Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: R Director: Armando Iannucci Quick Impressions: When I was in third grade, there was an arcade in the hotel where my dad worked, and my mom used to let my little sister and me play there without quarters (which at our skill level was …
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directed: John Krasinski Quick Impressions: If they hear you, they hunt you. Obviously the best place to encounter these horrific monsters is in space. No one can hear you scream. Movie poster tagline jokes aside, John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place needs to be …
Runtime:2 hours, 20 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Steven Spielberg Quicik Impressions: When I first read Ernest Kline’s 80s nostalgia fest about three years ago, I immediately thought, My husband, and my son would love this! It’s no surprise they’re making it into a movie! It reads like it’s a movie …
Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Steven S. DeKnight Quick Impressions: A big monster runs amok Tokyo. (Surely that’s not a spoiler for anyone who has seen the first Pacific Rim.) In this surprise sequel to 2013’s tale of Kaiju vs Jaeger, a lot is going on. I …
Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: PG-13Director: Wes Anderson Quick Impressions:You always know what to expect from a Wes Anderson movie, and he never fails to deliver. In fact, since he’s been collaborating with Roman Coppola, his work has even improved. Sometimes promising artists burn out over time, but Anderson …
Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Roar Uthaug Quick Impressions: Alicia Vikander kind of happened when I was extremely checked out of movies after the birth of my son. I couldn’t go to the theater then. (I couldn’t even sleep through the night!) So I was vaguely aware …
Runtime: 1 hour, 49 minutes Rating: PG Director: Ava DuVernay Quick Impressions: I’m a huge fan of Madeleine L’Engle. My mother first read A Wrinkle in Time to me when I was in third grade after she happened across the paperback in a thrift store. We were spellbound by the …
Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutesRating: R Director: Nash Edgerton Quick Impressions: Gringo is funny… Eventually. It is also brutal and action-packed and philosophical and tragic (for some). Tonally it reminds me a bit of The Full Nine Yards. When there are laughs, they are big laughs. But there’s also something …
Runtime: 2 hours, 19 minutes Rating: R Director: Francis Lawrence Quick Impressions: This movie should be called Hallways of Russia. In the first thirty minutes, Red Sparrow shows us so many pointed shots of characters moving through horizontal passageways that I started asking myself, “Is this symbolism? Are these passages …
Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Ryan Coogler Quick Impressions: Until the end credits rolled, I somehow had no idea that Ryan Coogler directed Black Panther. Surely I knew that fact at some point during the production history, and my frantic efforts to finish my Oscar write up …
