Considering taking your family to see one of this weekend’s new releases? Make sure to read our parent movie reviews first, to see which ones to take your kids to, and which ones you may want to hold off on.
1. Here Comes the Boom
Rating: PG
Here Comes the Boom’ doesn’t look like much initially, but it wins you over with its aggressive inoffensiveness—the movie isn’t great, but it also has a winning comic tone and a standard underdog story that anyone can get behind. It’s not a sports movie classic, but it’s fine enough... Read More
2. How to Survive a Plague
Rating: NR
How to Survive a Plague’ has a somewhat happy ending, but that doesn’t mean the documentary about the U.S.’s AIDS epidemic will make you chuckle or grin. No matter. It’s a fantastically done work about an undeniably important subject, a shocking period of American inertia that we need to remember... Read More
3. Seven Psychopaths
Rating: R
‘Seven Psychopaths’ is an insane, ridiculous, absurd, and wholly wonderful effort from Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh, who follows up his 2008 black comedy ‘In Bruges’ with equal daring. Simply put, ‘Seven Pyschopaths’ is gory and glorious... Read More
