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Superzero Superzero
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 follow-up, Unbreakable,... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 03, 2008
As American as Overpriced Dolls As American as Overpriced Dolls
In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine
To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 03, 2008
Empire Strikes Back Empire Strikes Back
Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan
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: June 26, 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
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, even when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 19, 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 12, 2008
Epic Bore Epic Bore
The Children of Huang Shi is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption
Loath though I am to carp about any director who's devoted chunks of his career to bringing the non-white world's suffering to Western attention,... 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 outsized codpiece, as Zohan the Mossad superheavy: catching barbecued fish in his butt... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 05, 2008
Shots in the Dark
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: June 05, 2008
Get Out of Jail Free 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 05, 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
Cannes Class of 2008
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
Frame It on Rio
Up-and-comer Brazil shops its movies in Miami
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
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 29, 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 29, 2008
The Fortress of Sad Decline 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 man... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 22, 2008
Shots in the Dark
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, popping his computer-generated shaggy... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 15, 2008
New Blood New Blood
The joys of DIY filmmaking persist in Son of Rambow
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though—those favored by Son of Rambow, a... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: May 15, 2008
Warrior King 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 writer/director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 08, 2008
Fast Track to Nowhere 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 syndicated on American TV—into a prospective... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 08, 2008
Mighty Avenger Mighty Avenger
Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel at
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 01, 2008
Here Comes the Bride. Yawn. 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 "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: May 01, 2008
Let's Go to Prison 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 idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 24, 2008
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