Superbad

“What’s most memorable, most striking about Superbad is the canny evocation of male friendship in all its richness and complexity.” ―Wall Street Journal Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) want nothing more than to lose their virginity before they head off to college. To do that, though, they need to get liquor for the […]

Legally Blonde

“This courtroom comedy might not reach the heights of the sublime My Cousin Vinny, but it comes pretty close. Witherspoon is a treasure in Legally Blonde.” ―Common Sense Media Elle Woods has it all. She’s the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural […]

Good Will Hunting

“The best thing about Good Will Hunting is not in its well-crafted, psychological symmetries but in the just-plain messiness of its humanity. It’s rowdy, it’s funny, it’s heartbreaking — it rings of life.” ―The Hollywood Reporter The most brilliant mind at America’s top university isn’t a student…he’s the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting […]

Pitch Perfect

“Pitch Perfect is still aca-exciting a decade after its release.” ― Solzy At the Movies College student Beca (Anna Kendrick) knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that’s exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird […]

The Dark Knight

“”Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of the superlative technical quality of the […]

Memento

A man is determined to find justice after the loss of a loved one, even though he is incapable of fully remembering the crime, in this offbeat thriller. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is a man who is struggling to put his life back together after the brutal rape and murder of his wife. But Leonard’s problems […]

Hidden Figures

Three brilliant African-American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) — serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the […]

Inception

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it […]

Pretty Woman

Academy Award(R) winner Julia Roberts and Golden Globe winner Richard Gere will leave you breathless in PRETTY WOMAN. Vivian (Roberts) is a spirited, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets shrewd, no-nonsense billionaire Edward Lewis (Gere). It’s a chance encounter that turns a weeklong “business arrangement” into a timeless rags-to-riches romance. Fall in love […]