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Posted on October 20, 2021 at 10:00 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for language, graphic nudity, and some sexual references |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril and violence including kidnapping of a child and a shoot-out, student uprising |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 22, 2021 |
The dictionary has two conflicting definitions for the word “precious,” and both apply to writer/director Wes Anderson’s films as a group and to his latest, “The French Dispatch” especially. “Precious” can mean very valuable or important, deserving of being carefully preserved. And it can also mean excessively refined or affected. If you are an Anderson …
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Posted on October 14, 2021 at 9:49 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Explicit sexual situations and references including a brutal rape |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Very intense medieval combat violence, characters injured and killed, brutal rape, graphic and disturbing images |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 15, 2021 |
“The Last Duel” is well-intentioned but ponderous and pretentious. It wants to be about the different perceptions of its three main characters, telling the same story three times. But for the viewer it is about the different perceptions of its actor-screenwriters, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and its director, Ridley Scott, who seem to be …
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Posted on October 14, 2021 at 5:30 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
High School |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated R for some language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Some alcohol |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some peril and references to violence including an accidental death |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 15, 2021 |
“Needle in a Timestack” has an intriguing twist on the time travel genre. Ever since the originals, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to “The Time Machine” and up to “Back to the Future,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” “About Time,” and “Avengers: Endgame,” we almost always see time travel through the eyes of …
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Posted on October 13, 2021 at 2:02 pm
In just seven years Virginia’s Middleburg Film Festival, set in the fabulous Salamander Hotel, has become a great way to see the films we’ll be talking about all awards season and to talk to the people who created them. Sheila Johnson has made MFF one of the post prestigious and coveted places to premiere a …
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Posted on October 7, 2021 at 5:09 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for thematic content and brief strong language |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extended references to murder/suicide, school shooting, parental grief |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
October 15, 2021 |
| Date Released to DVD: |
January 10, 2022 |
“Mass” takes its time letting us know what is happening and who we are watching. With his first film as writer and director, Franz Kranz begins by giving us a sense of place. We are in a church and a woman named Judy (Breeda Wool) is bustling around, a little anxious, a little apologetic, the …
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