Runtime: 2 hours, 28 minutes Rating: R Director: David Fincher Quick Impressions: I’ve been more excited for Gone Girl than for any other 2014 movie so far, and I have absolutely no idea why. I mean, I like David Fincher, but I’m not his most rabid fan ever or anything. I haven’t …
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes Rating: R Director: Craig Johnson Quick Impressions: I remember (not that long ago) when Saturday Night Live was basically The Kristen Wiig & Bill Hader Show, and that was fine with me. Both Wiig and Hader have a rare spark, an uncanny talent for sketch comedy. Yes, by …
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes Rating: PG Director: Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi Quick Impressions: We’re big fans of stop-motion animation at our house. I mean, how can anyone not be impressed by stop-motion? The work that goes into each stop-motion feature is staggering! And when artists dedicate that much …
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Rating: R Director: Ned Benson Quick Impressions: Once again, I want to see almost everything out this week, and I almost picked The Maze Runner. Since the weekend, I’ve been going back and forth between titles, trying to make up my mind, and The Maze Runner does look …
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: R Director: Michaël R. Roskam Quick Impressions: Following a painful, protracted dearth of watchable new movies, three films I wanted to see came out at once last Friday. The Drop is the one I’ve wanted to see most, partially because I love Gone Baby Gone (adapted from …
Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: R Director: John Michael McDonagh Quick Impressions: I probably would have seen this movie sooner if I hadn’t misread the title as Cavalry and mistaken the bullet holes in the shape of a cross on Brendan Gleeson’s vestments in the movie poster for buttons on a …
Last September deciding on a #1 movie for my review took all of one second. Now You See Me pleasantly surprised me last May and remained my favorite film all summer long. I still love that movie and now own it and wish I watched it more often. Most years, picking a …
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes Rating: PG Director: Lasse Hallström Quick Impressions: The movie As Above, So Below is new this week, and based almost entirely on its captivating poster art, I thought, Looks cool! I’m there. The more I researched this idea, the better and better it seemed. The theater closest …
Now we come to the bottom half of my top ten films of the summer. I liked every one of these movies, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they all turn up in my home video library eventually. The movies in this tier earn an (A-) from me because while …
This hardly deserves to call itself a tier. It’s more like a convenient catch-all featuring two movies that did enough right to deserve better than a dreary (B-) plus one (far, far) better effort that didn’t do quite enough to sneak its way into my top 10. Dividing nineteen movies …
