Reviews

  • Body of Lies
    Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, October 09
    A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More >>
  • Blindness
    Blindness nails the bleak before succumbing to the sap
    By Anthony Kaufman
    Thursday, October 02
    The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international bestseller... More >>
  • Choke
    Choke adaptation needs the Heimlich
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, September 25
    There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More >>
  • Miracle at St. Anna
    No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, September 25
    On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More >>
  • Lakeview Terrace
    Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, September 18
    Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial in Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out... More >>
  • Burn After Reading
    Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, September 11
    Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously... More >>
  • The Women
    Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, September 11
    What do you think this is?" cries a lady who lunches in Diane English's remake of George Cukor's The Women. "Some kind of '30s movie?" Even... More >>
  • Summer movies
    Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, September 04
    And so, another summer movie season comes to an end not with a bang but with a whimper — what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D.,... More >>
  • Traitor
    Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor
    By Chuck Wilson
    Thursday, August 28
    Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads...... More >>
  • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, August 28
    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 >>
  • Hamlet 2
    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 21
    In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to... More >>
  • Frozen River
    Frozen River 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 >>
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and 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 >>
  • 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 cowritten by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More >>
  • Pineapple Express
    Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express
    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 >>
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  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 29.3 million, 29.3 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Eagle Eye, 17.7 million, 54.6 million
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  6. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, 11.3 million, 11.3 million
  7. Nights in Rodanthe, 7.4 million, 25.1 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Appaloosa, 5.1 million, 5.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Lakeview Terrace, 4.6 million, 32.2 million
  13. Burn After Reading, 4.1 million, 51.7 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Fireproof, 4.0 million, 12.4 million
  17. An American Carol, 3.7 million, 3.7 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Religulous, 3.4 million, 3.4 million
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