http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed The final word on all the movies everyone's talking about, straight from the editors of Rolling Stone. http://i.rollingstone.com/rs/images/rs_logo.gif http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed 140 37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us © Copyright 2008 Rolling Stone Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:53:59 PDT Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:53:59 PDT http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18139818/review/21896175/american_teen http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18139818/review/21896175/american_teen?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:59:34 PDT Starring:
Hannah Bailey, Colin Clemens, Megan Krizmanich, Jake Tusing
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Reality tv, welcome to the multiplex. If The Hills went back to high school and developed wit, perception and a conscience, it might play something like Nanette Burstein's wallop of a doc. Burstein (The Kid Stays in the Picture) did total immersion with a handful of seniors at the only high school in Warsaw, Indiana, which we're told is "mostly white, mostly Christian and red state all the way." It's not all condescending; a church sign announces, "Get an Afterlife." Camera in hand for more than 10 months, Burstein waited patiently for character types out of a John Hughes movie to shake off their clichéd shells — the prom queen (Megan Krizmanich), the star athlete (Colin Clemens), the band geek (Jake Tusing), the arty rebel (Hannah Bailey). The fact that they do, sometimes by happy...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18269113/review/21896165/step_brothers http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18269113/review/21896165/step_brothers?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:57:05 PDT Starring:
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, ...
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Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. They riffed on the baby Jesus in Talladega Nights. Now they're goofing on grown men who stay babies. Are you ready to see Ferrell rub his hairy nut sack on Reilly's drum set? You better be. Step Brothers, directed by Adam McKay from a story by McKay, Ferrell and Reilly (so you know who to hold responsible), pushes its R rating to the merry max. I'd better explain. Ferrell plays Brennan Huff, 39, a sleepwalker and chronic masturbator who lives with his divorced mom (Mary Steenburgen). Reilly plays Dale Doback — even more of a slacker, since he's a year older — who lives with his widowed dad (Richard Jenkins). When the parents marry, Brennan...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/19469992/review/22025595/xfiles_i_want_to_believe http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/19469992/review/22025595/xfiles_i_want_to_believe?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:12:31 PDT Starring:
David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
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Being suitably paranoid about the paranormal, I wanted to believe that X-Files creator Chris Carter, having had six years since the TV show went off the air to craft a humdinger of a plot, could conjure up something with more ding and less (ho) hum than The X-Files: I Want To Believe. What I believe, hell, what I know is that if I toss spoilers into this review, X-Philes will come to haunt me. So I'll say three things and no more. 1. David Duchovny is back as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson joins him as Dana Scully. That is the best news about this movie. No screen lovers have ever gotten more sizzle out of withholding. Forget carnality. Any Internet porn flick can show you penetration. Mulder and Scully get inside each other's heads. Now that's sexy. Duchovny, bless him, is...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/16155928/review/21477208/dark_knight http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/16155928/review/21477208/dark_knight?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:50:04 PDT Starring:
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron E...
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Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan's absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005's Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check. But Nolan is just warming up. There's something raw and elemental at work in this artfully imagined universe. Striking out from his Batman origin story, Nolan cuts through to a deeper dimension. Huh? Wha? How can a conflicted guy in a bat suit and a villain with a cracked, painted-on clown smile speak to the essentials of the human condition? Just hang on for a shock to the system. The Dark Knight creates a place where good and evil — expected to do battle —...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18263990/review/21842469/mamma_mia http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18263990/review/21842469/mamma_mia?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:44:55 PDT Starring:
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Jul...
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Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to Barcelona since 1999, grossing over $2 billion and luring more than 30 million ticketbuyers to hear Abba songs by Sweden's Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson shoehorned into a plot where they don't really fit. Who can argue with that kind of "money, money/Always sunny/In a rich man's world success?" I can, at least where the movie is concerned, because the three formidable women responsible for the show — producer Judy Craymer, writer Catherine Johnson and director Phyllida Lloyd — let the magic slip through their fingers on the treacherous trip from stage to screen. The ...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/15481328/review/21774110/meet_dave http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/15481328/review/21774110/meet_dave?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:44:15 PDT Starring:
Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Judah Friedlander...
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Eddie Murphy — was that Oscar nominated performance in Dreamgirls just something I imagined? — continues to trash his very real talent with bottomfeeding material. In Meet Dave, Murphy limits himself to two roles (none human). He plays a pint-sized alien from outer space and the spacecraft he rode in on. If you think I'm going to explain that lame premise, think again. But know this: Murphy, teaming again with his Norbit director Brian Robbins, is assuming we'll all line up for lazyass toilet jokes and pay for the privilege. Prove him wrong, people, please.
Rating: 1 Stars ]]>