The real box office story this weekend was not in America, where New Line’s A Nightmare on Elm Street dominated a weak field, but overseas. Iron Man 2 debuted in 53 foreign markets, raking in $100.2 million and building anticipation for its stateside release next weekend. (The first Iron Man pulled a $98.6 million opening Read More
The lack of quality January movies has been well documented, but the three hitting theaters this weekend look so unctuous that they almost feel like a prank. Hollywood can’t be serious, right? No wonder Avatar has grossed $700 ka-zillion at the box office: There’s nothing else out! As we do every Friday, here’s a Read More
It’s nice to know that even in a crappy year for movies, the Academy Awards can still manage to screw up their nominations. You have to respect that kind of commitment. It is now 24 hours later and we have yet to finish stewing over The Dark Knight‘s snub in favor of The Reader. How Read More
In theory, we’re totally for the idea of kids’ movies working as propaganda for reading, as the thought of a generation of children getting really good at wrist-flipping their Wiis rather than discovering the joys of Little Women or The Hardy Boys makes us feel sad inside. But Inkheart, based on the best-selling 2003 novel Read More
Co-Stars Who Pass at
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These are no longer the
dog days, the silly days, the stop-time days of movies. These are the
death days. January and February are already ready for a memorial service.
Every movie that has opened in 2001 (with the exception of the brilliant The Pledge , with Jack Read More
M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable , from his own screenplay, turns out to be a more ambitious exploration of the occult than last year’s runaway word-of-mouth hit, The Sixth Sense , and will, as a consequence, probably be less successful with the moviegoing public. No matter, except to Touchstone’s accountants. With Unbreakable , Mr. Shyamalan establishes Read More
