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Your Honor (2020)
Greek Tragedy
It's a Greek Tragedy, and a damn good one. Cranston is amazing, obviously.
Into the Woods (2014)
Unorthodox Disney, Classic Sondheim
I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I was going to. The music is so lilting, with basic melodies rearranged and reordered to create a dynamic, moving score that crawls into your head and lodges there like one of Jack's magic beans. There is almost nothing about this movie that is typical Disney fare: the good guys do bad things, the bad guys have sympathetic motives, and nothing is happily-ever-after. That's not to say it doesn't have a happy ending... just an unorthodox one. The film's running time of over two hours is long by Disney standards, but slightly compressed for a Broadway production. Each musical number is carefully, beautifully staged; every set piece and choreographed move is great fun to watch. Most of all, besides the technical aspects, the movie is incredibly honest. So honest it almost makes up for five decades of saccharine, unrealistic, decidedly un-feminist Disney tropes. In this movie, Prince Charming is unfaithful. The wicked witch has a more-or-less decent heart. The "heroes" are all flawed, and all make mistakes for which they have to atone. To quote Red Riding Hood, "Nice isn't good" and sometimes people are "neither good nor bad, but nice". Some parents (OK, a lot of parents) were concerned about the moral gray areas in the film. On the contrary, I absolutely loved showing this movie to my kids. They got to see humans making human mistakes, and handling the consequences of those mistakes. They got to see something of truth, honesty, redemption, and not-happy-not-sad endings that are so much of what life is all about. Plus they got to see and hear some absolutely fabulous things, which is what going to the movies is good for.
Earth to Echo (2014)
Great entertainment for Tweens and older kids
I have two daughters, ages 9 and 11, who were very engaged by this movie. Sure, I wouldn't watch it myself as an adult because it is pretty derivative of E.T., but to the girls it was really quite entertaining.
The alien is adorable and engaging, and the special effects are at a completely different level from the early '80s when E.T. came out, so you can justify an updating of the Kids- Meet-Adorable-Alien-and-rescue-him-from-Terrible-Adult trope.
I wondered if they would like the Found Footage aspect of the film, and they were actually really into it. When it is set-up as a viral video, instead of an epic Spielberg film, it has more of a "wow" factor when something cool actually happens.
The climax isn't too predictable for kids, and it has a satisfying, high-tech ending. Bottom line is that kids will likely enjoy this quite a bit at the right age.