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Posted on December 7, 2017 at 8:12 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for pervasive language, violence, and some sexual content/nudity |
| Profanity: |
Extensive very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some violence including attack |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 8, 2017 |
In one of “I, Tonya’s” most striking scenes, Margo Robbie as figure skating star Tonya Harding looks at herself in the mirror after applying her make-up for a competition. It is stark, garish, clown-like, and scary, less like beauty than like warpaint. Harding is trying to hide the heartbreak of her life when she is …
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Posted on December 7, 2017 at 6:52 pm
Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Lior Ashkenazi, and Denis Ménochet star in “7 Days in Entebbe” from Focus Features, the story of the daring Israeli raid on the plane hijacked to Uganda in 1976. It will be in theaters in March, 2018.
Posted on December 7, 2017 at 5:48 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some thematic material |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Wartime violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 8, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
February 26, 2018 |
A bitter debate is going on in Parliament. The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) has responded to Hitler’s invasion of other countries with appeasement and many of the politicians are with him. A combination of denial and sun-never-sets-on-the-British-Empire smugness of those who have colonized a quarter of the planet and are situated on the …
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Posted on December 7, 2017 at 3:37 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and explicit situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic violence, peril, torture, murder |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
December 9, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
March 12, 2018 |
There is some reassuring symmetry in the cinematic bookends that gave us “Beauty and the Beast” in January (the highest-grossing film of the year), a “Beauty is the beast” film with the mid-year’s “Colossal,” and now, in December, another variation with Guillermo del Toro’s enthralling R-rated fairy tale, “The Shape of Water,” which was awarded …
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Posted on December 7, 2017 at 4:14 am
The Washington Area Film Critics have announced their nominees for 2017 Best Film: Call Me by Your Name Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Director: Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk) Jordan Peele (Get Out) Dee Rees (Mudbound) Best Actor: Timothée …
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