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    1. 'Monsters University'
         		$86M
    2. 'World War Z'
         		$66M
    3. 'Man of Steel'
         		$41.2M
    4. 'This is the End'
         		$13M
    5. 'Now You See Me'
         		$7.87M

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    '20 Feet From Stardom' an ear-opening film

    4.0 Stars  Morgan Neville’s lovely documentary celebrates the back-up singers, those women whose voices are all over classic rock and ’60s pop but whose names never made it to the liner notes.
    'The Heat'

    'The Heat'

    3.0 Stars  If you’re going to make a dopey, foul-mouthed, predictable lady-buddy-cop movie, you might as well make it funny. And until it overstays its welcome, “The Heat” is shamefully funny.
    'White House Down'

    'White House Down'

    2.5 Stars  Intentionally or not, this is the comedy hit of the summer. Each nutty scenario is surpassed by the next, ludicrous story lines coalesce with expert orchestration, and absurd details return with perfect timing to build to a crescendo of hilarity.
    'A Hijacking'

    'A Hijacking'

    3.5 Stars  This coolly assured nail-biter from Denmark takes a story we’re familiar with from international headlines — Somali pirates storming commercial vessels and holding their crews for ransom — and turns it into high-stakes human poker.
    'Unfinished Song'

    'Unfinished Song'

    3.0 Stars  Terence Stamp and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as supporting actors Christopher Eccleston and Gemma Arterton, raise Paul Andrew Williams’s entry in the golden age genre from mawkish to genuinely heartwarming.
    'Maniac'

    'Maniac'

    2.0 Stars  Elijah Wood plays a creep who kills women and attaches their scalps to mannequins in this remake of the notorious 1980 slasher flick.
    Monsters University

    'Monsters University'

    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.
    'Much Ado About Nothing'

    'Much Ado About Nothing'

    3.5 Stars  Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is just about the sloppiest Shakespeare ever put on the screen, but it may also be the most exhilarating.
    'The Bling Ring'

    'The Bling Ring'

    2.5 Stars  Based closely on a Vanity Fair article about a group of jaded Los Angeles teens who robbed celebrity homes for brand-name clothes and thrills, it bears some resemblance to the recent “Spring Breakers” but without the go-for-broke craziness.
    'Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself'

    'Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself'

    3.0 Stars  Plimpton failed at the various professions he pursued, including Bruins goalie. That was the point. That failure was at the heart of Plimpton’s appeal.
    'Fill the Void'

    'Fill the Void'

    3.5 Stars  By bringing to life complex and sympathetic characters in a precisely observed setting and social framework, and by presenting that isolated world as a microcosm, Rama Burshtein has achieved a gripping film without victims or villains.
    '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.
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