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Warrior King Warrior King
David Mamet and his hero fight the power, and succumb to it, in Redbelt
David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer/director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 08, 2008
Fast Track to Nowhere Fast Track to Nowhere
It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer
Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series—one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV—into a prospective... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 08, 2008
Mighty Avenger Mighty Avenger
Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel at
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 01, 2008
Here Comes the Bride. Yawn. Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.
McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding
In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 01, 2008
Let's Go to Prison Let's Go to Prison
Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 24, 2008
Nobody's Baby Nobody's Baby
Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seem the least bit invested in their surrogate mommy comedy
Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show"... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 24, 2008
Sad Sack Extraordinaire Sad Sack Extraordinaire
Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 17, 2008
Countdown to ... Murder! Countdown to ... Murder!
Ridiculous Al Pacino starsin ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller, 88 Minutes
Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: April 17, 2008
Kids and Scoundrels Kids and Scoundrels
That other, smaller, more manageable film festival
The Palm Beach International Film Festival is a far more manageable affair than its neighbor in Fort Lauderdale. Lauderdale's big festival runs... More>>
Published: April 10, 2008
Ordinary People Ordinary People
Intelligence goes soft in this rom-com
Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that's not quite how Randy Newman sang it, but the point still stands. Because in Noam... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 10, 2008
Some Country for Old Men Some Country for Old Men
Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again
Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese: his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot... More>>
By Camille Dodero
Published: April 03, 2008
Fourth and Inches Fourth and Inches
George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet...
When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a question mark... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 03, 2008
Counting Sheep Counting Sheep
21 doesn't hit the jackpot. Doesn't even come close
Ben Mezrich's 2002 bestseller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas For Millions was a smart narrative... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 27, 2008
Apolitical Theater Apolitical Theater
Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war
Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: March 27, 2008
Not Taylor-Made Not Taylor-Made
Owen Wilson's a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard
Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless army deserter and... More>>
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: March 20, 2008
The Games People Play The Games People Play
Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you — again
For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: March 13, 2008
Look Whos Back! Look Whos Back!
After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation
Was Dr. Seuss, née Theodor Seuss Geisel, oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid today... More>>
By Ed Gonazalez
Published: March 13, 2008
Sister Act Sister Act
Sibling rivalry in all its royal glory in Boleyn Girl
When you sleep with the king, it ceases to be a private matter." And so it comes to pass that young Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) must stand... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: February 28, 2008
Personal Foul Personal Foul
Will Ferrell's umpteenth sports comedy is only half-bad. His half.
Semi-Pro's much better than Blades of Glory, which wasn't nearly as good as Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which was a little... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 28, 2008
Straight to Video Straight to Video
Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but comes up short, stale, and flat
The pleasures of Be Kind Rewind do not extend far beyond the promise of its premise: Jack Black, magnetized and manic (yawn), erases every single... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 21, 2008
Kids These Days Kids These Days
Teen comedy Charlie Bartlett could use a dose of mean
Like most wannabe heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett is charming and quirky. Too charming by half... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: February 21, 2008
Intelligent Design Intelligent Design
PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening
In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the elderly New York... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: February 07, 2008
Pity the Fool Pity the Fool
There is no gold at the end of this terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mashup
When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's Gold... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: February 07, 2008
Wide-Open Spaces Wide-Open Spaces
Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie that doesn't go all hippie-dippy
To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, a 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 04, 2007
Clients of Industry Clients of Industry
Brazil's kidnapping epidemic spawns its own supply-and-demand economy
Killer timing! Manda Bala ("Send a Bullet"), Jason Kohn's vivid, lean-and-hungry documentary about São Paulo's fatalistic food chain of... More>>
By Michelle Orange
Published: October 04, 2007
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