Jackie K Cooper’s Guide To the Movies
Title Rating Score (out of
Aquaman PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 5
(Jason Momoa is great in the title role; the movie not so much)
At Eternity’s Gate PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 5
(It seems to take an eternity for Willem Dafoe to act out Vincent Van Gogh’s story)
Bird Box R (Profanity & Violence) 6
(Sandra Bullock is great in this thriller but “A Quiet Place” got there first)
Close TV/MA (Profanity & Violence) 4
(Noomi Rapace plays a bodyguard to a threatened heiress – so what)
Cold War R (Profanity & Adult Situations) 6
(Polish film in black and white tells a cross purpose love story)
A Dog’s Way Home PG (Animal Violence) 5
(Predictable story of a dog separated from her loving owner)
Dumplin PG-13 (Profanity) 5
(Sweet, average story about a beauty queen’s overweight daughter trying to please her mother)
Eighth Grade R (Profanity & Sexual Situations) 7
(One girl’s journey through 8th grade is painful to watch. Oh those mean girls!)
Escape Room PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 6
(Smartly tense and overall satisfying thriller – if you don’t find your way out you die)
The Favourite R (Nudity, Profanity, Coarse Language) 5
(Solid acting but the story is too crude and coarse for average audiences)
Glass PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 6
(The rest of the story from “Split” and “Unbreakable”. McAvoy steals the acting prize)
Holmes & Watson PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 4
(How the mighty have fallen; Ferrell and O’Reilly at their least funny. Waste of great talent)
If Beale Street Could Talk R(Profanity & Nudity) 5
(Slow moving love story that has great acting)
The Kid Who Would Be4 King PG (Mild Violence) 5
(Seems they were looking for another Harry Potter type franchise; they didn’t find it)
Mary Queen of Scots R (Profanity, Violence & sexual Situations) 7
((The 16th century battling Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth Queen of England makes for quite a movie)
Miss Bala PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 5
(Gina Rodriguez is not enough of a big draw to carry an entire movie on her shoulders)
Replicas PG-13 (Profanity & Violence) 5
(Keanu Reeves stars in an underplayed story of replication – mildly entertaining)
Serenity R (Profanity, Violence & Nudity) 4
(Starts off good but then the wheels come off in the terrible, awful last third)
Stan & Ollie PG (Profanity) 7
(Nostalgic look at the waning days of Laurel & Hardy. Great acting)
The Upside PG-13 (Profanity & Adult Situations) 7
Very good American version of the French film “The Intouchables” which was excellent)
(updated) 1/27/19)
