Reviews

  • Traitor
    Spy Vs. Why
    By Chuck Wilson
    Thursday, August 28
    Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin... More >>
  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    Was Polanski a pedophile or merely a patsy?
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, August 28
    Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO... More >>
  • The Edge of Heaven
    Storylines and cultures crash in this German/Turkish import — and isn't it arty?
    By Nick Pinkerton
    Thursday, August 28
    The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin's... More >>
  • Frozen River
    This movie 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 >>
  • Hamlet 2
    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, this movie is simply tragic
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 21
    In its final ten minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are ten perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to... More >>
  • The Rocker
    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore 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 >>
  • 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 parodies... 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 >>
  • Alexandra
    A Russian grandmother visits the troops, and brings light to their misguided mission in Chechnya
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, August 14
    Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in... More >>
  • Man on Wire
    Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, August 14
    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 >>
  • Pineapple Express
    True Bromance
    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 >>
  • American Teen
    Young-Adult Fiction
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, August 07
    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 >>
  • Bottle Shock
    Not Quite Ripe
    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 >>
  • The Last Mistress
    Costume Ball
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, August 07
    Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy... More >>
  • Brideshead Revisited
    The movie is shorter and truer to the novel than the TV mini-series
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, July 31
    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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  1. Tropic Thunder, 16.3 million, 65.8 million
  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
  20. The Longshots, 4.1 million, 4.1 million
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