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Posted on June 29, 2017 at 5:33 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for action and rude humor |
| Profanity: |
Some schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief potty humor, crotch hit |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended cartoon-style peril and violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 30, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
December 4, 2017 |
It does not achieve the delirious delight of the first in the series, but it is better than the second. “Despicable Me 3” is meandering and uneven. The problem with making the title character into a happily married good guy who loooves his three girls is that he is not despicable any more. He is …
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Posted on June 29, 2017 at 3:52 pm
The best way to see Sofia Coppola’s “Beguiled” is to pair it with the original version, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel. Her film is really in conversation with the 1971 version. Both are the story of a wounded Union soldier who disrupts the lives of the women at a sheltered Southern boarding …
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Posted on June 29, 2017 at 11:44 am
In my interview for rogerebert.com, “Baby Driver” writer/director Edgar Wright talks about how the songs he picked shaped some of the most intense and brilliantly choreographed action scenes of the year and where Baby (Ansel Elgort) got his endless supply of sunglasses and mp3 players. The songs inspired the movie and some entire scenes are …
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Posted on June 27, 2017 at 9:43 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for violence and language throughout |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking, drugs |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended scenes of peril and violence with many characters injured and killed, guns, chases, explosions, many disturbing and graphic images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
June 28, 2017 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
September 18, 2017 |
Fasten your seatbelts. This one is pedal to the metal all the way home. “Baby Driver,” written and directed by Edgar Wright, hits you like a jolt of nitrous oxide shot with adrenaline concentrate, Red Bull, electrical current, and rock music. The first time you see it, it will leave your eyes spinning like pinwheels. …
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Posted on June 24, 2017 at 8:00 am
Chadwick Boseman (“The Black Panther”) plays a young Thurgood Marshall in this film, coming to theaters in October. His co-stars include Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, and “This is Us” star Sterling K. Brown.
