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  • Redbelt
    David Mamet and his hero fight the power, and succumb to it, in Redbelt
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, May 08
    David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer/director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the... More >>
  • Speed Racer
    It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, May 08
    Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series—one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV—into a prospective... More >>
  • Iron Man
    Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel at
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, May 01
    Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean... More >>
  • Made of Honor
    McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, May 01
    In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his... More >>
  • Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 24
    Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead... More >>
  • Baby Mama
    Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seem the least bit invested in their surrogate mommy comedy
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 24
    Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show"... More >>
  • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 17
    Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of... More >>
  • 88 Minutes
    Ridiculous Al Pacino starsin ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller, 88 Minutes
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, April 17
    Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long, and going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing... More >>
  • The Palm Beach International Film Festival
    That other, smaller, more manageable film festival
    Thursday, April 10
    The Palm Beach International Film Festival is a far more manageable affair than its neighbor in Fort Lauderdale. Lauderdale's big festival runs... More >>
  • Smart People
    Intelligence goes soft in this rom-com
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 10
    Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that's not quite how Randy Newman sang it, but the point still stands. Because in Noam... More >>
  • Shine a Light
    Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again
    By Camille Dodero
    Thursday, April 03
    Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese: his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot... More >>
  • Leatherhead
    George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet...
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, April 03
    When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a question mark... More >>
  • 21
    21 doesn't hit the jackpot. Doesn't even come close
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, March 27
    Ben Mezrich's 2002 bestseller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas For Millions was a smart narrative... More >>
  • Stop-Loss
    Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, March 27
    Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed... More >>
  • Drillbit Taylor
    Owen Wilson's a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard
    By Luke Y. Thompson
    Thursday, March 20
    Rare is the star vehicle that is as poorly matched to its star as Drillbit Taylor, which casts Owen Wilson as a homeless army deserter and... More >>
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  1. Iron Man, 102.1 million, 102.1 million
  2. Made of Honor, 14.8 million, 14.8 million
  3. Baby Mama, 10.1 million, 32.1 million
  4. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, 6.1 million, 25.4 million
  5. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 6.1 million, 44.7 million
  6. The Forbidden Kingdom, 4.2 million, 45.1 million
  7. Nim's Island, 2.7 million, 42.5 million
  8. Prom Night, 2.4 million, 41.4 million
  9. 21, 2.0 million, 79.0 million
  10. 88 Minutes, 1.5 million, 15.4 million
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