Reviews

  • Step Brothers
    With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, July 24
    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 >>
  • Brideshead Revisited
    A good nine hours lighter than its TV predecessor, Brideshead Revisited gets back to the source
    By ELLA TAYLOR
    Thursday, July 24
    Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that "Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can... More >>
  • The Dark Knight
    Heath Ledger peers into the void as The Dark Knight returns
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, July 17
    What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More >>
  • Mamma Mia!
    But your movie's kinda drab. Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA.
    By ELLA TAYLOR
    Thursday, July 17
    I've always enjoyed ABBA—not in that post-hoc, so-bad-it's-good hip way, but innocently, the way I like Phil Spector. To this day, howling... More >>
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, July 10
    At the top, let's be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It's a decent, if... More >>
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up Hellboy sequel
    By Chuck Wilson
    Thursday, July 10
    Hollywood's Endless Superhero Summer rolls on with the arrival of Hellboy II: The Golden Army from Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro,... More >>
  • Encounters at the End of the World
    Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World
    By J. HOBERMAN
    Thursday, July 10
    Some say the world will end in fire, some—like Werner Herzog—say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly... More >>
  • Hancock
    Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, July 03
    The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable,... More >>
  • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will—a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, July 03
    "In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote... More >>
  • WALL-E
    WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, June 26
    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 >>
  • Wanted
    With its secret boys' club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, June 26
    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 >>
  • Get Smart
    Get Smart redux is a rare device: a TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms
    By J. HOBERMAN
    Thursday, June 19
    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 >>
  • Mongol
    Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, June 19
    You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny,... More >>
  • The Mother of Tears
    Dario Argento caps off his horror trilogy with horrific parody
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, June 19
    A topsy-turvy Escherland exists where Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears is considered a twisted classic, and it is a magical place. Up is down,... More >>
  • Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine
    By ELLA TAYLOR
    Thursday, June 19
    To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom—unlike all the other, higher-quality... More >>
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  2. Mamma Mia!, 27.8 million, 27.8 million
  3. Hancock, 14.0 million, 191.5 million
  4. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 12.3 million, 43.5 million
  5. Hellboy II: The Golden Army, 10.1 million, 52.5 million
  6. WALL-E, 10.1 million, 182.7 million
  7. Space Chimps, 7.2 million, 7.2 million
  8. Wanted, 5.1 million, 123.3 million
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