Friday, January 18, 2008
Opening this week:
Cloverfield
(RT score: 76%) If you’re one of the millions of Americans desperately craving footage of a decimated Manhattan, but can’t stand Will Smith blabbering on to his dog for two hours, then Cloverfield‘s for you. As friend of the blog Rob Turbovsky writes in his review, “You mean, New York gets destroyed by a monster? How do they come up with this stuff?”
27 Dresses
(RT score: 39%) This movie is an important reminder to all young women everywhere: it don’t mean a thing if you don’t got that ring. This Katherine Heigl rom-com serves little purpose other than reminding us that Ed Burns does occasionally take roles outside of Entourage.
Mad Money
(RT score: 21%) I believe this is the Jim Cramer biopic I’ve been anxiously waiting for. However, in the outside chance it turns out to be something crappy like say, oh, I don’t know, a dumb caper flick with Queen Latifah, I’ll be pretty ticked.
What you should probably go see instead:
There Will Be Blood. Sure, it’s roughly 7 hours long, but it spawned the best new catchphrase of 2008.
Horribly misguided joke from a user comment on a Cloverfield review of the week:
You know what I’m itching to see? A bunch of drooling morons shooting up a Midwest mall. Enjoyable! Entertaining! Oh wait…I saw that already!
“andrewny” on nytimes.com.
