Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutesDirector: Lin-Manuel Miranda Quick Impressions:tick, tick…BOOM! depressed me so much that I find writing about it difficult, but I do think Andrew Garfield has a real shot at winning Best Actor this year. In fact, so far, his is the only performance I’ve seen …
Best Picture: # 75 Original Release Date: December 27, 2002 Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes Director: Rob Marshall Quick Impressions:As we picked up coffee after school the other day, my daughter and I came up with what we first thought was a hysterical joke. What if someone made …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 23 minutesDirector: Jon M. Chu Quick Impressions:This review might be tricky to write because in the middle of the movie, I suddenly zoned out and started praying. Seriously, I found one particular sequence so moving and effective (not to mention affecting) that it had me mentally …
Best Picture #41Original Release Date: September 26, 1968Rating: GRuntime: 2 hours, 33 minutesDirector: Carol Reed Quick Impressions:I fell in love with Oliver! when I was three years old. If I’m being brutally honest with myself, it’s probably not my favorite movie anymore. (I don’t know if I have just one …
Best Picture: #34Original Release Date: October 18, 1961Rating: ApprovedRuntime: 2 hours, 33 minutesDirector: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise Quick Impressions:“I’m not crazy about the romance or the gangs,” my daughter observed when we were about halfway through West Side Story. “I just kind of like the way it’s the first …
Best Picture: #31Original Release Date: June 25, 1958Rating: GRuntine: 1 hour, 55 minutesDirector: Vincente Minnelli Quick Impressions:I can’t help thinking that the idea of restoring one’s joy in life by cavorting around with young women in the first bloom of youth is somewhat distastefully vampiric. (Then again, I hang around …
