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I want to see BIRDS OF PREY but I’m in absolutely no rush.

Birds of Prey soars to the top of the box office with $33.3 million

The box office has a new leader as Birds of Prey bumps Bad Boys for Life ($12 million) to second place with an estimated $33.3 million during its opening weekend.

The number three spot belongs to war epic 1917 with $9 million, followed by the Robert Downey Jr. led Dolittle in fourth with an estimated $7 million, according to Comscore. Rounding out the top five Jumanji: The Next Level with an estimated $6 million.

Birds of Prey is the long awaited Harley Quinn film starring Margot Robbie, who brought to the life the comic book character she originally portrayed in 2016’s Suicide Squad. The superhero story picks up after Quinn has been dumped by The Joker and joined a squad of bad ass females: Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), and Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), to save a young girl from the hands of an evil crime lord.

The Cathy Yan-directed film co-stars Ali Wong, Chris Messina, Ewan McGregor, and Ella Jay Basco.

Moviegoers gave the film a B+, according to Cinemascore.

Overall, box office is up 9.6 percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Feb. 7-9 numbers below:

Birds of Prey— $33.3 million
Bad Boy for Life— $12 million
1917—$9 million
Dolittle— $7 million
Jumanji: The Next Level— $6 million
The Gentlemen— $4.2 million
Gretel and Hansel—$4 million
Knives Out—$2.4 million
Little Women—$2.3 million
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—$2.2 million

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I watched documentaries and the movie GROUNDHOG DAY on Netflix this weekend. Didn’t even think about going to a theatre.

Bad Boys for Life zooms past competition for third week in a row at the box office

Bad Boys for Life is taking another lap past the finish line at the box office.

For the third week in a row, the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence film took the lead with an estimated $18 million, according to Comscore. Following behind in second place is Sam Mendes’ 1917 with $10 million, and Dolittle in third with $8 million. Closing out the top five is newcomer Gretel and Hansel ($6.1 million), and The Gentlemen ($6 million).

A weekend like Super Bowl keeps people at home much more than a regular weekend. It’s important to keep that in mind while seeing numbers that are normal than usual.

Bad Boys for Life is taking another lap past the finish line at the box office.

For the third week in a row, the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence film took the lead with an estimated $18 million, according to Comscore. Following behind in second place is Sam Mendes’ 1917 with $10 million, and Dolittle in third with $8 million. Closing out the top five is newcomer Gretel and Hansel ($6.1 million), and The Gentlemen ($6 million).

A weekend like Super Bowl keeps people at home much more than a regular weekend. It’s important to keep that in mind while seeing numbers that are normal than usual.

Blake Lively made her big return to the big screen since welcoming her third child with husband Ryan Reynolds this weekend in The Rhythm Section. The action drama tells the story of a grieving daughter (Lively) hellbent on revenge after discovering the plane crash that killed her family wasn’t an accident at all.

The Reed Morano-directed film, based on the Mark Burnell novel of the same name, co-stars Jude Law, Sterling K. Brown, and Max Casella.

EW gave the film a C saying, “Lively digs gamely into the grit of her character, but there’s so little heft behind the script that she often comes across as sullen, or just painfully clueless. (The story also makes her British, though you’d only know it every third or fourth word.). Moviegoers mostly agree, they’ve rated it a C+, according to Cinemascore.

Overall, box office is up 10.8 percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Jan. 31-Feb. 2. numbers below:

Bad Boy for Life— $18 million
1917—$10 million
Dolittle— $8 million
Gretel and Hansel—$6.1 million
The Gentlemen— $6 million
Jumanji: The Next Level— $6 million
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—$3.2 million
The Turning—$3 million
Little Women—$3 million
The Rhythm Section—$2.8

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I watched THE RISE OF SKYWALKER again this week – and loved it again!! I also watched FROZEN 2 – and was bored out of my mind!!

