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The Friend

The Friend

Posted on March 25, 2025 at 5:36 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language including a sexual reference
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references including predatory behavior
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking and drunkenness
Violence/ Scariness: Sad death by suicide
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: March 28, 2025

“How can you explain death to a dog?” A character in “The Friend” asks that question as she tries to persuade Iris (Naomi Watts) to take a very sad dag who is mourning the loss of Walter (Bill Murray). It is the hardest kind of death to explain to anyone, canine or human. Walter took …

Novocaine

Novocaine

Posted on March 13, 2025 at 5:53 pm

B-
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong bloody violence, grisly images, and language throughout
Profanity: Constant very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Non-explicit sexual situation
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol, scene in a bar
Violence/ Scariness: Constant peril and violence, many characters injured and killed, automatic weapons, injuries with ordinary but dangerous objects, graphic and disturbing wounds and other images
Diversity Issues: None
Date Released to Theaters: March 14, 2025

Pain has a purpose. It helps keep us safe. We avoid being hurt and we get help when we are hurt. But Nathan Caine (a game Jack Quaid) has a condition called congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis. He can be injured, but the pain message never makes it to his brain. The only way his …

Opus

Opus

Posted on March 13, 2025 at 12:50 pm

B-
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for violent content including a grisly image, language, sexual material and brief graphic nudity
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual references and situations, nudity
Alcohol/ Drugs: Alcohol
Diversity Issues: Diverse characters
Date Released to Theaters: March 14, 2025

“Opus” is almost smart, almost good, and almost worth your time. A first-rate but mostly under-used cast flounders in the second half of a story that begins as a satire of obsession with celebrity that veers into a less successful thriller. The first feature film from writer/director Mark Anthony Green stars John Malcovich as Alfred …

Mickey 17

Mickey 17

Posted on March 5, 2025 at 5:16 pm

B +
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for violent content, language throughout, sexual content and drug material
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Sexual situations very very explicit references including drawings
Alcohol/ Drugs: None
Violence/ Scariness: Extended peril and violence with graphic and disturbing images
Diversity Issues: A theme of the movie
Date Released to Theaters: March 7, 2025

You know how finicky printers are. Sometimes the printed paper comes out part way and then goes back a bit to do some more printing and comes out again. Sometimes you forget to put on the tray the paper lands on, and so it drops to the floor. It turns out that in the future, …

My Dead Friend Zoe

My Dead Friend Zoe

Posted on February 27, 2025 at 12:40 pm

A-
Lowest Recommended Age: Mature High Schooler
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language
Profanity: Very strong language
Nudity/ Sex: Some sexual references
Alcohol/ Drugs: Drinking, smoking
Violence/ Scariness: War violence, suicide, mostly offscreen
Diversity Issues: Some sexist and harassing characters
Date Released to Theaters: February 28, 2025

Sonequa Martin-Green gives an exquisite, unforgettable performance in a story of love, grief, memory, and healing, “My Dead Friend Zoe.” First-time writer/director Kyle Hausemann-Stokes was a Bronze Star-awarded paratrooper in the US Army who served as a convoy commander in Iraq. He brings enormous specificity and understanding to an “inspired by a true story” film, …