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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... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 8, 2008
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... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 8, 2008
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Then She Found Me
First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 8, 2008
Mighty Avenger
Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel.
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who... More >>
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 1, 2008
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... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 1, 2008
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Deception
Lonely is the life of the mogul. The long hours and hectic schedule make dating a headache, but... More >>
By Sam Sweet
Published: May 1, 2008
Jay McCarroll Wins Again
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Fest reels in the Project Runway winner.
Jay McCarroll knows he needed Project Runway more than Project Runway needed him; after all,... More >>
By Frank Houston
Published: April 24, 2008
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... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 24, 2008
Nobody's Baby
Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seems 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... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 24, 2008
Absurdistan
The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.
Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than... More >>
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: April 24, 2008
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... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 17, 2008
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No.1.
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 17, 2008
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Zombie Strippers
During George W. Bush's fourth term as president, the administration's desire for crises and... More >>
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 17, 2008
Ass or Auteur?
A critical re-evaluation of Adam Sandler.
Before either was famous, Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler were roommates in Los Angeles, where they... More >>
By Mike Seely
Published: April 17, 2008
Ordinary People
Intelligence goes soft in this more obvious than smart rom-com.
Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that's not quite how Randy Newman sang it,... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 10, 2008
Cop Out
Boys will be boys in Street Kings' shallow look at dirty police.
For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is... More >>
By Tim Grierson
Published: April 10, 2008
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The Ruins
If you turn the first page of Scott Smith's The Ruins , a friend said astutely, you won't put... More >>
By Jim Ridley
Published: April 10, 2008
Some Country for Old Men
Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again.
Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese, is his bellystache.... More >>
By Camille Dodero
Published: April 3, 2008
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... More >>
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 3, 2008
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Snow Angels
An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of sentimental delicacies... More >>
By Nathan Lee
Published: April 3, 2008
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,... More >>
By Scott Foundas
Published: March 27, 2008
Counting Sheep
21 doesn't hit the jackpot. Doesn't even come close.
Ben Mezrich's 2002 best seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 27, 2008
Far from Heaven
Obviously inspired by Todd Haynes, this competent '50s domestic drama doesn’t quite compare.
Film noir and melodrama cast a long shadow over Ira Sachs's look back at the rotting heart of... More >>
By Ella Taylor
Published: March 27, 2008
Not Taylor-Made
Owen Wilson is 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... More >>
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: March 20, 2008
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Doomsday
Remember that scene in The Warriors where the Turnbull ACs chase the heroes in a pimped-out... More >>
By Jim Ridley
Published: March 20, 2008
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