The Force is strong with Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker as film tops box office again with $34 million

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker remains at the top of the box office for a third week in a row. The final installment of the Skywalker Saga brought in an estimated $34 million this weekend, according to Comscore.

Also holding steady is Jumanji: The Next Level in second place with $27 million, followed by Little Women with estimated earnings of $14 million. The only newcomer in the top ten this week is the Sam Raimi-produced horror flick The Grudge, taking the fourth spot on the box office with $11.3 million during its debut in theaters.

Rounding out the top five is Disney’s Frozen 2 with an estimated $11.3 million.

Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, and Jacki Weaver star in the latest release of The Grudge film franchise. Written and directed by Nicolas Pesce, the horror drama tells four different stories in non-chronological order. It’s centered on the investigation into a young mother who murders her family.

EW gave the film a B- saying, “The result is, deliberately, much less fun than one might expect from a wide release franchise horror sequel. But those who wish to kick off the year with a merciless slice of supernatural mayhem will not be holding a grudge against the filmmaker for that.”

Moviegoers weren’t as kind, however. Cinemascore reports an F rating from those who rushed to theaters during its debut weekend.

Overall, box office is up 7.2 percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Jan. 3-5 numbers below:

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—$34 million
Jumanji: The Next Level— $27 million
Little Women—$13.6 million
The Grudge—$11.3 million
Frozen 2— $11.29 million
Spies in Disguise—$10 million
Knives Out—$9 million
Uncut Gems—$7.8 million
Bombshell— $4 million
Cats— $3 million

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I’ll watch it, whenever he lets us.

Quentin Tarantino Says You’ll Probably See that 4-Hour ‘Once Upon a Time…’ Cut in a Year

Do you want to see a super-extended cut of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood? Of course you do. Word of a potential four-hour cut hit the web earlier this year and cinephiles appropriately were overjoyed at the prospect of seeing more of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio bromancing through the City of Angels in Quentin Tarantino‘s heartfelt ode to the Hollywood of yore. Well, good news. Tarantino seems to think it’s gonna happen… you’re just going to have to wait a little bit.

With Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood poised for a major awards season, Tarantino, Pitt, and DiCaprio joined Collider for a special FYC screening today at ArcLight Hollywood and asked about the potential extended cut, Tarantino was enthusiastic.

The theatrical release of the film sits at 161 minutes, and a subsequent re-release added another 10 minutes of deleted scenes, and Tarantino recalled turning to Sony boss Tom Rothman for guidance during the tough process of editing down.

“It’s all good. It’s all great. I don’t know if an audience would sit for it, but I love it. So we showed it to Tom Rothman and it was like, ‘OK, here this all is. We know that this is a movie, but maybe you can help us out because we like everything.’”

At which point Pitt interjected with the question on everyone’s mind: “The real question is are we going to get to see this one way or another?”

Tarantino didn’t give a hard confirmation or release date, but he certainly sounded inclined to get the extended version to audiences eventually. Answering the crow cheers to Pitt’s question, Tarantino replied.

“Hey look, it’s all good so once this whole thing is said and done, maybe in a year’s time, we probably will.”

The decision to release an extended cut isn’t exactly a shocker considering Tarantino’s past. The filmmaker famously had to split Kill Bill into two theatrical releases and edited them both into Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (though you can only see it at his movie theater the New Beverly for now). He released an extended cut of Death Proof. Earlier this year, he told /Film he has a longer director’s cut of Django Unchained to release down the line. And of course, there’s The Hateful Eight, which he re-cut into a four-part miniseries for Netflix.

Earlier this year, Pitt spoke about the possibility of a Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood series cut, noting the possibilities of the series format.

“I look at series where you can spend much more time on characters and story and explore angles you don’t always get to do in film. So much of these films end up on the cutting room floor because they just don’t fit in the box. That’s why I think it’s interesting that Tarantino took Hateful Eight and ostensibly repurposed it as a three-part series. It’s almost the best of both words: You have the cinema experience that exists, but you can’t actually put more content in the series format.”

