Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes Rating: PG-13Director: Guillermo Del Toro Quick Impressions:“Ba-da-da-DaDAAAAAA! Ba-da-da-DaDAAAAAA!” Years from now, when I’m old and gray, one of my grandchildren will innocently pick out this tune on a piano, and I’ll either A) lose myself in a traumatic flashback of robot-on-monster action and weep for …
Runtime: 2 hours, 29 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Gore Verbinski Quick Impressions: My four-year-old was so excited to see this movie. Since we just went to Despicable Me 2 on Wednesday, the rest of us were feeling less motivated to run down to the local multiplex than usual. But her …
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin Quick Impressions: As we left the theater tonight after Despicable Me 2, my dad—who turns 61 later this month and who seemed pretty unenthused as we dragged him along to the 9:25 showing—declared with a smile, “Well that …
Runtime: 1 hour, 57 minutes Rating: R Director: Paul Feig Quick Impressions: Too many movies come out in the summer. I can’t keep up. I still want to see Much Ado About Nothing, The Bling Ring, and White House Down, but this week, we chose The Heat because it’s so …
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Marc Forster Quick Impressions: Last night as I lay awake despite my best efforts to sleep, I got a random flash of a scene from the movie Keeping the Faith (which I haven’t seen in thirteen years). Out of nowhere, I thought, …
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes Rating: G Director: Dan Scanlon Quick Impressions: I love watching movies in a theater packed full of little children. You never have to wonder how the rest of the audience is reacting to any given moment on screen. You know. I wish adults would watch …
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes Rating: R Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts Quick Impressions: Leaving the theater, I said to my husband, “Coming of age movies about boys are always so baffling from a girl’s point of view. Why is it that every story about becoming a man and taking charge of …
Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutes Rating: PG-13 Directors: Zack Snyder Quick Impressions: Normally I come out of a movie knowing what I think of it, but I’m not sure that’s the case with Man of Steel. Watching it, I was really all over the place. For a while, I felt …
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes Rating: R Directors: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg Quick Impressions: It’s so exciting when a movie opens on a Tuesday because that’s our date night. At first we planned to see Kings of Summer (which has been likened to Superbad), but when I realized that This Is …
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Louis Leterrier Quick Impressions: I’m very surprised to report that Now You See Me is my favorite film of the summer so far. I was not expecting that. At all. So here’s to the Louis Leterrier for pulling off that amazing trick! Had I realized …
