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Posted on April 24, 2004 at 8:40 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extremely graphic scenes of an operation |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Mordantly funny and trenchantly sobering, this is a Big Mac attack you can sink your teeth into. And then it will bite you back. Film-maker Morgan Spurlock takes on American fast food culture in general and McDonald’s in particular in this prize-winning documentary. He takes on McDonald’s literally, eating nothing but McDonald’s food for an …
Continue reading “Super Size Me”
Posted on April 24, 2004 at 5:51 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking, drinking to excess |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
None |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
“The Laws of Attraction” demonstrates no understanding of either attraction or laws. I don’t just mean the completely innacurate portrayal of law practice and court proceedings in the film. I mean the fundamental laws that make a movie appealing to watch. Disastrous casting, a clunker-laden script, and snooze-inducing direction repel rather than attract. Having the …
Continue reading “Laws of Attraction”
Posted on April 24, 2004 at 4:54 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Strong sexual references and situations for a PG-13 including teen pregnancy |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Teen smoking, drinking, and drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie, disabled and gay characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
The first thing teenagers figure out is that it is enticingly easy to make fun of believers in any category. What’s nice about this movie is that it does so while still entirely respectful of belief. It begins as a satire of new age-y holier than thou people who spend more time worrying about the …
Continue reading “Saved”
Posted on April 22, 2004 at 5:46 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and mild sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character abuses alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme and graphic violence including torture |
| Diversity Issues: |
Devoted relationship between diverse characters a strength of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Two of today’s most talented and charismatic screen performers are lost in an over-big, over-loud, over-heated, over-long, over-everything mess of a story about this year’s most popular movie theme, revenge. Denzel Washington plays Creasy, a burnt-out hired gun who asks his best friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken), “Do you think we’ll ever be forgiven for what …
Continue reading “Man on Fire”
Posted on April 17, 2004 at 7:42 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language for a PG-13 |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Crude humor and sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Underage drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Emotional tension, comic violence including injuries |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters including disabled and gay characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Author Judith Viorst once wrote about a little girl who looked over at another child and reported on her assessment. “Her dress is very pretty,” she said, “but mine is very prettier.” She was clearly on her way to becoming what we now call an “alpha girl,” one of those impossibly perfect beings who mask …
Continue reading “Mean Girls”
