Runtime: 2 hours, 45 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Michael Bay Quick Impressions: At the very end of the movie, Optimus Prime intones sonorously, “I’m coming for you.” Immediately my daughter turned to me and asked, “Yes, but who is you?” “That’s a very good question,” I said. Shaking her head, she …
Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes Rating: R Director: Clint Eastwood Quick Impressions: Our kids really like musicals, so when I first saw that Jersey Boys was coming to the big screen this summer, I planned to take the kids on opening weekend. But then I saw that it was rated R and …
Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes Rating: R Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Quick Impressions: Okay, I loved this movie. I’ll just come out and say that right at the beginning and get it over with. If you’re looking for life-changing profundity, you probably need to look elsewhere (unless you’re very …
Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: PG Director: Dean DeBlois Quick Impressions: How vividly I remember the day we took my then seven-year-old stepson to see How to Train Your Dragon back in the spring of 2010! His little sister was only one and had to wait at my parents’ house instead …
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Doug Liman Quick Impressions: I have a long, tortured, clandestine relationship with Tom Cruise. (I say clandestine because he doesn’t know about it at all—unless, of course, he reads my movie reviews, which I highly doubt.) Back in the late 80s and 90s when …
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes Rating: PG Director: Robert Stromberg Quick Impressions: I’ve been trying hard not to expect anything positive from this movie. On the one hand, how could Angelina Jolie not make a magnificent Maleficent? The casting is so perfect that it’s hard to believe no one made …
Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Bryan Singer Quick Impressions: I’ve been five thousand times more excited to see X-Men: Days of Future Past than any other movie coming out this summer, so excited, in fact, that now that I’ve seen it, I feel like the summer is as good …
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Gareth Edwards Quick Impressions: We’ve been dying to see Godzilla, but last weekend we were out of town at a family wedding, and we didn’t want to see it without my stepson. He’s been looking forward to it almost as much as my …
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes Rating: R Director: Nicholas Stoller Quick Impressions: Neighbors opened this weekend, and that’s why we saw it. I usually like Seth Rogen (although the posters for Knocked Up really annoyed me at the time). I have nothing against Zac Efron. And I always have fun going to the …
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: R Director: Jon Favreau Quick Impressions: Last week, my husband and I had planned to see the Scarlett Johansson movie Under the Skin, but we had a lot going on and never made it to the theater. We thought we’d try again this week, …
