Reviews

  • Traitor
    Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.
    By Chuck Wilson
    Wednesday, August 27
    Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads ...... More >>
  • No Regret
    By Vadim Rizov
    Wednesday, August 27
    No Regret begins as a perceptive glimpse into a specific gay subculture, then descends halfway through into Korean melodrama hell; put both parts... More >>
  • Year of the Fish
    By Vadim Rizov
    Wednesday, August 27
    Year of the Fish is the kind of really bad movie it takes a lot of misplaced conviction to make. A modern-day fairy tale unwisely told from the... More >>
  • Art House
    Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
    Wednesday, August 27
    Castro Theatre. The Little Mermaid singalong: An interactive presentation of the Disney feature, with prizes for costumes. Thursdays, Fridays.... More >>
  • Hamlet 2
    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 20
    In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense. Those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes: It's hard to knock... More >>
  • The Rocker
    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 20
    The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf ever since. Which isn't to suggest that it's... More >>
  • Hats Off
    By Vadim Rizov
    Wednesday, August 20
    You may not know Mimi Weddell's name, but you probably know her face: As Jyll Johnstone's documentary shows, the pool of agile 93-year-old women... More >>
  • Art House
    Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
    Wednesday, August 20
    Artists' Television Access. Bijou and Bayside: Wakefield Poole's hardcore male erotic classics from the 1970s. Wed., Aug. 20, 8 p.m. Shutdown:... More >>
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest.
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, August 13
    Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More >>
  • Woody Allen
    Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, August 13
    The last time I interviewed Woody Allen, at his editing suite on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was preparing the release of Match Point (2005),... More >>
  • Melissa Leo
    Melissa Leo finally gets her close-up.
    By Chuck Wilson
    Wednesday, August 13
    Those of us who write about movies tend to play things cool, but we're all fans at heart, complete with running tallies of those actors and... 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
    Wednesday, August 13
    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 >>
  • Tropic Thunder
    Ben Stiller's Hollywood sendup lacks firepower.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 13
    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 parodies... More >>
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 13
    George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to... More >>
  • Boy A
    What happens when a child murderer grows up?
    By Ernest Hardy
    Wednesday, August 06
    "So fuckin' delicate, people ... they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply... More >>
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  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. The House Bunny, 14.5 million, 14.5 million
  5. Death Race, 12.6 million, 12.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Dark Knight, 10.5 million, 489.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 5.7 million, 25.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Pineapple Express, 5.5 million, 73.8 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Mirrors, 5.0 million, 20.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
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  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 4.2 million, 93.9 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
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