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Biography:: Nell Minow writes about movies, television, the Internet, and parenting as The Movie Mom for Beliefnet and other publications. Her articles have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Family Fun, Child, Daughters, Parents, Slate, and three editions of The Practical Guide to Practically Everything. Her book, The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies was published by Avon in 1999, with a second edition in 2004. She reviews movies every week on radio stations across the US and in Canada. Her reviews appear on Beliefnet at http://blog.beliefnet.com/moviemom and you can see her Movie Mom page on Facebook or follow her on twitter. Nell is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Washington Area Film Critics Association.
Favorites:: 500 of my favorite movies are reviewed in my book, but as of this writing my top 10 would have to include "The Philadelphia Story," "To Have and Have Not," "His Girl Friday," "Ball of Fire," and "Duck Soup." Ask me tomorrow and you might get a different list!
Publications:: Beliefnet , Chicago Sun-Times , Common Sense Media , Denver Post , DVDJournal.com , Kansas City Star , Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Critics' Group:: Online Film Critics Society, Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 4157
Total QuickRatings:: 63

Location:: Just outside of Washington DC

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The Kids Are All Right (2010)	" Everything today is more digital and finely crafted and controlled. I really wanted this family to feel natural and lived-in and real." — Beliefnet Posted Jul 15, 2010
Love Ranch (2010)	" Interview with Taylor Hackford: "So my own ego says that if there's going to be a boxing scene, it's got to be great."" — Beliefnet Posted Jul 1, 2010
Cyrus (2010)	" Interview with John C. Reilly" — Beliefnet Posted Jun 28, 2010
8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)	" Religions are made or broken by how honest they are with their members versus how honest they are behind the curtain. Steven Greenstreet, co-director" — Beliefnet Posted Jun 28, 2010
The Lottery (2010)	" School culture is something you cannot quantify but it is very noticeable at these schools. They are all very focused on high achievement. Madeleine Sackler, director" — Beliefnet Posted Jun 28, 2010
Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010)	" Former Congressman Bob Ney: I should have said, "What the hell is going on? Something doesn't smell right. Something doesn't feel right."" — Beliefnet Posted May 8, 2010
Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010)	" Neil Volz: I look back on who I was. It was the ultimate rationalization in some respects." — Beliefnet Posted May 8, 2010
The Joneses (2010)	" I thought this forced intimacy that happens when you throw strangers into a house would be great to combine with the stealth marketing." — Beliefnet Posted Apr 18, 2010
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)	" It's important that they not come across as too cartoony because then we would lose the emotional weight in the film. We wanted people to really believe in this world." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 25, 2010
The Eclipse (2010)	" I wonder if a sense of the beyond was internalized into the Irish psyche. We're very quick to accept the supernatural." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 25, 2010
Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009)	" Passing out leaflets instead of writing memos for the President, in my mind I had shifted sides from being an insider to being a citizen." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 22, 2010
As We Forgive (2009)	" This was a journey I was going through personally...I was shocked that I identified with even the killers, too. Just normal people." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 22, 2010
She's Out of My League (2010)	" "I've dated someone that other people thought was out of my league. But if you're with somebody, you think they're a 10."" — Beliefnet Posted Mar 22, 2010
Crazy Heart (2009)	" The most important lesson I learned was to always trust your instincts, never stop learning -- and steal from the best, because I surely did." — Beliefnet Posted Jan 11, 2010
Everybody's Fine (2009)	" Writer/director Kirk Jones: "I was inspired with ideas that I saw out of the window of the bus and the train and they went directly into the script."" — Beliefnet Posted Dec 13, 2009
Me and Orson Welles (2009)	" Zac Efron: Putting on a play and being part of a show, there's no way to explain or condense it. You live the highest highs and lowest lows." — Beliefnet Posted Dec 3, 2009
Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)	" Mizuo Peck: I personally as an actress did a lot of research about Sacajawea and approached the role as if I were a wax statute who was identifying with her." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Dec 3, 2009
Armored (2009)	" It was fun to do but it wasn't about the action. I don't Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans." — Beliefnet Posted Dec 3, 2009
