Reviews

I know many may say that people are bias, since Boseman unfortunately passed away earlier this year, but that isn’t the case. He gives a magnetic performance. One of the best I’ve seen in a while. Nothing else about this movie lives up to his performance. It’s just a mediocre drama otherwise. Violence: Some fairly mild violence including pinching and kicking, pushing, and heavy arguing. Only one scene goes any further than this, and involves a knife. Not overly explicit, however. Language: The F bomb is used about 15 times. One or two with mother as a prefix. The N word is used commonly throughout. Other milder swears are used occasionally as well. Sex: Some sexual themes and references are here, mostly involving Ma Rainey’s form of singing and performing. There is one sex scene. No nudity. Very easy to see coming, and is skippable, but the scene sort of picks up like 5 minutes later, but it’s more mild. Consumption: Smoking and some mild drinking. Extra: There is some blasphemy here. It will most likely be somewhat offensive. It involves swearing as well.

It’s Tom Hanks first western. It’s bound to have certain charms. It has those, and the production value is fantastic, but it personally let me down a little bit, but kids will have a lot of fun. Violence: Western violence. Some people are shot, with a puff of blood. There are fistfights. Not very graphic. There’s menace, and obstacles our characters have to get past. Nothing super violent here, some graphic images as well. (Such as partially skinned cows littering the background.) Language: D**n is used consistently. Probably about 5 times with God before it. It’s not super common, but something to remember. Sex and consumption are very mild. There is a minor sexual reference, dodging any graphic talk, but due to the circumstances it’s used more as a taunt. Some minor alcohol consumption and some cigarettes may have been smoked. Extra: Role models and messages are here. Messages are particularly positive, and our main character evolves quite a bit from the start.

Promising Young Woman is a, never mind. I’m not going to tell what it’s about. That would have to include spoilers. But it’s powerful and has a great current message. (SPILER CONTENT AT THE WAY BOTTOM) All of the mature content practically involves spoilers. So I’ll just sum it up. Violence is not super graphic. Nothing alarm raising is shown. The bulk of the violence is the constant menace of something bad. From the get-go you will have an idea of exactly what I mean. The sexual content does not include nudity, but there are sexual encounters, and a heavy theme is sexual assault. So expect consensual and non-consensual kissing, and undressing. No sex act shown. It’s just the lead up. (It’s so hard not to spoil. But it will most likely be upsetting.) I can’t really describe it. It’s mostly PG-13 stuff. Mostly. The sexual references are pretty graphic too. Various sexual acts are mentioned, not really in detail, but it’s uncomfortable. Some vulgar jokes and stuff too. The rest is pretty easy. For language, F**k is used probably about 50 times. Maybe once or twice with mother before it. C**t is used about twice. Everything else is used fairly commonly too. Drug use comes into play, graphically, from what I can remember, once. A man snorts cocaine and tries to get someone else to do it. Characters get drunk, visibly, too. Messages are powerful, but I wouldn’t say positive. Role models either. SPOILERS. The story follows a woman on her quest for revenge for her friend, who was raped, and nothing was done about it. It’s a quite upsetting storyline, and she goes to great extents to teach people a lesson. She pretends to get drunk at bars, goes home with these guys, and threatens them. Nothing very violent is shown, in fact, you barely know what happens to these people. The only particularly violent scene is a scene in which a girl is strangled, then her corpse is burned, mostly offscreen. The voice recording for the rape is heard, but nothing is shown, and nothing particularly graphic is heard, either. The worst of the content is simply the menace and emotional toll on our characters.

David Fincher. Violence is minimal. An implied violent event. A shown “violent” event in which someone gets injured nongraphically. Some verbal fighting. Language: About 5 or so F bombs. The GD word is used few times. And more minor swearing is occasional. Sex: Some talk of sex. Not too graphic. And about 10-15 minutes in a topless woman with pastors on is shown off and on throughout a scene. Consumption: Main character is an alcoholic. People are shown drinking a lot. Some people are shown drunk. People are shown almost harmed by alcohol. Cigarettes are smoking. Extra: Nothing much. No real positive role models or messages or anything. Hollywood business is shown in full view. Politics are a huge subject here.

