Roger Ebert Movie Review

What If Darth Vader Worked At McDonalds
Tell the fry tech to drop more fries before the lunch rush...

Weekend Box Office: March 21-23, 2008

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! tops the box office with $24.6 million

Daily Box Office: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! tops Wednesday's box office with $2.9 million

21 / *1/2 (PG-13)

By Jim Emerson, editor If the thrill of gambling were really about winning, there would be too few gamblers to support the multibillion-dollar Vegas gambling industry. Everybody knows that the odds are predetermined to favor the house, and that people play the games for the rush, not the payoff. Bettors are many, winners are few. That's what makes it a reliably profitable business. Like insurance. The premiums for participating in the game outweigh the payouts the company makes as incentives to keep the players playing.

Teeth / *** (R)

By Jim Emerson. editor "Teeth" sinks its incisors into a cross-cultural myth known as vagina dentata. Or, as Juno might call it, "Vaggie D." Depending on who you ask (not that you should bring it up in polite intercourse), it is said to represent the male fear of castration and of feminine sexuality in general. It also symbolizes the woman's anxieties about penetration, and/or her desire to devour her mate, who is attempting to fulfill his own bio-mythological destiny by returning upstream to spawn in the womb from whence he originated. (Or, as the movie puts it, "the dark crucible that hatched him.")

CJ7 / *** (PG)

By Jim Emerson, editor Do you hate it when a review more or less regurgitates the pitch that probably got the project green-lighted in the first place?

Chop Shop / **** (No MPAA rating)

By Jim Emerson, Editor Three shots into Rahmin Bahrani's "Chop Shop," and you're already pulled into its world with an effortless economy and precision that leave you no doubt you're in the best of cinematic hands.