The Road (2009)	" We deliberately used images we have all seen to make it more real and give more poignancy and a warning sign because that's what the book is about, grace under pressure." — Beliefnet Posted Nov 23, 2009
Crude (2009)	" What made me want to see the film was seeing it in a larger context of displacement and mistreatment of indigenous people. I didn't want one-sided agitprop." — Beliefnet Posted Nov 6, 2009
An Education (2009)	" Themes she likes: Insecurity, people who can't speak for themselves, people who are slightly invisible, odd couples, men in their late 30's." — Beliefnet Posted Nov 6, 2009
Gentlemen Broncos (2009)	" We really try and populate our films with authentic people who might not normally have an opportunity to be in a film." — Beliefnet Posted Nov 6, 2009
A Serious Man (2009)	" Interview with Michael Stuhlbarg of "A Serious Man"" — Beliefnet Posted Oct 8, 2009
Fame (2009)	" My biggest challenge was one scene, my favorite scene, with Debbie Allen." — Beliefnet Posted Sep 27, 2009
Coco Before Chanel (2009)	" She was creating clothes for herself that were less confining not just for the style but so she could do what she wanted to do." — Beliefnet Posted Sep 27, 2009
No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009)	" The media attention that exploded was unexpected and it was fascinating. Colin was being attacked by both the right and the left and applauded by both the right and left." — Beliefnet Posted Sep 27, 2009
Adam (2009)	" Interview with writer/director Max Mayer" — Beliefnet Posted Aug 27, 2009
Adam (2009)	" Interview with Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne" — Beliefnet Posted Aug 27, 2009
Goodbye Solo (2009)	" Interview with writer-director Ramin Bahrani." — Beliefnet Posted Aug 27, 2009
Play The Game (2009)	" Interview with writer/director Marc Fienberg." — Beliefnet Posted Aug 27, 2009
Downloading Nancy (2008)	" Interview with Rufus Sewell of "Downloading Nancy"" — Beliefnet Posted Jun 4, 2009
Wherever You Are (Lifelines) (2008)	" "The concept of a family journeying to see a shrink on a Saturday to mend their own issues has always been a topic I wanted to explore cinematically."" — Beliefnet Posted Mar 30, 2009
The Class (2008)	" I wanted the professor to have his weakness, not to have a magic wand to solve everything...What I want to do is describe the world in all of its complexity and contradictions." — Beliefnet Posted Dec 18, 2008
I've Loved You So Long (2008)	" "It was very important for me to begin this story with shock."Philippe Claudel, writer/director" — Beliefnet Posted Dec 12, 2008
Brideshead Revisited (2008)	" Interview with Matthew Goode" — Beliefnet Posted Nov 17, 2008
Flow: For Love of Water (2008)	" Interview with Irena Salina" — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Nov 17, 2008
Sleeping Beauty (1959)	" Interview with Mary Costa (Princess Aurora)" — Beliefnet Posted Nov 17, 2008
City of Ember (2008)	" Interview with Tim Robbins" — Beliefnet Posted Nov 17, 2008
21 (2008)	" Interview with Jim Sturgess and Jeff Ma of "21"" — Beliefnet Posted Mar 26, 2008
Married Life (2008)	" Interview with Ira Sachs, writer/director of "Married Life"" — Beliefnet Posted Mar 17, 2008
Blindsight (2006)	" Tenberken discusses conflicts about how to define "success" for the expedition and Weihenmeyer talks about what inspired him about the teenagers." — Beliefnet Posted Mar 6, 2008
The Counterfeiters (2007)	" Q: It seemed to me that the title of the movie had many layers of meaning. Ruzowitsky: This...intrigued me: Will Sally be able to counterfeit reality himself?" — Beliefnet Posted Feb 22, 2008
The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) (2007)	" Was there a true story that inspired this movie? No, not at all. It began with the image of the main character, dressed in a very strict police uniform singing an Arabic song." — Beliefnet Posted Feb 17, 2008
Darkon (2006)	" Interview with directors Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer" — Beliefnet Posted Jan 18, 2008
First Sunday (2008)	" Interview with Regina Hall" — Beliefnet Posted Jan 16, 2008
Juno (2007)	" Diablo Cody and Ellen Page of "Juno" talk about Kimya Dawson, making the movie, and being "the proud not-owner of a television"" — Beliefnet Posted Dec 13, 2007
The Perfect Holiday (2007)	" Morris Chestnut and Faison Love talk about making "A Perfect Holiday," their favorite Christmas movies, and what "perfect holiday" means to them." — Beliefnet Posted Dec 12, 2007
Duck (2005)	" I like to find the funny in sad, if you can do that in real life you'll be okay." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Sep 13, 2007
3:10 to Yuma (2007)	" Outlaws...were the rock stars of their day. They were like pirates or rock and roll stars, living outside of the law, where murder becomes your show, performance. So I watched glam rock footage, David Bowie and INXS." — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Sep 7, 2007
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)	" Interview with the Pattersons" — Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies Posted Aug 6, 2007

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