“ROMEO AND JULIET”

Rating: PG-13 for some violence and thematic elements.

What it’s about: The greatest star-crossed romance of them all.

The kid attractor factor: Young people, played by Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth, getting all hot and bothered.

Good lessons / bad lessons: To paraphrase Andy Griffith, unless you want the expense of a double funeral, spring for a cheap wedding when young love rears its head.

Violence: Bloody sword fights, brawls and poisonings.

Language: Shakespearean put downs.

Sex: Suggested, not nearly as hot and bothered as you’d expect.

Drugs: Wine, poisons.

Parents’ advisory: A bit younger and a tad more violent than most adaptations, suitable for 13-and-up.

“CAPTAIN PHILLIPS”

Rating: PG-13 for sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images, and for substance use.

What it’s about: A cargo ship’s captain and crew battles hijackers off the Somali coast.

The kid attractor factor: A true story action picture about crazed young men with guns and the unarmed merchant sailors who try to outsmart them.

Good lessons / bad lessons: Solving problems with violence only begets more violence.

Violence: Shootings, a stabbing, blood.

Language: Only in the subtitles.

Sex: Not a hint.

Drugs: Cigarettes and the Somali narcotic leaf “khat” are consumed.

Parents’ advisory: A bit long and too violent for younger viewers, suitable for 12-and-up.