The film director Jonathan Levine never sold marijuana in high school, though he may have inhaled some. “Possible,” he said recently, fighting a smile. “It’s possible.”
Nor did he ever trade weed for sessions with a psychiatrist, as the protagonist of his new movie, “The Wackness,” does. But in other respects “The Wackness” — Mr. Levine’s […]

WALL-E
 
Director: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The Plot: A trash-compacting robot learns there’s more to life than cleaning up the planet that humans polluted when he falls for a sleek, female droid, then sets out on an intergalactic journey to be with her
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WANTED
 
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Stars: […]

From a casual viewing of the marketing material for “Hancock,” Sony’s upcoming Will Smith comic thriller, I hardly knew that Charlize Theron was even in the movie. Our crack reporter Chris Lee turned up at an early screening and offers this assessment:
“At an early screening of ‘Hancock’ at the Grove last week, Will Smith’s performance […]

Maybe so! We’ve already learned to expect overall awesomeness from Pixar, even when a movie’s concept seems a little off-putting. (As in: “A sewer rat cooking food in a French restaurant.”) So we were prepared to believe that even a dystopian science-fiction movie about the last robot on earth — a robot who looks suspiciously […]

GET SMART

Director: Peter Segal
Stars: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Alan Arkin
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
The Plot: Maxwell Smart (Carrell), Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of KAOS with the more-competent Agent 99 (Hathaway) at his side.
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THE LOVE GURU

Director: Marco Schnabel
Stars: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Romany Malco
Studio: Paramount Pictures
The Plot: Pitka (Meyers) an […]

Hello, American Girl doll franchise. Ah, what? For those outside the U. S., here’s the story of a growth industry about to get bigger with assistance from actress Abigail Breslin. Here’s the scoop.
Pleasant Company, a subsidiary of Mattel, first produced dolls, then books, and magazines for young girls and teenagers in the late 1980s and […]

Now in theaters, The Happening joins that rarest of film genres — movies with a biology teacher hero. Better-looking than most biology teachers, Elliot Moore (played by Mark Wahlberg) flees a mysterious plague of vertigo and suicides striking the northeastern states with his family and friends.
(SPOILER ALERT!)
Escaping the chaos, Moore determines that neurological toxins released […]

THE INCREDIBLE HULK

Director: Louis Leterrier
Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth
Studio: Universal Pictures
The Plot: Geneticist Bruce Banner (Norton) takes flight in order to understand — and hopefully cure — that the condition that turns him into a monster. Complicating his situation is the military initiative that wants him captured and controlled, as well as the […]

YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN

Director: Dennis Dugan
Stars: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Studio: Columbia Pictures
The Plot: A Mossad agent (Sandler) orchestrates a scenario that will allow him to move to New York City and reinvent himself as a hairstylist.
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MONGOL

Director: Sergei Bodrov
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun (Full Cast)
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
The […]

SEX AND THE CITY
 
Director: Michael Patrick King
Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon
Studio: New Line Cinema
The Plot: Set four years after we last saw the ladies, Carrie (Parker), Samantha (Cattrall), Miranda (Nixon), and Charlotte (Davis) negotiate their friendships, romances, and careers in New York City. At the center of it all is Carrie’s pending […]