Reviews

  • Hard-Knock Life: Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom
    By Ella Taylor
    Wednesday, August 27
    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 >>
  • About a Boy: What happens when a child murderer grows up?
    By Ernest Hardy
    Wednesday, August 20
    "So fuckin' delicate, people...they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply —... More >>
  • Tropic Thunder
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 13
    Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More >>
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, August 13
    Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More >>
  • Bottle Shock
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, August 06
    Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More >>
  • Swing Vote
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, July 30
    Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The... More >>
  • Step Brothers
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, July 23
    I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More >>
  • Streetballers
    By Chad Garrison
    Wednesday, July 16
    Streetballers bills itself as an "Irish-urban drama" exploring the lives of two junior-college basketball players and their struggles within a... More >>
  • Mosquito Kingdom
    By Keegan Hamilton
    Wednesday, July 16
    For part of the production of Mosquito Kingdom, the cast and crew traveled to an island in the Florida Keys and shot the film without permits on... More >>
  • Eighth Annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase
    By Kristy Wendt and Kristen Hinman
    Wednesday, July 16
    Advertising for the Mob It sounds ridiculous: Hopeless failure of an adman gets canned from his twelfth agency and starts a crime family. The... More >>
  • The Dark Knight
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, July 16
    What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More >>
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, July 09
    At the top, let's be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It's a decent, if... More >>
  • Hancock
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, July 02
    The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable,... More >>
  • Wanted
    By Jim Ridley
    Wednesday, June 25
    Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain to The... More >>
  • Get Smart
    By J. Hoberman
    Wednesday, June 18
    As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's... More >>
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  1. Tropic Thunder, 16.3 million, 65.8 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. The House Bunny, 14.5 million, 14.5 million
  5. Death Race, 12.6 million, 12.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Dark Knight, 10.5 million, 489.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 5.7 million, 25.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Pineapple Express, 5.5 million, 73.8 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Mirrors, 5.0 million, 20.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 4.3 million, 124.5 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 4.2 million, 93.9 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. The Longshots, 4.1 million, 4.1 million
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