New to Theaters
B +
A-
B +
New on Streaming
B +
B +
B
Posted on October 23, 2025 at 5:00 pm
B
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language, some drug use, and bloody images |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, drunkenness, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Disturbing medical-related graphic images, parental abandonment of an infant, mental illness |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 24, 2025 |
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” is a terrifying movie about a woman who is overwhelmed by the needs of her sick daughter and the demands of her caregivers, her disintegrating apartment ceiling, and the patients in her practice as a therapist. Writer/director Mary Bronstein was inspired by her own experiences as the mother …
Continue reading “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Posted on October 21, 2025 at 5:24 pm
A-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and sexual references |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and explicit language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, alcoholism |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Reference to sad death and wartime trauma |
| Diversity Issues: |
References to homophobia |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 24, 2025 |
Lorenz Hart, called Larry by most people, was one of the greatest lyricists of all time. He and Richard Rodgers created songs of ineffable wit and pure poetry, mingling melancholy with romanticism, songs like “My Funny Valentine” (“Your looks are laughable/unphotographable/but you’re my favorite work of art”), “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (“I’m wild again, beguiled …
Continue reading “Blue Moon”
Posted on October 21, 2025 at 10:52 am
In year 13, the Middleburg Film Festival founded by Sheila Johnson continues to delight, astonish, and inspire. This year featured a dazzling array of films that are certain to add to the previous years’ record of 63 Oscar nominations for predecessors on the festival schedule. George Clooney’s “Jay Kelly,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” with Emma Stone …
Continue reading “A Spectacular Year for the Middleburg Film Festival”
Posted on October 17, 2025 at 8:57 am
B-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and suicide |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, smoking, brief drug use |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 17, 2025 |
A character in “Ballad of a Small Player” tells a story about a gambler who dies and discovers that in the afterlife he is still gambling, but now he always wins. “This heaven?” he asks in amazement. “No,” he is told. “You’re in hell.” The import of the story may be lost on the person …
Continue reading “Ballad of a Small Player”
Posted on October 16, 2025 at 7:44 pm
B +
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and some drug use |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 17, 2025 |
If you could trade places with someone, who would it be? Going back to Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper (this is the best movie version), the idea of switching lives with someone who seems to have a more comfortable, secure, happier existence has been an appealing fantasy. The stories usually end with the …
Continue reading “Good Fortune”
