Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007

By PopMatters Staff

PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well. [17 January 2008]

Monkey Business (Part 4: August)

By Bill Gibron

In past years, Hollywood purposely counter programmed these renowned Cineplex dog days, trying to offset the perception that cinematic scraps were all the studios had to offer. From the look of this lame list, it's apparently back to the filmic fridge for some patently warmed over offerings. [4 May 2007]

Adventureland

By Stephen Snart

A hugely enjoyable blend of humor and agony that captures the confused, painful, but open-ended state of late adolescence. [2 September 2009]

Adventureland

By Renee Scolaro Mora

Adventureland is as tidy and predictable as it sounds. And it falls into that annoying trap that seems to plague this sort of film, relying on an unrelenting '80s soundtrack to set tones and cue plot points. [3 April 2009]

Superbad

By Bill Gibron

Though it seems like a thoroughly modern experience, Superbad does have a delicious throwback mentality, a sense of humiliating history reminiscent of those days in back of the classroom, trading newly learned dirty jokes with your fellow classmates. [18 August 2007]

Superbad

By Cynthia Fuchs

The focus remains unchanged: scared, eager boys make their clumsy ways toward a semblance of self-awareness. [17 August 2007]

Short Ends and Leader: Adventureland (2009): Blu-ray

Short Ends and Leader: Adventureland: Bastards of Young

A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat, Adventureland transcends the indie comedy trap by dint of not being content merely to capture its milieu but to animate it. [8 April 2009]

Seth Rogen turns his adolescence into ‘Superbad’ [20 August 2007]