What might we see in the extended cut? Well, there are some hints out there. In addition to the footage released in the extended theatrical cut (which included two fake ads and extended looks at the in-movie Lancer and Bounty Law series footage), Damon Herriman—who plays infamous cult leader Charles Manson in the film— told EW that a lot” of footage was cut from the film and confirmed one other Charmes Manson scene that “may make an appearance at some point.”

Herriman said: “[W]e did shoot a little more than what’s in the film. He did cut quite a lot out of the film. The stuff I got to do in that was lighter and more of a fun tone…”

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I’m excited about almost all of these films too…especially GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE!!

‘Wonder Woman 1984,’ ‘Black Widow’ most anticipated movies of 2020: Survey

Wonder Woman 1984 and Black Widow are the most anticipated films of 2020, according to a new Fandango survey.

The two women-led movies lead a list that also includes Marvel’s Eternals, Mulan, Bond film No Time to Die, and A Quiet Place Part II, while Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot beats Black Widow’s Scarlett Johansson to the top spot on the Most Anticipated Actress countdown.

Gadot’s Wonder Woman co-star Chris Pine beats out Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s Paul Rudd and Free Guy’s Ryan Reynolds to the number one spot on the Most Anticipated Actor list, while Kristen Wiig’s Cheetah from Wonder Woman 1984 is the Most Anticipated Villain, and Mulan is the Most Anticipated Family Film.

FULL SURVEY RESULTS

Most Anticipated Movie:
1. Wonder Woman 1984
2. Black Widow
3. Marvel’s Eternals
4. Mulan
5. No Time to Die
6. A Quiet Place Part II
7. Birds of Prey
8. In the Heights
9. Pixar’s Soul
10. Fast & Furious 9

Most Anticipated Actress:
1. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman 1984)
2. Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow)
3. Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place Part II, Jungle Cruise)
4. Margot Robbie (Birds of Prey)
5. Zendaya (Dune)

Most Anticipated Actor:
1. Chris Pine (Wonder Woman 1984)
2. Paul Rudd (Ghostbusters: Afterlife)
3. Ryan Reynolds (Free Guy)
4. Daniel Craig (No Time to Die)
5. Robert Downey Jr. (Dolittle)

Most Anticipated Villain:
1. Kristen Wiig as Cheetah (Wonder Woman 1984)
2. Rami Malek as Safin (No Time to Die)
3. Ewan McGregor as Black Mask (Birds of Prey)
4. Jim Carrey as Dr. Ivo Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)
5. Charlize Theron as Cipher (Fast & Furious 9)

Most Anticipated Family Film:
1. Mulan
2. Pixar’s Soul
3. Sonic the Hedgehog
4. Dolittle
5. Jungle Cruise

Most Anticipated Horror Film:
1. A Quiet Place Part II
2. Halloween Kills
3. The Invisible Man
4. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
5. The Grudge

Most Anticipated Live-Action Comedy:
1. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2. Bill & Ted Face the Music
3. Bad Boys For Life
4. Legally Blonde 3
5. The Lovebirds

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I just keep going to see THE RISE OF SKYWALKER over and over again!!

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker wins box office again, Jumanji: The Next Level holding strong

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has zoomed past the competition at the box office with an estimated $72 million, but the final installment of the Skywalker Saga took a hit in excess of 50 percent during its second week in theaters.

The J.J. Abrams-directed drama opened last weekend with a whopping $176 million, but it could not sustain that momentum. That does not take away from the film’s power, however. The production has made an estimated $361.8 million in ten days for Disney domestically, helping the overall box office cross $11 billion on Thursday, according to ComScore.

Second place goes to Jumanji: The Next Level with $35.3 million, followed by Little Women that brought in an estimated $16.6 million. Fourth place goes to Frozen 2 with $16.5 million after 38 days in theaters.

