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    (Week of June 17/Source: IMDB)
    1. 'Man of Steel'
         		$113M
    2. 'This is the End'
         		$20.5M
    3. 'Now You See Me'
         		$10.3M
    4. 'Fast & Furious 6'
         		$9.43M
    5. 'The Purge'
         		$8.2M

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    Take 2: Monsters University

    'Monsters University' doesn't live up to hopes

    2.5 Stars  This is not a bad movie, and to small children it will be a very good one, but it’s closer to average than one would wish from the company that gave us “Up,” “Wall-E,” and the “Toy Story” series.
    'World War Z'

    'World War Z'

    3.0 Stars  Brad Pitt saves the planet from a global zombie pandemic? The surprise of this absorbing, frightening movie is that what sounds ridiculous on paper turns out be a gripper on the screen.
    'Sign Painters'

    'Sign Painters'

    3.5 Stars  A movie with a title like that – about a subject like that – must be pretty drab, right? Not hardly. “Sign Painters,” which has been put together with equal parts affection and skill, is fresh and passionate and unexpected.
    'The Iran Job'

    'The Iran Job'

    2.0 Stars  This lively, engaging documentary has a pretty irresistible premise: an American playing for an Iranian professional basketball team.
    'Man of Steel'

    'Man of Steel'

    2.5 Stars  “Man of Steel” has a scope that’s hard to resist, but what’s missing is a sense of lightness, of pop joy. This is about a guy who can fly, for Pete’s sake.
    'This is the End'

    'This is the End'

    3.0 Stars  This comedy in which the apocalypse comes to Hollywood and takes most of the A-list with it sends up the new rules of celebrity engagement.
    'Shadow Dancer'

    'Shadow Dancer'

    2.5 Stars  In a summer of apocalyptic movie behemoths, it’s almost shocking to stumble on a modest treat like “Shadow Dancer,” a drama set during the Irish Troubles of the early 1990s.
    'An Oversimplification of Beauty'

    ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty’

    3.0 Stars  The word “oversimplification” does not immediately come to mind when regarding Terence Nance’s debut feature.
    'The East'

    'The East'

    2.5 Stars  “The East” is a watchably confused eco-thriller that’s never sure who its heroes are. The villains are easy enough to spot: Oil company CEOs, pharmaceutical corporations, toxic power companies.
    'Pandora's Promise'

    'Pandora's Promise'

    2.5 Stars  What’s distinctive about this film is that the argument for nuclear isn’t made by corporate leaders or the military-industrial complex.
    'Dirty Wars'

    'Dirty Wars'

    2.0 Stars  Jeremy Scahill, the national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, is a triple threat in “Dirty Wars.”
    'Just 45 Minutes from Broadway'

    'Just 45 Minutes from Broadway'

    1.0 Stars  Set up as a play within a movie, the story takes place over some 24 hours at the family summer home, which, in an ill-judged stab at reflexivity, is revealed to be a set in Los Angeles.
    'Post Tenebras Lux'

    'Post Tenebras Lux'

    3.0 Stars  Carlos Reygadas combines Bela Tarr ’s knack for despair, transgression, and doom with Terrence Malick’s quest for transcendence, and draws on the oneiric sensibility of both.
    'Before Midnight'

    'Before Midnight'

    4.0 Stars  If the first two films in this saga belong with the greatest movie romances of all time, the new film is richer, riskier, and more bleakly perceptive about what it takes for love to endure (or not) over the long haul.
    'The Internship'

    'The Internship'

    2.0 Stars  This Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson "Wedding Crashers" reunion is obvious, predictable, dopey, sentimental -- and pretty entertaining for all that. It’s simultaneously easy to like and impossible to respect.
    'The Kings of Summer'

    'The Kings of Summer'

    3.0 Stars  What if Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden just to get away from his parents? It’s small human comedy that touches on bigger things, but then has the good sense to back away.
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