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Family reviews: ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘The Next Three Days’
Family reviews: ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘The Next Three Days’
A parents’ guide to select new movies:
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1’
Rating: PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence, frightening images and brief sensuality
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Family reviews: ‘Burlesque,’ ‘Faster’
Family reviews: ‘Burlesque,’ ‘Faster’
A parents’ guide to select new movies:
‘Burlesque’
Rating: PG-13 for sexual content including several suggestive dance routines, partial nudity, language and some thematic material.
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Family reviews: ‘Secretariat,’ ‘Life as We Know It’
Family reviews: ‘Secretariat,’ ‘Life as We Know It’
A parents’ guide to select new movies:
‘Secretariat’
Rating: PG for brief mild language
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Family reviews: ‘Red,’ ‘My Soul to Take’
Family reviews: ‘Red,’ ‘My Soul to Take’
A parents’ guide to select new movies:
‘Red’
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language
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Family reviews: ‘Nanny McPhee Returns,’ ‘The Switch’
Family reviews: ‘Nanny McPhee Returns,’ ‘The Switch’
A parents’ guide to select new movies:
‘Nanny McPhee Returns’
Rating: PG for rude humor, some language and mild thematic elements
A parents’ guide to select new movies:
‘The Green Hornet’
Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content
What it’s about: A hard-partying heir to a newspaper fortune, on a goof, decides to become a crime fighter and enlists his martial-arts and gadget-whiz chauffeur as a sidekick.
The kid attractor factor: Seth Rogen and lots of explosions, shootouts and car chases
Good lessons/bad lessons: “Trying doesn’t matter when you always fail.”
Violence: Shootings, crushings, dismemberments, etc.
Language: Lots of profanity, including almost everything but the F-bomb.
Sex: Nubile females are ogled.
Drugs: Drunk scenes, meth labs
Parents’ advisory: This rude and crude, fanboy-oriented masked-hero movie is a pretty severe test of the limits of PG-13, suitable for 13 and older, but barely.
‘Season of the Witch’
Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content
What it’s about: A couple of 14th-century crusaders take an accused witch to trial at a distant abbey through a plague-cursed land.
The kid attractor factor: The Black Death, knights having sword fights, witchery, wolves
Good lessons/bad lessons: Rational people should take superstition seriously only after exhausting every other possibility.
Violence: Quite a bit, and pretty bloody at times
Language: A few mild medieval oaths and one or two modern ones
Sex: A little near-nudity
Drugs: Ale is consumed.
Parents’ advisory: Don’t be the parent whose kids teach my kids dirty words in elementary school. For ages 13 and older only.