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Posted on September 19, 2024 at 5:40 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language and drug use |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and non-explicit situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and marijuana |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very sad death of a parent |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 20, 2024 |
Three of the finest actresses in movies play three grieving sisters in the very moving “His Three Daughters.” The “he” in the title is the father of the three women, and he is dying, almost entirely off-screen. Two of his daughters, the uptight, judgey, trying to maintain control Katie (Carrie Coon) and the placid, yoga …
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Posted on September 19, 2024 at 5:36 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language throughout and some violent content |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language throughout |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild reference |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drug dealing, alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended crime-style violence, chases, car crashes, bloody shoot-out with many dead bodies, graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 20, 2024 |
Two old pros play two old pros in the irresistible “Wolfs,” basically an hour and 40 minutes of George Clooney and Brad Pitt bickering plus some crime stuff (drugs, chases, shooting), and there’s nothing wrong with that. On the contrary, it is delightfully entertaining. The title may be a callout to Wolfe, the Harvey Keitel …
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Posted on September 19, 2024 at 5:19 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language throughout, drug use and sexual material |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language used by teens and an adult |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references, implied nudity, sexual situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Teen drug use |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Reference to sad death, some family conflict |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 20, 2024 |
I don’t think there is a sadder sentence than this one: “I thought I would always be able to go back.” We all know that feeling, captured memorably in the last act of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” When Emily gets a chance to revisit a day from her early teen years, the mingled joy, nostalgia, …
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Posted on September 19, 2024 at 4:36 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grade |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for sci-fi violence and animated action throughout, and language |
| Profanity: |
Mild schoolyard language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended action/cartoon-style violence, characters injured and destroyed |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
September 20, 2024 |
“Transformers One” has just about transformed me into a fan. I know — based on a toy and a Saturday morning cartoon series and lots of movies already so it was hard to imagine that they could surprise me, but they did, with well-designed action scenes, an origin story drawing from classic sources, and A-list …
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Posted on September 1, 2024 at 10:00 am
Happy fall! Some of what we’re looking forward to in September, October, and November, with sequels, a prequel, some based on books, some on true stories, and some are the prestige productions we will be seeing at the Oscars. The teams from two beloved classics are reuniting. In 1988, Tim Burton gave us “Beetlejuice,” and …
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