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  • 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
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    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 >>
  • Boy A
    Britain's infamous James Bulger case comes back, with nuance, in Boy A.
    By John Anderson
    Wednesday, August 06
    Where can Batman and Boy A possibly converge? At the intersection of Michael Caine. The actor may be the hardest-working compulsive in show... More >>
  • Pineapple Express
    Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 06
    On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More >>
  • Bottle Shock
    Send it back: Bottle Shock is corked.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 06
    Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More >>
  • Man on Wire
    Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies.
    By Jim Ridley
    Wednesday, August 06
    Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More >>
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  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. The Dark Knight, 16.4 million, 471.1 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 14.6 million, 14.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  8. Mirrors, 11.2 million, 11.2 million
  9. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  10. Pineapple Express, 9.8 million, 62.7 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 8.2 million, 86.2 million
  13. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  14. Mamma Mia!, 6.1 million, 116.0 million
  15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 5.8 million, 32.0 million
  16. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  17. Step Brothers, 4.8 million, 90.7 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 3.8 million, 3.8 million
  20. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
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