Reviews

  • Speed Racer
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, May 08
    Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV — into a prospective... More >>
  • Fugitive Pieces
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, May 08
    Canadian poet Anne Michaels' beautiful 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces — about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family's... More >>
  • Son of Rambow
    By Jim Ridley
    Thursday, May 08
    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 >>
  • Redbelt
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, May 08
    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 >>
  • Iron Man
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, May 01
    Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. Like... More >>
  • Made of Honor
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, May 01
    In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" who is, slowly but surely, domesticated by... More >>
  • Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 24
    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 >>
  • Baby Mama
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 24
    Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show"... More >>
  • My Blueberry Nights
    By Michelle Orange
    Thursday, April 24
    Watching Marilyn Monroe in Cinemascope, a critic once wrote, is "like being smothered in baked Alaska." Reading that as a teenager raised some... More >>
  • Iraq war films
    By Anthony Kaufman
    Thursday, April 24
    Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, a new pack of... More >>
  • Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, April 17
    Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in "body art" into the 2004 hit Super... More >>
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 17
    Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of... More >>
  • 88 Minutes
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, April 17
    Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long. Going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the... More >>
  • The Visitor
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, April 17
    Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban-American, and a grieving mother walk into each other's lives, laugh... More >>
  • Street Kings
    By Tim Grierson
    Thursday, April 10
    For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as its characters. Though... More >>
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  1. Iron Man, 102.1 million, 102.1 million
  2. Made of Honor, 14.8 million, 14.8 million
  3. Baby Mama, 10.1 million, 32.1 million
  4. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, 6.1 million, 25.4 million
  5. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 6.1 million, 44.7 million
  6. The Forbidden Kingdom, 4.2 million, 45.1 million
  7. Nim's Island, 2.7 million, 42.5 million
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  9. 21, 2.0 million, 79.0 million
  10. 88 Minutes, 1.5 million, 15.4 million
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