Perfect. Everything. I wrote a multi paragraph long review on letterboxd, and I can’t say enough. Violence: Pretty much none existence other than self harm in a druggie fashion. A character dies. Some upsetting moments. Language: The first episode includes like 15 uses of f**k and 7ish uses of C**k, all except one of which are paired with sucker. After that, language is fairly infrequent. F**k, d**n, h*ll, etc, are used every so often. Sex: No actually nudity, but there is implied sex, and some skin shown in bed. Also some pretty graphic sexual references. Consumption: The main problem, substance abuse is one of the main plot points, underage teens are shown hard drinking, and abusing drugs. They get drunk, high, etc. I’m not going to give some examples away for spoilers, but it can be graphic and upsetting. Extra: Strong female lead. Despite her flaws. Messages are a mixed bag.

Riveting thanks to great performances and screenplay. Somewhere in between 4 to 5 stars. Violence: Nothing way too graphic, but scenes of protest show people getting seriously injured. Punching, kicking, chaos. Tear gas. People are hit upside the heat with batons. Blood is shown occasionally. Someone has his head bashed and he is shown gushing blood and looking pretty injured. A character dies. Referenced later. Pretty sad. Lots and lots of verbal arguments. Language; The F bomb is used probably 40 times. Several with mother. Other profanities are used very often as well. Consumption and sex are basically not here. Extra things include heavy political subjects. And good messages and role models are In full display.

Soul is very light on mature content. Hell is referenced in said in a basically non-vulgar way. There might be some mildly suggestive stuff, but it’s child humor. Like pants ripping showing heart-style underwear. Violence is non-graphic. Can’t go into detail for spoiler purpose but there is an emotional side to it. No blood, gore, of course. Just Pixar chaos. There are extremely good role models, and messages, but here is the catch. The subject matter is surprisingly adult, tackling death, and life. It will resonate with older audiences the most. This movie might move children, but not qui the in the way hoped. But every child is different, so proceed with your own discretion.

Da 5 Bloods is about a group of Vietnam Veterans who return to Nam to look for their deceased Captains corpse. They also look for something they hid there years ago, but get more than they asked for. This film is very well made, the direction is great. Performances from the entire cast really elevate this already food movie even better. Even if you aren’t a politics person, I believe you can still enjoy this film, even if you may be offended by some decisions. Violence: Somewhat frequent bloody/gory violence includes warlike action, with shooting, stabbing, and explosions, resulting in graphic injury’s, blood spray, and gore. In one scene someone is blown up, and his half destroyed body graphically mutilated. Blood is shown spurting and spilling out, organs are spilling out, and bones are exposed. This is very graphic. A scene where a character shots a snake into pieces. Many people are injured, include characters you grow to care about. Some deaths are quite sad. That is not it however. There are flashbacks to real war violence and death. Some are graphic and disturbing. Imagery involving war symbols too. Language: I didn’t exactly count, but I’ve heard a few different numbers, the lowest being 100 F bombs, but it felt/was more. I think it was more like 250 though. Also many of these (literally about 100) are paired with mother. The C words might have been used once or twice. The N words are used frequently as well, sometimes aggressively. S—t, a—, d—n, etc. after about twenty minutes it gets purdy excessive. Sex: It is implied and talked about that one of the women in the movie was a prostitute and has a child. Some sexual references of various vulgarity once and a while. Consumptions: Smoking is shown sometimes. Drinking as well once in a while, sometimes one or two characters get drunk. Extra: Depending on how you take it teamwork is shown in a positive light. The characters not so much. Though some characters are good role models. Political and racial things are talked about. Some political stances may offend some.

Extraction is an action film about a mercenary who is sent on a mission to save a drug lords son. As you may know, the action sequences are filmed as one long continuous take and are shot perfectly. The action is great and is solid viewing fro action fans. Violence: About the norm for rated R action flicks. People are shot, stabbed, and more resulting in blood spurting in walls and on the ground. All kinds of guns are used and sometimes the resulting wound can be seen in some detail. Stabbing include normal shanking and throat slittings usually resulting in blood. However more than just knives are used and in one particularly graphic scene, two characters are implied in the neck and head by a rake. Characters are also broken by falling from heights and being hit by cars. One character fixed his disjointed nose, spurting blood. Dismembered fingers are shown. Children wield guns and are threatened, injured, and sometimes killed. Language: Around 25 F bombs and common use of words from s—t to d—n. Sex: Some mild sexual references and in one scene women in somewhat skimpy clothing are shown dancing. Consumption: Some drug material such as how it’s infected how a man is a drug and alcohol addict. He is shown drinking and taking pills, some other characters are shown taking these pills with him, though no aftermath is shown. Extra: Role models and messages are iffy, but some characters can be good role models. Civilians are in peril.