ReelViews for PG-13 movies
In 2018, an argument could have been made that a Venom-centric movie was sensible, preferably as a lead-in to the expected big-screen clash between the inky symbiont and his web-crawling nemesis, Spider-Man. (The previous motion picture throwdown ...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-10-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action
Director: Kelly Marcel
Cast: Tom Hardy, Juno Temple, Alanna Ubach, ...
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a worthy follow-up to its 1988 predecessor, Beetlejuice. For this much-delayed sequel, director Tim Burton has hewed close to the strengths of the original, repeating them when appropriate and acknowledging them when not...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-09-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Gore, Scary Images, Profanity)
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, ...
Let me start with a confession: Although I have experience with a variety of computer/video games, I have never played Borderlands. That makes my perspective of the movie free of any game-related baggage. Perhaps those familiar with Borderlands wi...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-08-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Action
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramirez, ...
When I say this is awful, I mean that it’s awful. Not “so bad, it’s fun.” Not “a throw-away summertime diversion.” This may be the worst movie M. Night Shyamalan has ever made, and I’m not forgetting The Last Airbender or After Earth....
U.S. Release Date: 2024-08-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, ...
History has labeled Susan Seidelman’s Desperately Seeking Susan as “a Madonna film” but a more accurate descriptor might be “a Rosanna Arquette film.” Indeed, at the time Seidelman was casting the film, Madonna was a footnote in the musi...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-07-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, ...
From the outside looking in, I was dubious about how the filmmakers behind Twisters were going to handle a sequel-not-sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. With Bill Paxton dead and Helen Hunt not participating, there seemed to be no real p...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-07-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Intense Action, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, ...
Throughout the course of its bloated (132 minutes, sheesh) length, Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon never figures out what it wants to be. Is it a rom-com? A screwball comedy? A parody of conspiracy theorists and their crackpot hypotheses? A v...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-07-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson, ...
Janet Planet explores the mother/daughter relationship between single mom Janet (Julianne Nicholson) and her strong-willed, socially awkward child, 11-year old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler). Although characterized by strong performances across-the-board, the...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-06-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Annie Baker
Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Elias Koteas, ...
The prequel to John Krasinski’s horror/science fiction duo, A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II, Day One offers a self-contained story that is different than the earlier films both in tone and intent. This is a moodier, more existential look ...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-06-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, ...
“Weird” Al Yankovic took popular songs of the day and reworked them in his own image, using new lyrics to craft something that was both familiar and different, existing somewhere between satire and outright farce. Is it any surprise, then, tha...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-06-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Eric Appel
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rainn Wilson, Julianne Nicholson, ...