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Hard-Knock Life in Frozen River Hard-Knock Life in Frozen River
This movie may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom
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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 21, 2008
Not to Be: Hamlet 2 Not to Be: Hamlet 2
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, this movie is simply tragic
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
Schoolhouse: The Rocker Schoolhouse: The Rocker
Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 14, 2008
Army of One in Alexandra Army of One in Alexandra
A Russian grandmother visits the troops, and brings light to their misguided mission in Chechnya
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 14, 2008
Towering Cinema in Man on Wire Towering Cinema in Man on Wire
Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
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>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 14, 2008
Rogen and Franco, on the Run and Madly in Love in Pineapple Express Rogen and Franco, on the Run and Madly in Love in Pineapple Express
True Bromance
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 07, 2008
High-School Heroes and Zeros Roam the Halls of Nanette Burstein's High-School Heroes and Zeros Roam the Halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary" American Teen
Young-Adult Fiction
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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 07, 2008
Send It Back: Bottle Shock's Corked Send It Back: Bottle Shock's Corked
Not Quite Ripe
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 07, 2008
Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento Put Their Stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-Century France Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento Put Their Stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-Century France
Costume Ball
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 07, 2008
Brideshead Revisited Goes Back to the Book Brideshead Revisited Goes Back to the Book
The movie is shorter and truer to the novel than the TV mini-series
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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 31, 2008
Werner Herzog Treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog Treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World
Gleaning lessons from the darkness.
Some say the world will end in fire, some — like Werner Herzog — say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: July 31, 2008
Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers
Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that
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>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 24, 2008
Heart of Darkness: The Dark Knight Heart of Darkness: The Dark Knight
Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 17, 2008
Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA
Thank you for the music, but your movie's kinda drab.
I've always enjoyed ABBA — not in that post-hoc, so-bad-it's good hip way, but innocently, the way I like Phil Spector. To this day,... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 17, 2008
Devil May Care for Hellboy II: The Golden Army Devil May Care for Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up sequel
Hollywood's Endless Superhero Summer rolls on with the arrival of Hellboy II: The Golden Army from Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro,... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: July 10, 2008
Paradise Lost in Surfwise Paradise Lost in Surfwise
Parenting off the grid — and eventually off the reservation — in this alt-family portrait
Halfway through Surfwise, a mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer-dude health nuts, we meet the... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 10, 2008
Going Down to the Center of the Earth Going Down to the Center of the Earth
Brendan Fraser falls into deep, deep hole
At the top, let's be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It's a decent, if... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 10, 2008
Hancock Is A Superzero Hancock Is A Superzero
The movie squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero
The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its ­follow-up, Unbreakable,... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 03, 2008
Kit Kittredge Is As American as Overpriced Dolls Kit Kittredge Is As American as Overpriced Dolls
All it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine
To my ten-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 03, 2008
Beyond Gonzo Beyond Gonzo
Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance
"In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 03, 2008
Violence Is Golden in Wanted Violence Is Golden in Wanted
With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, this one has all of the fight with none of the guilt
Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain to The... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 26, 2008
Empire Strikes Back in Mongol Empire Strikes Back in Mongol
The film paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 26, 2008
Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device
A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms
As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 19, 2008
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