Email Author Robert Wilonsky

2010 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• "Megamind 3D" Isn't Funny, Isn't Surprising, and Can't Hold at Least one kid's Attention

  published November 4, 2010

  On matters animated and three-dimensional, I take my cue from the 7-year-old sitting at my right, who got megafidgety about ten minutes into... More >>

• In "Red," Helen Mirren Will Cut You, and Other Awesome Old-People Things

  published October 14, 2010

  Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever. Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest — Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John... More >>

• "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" Review: Michael Cera Gets Soul

  published August 12, 2010

  For all of Scott Pilgrim's adherence to the graphic novels upon which it's based — the pop art pows and thwacks, the... More >>

• "The A-Team" Review: Two Hours of Shit Blowing Up -- Boringly

  published June 10, 2010

  Joe Carnahan's big-screen adaptation of NBC's 1983 midseason-replacement-turned-three-seasons-running-hit is convoluted, overstuffed, turned up to... More >>

• "Get Him to the Greek" is Pure Judd Apatow: Crude on the Outside, Sweet in the Middle

  published June 3, 2010

  There are myriad moments during Get Him to the Greek — the roller-coaster spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall — when... More >>

• "The Joneses" Sells Well at First, but the Dark Turn Fails

  published April 15, 2010

  For a while, at least, a pitch-black (and therefore pitch-perfect) tale of our times: Four business partners masquerading as a happy family... More >>

• She's Out of My League in League With Team Apatow

  published March 11, 2010

  This isn't entirely without its selling points, chief among them T.J. Miller, who's a cross between Seth Rogen and Jason Segel — paging... More >>

• Brooklyn's Finest a Sleepy Follow-Up to Training Day

  published March 4, 2010

  All that remains of Antoine Fuqua's Training Day is Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance, his baddest and best. The rest of the... More >>

• Youth in Revolt: Just Another Bland Teen Movie

  published January 7, 2010

  For years, Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne's 1993 novel Youth in Revolt — which, actually, was three novels... More >>