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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

(B-) The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D

Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade
This movie spends a lot of time and energy on the importance of dreams and imagination, delivering its message in both form and content. I wish it had spent a...
» Read Review Posted on Sunday June 5, 2005

(B-) Aeon Flux

Genre: Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction, Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: Middle School
Maybe it's just that my expectations were so low because it was not screened for critics (meaning the studios did not think they would get even one good review), but...
» Read Review Posted on Sunday December 4, 2005

(B-) Alex and Emma

Genre: Comedy, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13     Audience: Mature High Schooler
Kate Hudson is so irresistibly charming that it is easy to forget how tepid and uninspired this movie is. It is always a delight to see Hudson's saucer-eyed smile and...
» Read Review Posted on Wednesday June 18, 2003

(B-) Aliens in the Attic

Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: 4th - 6th Grades
Back in the era of Saturday matinées, "Aliens in the Attic" would have been just fine sandwiched between a couple of cartoons and a newsreel, especially if about half an...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday November 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-) All the King's Men

Genre: Classic, Drama
MPAA Rating:     Audience: Middle School
This is the story of the rise and fall of a Southern politician, based on the career of Louisiana's Huey Long. Here, the politician is named Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford),...
» Read Review Posted on Monday September 18, 2006

(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-) Apocalypto

Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
MPAA Rating: R     Audience: Mature High Schooler
There are at least three movies here and two of them are great. There is the classic adventure saga of the hero who is trying to get home and save...
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday December 5, 2006

(B-) August Rush

Genre: Genre, Fantasy, Musical
MPAA Rating: PG     Audience: Middle School
Those who are willing to open their hearts to this urban fairy tale will find its pleasures, as long as they they don't think about it too hard....
» Read Review Posted on Tuesday March 11, 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


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