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2008 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Tom Cruise's Risky Business in Valkyrie

  published December 25, 2008

  Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier by the... More >>

• The Spirit Sneaks into Theaters

  published December 25, 2008

  With the fanboys eagerly eying Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation, Frank Miller's version of The Spirit sneaks into theaters... More >>

• Just Say No to Jim Carrey's Yes Man

  published December 18, 2008

  For so major a movie star — at least, once upon a time — Jim Carrey seems to make a lot of awfully minor films, several of them... More >>

• Witherspoon and Vaughn's Yuletide Carol Is Four Christmases Too Many

  published November 27, 2008

  To brand, and then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit — never, for a second, did... More >>

• Latest James Bond Flick, Quantum of Solace, Confuses and Bores

  published November 13, 2008

  Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to... More >>

• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

  published November 13, 2008

  The five-year-old didn't laugh as much as his 40-year-old father, which, granted, isn't the basis upon which to conclude too much. Then again,... More >>

• Paul Rudd in Role Models

  published November 6, 2008

  Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More >>

• Kevin Smith Blows His Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno

  published October 30, 2008

  Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of... More >>

• Edward Norton in Pride and Glory

  published October 23, 2008

  Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every... More >>

• Shia LaBeouf Can't Save Tepid Eagle Eye

  published October 2, 2008

  Director D.J. Caruso fancies himself a hipster Hitchcock, with Shia LaBeouf as his snarky Jimmy Stewart. Last year the duo remade Rear... More >>

• Sex Crime

  published September 25, 2008

  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... More >>

• Not to Be

  published August 21, 2008

  In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's... More >>

• Apocalypse Whatever

  published August 14, 2008

  Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz... More >>

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars

  published August 14, 2008

  George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial-manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to... More >>

• True Bromance

  published August 7, 2008

  On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from... More >>

• Space Chimps

  published July 24, 2008

  Dad, which was your favorite part of Space Chimps?" the four-year-old asked the day after a media sneak peek. "Dunno, Harry. Probably... More >>

• Journey to the Center of the Earth

  published July 10, 2008

  Let's be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It's a decent if overly... More >>

• Superzero

  published July 3, 2008

  The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its followup,... More >>

• Robots in Love

  published June 26, 2008

  Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It's R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring The Little Tramp. An... More >>

• Now Playing

  published June 19, 2008

  What a bunch of nonsense — effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what... More >>

• The Not Terrible Hulk

  published June 12, 2008

  In recent days, Universal has been running a TV spot for The Incredible Hulk that gives away what should come as no surprise to any... More >>

• Now Playing

  published May 29, 2008

  Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking skills to... More >>

• Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline

  published May 22, 2008

  Here's your hat, Indy, but, really, what's your hurry? Because 19 years after the Last Crusade that clearly wasn't, and 15 years after... More >>

• Now Playing

  published May 8, 2008

  First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40 (Hunt herself turns... More >>

• Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.

  published May 1, 2008

  In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by... More >>