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Reviews

  • The Blind Side
    What would black people do without big-hearted white people?
    Thursday, November 19
    Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after Precious and obviously timed as a... More >>
  • Precious
    Precious pushes the limits of taste, but locates the heart — and hell — of its heroine's struggle.
    Thursday, November 12
    In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother... More >>
  • Pirate Radio
    Pirate Radio gets a tame U.S. release, but we still love rock and roll.
    Thursday, November 12
    Seven months after its theatrical release in the UK and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a... More >>
  • 2012
    But did the Mayans happen to say if Palin will survive 2012?
    Thursday, November 12
    Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world's tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to... More >>
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats
    We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?
    Thursday, November 05
    Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally understood... More >>
  • A Christmas Carol
    This can't be what Charles Dickens had in mind.
    Thursday, November 05
    It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale... More >>
  • An Education
    An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks.
    Thursday, October 29
    The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received... More >>
  • Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the trend. Fails.
    Thursday, October 22
    Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More >>
  • Somers Town
    Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London. And might sell some train tickets, too.
    Thursday, October 22
    The title of Shane Meadows's Somers Town refers to the bleak, working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St Pancras train... More >>
  • Where the Wild Things Are
    Spike Jonze can't quite get the spirit of the Wild Things on screen.
    Thursday, October 15
    Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation... More >>
  • A Serious Man
    Self-hating or just everyone-hating? The Coen Brothers aim their contempt at MOTs.
    Thursday, October 15
    The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a... More >>
  • Beeswax
    With Andrew Bujalski's sure hand, the still-laid-back and lo-fi mumblecore matures with Beeswax.
    Thursday, October 08
    Though no one's idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically slight precursors Funny Ha Ha... More >>
  • Coco Before Chanel
    Chanel hagiography is so last season.
    Thursday, October 08
    Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel gives us Belle Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the ten-year-old waif and her sister... More >>
  • The Invention of Lying
    Ricky Gervais can only get so far, or so funny, with The Invention of Lying.
    Thursday, October 01
    The Invention of Lying's plot hook sounds like a pileup of Jim Carrey-Tom Shadyac concept comedies. The assumption is that there isn't much... More >>
  • Capitalism: A Love Story
    Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick).
    Thursday, October 01
    The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans... More >>
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  1. 2012, 65.2 mil, 65.2 mil
  2. Disney's A Christmas Carol, 22.3 mil, 63.3 mil
  3. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, 5.9 mil, 8.7 mil
  4. Men Who Stare at Goats, 5.9 mil, 23.0 mil
  5. Michael Jackson's This Is It, 5.1 mil, 67.2 mil
  6. The Fourth Kind, 4.6 mil, 20.4 mil
  7. Couples Retreat, 4.2 mil, 102.0 mil
  8. Paranormal Activity, 4.0 mil, 103.7 mil
  9. Law Abiding Citizen, 3.8 mil, 67.2 mil
  10. The Box, 3.2 mil, 13.2 mil
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