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2007 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Best Movies of 2007

  published December 27, 2007

  1. There Will Be Blood: The Texas tea bubbles up from the ground like primordial blood at the beginning of Paul Thomas Anderson's... More >>

• Pause and Rewind

  published December 27, 2007

  Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Warner Bros.): It's the collector's-set briefcase that seals the deal, a gunmetal gray case that all... More >>

• Doc Block

  published December 27, 2007

  An acquaintance who fought in both Afghanistan and Iraq says he has no use for documentaries about George Bush's bungling of the War on Terror.... More >>

• Revenge of the Nerds

  published December 27, 2007

  Absolutely, unequivocally, this has been The Year of The Apatow. Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office... More >>

• Moolah for Mullahs

  published December 27, 2007

  Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin'-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas, who damn... More >>

• Singular Sensation

  published December 20, 2007

  Once (Fox) Easily the year's most perfect pop album — damn good movie, too, the finest "musical"... More >>

• Knocked Up

  published December 20, 2007

  During its early moments, Jason Reitman's second feature threatens to choke on its quotation-marks catch phrases — like when The... More >>

• Killer Climax

  published December 13, 2007

  The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) The final installment in the Bourne-again trilogy is the one in which the... More >>

• Cellar Beware

  published December 6, 2007

  The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay) If the horror of Saw were a poblano pepper, this here is a... More >>

• Touch of Evel

  published November 29, 2007

  Hot Rod (Paramount) Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod... More >>

• Enchanted

  published November 22, 2007

  The premise had promise: Characters from a "vintage" Disney movie suddenly find themselves thrust into our world. But somewhere between... More >>

• Jungle Fever

  published November 22, 2007

  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Paramount) At last available on DVD, Eleanor Coppola's 1991... More >>

• Once upon a Time ...

  published November 15, 2007

  The Princess Bride: 20th Anniversary Edition (MGM) As far as anniversary-edition DVDs go, The Princess... More >>

• Love in the Time of Cholera

  published November 15, 2007

  This is easily — easily — the worst adaptation of a major novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author. Director Mike Newell... More >>

• The Kids Were Alright

  published November 8, 2007

  Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2 (Genius) On the heels of the Electric Company box sets, which... More >>

• You've Got to Bee Kidding

  published November 8, 2007

  After making a mint off a series about nothing, Jerry Seinfeld apparently decided his first feature film ought to be about something — in... More >>

• A Bitter End

  published November 1, 2007

  No End in Sight (Magnolia) Charles Ferguson's debut doc, easily the most important in a year full of notable... More >>

• Alien 2007: The Fatherhood

  published November 1, 2007

  John Cusack, who more or less began his career sneaking a peek at Molly Ringwald's panties in Sixteen Candles, has finally become an... More >>

• The Boys Are Back

  published October 25, 2007

  Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen... More >>

• Dan in Reel Life

  published October 25, 2007

  Dan in Real Life has this much going for it: It is not the worst Steve Carell film of 2007. That honor, of course, goes to... More >>

• Genuine Fake Robots

  published October 18, 2007

  Transformers (DreamWorks) No doubt, Michael Bay's slam-bang action-figure commercial doesn't play nearly... More >>

• You'll Laugh Dying

  published October 11, 2007

  You Kill Me (Genius) Funny thing seeing Philip Baker Hall in You Kill Me, because he's already... More >>

• The Fix Is In

  published October 11, 2007

  It will no doubt be said time and again of Michael Clayton: best John Grisham adaptation ever. Only, of course, it did not spring... More >>

• Golden Age, Porcelain Throne

  published October 11, 2007

  Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?" That was the question posed to a dying Queen Mary in 1998's Elizabeth, director... More >>

• Fist Things First

  published October 4, 2007

  Caligula: Imperial Edition (Penthouse) (Spoiler alert: Fisting!) One day back in the swingin' Seventies,... More >>