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(B+) Tadpole

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MPAA Rating: Audience: Mature High Schooler

"Tadpole" is as slight and charming as the title character, a 15-year-old prep school kid named Oscar (played by 25-year-old Aaron Stanford) with a crush on his stepmother.

Oscar comes home ...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Tangled

Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Disney has taken a 200-year-old story from the Brothers Grimm and made it just modern enough, sassy without being snarky, fresh and contemporary without any po-mo air quotes. It's the classic f...

» Read Review Posted on Monday March 28, 2011

(B+) The Tao of Steve

Genre:
MPAA Rating: Audience: Mature High Schooler

Dex (Donal Logue) is a fat, irresponsible, pot-smoking slacker with no ambition. But he is so charming that women cannot resist him. And neither can the viewers. Dex may have no ambition, but he...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Tarzan

Genre: For the Whole Family
MPAA Rating: Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Disneys latest animated epic owes as much to The Lion King and the tale of the ugly duckling than to the Johnny Weissmuller live-action series or the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. Like The Lion King...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) There Will Be Blood

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MPAA Rating: R Audience: High School

It opens with a scorching contr...

» Read Review Posted on Friday January 4, 2008

(B+) The Thing About My Folks

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MPAA Rating: Audience: Mature High Schooler

You never know."

What does that mean? Of course you never know, but why would someone adopt that as an all-purpose rejoinder?

Writer/producer/actor Paul Reiser has a good feel for the...

» Read Review Posted on Tuesday September 13, 2005

(B+) This is It

Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: Middle School

"This is It" is here to rescue us from the tabloids and remind us what true star power looks like. There are moments of aching sadness as we get a behind-the-scenes look at the concert tour that n...

» Read Review Posted on Wednesday October 28, 2009

(B+) Thunder Soul

Genre:
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: Middle School

A real-life "Mr. Holland's Opus," this is the inspiring story of a dedicated teacher who transformed the lives of his students and the gathering 35 years later, when he was 92 years old, to perform...

» Read Review Posted on Thursday October 6, 2011

(B+) Thunderbirds

Genre:
MPAA Rating: Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

There are two kinds of people in the world, the people who know the 1960's British television show "Thunderbirds" well enough to hum the theme song and those who say "who?"

The show was eno...

» Read Review Posted on Saturday July 24, 2004

(B+) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

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MPAA Rating: Audience: 4th - 6th Grades

It's the details that matter in this movie more than the characters, the story, or even the music, all blander than in writer/director Tim Burton's first claymation movie, » Read Review Posted on Monday September 5, 2005

(B+) The Time Machine

Genre:
MPAA Rating: Audience: Middle School

In honor of this year's B-Movie celebration, the DVD pick of the week is one of the films they are showing at the festival, the classic George...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Titanic

Genre: Tragedy
MPAA Rating: Audience: Middle School

Classic Greek tragedies explored the theme of hubris as human characters dared to take on the attributes of the gods only to find their hopes crushed. This is a real-life story of hubris, as the sh...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Total Recall

Genre: Science-Fiction
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: High School

Will the 2012 version of the story inspired by Philip K. Dick's "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale<...

» Read Review Posted on Thursday August 2, 2012

(B+) Traffic

Genre:
MPAA Rating: Audience: Mature High Schooler

A hard-line judge is selected as the President's new general in the war on drugs. Front-line cops in Mexico and the US go after the small-time distributors and try to make cases against the source...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Transformers

Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: Middle School

The surprising transformation here is not from machines into enormous robots but from a modest Saturday morning » Read Review Posted on Sunday July 1, 2007

(B+) The Transporter

Genre:
MPAA Rating: Audience: Mature High Schooler

Pure popcorn pleasure, this is a heady combination that is half testosterone, half attitude, and all action. "The Transporter" really delivers.

Don’t pay much attention to the plot – no...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) Treasure Planet

Genre:
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

If “Treasure Planet” is not Disney at its best, it is still Disney at its still-pretty-much-better-than-anyone else, and well worth a look with this 10th anniversary re-release. It is based on ...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) The Tree of Life

Genre:
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Audience: High School

On those dark nights of the soul, when we consider not just life but Life, and Meaning, and our place in the cosmos, our lives don't play out in our minds in sequence. Images and snatches of...

» Read Review Posted on Thursday June 2, 2011

(B+) Tropic Thunder

Genre: War
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Adult

Movie Mom

(B+) Tadpole

(B+) Tangled

(B+) The Tao of Steve

(B+) Tarzan

(B+) There Will Be Blood

(B+) The Thing About My Folks

(B+) This is It

(B+) Thunder Soul

(B+) Thunderbirds

(B+) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

(B+) The Time Machine

(B+) Titanic

(B+) Total Recall

(B+) Traffic

(B+) Transformers

(B+) The Transporter

(B+) Treasure Planet

(B+) The Tree of Life

(B+) Tropic Thunder

(B+) The Truman Show

(B+) Tuck Everlasting

(B+) The Twilight Saga: New Moon

(B+) Two Brothers

(B+) Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

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