Posted on August 30, 2018 at 10:18 am
Rotten Tomatoes has made a very important step forward in promoting diversity with an announcement about its revised policy for accepting critics. As a critic who has been on Rotten Tomatoes almost since it began, I am delighted. In revamping our Critics Criteria, we sought to bring the criteria into better alignment with the way …
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Posted on August 29, 2018 at 5:49 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic content and related violent images, and for some language |
| Profanity: | Some strong and hateful language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking, smoking |
| Diversity Issues: | A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 31, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | December 3, 2018 |
Operation Finale considers what is, perhaps, the ultimate conundrum, one that echoes throughout all of human history. How can good guys defeat the bad guys without becoming bad themselves? If the bad guys do not play by any rules at all, the good guys have two choices: to stay within the rules themselves, which can …
Posted on August 23, 2018 at 5:35 pm
C| Lowest Recommended Age: | Adult |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for strong crude and sexual content and language throughout, and some drug material) |
| Profanity: | Very strong, crude, and offensive language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Extremely explicit sexual references and situations |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 3, 2018 |
A couple of minutes into “The Happytime Murders,” an adorable Muppet-like puppet says the f-word. If that strikes you as funny, think very carefully about whether it is funny enough for 90 minutes of pretty much the exact same joke to justify the price of a movie ticket. If you want to hear puppets swear …
Posted on August 23, 2018 at 3:32 pm
B| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language |
| Profanity: | Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | References to alcoholism and drug abuse, alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Medical issues |
| Diversity Issues: | None |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 24, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | November 13, 2018 |
Nick Hornby understands passionate fans of rock music and the people who create it. His novel High Fidelity and the film starring John Cusack are classics. He also wrote About a Boy, the story of a man who, years after his father’s one novelty hit, is living off the royalties and not doing much else. …
Posted on August 23, 2018 at 3:24 pm
B +| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for language and some sexual content |
| Profanity: | Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references and situation, adultery |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking and drunkenness |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Tense emotional confrontations, medical issues, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: | Gender issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: | August 24, 2018 |
| Date Released to DVD: | January 28, 2019 |
The title The Wife is telling. The lead character is not even identified by name, just by her role as helpmeet and support system for her husband, a lauded literary figure who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize. Her name is Joan and his name is Joe, suggesting that the boundaries between them are …
