Reviews

  • Hamlet 2
    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 28
    In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to knock... More >>
  • Traitor
    Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor
    By Chuck Wilson
    Thursday, August 28
    Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures—a Hollywood intellectual—new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads...prepare... More >>
  • The Rocker
    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hard-core funny
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 21
    The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf a good 25 years. Which isn't to suggest that... More >>
  • Frozen River
    Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom
    By ELLA TAYLOR
    Thursday, August 21
    When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance Film... More >>
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, August 14
    Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More >>
  • Tropic Thunder
    Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 14
    Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz... More >>
  • Pineapple Express
    Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 07
    On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More >>
  • Man on Wire
    Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, August 07
    Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center—that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More >>
  • Bottle Shock
    Send it back: Bottle Shock's corked
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 07
    Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More >>
  • Swing Vote
    Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, July 31
    Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The... More >>
  • American Teen
    High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
    By ELLA TAYLOR
    Thursday, July 31
    Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today's America, I'm willing to buy the argument that it's... More >>
  • The Last Mistress
    Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento put their stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-century France
    By J. HOBERMAN
    Thursday, July 31
    Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy... More >>
  • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The Mummy franchise has seen better days
    By Vadim Rizov
    Thursday, July 31
    I was 13 when Stephen Sommers's 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out—just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind of... More >>
  • Step Brothers
    With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, July 24
    I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More >>
  • Brideshead Revisited
    A good nine hours lighter than its TV predecessor, Brideshead Revisited gets back to the source
    By ELLA TAYLOR
    Thursday, July 24
    Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that "Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can... More >>
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  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. The House Bunny, 14.5 million, 14.5 million
  5. Death Race, 12.6 million, 12.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Dark Knight, 10.5 million, 489.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 5.7 million, 25.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Pineapple Express, 5.5 million, 73.8 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Mirrors, 5.0 million, 20.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 4.3 million, 124.5 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 4.2 million, 93.9 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
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