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One Battle After Another

One Battle After Another

Posted on September 25, 2025 at 5:03 pm

A-
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive language, violence, sexual content, and drug use
Profanity: Constant very strong, bigoted, and crude language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references and explicit situations
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking and drugs
Violence/ Scariness: Characters in peril, some injured and killed, graphic and disturbing images, guns and bombs
Diversity Issues: A theme of the movie, racist characters

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (“Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” “The Phantom Thread”) has taken a novel written 35 years ago by an author often described as “unfilmable” and turned it into a vital, provocative, and disturbingly (in a good way) of-the-moment two hour and forty minute film that seems to go by in half the time. The …

London Calling

London Calling

Posted on September 18, 2025 at 5:08 pm

B-
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong/bloody violence, language throughout, drug use and some sexual content
Profanity: Constant strong and crude language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol, drug dealing
Violence/ Scariness: Character is an assassin, constant violence with many characters injured and killed, graphic bloody disturbing images, murder played for comedy
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: September 19, 2025

Like its handsome anti-hero, this movie sometimes misfires, but it is easy on the eyes. Josh Duhamel, always excellent, plays Tommy Ward, a hitman for some British gangsters. He’s reached that age when he should have his eyes checked, but he is too stubborn and perhaps too vain, so he just squints a bit more …

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Posted on September 16, 2025 at 3:35 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language
Profanity: F word used many times
Nudity/ Sex: Non-explicit sexual situation, sexual references
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol
Violence/ Scariness: Sad off-screen death of a parent, medical issue for an infant
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: September 19, 2025

Two strangers meet at a wedding, and the next day find themselves — in both senses of the term — on a car trip, guided by a mysterious GPS, through apparently endless unoccupied rural landscapes, stopping at doors that appear unconnected to any structure but turn out to be portals to the past. The journey, …

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

Posted on September 11, 2025 at 5:17 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language and some sexual references
Profanity: Strong and crude language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references including accusations of cheating
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol
Violence/ Scariness: Comic peril and violence
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: September 12, 2025

Remember that iconic moment in “Amadeus” when Salieri composes a simple little piece in honor of Mozart’s arrival, and then, the greatest composer of all time, only 25 years old and incapable of imagining Salieri’s bitter jealousy, sits down to play the piece and cannot help turning it into something magical. I could not help …

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Posted on September 11, 2025 at 5:09 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: High School
MPAA Rating: Rated PG for smoking, suggestive material, some thematic elements
Profanity: Mile language
Nudity/ Sex: Non-explicit sexual situation
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol and cigarettes, characters get tipsy
Violence/ Scariness: None
Diversity Issues: Class issues
Date Released to Theaters: September 12, 2025

You could have a very successful drinking game if you took a swig every time someone in “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” talks about change, coping with it, changing with it, or trying to ignore or prevent it. But you’d be far too tipsy to enjoy this movie’s many pleasures for those who have watched …