Rounding out the top five is newcomer Spies in Disguise with an estimated $13.2 million.

Critics and moviegoers can’t get enough of Little Women, the seventh film adaptation of the popular Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name. The period drama follows the trials and tribulations of the March sisters: Meg (Emma Watson), Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Amy (Florence Pugh), and Beth (Eliza Scanlen), as they come of age during the American Civil War.

EW gave the film an A- saying, director Greta Gerwig’s “2019 take is less a faithful rendering of the text than a sort of joyful reimaging, a classic cleared of cobwebs (though it still keeps the crinolines).”

The film co-stars Timothee Chalamet, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, and Bob Odenkirk.

Here’s how this year’s version did in comparison to previous versions of the film, not adjusting for inflation:

–2018’s Little Women opened with $705,000
–1994’s Little Women opened with $2.4 million

There are no numbers for any of the previous four versions, although the 1949 release starring Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh in the first color adaptation of the novel earned a total of $3.4 million throughout its total run. The first version with sound opened in 1933 starring Katherine Hepburn made $2.1 million total at the box office.

Will Smith brings to life “the world’s most awesome spy” Lance Sterling in the animated Spies in Disguise, who is accidentally transformed into a pigeon by teen agent Walter Beckett (Tom Holland). Caught in a totally vulnerable position, Sterling will have to depend on Beckett to help him save the world…even though he’s only 15 years old.

EW gave the film a B saying, “it’s a proud piece of family entertainment with a good heart, an eye for inventive action, and a delightfully wacky sense of humor.” Moviegoers enjoyed the film a bit more, giving it an A-.

Adam Sandler‘s Uncut Gems made $9.6 million after expanding into more than 2,000 theaters during its third official week of release. The Josh and Benny Safdie-directed dramedy stars Sandler as Howard Ratner, a New York jeweler who is on the hunt for his next for his next big score.

Sandler has been garnering rave reviews from critics for his portrayal of a role he admits to he was “devastated” to say goodbye to. EW gave the film an A- saying, “Sandler is revelatory in the role. He exudes the self-lacerating melancholy familiar from his acclaimed dramatic work in Punch-Drunk Love and The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). He’s also indulging all his go-big comedic instincts, somehow, letting you see how Howard’s huckster gladhanding is a shield against certain doom.”

Uncut Gems co-stars Lakeith Stanfield, Idina Menzel, Julia Fox, and Judd Hirsch.

Overall, box office is down -4.4% percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Dec. 27-29 numbers below:

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker—$72 million
Jumanji: The Next Level— $35.3 million
Little Women—$16.6 million
Frozen 2— $16.5 million
Spies in Disguise—$13.2 million
Knives Out—$9.7 million
Uncut Gems—$9.6 million
Cats— $4.8 million
Bombshell— $5 million
Richard Jewell—$3 million

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Please let The Matrix 4 be good!!!!

Shazam 2 is happening, release date revealed

The Shazam! sequel is real.

Warner Bros. has slotted a follow-up to the 2019 superhero film on its schedule. The new movie will be released April 1, 2022 (so, yes, April Fool’s Day — but the announcement is no prank).

Zachary Levi is reportedly back on board to star. The film is in addition to a Black Adam film in the works starring The Rock that’s supposed to begin shooting next year. Black Adam is a character who is typically Shazam’s arch-nemesis.

The news follows Warner Bros. announcing several other tentpole release dates Wednesday, most notably another DC title — The Flash, which races into theaters July 1, 2022

The studio also has also slotted the fourth sequel to The Matrix into May 21, 2021.

While Shazam! earned largely positive reviews, the film had a rather modest performance at the box office, earning $364 million worldwide, which Forbes notes puts the film 61st in terms of domestic box office gross; 25th among superhero movies in the last five years and behind every major Marvel and DC titles since 2012.

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Star Wars! Star Wars!! I just want to see Star Wars!!!

