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Posted on June 25, 2020 at 5:42 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for action/violence and language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crotch hit, brief reference to prostitution |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Mayhem and spy-related action violence, many characters injured and killed, off-screen death of parent |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 26, 2020 |
“My Spy” does not try to conceal the sources it relies on for its storyline — other movies. This is a movie about a CIA agent who refers to “Notting Hill” twice, once in the first five minutes. It is also a movie that thinks it is okay to copy one of the best sequences …
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Posted on June 25, 2020 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for crude sexual material including full nude sculptures, some comic violent images, and language |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, graphic and explicit statues |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic mayhem and violence, characters killed, murders, explosions, some grisly images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 26, 2020 |
Will Ferrell, who co-wrote and stars in “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga” knows that it is impossible to exaggerate the sheer nuttiness of the annual song competition, so he does not even try. He just puts us in the middle of it, almost reassuringly bittersweet in the year of the pandemic, which …
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Posted on June 25, 2020 at 5:21 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language including sexual references |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, some crude |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
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None |
| Diversity Issues: |
Cultural diversity a theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 26, 2020 |
Jon Stewart swings for the fences with “Irresistible,” and you’ve got to respect that, even if he only hits a double. He has taken a whole bunch of what bothers him the most about our political system, not the fumbles, pettiness, missteps, and corruption of the individuals but the more systemic problems of money and …
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Posted on June 25, 2020 at 5:15 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated G |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Mild peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
A metaphorical theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 26, 2020 |
“Jungle Beat” is welcome as a rare G-rated animated feature, even if it confirms the stereotype of “for all audience” films as a bit babyish and slow. Young children may enjoy the colorful jungle animal characters and sweet storyline about hugs and affirmations but anyone over age nine may find that it is overlong and …
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Posted on June 25, 2020 at 9:25 am
As Irving Berlin said, there’s no people like show people and one of the bright spots of the pandemic era has been the contributions of performers from Broadway. I absolutely love this joyous version of “Hairspray’s” “You Can’t Stop the Beat.”
