AMC Northbrook

Babylon A.D.

Adapted from Maurice C Dantec’s cult 1999 novel ‘Babylon Babies’, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi film began life as un film de Mathieu KassovitzNicolas Cage stars a hit man who develops a crisis of conscience in the Pang brothers' remake of their 1999 film.

College

In what any student of Animal House will recognize as a boneheaded move, three prefrosh decide to spend their college visit crashing at a discipline-resistant frat, which...

The Dark Knight

Nolan’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins internalizes the schism between serious aims and summer-movie duties. The problem isn’t the admittedly jaw-dropping Sturm...

Death Race

It would take a team of semioticians to explain why Statham is somehow more compelling when obscured by an iron mask. But he is, as “Frankenstein,” this vicious thriller’s Web-celeb racer,...

Disaster Movie

At least the title is partly true: This would-be satire is indeed a disaster. Scary Movie creators Friedberg and Seltzer return to their hit-or-miss formula of bite-sized...

Hamlet 2

Coogan is one of those actors you really want to love. Every clip from his British television work hints that he’s got something to offer. And yet, in his films (Around the...

Mamma Mia!
Throughout the screening of ‘Mamma Mia!’ I kept clocking the security guard in the corner. What was he thinking, I wondered, as Pierce BrosnanBlake Lively’s gossip girl far eclipses Paul Weiland brought the house down at his fiftieth by recalling the almighty shambles when his Bar Mitzvah fell on...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
In the midst of galactic conflict, someone has kidnapped the infant son of gelatinous gangster Jabba the Hutt, and for complex reasons the Jedi are called in to investigate. If the first ‘Star...

Step Brothers

It is a point of fact that Will Ferrell is 41. Assessing his emotional age from comedy to comedy is also fairly easy:...

The House Bunny

Faris, last seen through a haze of pot smoke in Smiley Face, plays dizzy dolls as expertly as Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe. If Faris’s movies fail her total...

The Longshots

Based on a true story, The Longshots has all the elements of a classic feel-good sports film: the lovable team of misfits, the scrappy girl, the burned-out ex-player...

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Here’s ample proof of the unwritten rule that second sequels always suck. This time out, the husband-and-wife adventurers battle an ancient Chinese emperor revived from a curse that turned him...

Pineapple Express

The most acclaimed filmmaker to join the Apatow stable, David Gordon Green has a keen eye for landscapes and a...

The Rocker

About as edgy as a Jonas Brothers concert, this harmless homage to ’80s hair bands and 21st-century emo teenyboppers is wholesome in its debauchery and good-natured in its...

Traitor

One of those functional thrillers designed to hijack jihad paranoia and sell it back as entertainment, Jeffrey Nachmanoff