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Star Trek Heads into Darkness and Familiar Territory Star Trek Into Darkness
Throwing canon to the wind in the follow-up to the 2009 reboot.
By Amy Nicholson, May 16, 2013
'Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek Into Darkness. The answer is Khan. And... More>>
The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby
Gatsby's sometimes great, but not always good.
By Stephanie Zacharek, May 09, 2013
There's a scene in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio's hyperrich, super-awkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon himself to... More>>
Assault on Wall Street Assault on Wall Street
Uwe Boll's solution to the crash? Bloodshed.
By Alan Scherstuhl, May 09, 2013
Uwe Boll's rep is on the upswing, but, really, what other direction could it go? The consensus choice for the world's worst professional director... More>>
R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy
By Stephanie Zacharek, May 09, 2013
In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More>>
Rashomom Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley gets to know all the women her mother is.
By Stephanie Zacharek, May 09, 2013
Jean-Luc Godard said, "All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a... More>>
Hollywood: Enough with the Father-Son Dramas, Already! Hollywood: Enough with the Father-Son Dramas, Already!
By Inkoo Kang, May 09, 2013
In his new film, the social drama At Any Price, director and co-writer Ramin Bahrani examines how the transformation of food into intellectual... More>>
What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow
See Also: 10 Shot Comparisons Between the 1974 and 2013 Gatsbys
By Lewis, Amanda, May 09, 2013
The only thing we English teachers hate more than SparkNotes is a high-quality, mostly faithful movie version of a book. Why would a student slog... More>>
Iron Man 3: Iron Deficiency Iron Man 3: Iron Deficiency
It's shtick and explosions for the great Robert Downey, Jr.
By Stephanie Zacharek, May 02, 2013
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he's the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet... More>>
Travis Bickle and Annie Hall Deserve Better Travis Bickle and Annie Hall Deserve Better
The Big Wedding is vile, racists and embarrassing.
By Calum Marsh, May 02, 2013
When Michael Haneke's sobering end-of-life drama Amour premiered at Cannes last May, many critics reflected on the presence of a shared cultural... More>>
Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered Fear of a Shane Black Planet: The Iron Man 3 Auteur's Career, Reconsidered
By Chris Klimek, May 02, 2013
Iron Man 3 opens this week. For some viewers the film's appeal isn't the eponymous superhero, but the sarcastic-yet-sensitive hero behind the... More>>
Ramin Bahrani: Expand or Die Ramin Bahrani: Expand or Die
For At Any Price director Ramin Bahrani, bigger films demand bigger targets.
By John Anderson, May 02, 2013
Responding to the uproar earlier this month over the passage — and President Obama's signage — of the so-called "Monsanto Protection... More>>
What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion
By Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek, May 02, 2013
Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film critic at the Village Voice. Alan Scherstuhl is the Voice's film editor. Sometimes they gab about how... More>>
Pain & Gain: American Idiots Pain & Gain
Michael Bay injects potent absurdity into the unbelievable true story of Pain & Gain.
By Ciara Lavelle, April 25, 2013
Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) believes life has cheated him. Doesn't America promise riches and luxury to people who deserve it? He's worked hard... More>>
Mud: Killer Matthew Mud
McConaughey is great again, in Mud.
By Alan Scherstuhl, April 25, 2013
Has anyone ever been so perfectly cast as Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? Sculpted entirely of charisma and cheekbones yet still... More>>
Mad Men: Five Academic Theories Explaining Life at SCDP Mad Men: Five Academic Theories Explaining Life at SCDP
By Diana Clarke, April 25, 2013
Just as Mad Men charms its viewers by using sex, drugs, snappy banter and pretty people to make heavy topics (sexism, racism, dreams diffused)... More>>
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  1. Star Trek Into Darkness, 70.6 mil, 84.1 mil
  2. Iron Man 3, 35.2 mil, 337.1 mil
  3. The Great Gatsby, 23.4 mil, 90.2 mil
  4. Pain & Gain, 3.1 mil, 46.6 mil
  5. The Croods, 2.8 mil, 176.8 mil
  6. 42, 2.7 mil, 88.7 mil
  7. Oblivion, 2.2 mil, 85.5 mil
  8. Peeples, 2.1 mil, 7.9 mil
  9. Mud, 2.1 mil, 11.6 mil
  10. The Big Wedding, 1.1 mil, 2.2 mil
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