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Not to Be Not to Be
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 20, 2008
Schoolhouse Rock Schoolhouse Rock
Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 20, 2008
Hats Off
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>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: August 20, 2008
Art House
Artists' Television Access. Bijou and Bayside: Wakefield Poole's hardcore male erotic classics from the 1970s. Wed., Aug. 20, 8 p.m. Shutdown:... More>>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: August 20, 2008
Mighty Aphrodites Mighty Aphrodites
Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest.
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 13, 2008
The Young Man's Dream
Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in N.Y.C. and Puccini for L.A. Opera.
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>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 13, 2008
The Actress Who Came in from the Cold The Actress Who Came in from the Cold
Melissa Leo finally gets her close-up.
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>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 13, 2008
Hard-Knock Life Hard-Knock Life
Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom.
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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 13, 2008
Apocalypse Whatever Apocalypse Whatever
Ben Stiller's Hollywood sendup lacks firepower.
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 13, 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 13, 2008
About a Boy About a Boy
What happens when a child murderer grows up?
"So fuckin' delicate, people ... they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply... More>>
By Ernest Hardy
Published: August 06, 2008
Murder, in Shades of Gray
Britain's infamous James Bulger case comes back, with nuance, in Boy A.
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>>
By John Anderson
Published: August 06, 2008
True Bromance True Bromance
Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express.
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 06, 2008
Not Quite Ripe Not Quite Ripe
Send it back: Bottle Shock is corked.
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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 06, 2008
Towering Cinema Towering Cinema
Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies.
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>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 06, 2008
To the Limit
As Pepe Danquart's cheerfully lunatic To the Limit begins, a camera takes in the majestic expanse of Yosemite National Park, gently gliding not... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: August 06, 2008
Art House
Castro Theatre. The Exiles: See Ongoing listings. Through Aug. 7. Freaky Fantasy Films ... From the '80s: Triple feature: Return to Oz,... More>>
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 06, 2008
Young-Adult Fiction Young-Adult Fiction
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen.
Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today's America, I'm willing to buy the argument that it's... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 30, 2008
Soul and the City
A "lost" classic, 1961's The Exiles gets its long-overdue theatrical debut.
"The old people remember the past," a narrator says early in The Exiles over a prologue of Edward S. Curtis photographs — faces of aged... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 30, 2008
Change You Can't Believe In Change You Can't Believe In
Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote.
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 30, 2008
Corpse Fried Corpse Fried
The Mummy franchise has seen better days.
I was 13 when Stephen Sommers' 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out — just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: July 30, 2008
Kabluey
From the film appearances of the San Diego Chicken to the penguin-suited thug who gave Jean-Claude Van Damme a flipper-smacking in Sudden Death,... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 30, 2008
XXY
On the remote Uruguayan seaside, Alex's parents have sequestered their daughter away, hoping to keep her secret hidden from the world. That... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 30, 2008
Forget It, Jake, It's Court TV Forget It, Jake, It's Court TV
Was Roman Polanski a pedophile or merely a patsy? Wanted and Desired argues the case.
Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 23, 2008
Men Will Be Boys Men Will Be Boys
With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.
I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 23, 2008
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