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Weekend box office
(Week of Nov. 20/Source: IMDB)
1. 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon'
$141M
2. 'The Blind Side'
$34.5M
3. '2012' $26.5M
4. 'Planet 51'
$12.6M
5. 'A Christmas Carol'
$12.2M

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'Mystic River'10 memorable Boston films
Critics Ty Burr and Mark Feeney offer up contenders for the best Boston flick ever.
highlights
Kristen StewartMTV Movie Awards
The movie "Twilight" took home five awards.
Photos
Angelina JolieCelebrities at Cannes
The 62d annual Cannes Film Festival ran through May 24.
66th Golden Globe Awards
Kate WinsletHighlights and wins
Kate Winslet took home two awards.
Screen Actors Guild Awards
America FerreraRed carpet
Stars like America Ferrera of "Ugly Betty" showed off their styles.
People's Choice Awards
Queen LatifahHighlights and wins
A look at some of the night's big moments. Queen Latifah hosted.
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film FestivalMagic fades
The action was muted and the figures didn't stagger the sensibilities.
Featured reviews
'Fantastic Mr. Fox'

Anderson's wit and warmth lift ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’

3.5 Stars  By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film — a thing of lovely comic wisdom.
'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'

‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’

3.5 Stars  Nicolas Cage thoroughly inhabits the character's exhilarating madness in William Herzog's film.
'The Road'

‘The Road’

2.5 Stars  Viggo Mortensen, left, and Kodi Smit-McPhee are father and son traveling a barren, post-apocalyptic landscape in the film, adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy.
'Old Dogs'

‘Old Dogs’

0.5 Stars  The movie is a pitiful family comedy about two aging buddies forced to play daddy. It has the feel of a project that was made in a spirit of collegial fun and finished in a rush of desperation.
'New Moon'

‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’

2.0 Stars  Where the first film's director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer's vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that's a morning-after mope-fest.
'Precious'

‘Precious’

4.0 Stars  This movie catalogs a wealth of human ugliness. It's even been made to look ugly, presumably to underscore the horror movie that is Precious's life. But "Precious," in its own way, is a work of astonishing joy
'The Messenger'

‘The Messenger’

3.0 Stars  In the film, a forcefully acted and peculiar emotional drama, we ride shotgun with Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) and Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) as they inform loved ones that their child or significant other has died in battle.
'The Blind Side'

‘The Blind Side’

2.5 Stars  It may be based on a true story, but the movie, starring Sandra Bullock, delivers two heart-yanking hours of Hollywood physics.
'Planet 51'

‘Planet 51’

1.5 Stars  The animated film is a cargo-cult movie - a piece of pop-culture flotsam that exists by scavenging pieces of other, better films.
'2012'

'2012'

2.0 Stars  Roland Emmerich's movie writes a new chapter in the destruction manual. John Cusack is the regular guy trying to avoid the apocalypse.
'A Christmas Carol'

‘A Christmas Carol’

3.0 Stars  Director Zemeckis makes a leap in creative visualization with a stunning, fresh retelling of the Dickens classic.
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