Best Picture: #79 Original Release Date: October 6, 2006 Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours 31 minutes Director: Martin Scorsese Quick Impressions: After watching The Departed, my daughter and I made an exciting discovery. Now there remain only ten Best Picture winners she hasn’t seen. (You could reasonably reduce that estimate …
Rating: RRuntime: 3 hours Director: Christopher Nolan Writer: Christopher Nolan Quick Impressions: Barbenheimer weekend continues. Because of “logistical difficulties” (a somewhat cold way of referring to my eight-year-old son), I couldn’t watch Barbie and Oppenheimer in one long binge, but I did see Barbie Friday night at 7:00, Oppenheimer the …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 52 minutes Director: Ben Affleck Quick Impressions:My husband was stunned about how crowded the theater was tonight. We quickly concluded most of the crowd was there for Super Mario Brothers. “I doubt too many people are here to see this movie,” he decided as we stood …
Rating: R Runtime: 2 hours, 32 minutes Director: Ridley Scott Quick Impressions:I said I would see Dune on the biggest screen available at my first opportunity, but I lied. I considered it. In the middle of the night, I hovered over the available seats for some time. And then (after …
