Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: PG Director: George Miller Quick Impressions: I’m probably the only person in the world who hated the original Happy Feet. I thought it had a rambling plot, and that it presented its message in a far too heavy-handed way without any charm or …
Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Brett Ratner Quick Impressions: For weeks I’ve been dying to see the movie Take Shelter, and then when I finally got the opportunity, for some reason, I went to see Tower Heist. My husband and I were in the mood for …
Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes Rating: PG Director: Chris Miller Quick Impressions: We’ve been excited to see Puss in Boots for a long time, particularly my two-year-old who has been pretending to be Puss off-and-on for almost a month. After a couple of weeks of nothing particularly outstanding in …
Running Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Shawn Levy Quick Impressions: In the future, everything will change—except the design of Dr. Pepper cans. Robots will take over boxing. HP will be king of cell phones and tablet computers. Wind farming will increase slightly. And…that’s really it. Everything else …
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: R Director: George Clooney Quick Impressions: I feel like I’ve seen The Ides of March several times before, and I didn’t like it that much then, either. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not a bad movie. It has a phenomenal cast, most of …
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: R Director: Jonathan Levine Quick Impressions: This was definitely my favorite movie of the fall so far, which surprised me because I went in with low expectations. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t expect the movie to be bad. I just wasn’t very …
Running Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Bennett Miller Quick Impressions: This was the first movie I’ve seen this year that seems like a Best Picture contender. (Don’t get me wrong. I would not be shocked to see various Oscar nominations for Drive, Warrior, and, especially, The Help, …
Running Time: 1 hour, 53 minutes Rating: PG Director: Charles Martin Smith Quick Impressions: Dolphin Tale was a better movie than I expected it to be. I went with relatively low expectations, just glad to be able to take my two-year-old to a movie after a long stretch of very …
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Rating: R Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Quick Impressions: I used to think that stoic silence had to do with some kind of mysterious male code and that other men understood this behavior. I’ve since come to the conclusion that when you stare at people …
Running Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Gavin O’Connor Quick Impressions: The Fighter was my favorite Oscar contender last year, and although the premise of Warrior looked uncannily similar, I still wanted to see this film because of the caliber of actors involved and the potential for a …
