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  • Blindness
    By Anthony Kaufman
    Thursday, October 02
    The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international best seller... More >>
  • How to Lose Friends & Alienate People|Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Two mediocre adaptations by two directors who really should have known better
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, October 02
    There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light... More >>
  • Choke
    Palahniuk adaptation needs the Heimlich
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, September 25
    There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More >>
  • Miracle at St. Anna
    No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's World War II drama is an epic bore
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, September 25
    On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There is probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More >>
  • Lakeview Terrace
    Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, September 18
    Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More >>
  • Ghost Town
    And they bring him to life in Ghost Town
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, September 18
    It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais. During the... More >>
  • Burn After Reading
    Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading
    By J. HOBERMAN
    Thursday, September 11
    Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything... More >>
  • Toronto International Film Festival
    Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, September 11
    If this year's Toronto International Film Festival had a subtitle, it could be "When Good Directors Go Bad." At least that's what it has felt... More >>
  • Surfer, Dude
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, September 11
    It took four credited screenwriters to pen a script in which every other word is "dude" or "bra"; but then, how one "writes" or "directs" a film... More >>
  • Batman
    Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, September 04
    And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper—what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D.,... More >>
  • Hamlet 2
    Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 28
    In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to knock... More >>
  • Traitor
    Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor
    By Chuck Wilson
    Thursday, August 28
    Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures—a Hollywood intellectual—new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads...prepare... More >>
  • The Rocker
    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hard-core funny
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, August 21
    The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf a good 25 years. Which isn't to suggest that... 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
    Thursday, August 21
    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 >>
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
    By SCOTT FOUNDAS
    Thursday, August 14
    Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More >>
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  1. Eagle Eye, 29.2 million, 29.2 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Nights in Rodanthe, 13.4 million, 13.4 million
  5. Lakeview Terrace, 7.0 million, 25.7 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Fireproof, 6.8 million, 6.8 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Burn After Reading, 6.2 million, 45.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Igor, 5.4 million, 14.2 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. My Best Friend's Girl, 3.9 million, 14.6 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Righteous Kill, 3.7 million, 34.7 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Miracle at St. Anna, 3.5 million, 3.5 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, 3.1 million, 32.8 million
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