time: 1 hr, 40 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Michel Hazanavicius Quick Impressions: What distinguishes a comedy from a tragedy? Sometimes the line is so fine that the interpretation of a single sound makes all the difference. I’ve been waiting a long time to see this movie. Everybody has been …
Running Time: 2 hours, 38 minutes Rating: R Director: David Fincher Quick Impressions: I haven’t read the books (yet) or seen the Swedish movie trilogy (yet), so I’m not very well qualified to review The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (But I have seen The Social Network, which somehow feels …
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: NC-17 Director: Steve McQueen Quick Impressions: What a sad movie! The first scene is sad, and it keeps getting sadder and sadder and sadder till at the end, the audience drowns in a puddle of sadness. Shame is the perfect title, and …
Running Time: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: Alexander Payne Quick Impressions: The Descendants is a great movie but an incredibly sad one. I had tears in my eyes through pretty much the entire thing, ready to cry in almost every scene, and I couldn’t have been the only …
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: R Director: Simon Curtis Quick Impressions: Who can resist a movie in which Kenneth Branagh plays Sir Lawrence Olivier? That detail alone is bound to make this film a trivia question in the future. Still, it’s always nerve-wracking to go to a movie …
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: PG Director: Sarah Smith Quick Impressions: The early teasers for this movie looked annoyingly mediocre, but I’ve loved Aardman stuff in the past, and my two-year-old loves to go to the movies. Imagine my surprise when Arthur Christmas turned out to be my …
Running Time: 1 hour, 38 minutes Rating: PG Director: James Bobin Quick Impressions: I’ve taken a long time to write this review because I just don’t know what to say about The Muppets. I saw the movie over a week ago on opening day, and I was extremely, almost uncharacteristically …
Running Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes Rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood Quick Impressions: As a fan of Leonardo DiCaprio’s acting, Clint Eastwood’s directing, I’ve been very excited to see this movie. As I watched the film, I thought, The pacing is very strange, and the story seems a little unfocused. …