Jumanji: The Next Level melts Frozen 2 box office lead, takes top spot with $60.1 million

After three weeks at the top of the box office, Disney’s Frozen 2 ($19.2 million) has been relinquished to second place by Jumanji: The Next Level ($60.1 million) this weekend. But don’t feel bad for Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel), whose animated film has made approximately $367 million in its 24 days of domestic release.

In Sony’s followup to the 2017 action-adventure film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, audiences see the return of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan for more wacky adventures in the overall fourth installment of the film franchise. The Jake Kasdan-directed title also sees the addition of a variety of new characters played by Danny DeVito, Awkwafina, and Danny Glover.

Knives Out takes the third spot with an estimated $9.3 million, followed by Richard Jewell with an underwhelming $5 million. The number five slot was taken by Black Christmas, which also underperformed during its opening weekend making a dismal $4.4 million.

Jumanji: The Next Level opens a year after the events of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, after the crew: Spencer (Alex Wolff), Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain), Martha (Morgan Turner), and Bethany (Madison Iseman) split up and went their separate ways. They reunite to rescue one of their own, but the game has changed. The stakes are higher and the players will face unknown terrain in this dangerous game where only the smartest and strongest survive.

With so many reboots failing to bring moviegoers to theaters in droves, Jumanji proves there’s still an audience for fresh follow-ups with a unique twist to the plot. The Next Level has outperformed its predecessor Welcome to the Jungle by quite a large amount, the 2017 film earned $36 million during its opening weekend (not adjusting for inflation).

The original Jumanji, starring the legendary Robin Williams, premiered in 1995 earning $11.1 million during its opening weekend in December.

EW gave The Next Level a B, saying it “packs more humor than its predecessor, but Welcome to the Jungle had the benefit of introducing its quartet of real-world heroes, all of whom had easily recognizable teenage fears and prejudices for which a bit of high-risk teamwork — in a landscape as physically perilous as high school is emotionally so — turned out to be the perfect cure.”

Clint Eastwood’s true-story drama Richard Jewell tells the story of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta. Based on the Vanity Fair article “American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell” by Marie Brenner and the Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen book “The Suspect,” Richard Jewell highlights real-life security guard Jewell (played by Paul Walter Hauser) who found a bomb and after reporting it, became a suspect himself.

The film co-stars Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Ian Gomez. Wilde brought to life Atlanta-Journal Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs, a role that was heavily criticized by the current editor of the publication claiming the depiction of the late Scruggs was “entirely false and malicious.” The reporter is shown exchanging sex with an FBI agent in exchange for information in the drama.

Wilde explained via social media, “The perspective of the fictional dramatization of the story, as I understood it, was that Kathy, and the FBI agent who leaked false information to her, were in a pre-existing romantic relationship, not a transactional exchange of sex for information.”

Notwithstanding, Richard Jewell received mostly favorable reviews from critics. EW gave the film a B+, saying, “delivers Jewell’s story with almost no unnecessary flourishes; a taut, streamlined drama leavened by crucial doses of empathy.”

Moviegoers gave it an A via CinemaScore and it earned a 73% fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes.

Blumhouse Productions was not able to keep audiences in love with horror films this far after Halloween. Their PG-13 rated Black Christmas underperformed at the box office, which is another big loss for distributor Universal.

The film, a remake of the 1974 film of the same name, tells the story of a group of Hawthorne College sorority sisters who are being killed off one by one over the quiet holiday break on campus. But the scared students won’t sit back and wait for their turn to be slashed, they fight back and end up going even deeper into the mystery of who is behind these bloody murders.

Cast includes Imogen Poots, Brittany O’Grady, Cary Elwes, Aleyse Shannon, and Lily Donoghue.

Both critics and moviegoers agree, Black Christmas is one film you shouldn’t be afraid to skip. It has a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Cinemascore grades it a D+.

