AltWeeklies Wire
'Superbad': Groin Pains
There's a thin line between smart juvenilia and stuff that's just plain silly -- this film keeps weaving back and forth across that line like Lindsay Lohan at a traffic stop.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'The Ten': Wet Hot American Old Testamentnew
The film embodies The State's style of delivering the dumbest jokes with the straightest face -- it's a formula that's been around since Airplane! and earlier, but Wain pushes the irony to near-toxic levels, putting on his biggest smirk and daring us not to laugh.
Dig Boston |
Rob Turbovsky |
08-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Wain, The Ten
'Stardust': Vinyl Fantasy
The film tries hard to be magical, but generally feels manufactured.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Matthew Vaughn, Stardust
'The Bourne Ultimatum': Dirty Secretsnew
It is gratifying that the zenith of a summer movie season otherwise headlined by shape-shifting robots and an aging '80s action icon comes in the form of throwback to the espionage thrillers of the 1970s updated as compelling, exhilarating zeitgeist.
Final 'Hour': Chan and Tucker Go Out With a Whimper
In their third and ostensibly last outing together, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker go through the motions of energizing the Rush Hour franchise, albeit with less physical action and much less apparent joy.
Tags: Brett Ratner, Rush Hour 3
King of Salsanew
There's a lot riding on El Cantante, the first mainstream Hollywood movie to be made about Hector Lavoe, a natural talent and beloved performer known as "The Voice" whose notorious heroin addiction led to his death of AIDS in 1993.
Tags: El Cantante, Leon Ichaso
Moronic Funnew
Hot Rod has both big laughs and big misses -- but Andy Samberg oozes charm.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Akiva Schaffer, Hot Rod
Who's the Boss?new
Lars von Trier's latest film will make you laugh, but it won't make you think.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, The Boss of it All
Bourne, Baby, Bournenew
The Bourne Ultimatum is the most exciting movie of the summer by leaps and bounds.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Pascale Ferran's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'new
Nothing could be less like our popular idea of Lady Chatterley's Lover, of the unstoppable force of the working class meeting the immovable object of the ruling class.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
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Solar Perplexus: 'Sunshine'new
Sunshine fails to illuminate Danny Boyle's murky ideas about the future of humanity.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Danny Boyle, Sunshine
Green Hell: 'Rescue Dawn'new
Christian Bale insists that heroism is a function of a bottomless simplicity; it's not a larger-than-life attitude one carries around everywhere.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog
'The Simpsons Movie': Peasants under glassnew
Transforming the densest, most daring TV show ever made was even more of a risk. Happily, The Simpsons Movie is everything that was advertised.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
08-01-2007 |
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Think Bignew
With its twin themes of race and obesity, Hairspray has a lot on its mind, but it doesn't ever forget to have fun.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam Shankman, Hairspray
Patrice Leconte's 'My Best Friend'new
Leconte seems to be under the impression that he's making a serious movie, or at least one substantially less absurd than it ought to be.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
07-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
