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(B-) Accepted

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Bartleby (Justin Long) has been turned down at every single college he applied to. His friends' college plans have also turned out badly. No problem. Bartleby is a can-do Ferris...
» Read Review Posted on Monday August 14, 2006

(C) Across the Universe

Genre: Musical, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
On the list of movies featuring Beatles songs, this one comes far below A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be, and Help but slightly above Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday February 5, 2008

(B+) Adam

Genre: Date movie, Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Adam (Hugh Dancy), appropriately shares his name with the first man because even though he lives in contemporary Manhattan, he is in a very real way new to the world....
» Read Review Posted on Thursday August 6, 2009

(A+) The African Queen

Genre: Classic
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
Rose Sayer and her brother Samuel are English missionaries in 1914 German East Africa. Their rare contact with the outside world is through Charlie Allnut, who delivers their occasional...
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(D) All About Steve

Genre: Comedy, Date movie, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Somewhere deep inside this movie, like the little tiny pea in the bed of the princess, is an idea that could have been an interesting movie. Unfortunately, as with that...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday September 3, 2009

(B-) All the King's Men

Genre: Based on a book, Based on a true story, Biography, Drama, Remake
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Huey Long was man of gigantic proportions, an epic, almost operatic figure who rose to power as the greatest of populists, succumbed to corruption, and was murdered at age 42....
» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B-) Amelia

Genre: Based on a true story, Biography, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: High School
Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was lost over the Pacific, is given the big Hollywood biopic treatment in a curiously retro film that feels like it was intended for...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday October 22, 2009

(B) American Dreamz

Genre: Comedy, Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
The Roman rulers used to distract the populace from the problems of corruption and decadence with "bread and circuses." Today's equivalent might be junk food and television, especially "reality" television....
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday April 18, 2006

(B+) American Violet

Genre: Based on a true story, Courtroom, Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Meet two extraordinary women -- Dee Roberts, based on a real-life single mother who took on corrupt and racist law enforcement officials in Texas and Nicole Beharie, the woman who...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday October 13, 2009

(A-) An Education

Genre: Based on a book, Based on a true story, Drama, Family Issues, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Part of the charm of "An Education," a bittersweet coming of age story based on a brief memoir by Lynn Barber, is how much we know what its main character...
» Read Review Posted on Thursday October 29, 2009

(B) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Genre: Drama, Epic/Historical, Western
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: High School
This movie may be about one of the most famous outlaws in the days of the Wild West, but it is not a bang-bang shoot-em-up Western. It is a broody...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday February 5, 2008

(B-) Australia

Genre: Drama, Epic/Historical, War, Western
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Writer/director Baz Luhrmann is known for his surprises. In Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet , and Moulin Rouge! he created visual and musical mash-ups of classic and pop...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday March 3, 2009

(B) Away From Her

Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: High School
Parents should know that this is a very sad movie with themes that may be disturbing to some audience members. Characters use brief strong language. Families who see this movie...
» Read Review Posted on Friday March 16, 2007


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