Reviews

• 
  Hancock

  Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Thursday, July 03

  The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer/director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable,... More >>
• 
  Kit Kittredge

  In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine

  By Ella Taylor

  Thursday, July 03

  To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms... More >>
• 
  Mongol

  Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan

  By Jim Ridley

  Thursday, June 26

  You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny... More >>
• 
  Wanted

  With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt

  By Jim Ridley

  Thursday, June 26

  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 >>
• 
  Get Smart

  Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms

  By J. Hoberman

  Thursday, June 19

  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 >>
• 
  When Did You Last See Your Father?

  A domineering dad and the son under his thumb in When Did You Last See Your Father?

  By Ella Taylor

  Thursday, June 19

  Nothing snaps a child's head around quite like a dying parent, even when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim... More >>
• 
  The Promotion

  Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion

  By Scott Foundas

  Thursday, June 12

  Screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and... More >>
• 
  The Children of Huang Shi

  The Children of Huang Shi is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption

  By Ella Taylor

  Thursday, June 12

  Loath though I am to carp about any director who's devoted chunks of his career to bringing the non-white world's suffering to Western attention,... More >>
• 
  You Don't Mess With the Zohan

  Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him

  By Ella Taylor

  Thursday, June 05

  Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsized codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad superheavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt... More >>
• Cannes's 2008 edition

  Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

  By J. Hoberman

  Thursday, June 05

  CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the... More >>
• 
  Standard Operating Procedure

  Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure

  By J. Hoberman

  Thursday, June 05

  It's been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line — a found "noir" that served to free an innocent man convicted of murder.... More >>
• 
  Sex and the City: The Movie

  Despite the labels and levity, big-screen SATC is a poor-man's knockoff

  By Ella Taylor

  Thursday, May 29

  Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won't tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you've already seen that... More >>
• Cannes Class of 2008

  A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

  By J. Hoberman

  Thursday, May 29

  CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be... More >>
• 12th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami

  Up-and-comer Brazil shops its movies in Miami

  By P. Scott Cunningham

  Thursday, May 29

  Brazil's big moment in the international cultural sun is still ahead of us. Hipsters might resist this assertion; after all, they've been onto... More >>
• 
  A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

  By Scott Foundas

  Thursday, May 29

  Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns,... More >>
• More Reviews >>