Runtime: 2 hours, 21 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Marc Webb Quick Impressions: On the ride home, our eleven-year-old described this as, “the best and the worst Spider-Man movie that I’ve ever seen.” All four of us agree that the action sequences were electrifying and the principal actors had great chemistry together. But …
Runtime: 1 hour, 17 minutes Rating: G Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey Quick Impressions: A few months after our wedding, my husband and I were on an exciting weekend trip with my then four-year-old stepson. While relaxing in the hotel room before dinner, we happened to catch a documentary about …
Runtime: 1 hours, 59 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Wally Pfister Quick Impressions: Wally Pfister is best known as Christopher Nolan’s go-to cinematographer. He was director of photography not just for Nolan’s Batman trilogy, but also for basically all his other famous films (Momento, Insomnia, Inception). Back when I originally heard …
Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes Rating: G Director: Carlos Saldanha Quick Impressions: When I first saw Rio in the theater, I thought it was simply an okay story with decent animation, brilliant use of color, and catchy music. But Rio is one of those movies that grows on you with multiple viewings. My mother …
Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo Quick Impressions: After a whirlwind trip to Chicago—which was about 85 percent riding in the car, singing along to Muppets Most Wanted songs, and wondering desperately if we’d ever get there—we came home eager to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier and …
Runtime: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: R Director: Wes Anderson Quick Impressions: Ordinarily, there’s little I love more than metadrama, but for the life of me, I could not understand why this film needed so many frame stories. On the ride home from the theater, I said to my husband, …
Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes Rating: PG Director: James Bobin Quick Impressions: Chances are, if your kids watch the Disney Channel, they’re dying to see Muppets Most Wanted, and if they’ve watched Good Luck Charlie or Dog with a Blog in the past month, I can personally guarantee that they’ve already seen the opening number …
Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Hayao Miyazaki Quick Impressions: We’re back from seeing The Wind Rises, and my five-year-old is busily making paper airplanes and wondering if they’ll fly as far as the ones in the movie if she remembers a trick my dad taught her and uses …
Runtime: 1 hour, 31 minutes Rating: PG Director: Rob Minkoff Quick Impressions: When I was in second grade, I didn’t like school much, so I would try to wake up as early in the morning as possible. That way, I could spend a large chunk of time doing something pleasant …
Runtime: 1 hours, 47 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Quick Impressions: I’ve actually been looking forward to Non-Stop, which is odd since I’m not a huge fan of action movies and (though I like Liam Neeson) I haven’t seen either of the Taken movies or The Grey. The preview for this was so …
