MCN Critics Roundup

Critics Roundup — March 1

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax |Yellow||||Green Being Flynn |Green||Yellow|| The Snowtown Murders |||Green|Green| Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie |||||Red Boy |Green|||| This is Not a Film |Green|||Green| Let the Bullets Fly |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — February 23

Act of Valor |||||Yellow The Forgiveness of Blood (NY, LA) |Green||Yellow|Green| Hipsters (NY) |||Green|Green| How To Start a Revolution (Rerun, DUMBO Brooklyn) |||Green|| Wanderlust |Green||||

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Critics Roundup — February 16

The Secret World of Arrietty |Green||||Green Undefeated (limited) |Green||Green|| Michael (limited) |||Yellow|| On the Ice (limited) |||Green|Green| Undefeated (limited) |||Green|Green|Green Thin Ice |||Red|Yellow| Jess + Moss (NYC — reRun Theater) |||Green|Green| Bullhead |Yellow|||| Roadie(LA) |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — February 9

Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace 3D |||Red||Green Journey 2: The Mysterious Island |||||Red The Vow |Red|||| Safe House |Yellow|Green|||Yellow The Turin Horse (NY) |Green||Green|Green|Green Rampart (limited) |Yellow|Green|Green|Green|Green In Darkness (NY, LA) |Yellow|Green|Yellow|Yellow|Green Perfect Sense ||||Green| The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012 |Green|Green|Green|| Chico and Rita (NY) |Yellow|Green|Green||

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Critics Roundup — February 2

Big Miracle ||||| Chronicle ||||| The Innkeepers ||||| Kill List (NY, LA) ||||| Splinters (NY) ||||| W. E. (limited) |||Red||

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Critics Roundup — January 26

The Grey |Green||Green||Green Man on a Ledge |||||Red One for the Money ||||| Albert Nobbs (limited) |Green||Green|Green|Green Declaration of War (limited) |Yellow||Green||

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Critics Roundup — January 19

Red Tails |Yellow||||Green Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |||Red||Yellow Coriolanus |Yellow|||Yellow| The Flowers of War (limited) |Red||||Green Miss Bala |Green|||Green|Green Haywire |Green||||Green Crazy Horse (NY) |||Green|| Viral Factor |Yellow|||| Front Line |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — January 12

Beauty and the Beast 3D |||||Green We Need to Talk About Kevin (NY) |Green||Green|Green|Green Newlyweds (Chicago) |||Yellow|| Joyful Noise |||||Yellow

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Critics Roundup — January 5

The Devil Inside |||||Red Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (limited) |Green||Green||Green The Hunter (NYC) |||Green|| Norwegian Wood (NYC) |||Green|Green| Roadie |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — December 29

The Iron Lady (limited) |Red||Yellow||Green Pariah (limited) |Green|||Green| A Separation (limited) |Green||Green|Green|Green

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Critics Roundup — December 22

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |Yellow||Green|Green|Green The Adventures of Tin Tin|Green||Red||Green We Bought a Zoo|Green||||Green Albert Nobbs (limited)|Green||Green|Green|Green In the Land of Blood and Honey (limited)|Yellow|||| Pina (NY) |Green||Green|Green|Green War Horse |Red|||| Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — December 15

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows|||||Yellow Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (IMAX; wide: Dec. 21) |Green||Green||Green Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green|Green Carnage (limited) |Yellow||Green||Green Daguerreotypes (NY) ||||Green| Pina |Green|||Green|

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Critics Roundup — December 8

New Year’s Eve |||||Yellow The Sitter |||||Red Young Adult (limited) |Green||Green|Red Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy (NY, LA) |Yellow|||Green|Green We Need to Talk About Kevin (NY, LA – one week Oscar run) ||||Green|Green In Darkness (NY, LA – one week Oscar run) |||||Green Magic to Win (limited) |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — December 1

Shame |Yellow||Green||Green Coriolanus (NY, LA – one week Oscar run) |Yellow||Green|| Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) (limited) ||||Yellow|Red Outrage (limited) |||Yellow||

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Critics Roundup — November 24

The Muppets |Green||Red||Green Hugo |Yellow|Green|Green||Green Arthur Christmas ||||| A Dangerous Method (NY, LA) |Green|Green|Green|Green|Green My Week With Marilyn (limited) |Green|Green|Yellow||Green Rampart (NY, LA – 1 week Oscar run |Yellow|Green|Green|| The Artist |Green|Green|||Green

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Critics Roundup — November 17

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 |||Green||Red Happy Feet Two |Green||||Green The Descendants |Green||Green||Green Tomboy |||Green|| Rid of Me |||Green|| Tyrannosaur (limited) |||Green|Green| The Lie (limited) ||||Green|

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Critics Roundup — November 10

J. Edgar |Yellow||||Green Jack and Jill |||||Yellow Melancholia (limited) |Green||Green|Green|Green Into the Abyss |||Green|Green|Green Elite Squad 2 |Green||||

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Critics Roundup — November 3

Tower Heist |Yellow||||Yellow A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas |||||Yellow The Last Rites of Joe May (limited) |||Yellow||Green Dragonslayer |||Green|| Young Goethe in Love (NY, LA) |||||

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Critics Roundup — October 27

Puss in Boots |||||Green In Time |||Green|| Like Crazy (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green|Yellow The Rum Diary |||Yellow||Green Anonymous (limited) |Yellow||||Red

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Critics Roundup — October 20

The Three Musketeers |||||Red Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey |||Yellow|Green| Johnny English |Yellow|||| Martha Marcy May Marlene |||Green|Green| The Catechism Cataclysm (NY, LA Nov 4)||||Yellow| Le Havre (LA) |Green||Green||Green Paul Goodman Changed My Life (NY) |||Green|| Margin Call |Green||Green|| Norman (limited)|||Green|| Oranges and Sunshine (NY, LA) |||Yellow|| The Swell Season (NY Oct 21) |||Green|Green|

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Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
Title Gross Thtr % Chgn Cume
Venom 33 4250 NEW 33
A Star is Born 15.7 3686 NEW 15.7
Smallfoot 3.5 4131 -46% 31.3
Night School 3.5 3019 -63% 37.9
The House Wirh a Clock in its Walls 1.8 3463 -43% 49.5
A Simple Favor 1 2408 -50% 46.6
The Nun 0.75 2264 -52% 111.5
Hell Fest 0.6 2297 -70% 7.4
Crazy Rich Asians 0.6 1466 -51% 167.6
The Predator 0.25 1643 -77% 49.3
Also Debuting
The Hate U Give 0.17 36
Shine 85,600 609
Exes Baggage 75,900 62
NOTA 71,300 138
96 61,600 62
Andhadhun 55,000 54
Afsar 45,400 33
Project Gutenberg 36,000 17
Love Yatri 22,300 41
Hello, Mrs. Money 22,200 37
Studio 54 5,300 1
Loving Pablo 4,200 15
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
No Good Dead 24.4 (11,230) NEW 24.4
Dolphin Tale 2 16.6 (4,540) NEW 16.6
Guardians of the Galaxy 7.9 (2,550) -23% 305.8
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4.8 (1,630) -26% 181.1
The Drop 4.4 (5,480) NEW 4.4
Let's Be Cops 4.3 (1,570) -22% 73
If I Stay 4.0 (1,320) -28% 44.9
The November Man 2.8 (1,030) -36% 22.5
The Giver 2.5 (1,120) -26% 41.2
The Hundred-Foot Journey 2.5 (1,270) -21% 49.4