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Trumbo: Blacklisted, But Unbowed
Based on Christopher Trumbo’s play about his hell-raising pop, the Spartacus screenwriter sentenced to prison for refusing to…
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The Rocker: We love Rainn Wilson; he loves 80s hair metal
Directed by Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker‘s more or less the Pete Best story—the tale of a poor bastard…
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Hamlet 2: Steve Coogan tortures the Bard
Hamlet 2 debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it sold for $10 million to Focus…
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Tropic Thunder: A little something to like from Tom Cruise
Ben Stiller is back in the sendup business, nibbling gently at the soft, manicured hands that feed him…
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Pineapple Express: James Franco and Seth Rogen Are Almost Totally Gay for Each Other
It offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who…
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Hancock: Will Smith aint so super
As the indestructible title character, Will Smith is a Man of Steel who’d rather melt into a puddle…
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PICK Wall-E: We love this little cube dude
Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It’s R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space…
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The Foot Fist Way: Like a Will Ferrell movie, without Will Ferrell
Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking…
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In October 2001, a Fort Worth, Texas, nurse’s aide named Chante Mallard
In October 2001, a Fort Worth, Texas, nurse’s aide named Chante Mallard struck 37-year-old Gregory Glenn Biggs with…
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Then She Found Me: Helen Hunt Gives Herself the Barbra Treatment
First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns…
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Made of Honor: Back to the O.R., McDreamy!
Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial “fornicator” slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken…
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay: War on Terror Reaches the Stoner Demo
Once more, Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) are on a road trip, this time…
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall : Enough Penis; More Jokes, Please
Jason Segel puts it all out there—and, like, it’s all out there in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It takes…
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Smart People: Ellen Pages Middling Juno Follow-Up
Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid, beneath a greasy moptop and a brushy beard) is a misanthropic college prof who,…
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21: Sorry, Wrong Number
Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best-seller. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas…
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The Bank Job: Jason Statham Goes Back to the 70s
The English media have spent the better part of a year back-and-forthing over the true-or-false plot points of…
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Semi-Pro: Woody Harrelson Outjumps Will Ferrell
Better than Blades of Glory, which wasn’t nearly as good as Talladega Nights, which was a little…
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Definitely, Maybe: Ryan Reynolds Not So Awful After All
Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that make up Definitely, Maybe is a…
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Vince Vaughns Wild West Comedy Show: Backstage Bits Outshine Those in the Spotlight
Even at 100 minutes, this documentary about Vaughn and pals’ 2005 bus tour from L.A. to Chicago…
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Fresh Carnage From Jennifer Garner and Jason Statham
The Kingdom Universal, $29.98 No doubt about it, Peter Berg’s The Kingdom ranked as one of 2007’s more…