Movie Mom Nell Minow reviews movies and DVDs to advise parents.

(C+) About Adam

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

It begins as a sweet, simple love story. A flirtatious waitress named Lucy (Kate Hudson) falls for a man named Adam (Stuart Townsend). All the other men in Lucy's life...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A-) About Schmidt

Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) sits at his desk as though he was standing at attention during a full-dress inspection. As he watches the clock move from 4:58 to 5:00, he...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A) Adaptation

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

There are people who care so passionately about something that it fills them up completely. And then there are the rest of us, who can never lose themselves that way,...

» Read Review Posted on Thursday December 19, 2002

(B+) Adventureland

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Inspired by a true story, Romance
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Adult

We all have at least one, a summer when everything changes, when we first start to become the person we truly are. Every writer tries at least once to tell...

» Read Review Posted on Tuesday August 25, 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) Alexander

Genre: Epic/Historical
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Alexander the person was great. "Alexander" the movie is not. It is a horrendously bad movie, a genuine 40-car pile-up of literally epic proportions, a three-way head-on collision of bad...

» Read Review Posted on Saturday November 20, 2004

(B) Alfie

Genre: Comedy, Remake
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

What's it all about, Charlie? Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers used to be married and they used to make movies together (Baby Boom, the remakes of Father of the Bride...

» Read Review Posted on Tuesday October 19, 2004

(A+) Ali

Genre: Biography
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Will Smith delivers a knock-out punch as Muhammed Ali in this outstanding film that follows the champ from his first heavyweight title to the "Rumble in the Jungle" when he...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(D) All About the Benjamins

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

"All About the Benjamins" is to Ice Cube what "Crossroads" is to Britney Spears, a vanity vehicle designed by a star who has very little sense of how people like...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(D) Alone in the Dark

Genre: Science-Fiction
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

There's something far scarier about this movie than its CGI monsters, whose lack of any apparent weight makes them seem as threatening as the floating Clifford balloon in the Macy's...

» Read Review Posted on Wednesday January 26, 2005

(D-) Along Came a Spider

Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Morgan Freeman returns as Dr. Alex Cross in this prequel to "Kiss the Girls." Like the original, this movie has a nursery rhyme title and centers on a kidnapped girl....

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(C) Alpha Dog

Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

"This whole thing is about parenting," explains the ironically named Sonny Truelove (Bruce Willis). He is telling an off-screen questioner about his son Johnny (Emile Hirsch). Or, the questioner is...

» Read Review Posted on Wednesday January 10, 2007

(A) Amelie

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

"Amélie" is filled with whimsical charm the way that a chocolate soufflé is filled with air. Amélie (Audrey Tatou) grows up the lonely child of parents who do not know...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B+) American Beauty

Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a 42-year-old man who has lost touch with anything that made him feel alive. His wife Carolyn (Annette Benning) is a realtor, so highly focused...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(B) American Pie

Genre: Comedy, Gross-out, Series/Sequel
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

This is a movie about teenagers who promise each other that they will have sex before the night of the prom, and then do whatever they can to make it...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(C+) American Pie 2

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Teenagers will want to see this movie because it is raunchy and gross. But like the original, the gross and raunchy moments, though frequent, are less important than the movie's...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) American Splendor

Genre: Based on a true story, Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Harvey Pekar says, "Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff." His own life is a good example. He has the most ordinary of professions - he is a file clerk in...

» Read Review Posted on Friday August 22, 2003

(B) American Wedding

Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Okay, I admit it -- I laughed. A lot. Even more surprising, I smiled. I was even a little sorry that this is the last of the American Pie trilogy....

» Read Review Posted on Tuesday July 29, 2003

(B+) Amistad

Genre: Based on a true story, Drama
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Plot: In 1839, a group of Africans sold into slavery were being transported to the United States on a Spanish ship. Off the coast of Cuba, they escaped from their...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(C) The Amityville Horror

Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Going over the same ground as the original 1975 cult classic and its many derivative offspring, this "Amityville Horror" provides enough of a shiver for novice horror fans to guarantee...

» Read Review Posted on Friday April 15, 2005

(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) 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

(A-) Atonement

Genre: Genre, Based on a book, Epic/Historical, Romance
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Mature High Schooler

Little toy jungle animals are lined up on the rug. Typewriter keys bang like gunshots. Briony (Saoirse Ronan) is writing a play called "The Trials of Arabella." It is...

» Read Review Posted on Tuesday December 4, 2007

(C+) About Adam

(A-) About Schmidt

(A) Adaptation

(B+) Adventureland

(A+) The African Queen

(D) Alexander

(B) Alfie

(A+) Ali

(D) All About the Benjamins

(D) Alone in the Dark

(D-) Along Came a Spider

(C) Alpha Dog

(A) Amelie

(B+) American Beauty

(B) American Pie

(C+) American Pie 2

(A+) American Splendor

(B) American Wedding

(B+) Amistad

(C) The Amityville Horror

(B-) Apocalypto

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

(A-) Atonement

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