• Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 09/12/2008
  • Running Time: 101 mins
  • Director: Jon Avnet
  • Cast: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Dan Futterman, Donnie Wahlberg, Rob Dyrdek, Trilby Glover
  • Producer: Alexandra Milchan, Daniel Rosenberg, Randall Emmett, Rob Cowan, Avi Lerner, Jon Avnet
  • Writer: Russell Gewirtz
  • Distributor: Overture Films
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Twilight, 69.6 million, 69.6 million
  3. Quantum of Solace, 26.7 million, 108.8 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Bolt, 26.2 million, 26.2 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 15.7 million, 137.1 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Role Models, 7.3 million, 48.1 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Changeling, 2.7 million, 31.7 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 2.0 million, 86.9 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 1.6 million, 2.6 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Zack and Miri, 1.6 million, 29.3 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. The Secret Life of Bees, 1.3 million, 35.6 million
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Righteous Kill

Where once the decline of Robert De Niro's and Al Pacino's prodigious talent inspired howls of anguish and impassioned critical essays, it's a sad state of affairs when the best news about Righteous Kill, the cop thriller that stars them both, is that it isn't awful. New York City tough-guy detectives Turk (De Niro) and Rooster (Pacino) are investigating a serial killer who's bumping off heinous criminals acquitted by the judicial system, but suspicion soon turns to the detectives themselves. Screenwriter Russell Gewirtz's first script was another New York crime drama, Spike Lee's crackerjack Inside Man, which featured a slew of well-drawn characters as clever as the story's twists. But Righteous Kill (directed by journeyman Jon Avnet) jettisons most of the wit for macho bluster and a surprise you can see coming down the turnpike. While there's no point commenting that De Niro and Pacino are playing calcified versions of their once-great selves, at least Pacino is more reserved than usual—a welcome change. But between the film's police-procedural minutiae and trite thematic concerns (the weight of Catholic guilt, the thin moral line between cop and crook), Righteous Kill isn't so much bad as it is played out. No wonder the film's faded stars seem to fit right in. — Tim Grierson