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Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero.
The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its followup, Unbreakable,... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 03, 2008
Mongol Mongol
Now playing.
You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 03, 2008
Violence Is Golden Violence Is Golden
With its secret boys' club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt.
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>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 26, 2008
Robots in Love
WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie has gone before. And that's a good thing.
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 Inconvenient Truth... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 26, 2008
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The Love Guru
Mike Myers likes ice hockey. He also likes Deepak Chopra, a little too much. So he pulled together a bit of hockey and a whole lot of Chopra and... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 26, 2008
Back ... and Loving It Back ... and Loving It
Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms.
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>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 19, 2008
Life with Father Life with Father
A domineering dad and the son under his thumb in When Did You Last See Your Father?
Nothing snaps a child's head around quite like a dying parent, especially when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 19, 2008
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The Happening
What a bunch of nonsense — effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 19, 2008
The Not Terrible Hulk The Not Terrible Hulk
In the shadow of Iron Man, the latest from Marvel can't live up to its billing.
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 fanboy worth... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 12, 2008
Get Out of Jail Free
Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.
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>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 12, 2008
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Kung Fu Panda
By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 12, 2008
Hairpiece in the Middle East Hairpiece in the Middle East
Adam Sandler returns as a Mossad baddie turned stylist, and the bubbies will love him.
Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsize codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad superheavy: catching barbecue fish in his butt crack... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 05, 2008
Supermarket Sweep Supermarket Sweep
Male fulfillment and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.
Screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: June 05, 2008
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The Strangers
Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud's Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school spooker spun... More>>
By Ed Gonzalez
Published: June 05, 2008
Brazil Brings Movies to Miami Brazil Brings Movies to Miami
The 12th annual Brazilian Film Festival is this weekend.
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>>
By P. Scott Cunningham
Published: May 29, 2008
Cheap Sex Cheap Sex
Despite the labels and levity, big-screen SATC is a poor man's knockoff.
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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 29, 2008
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Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking skills to... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 29, 2008
Cannes: A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama
CANNES, France — Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 29, 2008
A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
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>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 22, 2008
Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours. Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.
CANNES, France — The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 22, 2008
Summer Grows Up Summer Grows Up
The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.
Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes — it must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it's... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: May 22, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline
Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a deep hole.
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 the old... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 22, 2008
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Up the Yangtze
It's hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult," says one tearful shopkeeper along the soon-to-be-submerged... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 22, 2008
Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone. Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone.
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>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 22, 2008
Prince (Less) Charming Prince (Less) Charming
Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic.
"Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, briefly popping his computer-generated... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 15, 2008
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