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Bedtime Stories
Adam Sandler has finally found his audience: 3-year-olds. Maybe he should stop making movies already and just rent himself out for kids’ parties.
"...the simpler things in life – gum balls, sports cars, laughing at little people – who is suddenly thrust..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Bolt
Bolt is a canine who plays a cybernetically enhanced dog on TV but has no knowledge of how to cope in the real world in this new animated film.
"...or failure, but the writing team of Dan Fogelman (Cars) and co-director Williams (Mulan) has concocted one of the..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

RocknRolla
Director Guy Ritchie once more delivers a kinetic and consequence-free tribute to the criminal lifestyle.
"...star, an infinite number of fancy outfits and shiny cars, a criminal savant with a taste for the films..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Transsiberian
With Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, and Ben Kingsley, this train-set suspense movie also is full of sharp character studies.
"...characters. The cramped quarters and corridors of the railroad cars on the Trans-Siberian line from Beijing to Moscow enhance..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Death Race
All the busted heads and blasted gaskets can't turn this makeover of a cult classic into anything but a real drag.
"...Alien vs. Predator). Anderson takes the bare-bones concept of cars and drivers engaged in state-sanctioned slaughter and reduces it..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Race
This new Bollywood film tells the story of two brothers who compete with cars at the racetrack.
"...tells the story of two brothers who compete with cars at the racetrack...."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Bucket List
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play characters who have only a short time to live. Promises, promises.
"...kick the bucket). For an hour, they drive sports cars at high speeds, travel to exotic countries, and check..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Redline
Redline dives headfirst into onanistic autoeroticism, but this exotic-car movie feels ill-lubed and mechanical all the way.
"...bet $100 million of their money and their own cars – including the aforementioned Enzo, a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alpha Dog
It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
"...and ass and drugs and guns and California muscle cars and busting up house parties with kung fu than..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Casino Royale
This is the James Bond origin story wherein we get to discover, along with incoming blond Bond Daniel Craig, where 007 got his suave daredeviltry and love of fast cars, vodka martinis, and highest-stakes cardsharpery.
"...007 got his Walther PPK, his love of fast cars and suave daredeviltry, vodka martinis (at one point a..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tales of the Rat Fink
Ron Mann's Tales of the Rat Fink is an ebullient survey of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's life that revs along with the zest a souped-up hot rod.
"...was made). From Roth's customized dragsters to his conceptual cars built from the newly invented fiberglass material to his..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Who Killed the Electric Car?
This multifaceted documentary about the history of GM's electric car seeks the culprit responsible for its demise and finds plenty of blame to go around.
"...also complying with the law by building the required cars. Talking out of both sides of its mouth, GM..."

July 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Over the Hedge
Canny casting and a sly anti-consumerist message give this animated feature extra adult appeal, but like a lot of animated fare it’s overly busy and splashy.
"...(alongside Fox’s Ice Age: The Meltdown and Pixar’s upcoming Cars) has its pleasures – if you can roll with..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2004
A program of eight short films nominated for live-action and animated Academy Awards in 2004.
"...Directed by: Various. Relax. They’ve already been nominated for Oscars, so this collection doesn’t suffer from the qualitative unevenness..."

April 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Festival Express
Hurtling across Canada during the summer of 1970 was a trainload of musicians – among them Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and Buddy Guy – who partied and played music ’til the very end of the line.
"...on the train and doing it some more. The cars overflowed with the sound of music: artists collaborated, harmonized,..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Collateral
Michael Mann returns to his stock-and-trade: the glossy, kinetic crime thriller, this time starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
"...Mann seems content to play games with his fast cars, cool streets, and loud rock, leaving Collateral squarely within..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Common Law
I don't want this car
"...is" sticker, on the side window of all used cars that are offered for sale. The "as is" language..."

April 16, 2004 Column by Luke Ellis

The Transporter
"...yarn is a slick, sexy little package with fast cars, big explosions, dazzling locations in the south of France,..."

Oct. 11, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Rush Hour Two
"...and one part martial-arts actioner, with dashes of fast cars, hip-hop, and supermodelesque eye candy. Periodically, something combustible explodes,..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

High School Confidential!
"...Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackie Coogan and Michael Landon. Cops, cars, marijuana, and teens. This Fifties exploitation film has Russ..."

Aug. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Family Man
"...movie, it's got enough interracial buddy hijinks, zippy sports cars, and cheesecake shots of pricey booze and a skanky..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Lewis & Clark & George
"...outlaws barreling through the desert Southwest in dusty vintage cars, waving pistols around like Yosemite Sam and raving about..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
"...three bosomy women race around in three separate sports cars and occasionally get out and whoop the hell out..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

World's Best Commercials: Cannes 'ninety-Two
"...on the broadcasting landscape. They relentlessly pitch everything from cars to beer, toothpaste, deodorant, and “the itch that is..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Grumpy Old Men
"...they've been doing this for decades -- digging their cars out of the frozen Minnesota morning, abusing and insulting..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Just Another Girl On the I.R.T.
"...the sea of faces racing by in the subway cars -- the kind of face and individual that Hollywood..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Wheels, Over the Hedge
"...are just as interesting and amusing as their wheels. Cars range from the “Grass Car,” where a man tenderly..."

Feb. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Spike & Mike's 1992 Festival of Animation
"...by the curb wielding a broom indiscriminately, sweeping trash, cars, and people into the refuse duct beneath him. Not..."

Aug. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Passed Away
"...for one he played in the 1980 comedy Used Cars) keels over with The Big One when the shock..."

May 1, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Dark Obsession
"...dinner cavorting, the gang hops in one of their cars (with Hugo at the wheel) and darts off into..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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