AltWeeklies Wire
'Rocket Science': A Contest Between Truth and Cutenessnew
At its best Rocket Science shakes off its influences and offers original perception -- but the movie is not always at its best.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
'Superbad': Fastest Kids Alivenew
Superbad isn't as thoughtful a movie as Knocked Up, but it may be more important, because it's looser, less polished and more indicative of what we can expect from this generation of entertainers.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'Superbad': Teen Boners Come Out Swingingnew
It is indeed a horny teenager movie, and as such, it's got its fair share of predictability and stupidity -- but it's also really, really funny, and it manages to create a world of interesting people who are both likeable and believable.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
08-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'Arctic Tale': Good Intentions on Icenew
Though there is plenty of substance here for even the mildest nature lover to be engaged, Arctic Tale is not quite the cinematic gem its Penguins predecessor proved to be.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
08-15-2007 |
Reviews
'My Best Friend': Friends You Can Count On One Handnew
It is the kind of sprightly European import that will do well enough at local box offices to inspire an American version that, because marketed in English, will outperform the original.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
08-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
'Ruslan and Ludmila': Unrealismnew
The enchanted world of Aleksandr Ptushko.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
08-15-2007 |
Reviews
'Death at a Funeral': Over the Top, Backwards
Director Frank Oz nearly redeems himself, after his disastrous Stepford Wives remake, with a British black comedy.
Tags: Death at a Funeral, Frank Oz
'The 11th Hour': A Fount of Vital Information
This film is an essential bookend chapter to An Inconvenient Truth.
'The King of Kong': Enjoyable Gaming Action
Here's one of those unfolding documentaries where unforeseen events and deeds make the subject more appealing than even filmmaker Seth Gordon expected.
'Dedication': Disarmingly Funny
Actor Justin Theroux makes an auspicious directorial debut with a romantic comedy full of emotional life and witty filmic textures.
Tags: Dedication, Justin Theroux
'Becoming Jane': Austen Transformednew
The film boils all of Austen's various pen-and-ink plots down to their cliche essence and crams them into a single overly familiar narrative.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
Werewolves Go Nowhere in 'Skinwalkers'new
This is one of those horror entries that reminds you of how much mediocrity there is in the genre.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: James Isaacs, Skinwalkers
'The Yacoubian Building': Contradictory Caironew
The film is a towering melodrama, highly ambitious but satisfying -- Hamed deserves praise for creating something so illuminating and unblinking from a country known for censorship.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
'Rush Hour 3': A Crass Case of Diminishing Returnsnew
The latest in the franchise isn't worth your time -- if you want to see a truly funny buddy comedy, wait until next week and check out Superbad instead.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brett Ratner, Rush Hour 3
'My Best Friend': Who Needs Strangers?new
In the end, the film is too gimmicky -- it climaxes with Bruno on the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire -- to ever be a great movie, but it offers plenty of small pleasures.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
