Contraband

• After the end-of-the-year wave of prestige pictures and award-seasons hopefuls, the popcorn-movie machine is ramping back up.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Mark Wahlberg isn't about playing it safe. The rapper-turned-model-turned-actor-turned-producer is seemingly always on the go.
(New York Daily News)
• MOVE THE TOWN to New Orleans and swap Ben Affleck for Mark Wahlberg and you grasp the general drift of Contraband.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• This weekend is another long one for Hollywood thanks to the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday. There are two major releases hitting theaters, Mark Wahlberg's Contraband and Joyful Noise with Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton.
(The Celebrity Cafe.com)
• Like lost dogs, the most popular DVD rentals are often movies that were heartlessly neglected by theatergoing audiences.
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady A three-way horse race among the weekends new entries, along with several expansions for Golden Globes-nominated fare, should help keep overall domestic B.O. totals solid over the long Martin Luther King Jr.
(Variety)
• Playing a reformed cargo smuggler sucked back into the game, Mark Wahlberg is the star of Contraband, a fairly entertaining remake of the 2008 Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam. And a reliable star he is.
(Chicago Tribune)
• My Icelandic vocabulary doesn't go very far — OK, it doesn't go anywhere at all, although I know that the Icelandic parliament is called the Althing and is more than 1,000 years old, which is awesome.
(Salon)
• Mark Wahlberg delivers the goods in Contraband, a B-movie about smuggling in boozy, corrupt New Orleans. It may telegraph its punches and follow that one last job heist picture formula.
(Omaha World-Herald)
• It's not too uncommon to see a movie trailer for a movie opening in January that looks like it could be pretty good.
(Examiner)