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Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008
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Easy Rider- Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda go back to a time when a kilo of good pot was a budgeted movie expense.
Eight Below- Warning: Puppy lovers may take a cold view of this Disney movie about an Antarctic guide and his pack of loyal sled dogs.
Eight Legged Freaks- Giant spiders attack, get squashed into viscous goo. Repeat. Would-be camp classic is a big snooze. And what's with the missing hyphen?
El Cantante- This biopic of salsa star Hector Lavoe needs more Marc Anthony, and less Jennifer Lopez.
El Crimen del Padre Amaro- Just like its naughty priest, the biggest movie in Mexico is so taken with the heaving breasts of its leading lady that it can't think straight.
El Crimen Perfecto- This loony black comedy about an ambitious store clerk will take you for a joyride.
Elektra- Zap! Pow! Kerplunk! This flick starring Jennifer Garner as a comic-book assassin-heroine is hardly a killer.
Elephant- Gus Van Sant's vapid high-school-shooting film is part Columbine art project, part exploitation flick.
Elf- In Jon Favreau's irresistibly goofy Christmas comedy, Will Ferrell is raised by Santa's elves but must find his real family in Manhattan.
- Elizabeth
- How the Virgin Queen, from the stone castle's point of view, turned herself immortal.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age- Cate Blanchett is back as the browless Virgin Queen. But this semi-lavish sequel is a royal stiff.
Elizabethtown- Cameron Crowe's latest isn't as bad as you've heard, but it's still a desperate mess of a movie.
Empire- This crime drama about a dealer who dips into high finance will rob you of something more precious than drugs: Your time.
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones- A heartfelt look at the four misfits from Queens who saved post-'60s American culture.
Enduring Love- This peculiar film about a guy stalked by another guy asks that age-old question: Are psychotics who need people the luckiest people in the world?
Enemy at the Gates- How much of this thrilling face-off between Germans and Russians is true? If it's this good, who cares?
Enigma- Kate Winslet enlivens a clunky, honorable yarn about the tea-guzzling English eccentrics who broke the Nazi codes.
Enough- Jennifer Lopez kicks butt in a sleazy, paranoid revenge fantasy pretending to be an "issue" drama.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room- This movie about America's biggest corporate collapse is part of a new breed of film, more agitprop than documentary.
- Entertaining Arnold
- In a press junket interview, Schwarzenegger has the orange skin of extreme stardom -- and has reporters eating out of his hand.
Ents storm Grand Central!- And Gollum rides the Times Square shuttle, as New Line's publicity machine brings Middle-earth to America's city of myth.
Eureka- Indie movies go global with a four-hour Japanese film that, like life, keeps going -- even if you sneak off to the bathroom.
Eurotrip- This teenagers-abroad comedy is full of randy high-school-boy humor that turns out to be -- surprise, surprise! -- kind of funny.
Evan Almighty- God forbid Steve Carell should keep pouring his comic talents into brain-dead heart-warmers like this.
Everybody needs an honest shake- Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple talks about her new Dixie Chicks movie, "Shut Up & Sing," and why she hopes their fans will forgive them.
Everyone is flawed and there are no simple solutions- Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur talks about "The Sea," his tempestuous and extraordinary drama of a fishing family's self-destruction.
Everything Is Illuminated- For those who couldn't quite grasp the novel, Liev Schreiber's film version finally illuminates what the fuss was all about.
Everything you wanted to know about "Memento- A critic dissects the most complex -- and controversial -- film of the year.
Everything you were afraid to ask about "Donnie Darko- With the release of the new director's cut, there are even more questions about the 2001 cult fave. Who's the fat guy in the track suit? What's with the 6-foot rabbit? We answer them all.
Everything you were afraid to ask about "Mulholland Drive- Revised and updated: The scary cowboy! The mysterious box! All that sex! We answer all your questions about David Lynch's latest outrage -- the weirdest movie of the year.
Everything you were afraid to ask about "Southland Tales- Baffled by Richard Kelly's latest apocalyptic epic -- the fluid karma, the biblical references, the space-time rift? Get all your questions answered here.
Evolution- Hollywood cranks out an all-new monster -- a mutant amalgamation of other, better summer movies.
Exiled- This is a Hong Kong action movie that even people who think they don't like Hong Kong movies should see.
Extreme fun- In "XXX," Vin Diesel not only single-handedly rescues the action genre -- he displays exquisite table manners.
Extreme porn crackdown- The LAPD is targeting a new wave of kinky XXX films. But if porn legends like Seymore Butts have their way, "bukkake" will become a household name.
Eyes wide shut- The world looked away when evil swept through Rwanda. Ten years later, a movie demands that we finally open our eyes.
DVD Releases
- Vantage Point (7/1)
- Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (7/1)
- Drillbit Taylor (7/1)
- My Blueberry Nights (7/1)
- City of Men (7/1)
- Rent DVDs with Netflix
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