actor: Julianne Moore

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen deals with some heavy, heartstrings-pulling stuff, bringing themes like social anxiety and teenage suicide to the forefront. Though this musical is not Dove-approved because of prevalent nasty language, we can appreciate some of the whys of the movie, if not the hows.   If you [...]
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Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen deals with some heavy, heartstrings-pulling stuff, bringing themes like social anxiety and teenage suicide to the forefront. Though this musical is not Dove-approved because of prevalent nasty language, we can appreciate some of the whys of the movie, if not the hows.   If you [...]
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Spirit Untamed

June 4, 2021

Dove Approved for All Ages

Spirit Untamed
Daredevil Lucky Prescott has lived in the confines of civilized life at her politician grandfather’s East Coast estate since her mother passed away trick-riding horses. When she disrupts her grandfather’s campaign for governor, she and her aunt move in with her estranged father on the outskirts [...]
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Suburbicon

Suburbicon
George Clooney had his hands all over this movie as one of the writers, as its producer and director, and he missed the mark with Suburbicon, which is unintentionally ironic. In this re-working of an old Cohen brothers’ script, he tells the story of a small Caucasian family named the [...]
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Wonderstruck

Dove Approved for All Ages

Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck is wonderful! Though cloaked in tragedy and loss, this movie is utterly enchanting. Produced in the vein of Brian Selznick’s other acclaimed, illustrated novel-turned-film, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck, too, follows the journey of a boy and a girl, albeit they are in [...]
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) and his fellow Kingsmen agents make an epic return to the field in "Kingsman: The Golden Circle." One year after the events of the first installment, this film opens with a flashy high-speed chase through the streets of London where Eggsy, known as agent Galahad—in [...]
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Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

March 6, 2015

Dove Approved for Ages 12+

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" is powerful, dramatic, and full of strong acting. Jennifer Lawrence does an excellent job as the main character, Katniss Everdeen, whose pain in fighting against the Capitol government and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is clearly demonstrated. Katniss [...]
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Seventh Son

Seventh Son
"The Seventh Son" is a movie with a medieval feel and filled with good battling evil. A "spook" or knight, Gregory (Jeff Bridges), takes on an apprentice in Thomas Ward (Ben Barnes) to combat the evil witch Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore). To complicate matters, Thomas falls in love with the [...]
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Still Alice

Still Alice
"Still Alice" is a poignant and touching drama about the effects of Alzheimer's in the life of Alice Howland (stunningly played by Julianne Moore). Moore does an incredible job capturing the progression of the disease, and yet this progression is her regression from an intelligent and articulate [...]
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Non-Stop (2014)

Non-Stop (2014)
Liam Neeson plays U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks and on a flight to London his perseverance will be tested and sorely needed. Someone is sending him text messages and threatens to kill a passenger every twenty minutes if $150 million is not transferred to an account. The movie builds in the tension [...]
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