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  • Observe and Report
    Mall cops on parade in Observe and Report.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, April 09
    Observe and Report writer-­director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one... More >>
  • Adventureland
    Great America
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, April 02
    Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and... More >>
  • Fast & Furious
    Made for VG Movie
    By Rapold, Nicolas
    Thursday, April 02
    With the molded-rubber face of Savalas, the basso profundo of Stallone and the name of an underdog gas alternative, Vin Diesel's already-dubious... More >>
  • Everlasting Moments
    Camera Ready
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, April 02
    Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments is a tribute to still photography filtered through... More >>
  • Monsters vs. Aliens
    In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, March 26
    At the end of 2008, DreamWorks ­Animation bossman Jeffrey Katzenberg embarked on a cross-country tour, toting 20 minutes' worth of Monsters... More >>
  • I Love You, Man
    Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Thursday, March 19
    Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is... More >>
  • Duplicity
    The Bourne Comedian
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, March 19
    Whether it's the amnesiac super spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy specializes in characters... More >>
  • The Last House on the Left
    Rape revenge. Yawn.
    By Nick Pinkerton
    Thursday, March 12
    "That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen," one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was overheard... More >>
  • Gomorrah
    The Average Giuseppes of organized crime
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, March 12
    Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé of organized crime in... More >>
  • Watchmen
    Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic-novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it either.
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, March 05
    The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster... More >>
  • Two Lovers
    Shiksa V. Jew
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, February 26
    If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray's Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching, if not... More >>
  • Wendy and Lucy
    Lady with the Little Dog
    By J. Hoberman
    Thursday, February 19
    Sometimes, less really is more. Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle... More >>
  • The International
    Bail Out This Movie
    By Scott Foundas
    Thursday, February 12
    Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings and inconspicuous public... More >>
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Bush and this movie agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)
    By Anderson, Melissa
    Thursday, February 12
    The Confessions of a Shopaholic we need right now would be a handheld doc featuring former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain sobbing into the camera... More >>
  • He's Just Not That Into You
    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating
    By Ella Taylor
    Thursday, February 05
    The smirky, overbearing and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You — which sold a regrettable two million copies... More >>
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Box Office

  1. Fast & Furious, 71.0 mil, 71.0 mil
  2. Monsters vs. Aliens, 32.6 mil, 104.8 mil
  3. The Haunting in Connecticut, 9.5 mil, 37.2 mil
  4. Knowing, 8.1 mil, 58.2 mil
  5. I Love You, Man, 7.7 mil, 49.2 mil
  6. Adventureland, 5.7 mil, 5.7 mil
  7. Duplicity, 4.2 mil, 32.3 mil
  8. Race to Witch Mountain, 3.2 mil, 58.2 mil
  9. 12 Rounds, 2.3 mil, 9.0 mil
  10. Sunshine Cleaning, 1.8 mil, 4.7 mil
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

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