Rating: PG-13Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: Rupert Goold Quick Impressions:You’d never guess from stepping outside that it’s supposedly fall, and the autumnal equinox now lies behind us, but even if the weather isn’t cooperating, at least serious Oscar contenders are beginning to show up in theaters near me. I was …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Director: James Gray Quick Impressions: I would have called this movie, In Space, Monkeys Go Crazy. This is probably why I was not hired as a creative consultant. Ad Astra is a much more eloquent title. (It’s also the first half of the …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 49 minutesDirector: Lorene Scafaria Quick Impressions:I have watched the Oscars every year for decades, but with the exception of that time Björk wore a swan, I cannot remember one single outfit anybody had on who was not Jennifer Lopez. I’m not what you’d call a J-Lo …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutesDirector: Gurinder Chadha Quick Impressions:Writer/director Gurinder Chadha is pretty well known for her 2002 hit Bend It like Beckham, but I didn’t know until writing this review that she also co-wrote and directed one of my favorite holiday movies, What’s Cooking, this amazing ensemble …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 2 hours, 10 minutes Director: Richard Linklater Quick Impressions: At this point, I’ve been trying to see Where’d You Go, Bernadette? for what feels like most of my adult life (but is actually two weeks). Richard Linklater’s latest effort has not been getting great reviews, and our …
Rating: R Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Quick Impressions: Last night my husband and I arrived at the theater at 7:00 and soon found ourselves asking in confusion, “Where’d Where’d You Go, Bernadette go?” My sister was in town last week when the movie …
Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes Director: André Øvredal Quick Impressions: Our older kids absolutely love Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. We used to read them together when they were little. Well, I mean, beginning when our sixteen-year-old was more like eight, and our ten-year-old …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 38 minutesDirector: Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage Quick Impressions:As the end credits ran, I turned to my husband and observed, “I feel like these people could solve a lot of their problems if they would just quit picking up rattlesnakes.” I stand by that statement. …
Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 40 minutesDirector: Lulu Wang Quick Impressions: I’ve been dying to see The Farewell since I heard it existed months and months ago. I won’t lie. I started getting interested in an Awkwafina as an actress when an immense, nationwide marketing push told me relentlessly, “You are …
Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 41 minutes Director: Quentin Tarantino Quick Impressions:I’ve been dying to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s the film I’ve been most excited about all summer. (Well I mean, after I saw Detective Pikachu.) So of course, it came out the week I was away …