Overall, box office is down -5.4% percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Dec. 13-15 numbers below:

Jumanji: The Next Level— $60.1 million
Frozen 2— $19.2 million
Knives Out—$9.3 million
Richard Jewell—$5 million
Black Christmas—$4.4 million
Ford v Ferrari—$4.1 million
Queen & Slim—$3.6 million
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood—$3.4 million
Dark Waters— $2 million
21 Bridges— $1.2 million

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Still haven’t seen KNIVES OUT. My bad. I need to see it!!

Disney’s Frozen 2 can’t be toppled at the box office, earns estimated $34.7 million

Disney’s Frozen 2 is just chilling at the top of the box office list for its third week in a row. The animated sequel made an estimated $34.7 million, with its closest competition Knives Out bringing in $14.2 million over the weekend.

The rest of the top five are all returning titles: Ford v Ferrari ($6.6 million), Queen & Slim ($6.5 million), and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ($5.2 million).

The only new addition to the top ten this weekend is Mark Ruffalo‘s Dark Waters, which enters the box office competition in sixth place with $4.1 million.

The legal thriller, directed by Todd Haynes, is based on the 2016 NY Times Magazine article titled “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont‘s Worst Nightmare,” by Nathaniel Rich. It tells the story of an attorney named Robert Bilott (Ruffalo) who finds a connection between a powerful company and multiple unexplained deaths.

Dark Waters co-stars Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, and Tim Robbins. It’s currently in its third week in theaters, with this week counting as their official wide release debut.

EW gave the film a B- saying, “It’s a decent movie in its own grim, doggedly determined way, and inarguably a story worth telling, but delivered in beats that too often feel both workmanlike and overly familiar.”

Cinemascore scored the film much better, it earned an A- from moviegoers. Rotten Tomatoes has declared Dark Waters is fresh with 93% of critics giving the film a good review.

Overall, box office is down -5.6% percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Dec. 6-8 numbers below:

Frozen 2— $34.7 million
Knives Out—$14.2 million
Ford v Ferrari—$6.6 million
Queen & Slim—$6.5 million
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood—$5.2 million
Dark Waters— $4.1 million
21 Bridges— $2.9 million
Playing With Fire — $2 million
Midway — $1.9 million
Joker — $1 million

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Up next in theatres it’ll be KNIVES OUT, but once again soon at home I’ll be watching THE IRISHMAN at least twice more!!

Frozen 2 makes competition shiver at the box office with record-breaking $124 million

Disney’s Frozen 2 has taken the lead spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, with no other title coming close to icing them out.

The animated sequel to the 2013 original Frozen earned an estimated $124 million across the five-day weekend, according to Comscore. Not only does that earn them the winning spot for the holiday weekend, it also broke the record for the biggest Thanksgiving weekend gross of all time.

Newcomer Knives Out didn’t reach Frozen 2 level dollars, but the film took second place with $42 million during their first weekend in theaters. Returning titles Ford v Ferrari ($19 million) and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ($17.3 million) take the third and fourth spots.

Rounding out the top five is new entry Queen & Slim who earned an estimated $15.8 million during its debut weekend.

Knives Out was very well received by critics and boasts an all-star cast including Jamie Lee Curtis, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, Lakeith Stanfield, and Katherine Langford. The murder mystery follows the investigation into the death of a crime novelist shortly after his 85th birthday.

EW gives the movie a respectable B+ calling it, “a silly, stabby, supremely clever whodunnit that only really suffers from having too little room for each of its talented players to fully register in the film’s limited run time.”

Moviegoers enjoyed the Rian Johnson-directed film much more, it earned an A- on Cinemascore. Rotten Tomato critics are more in line with fans, the title is currently rated 96% fresh.

Queen & Slim tells the story of an Ohio couple (played by Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith) on their first date, who are pulled over by a white police officer for a minor traffic infraction and soon find themselves at the center of a nationwide manhunt. The duo become unwilling outlaws after Kaluuya’s Ernest “Slim” Hines shoots the officer in self-defense.

The romantic drama heralds Turner-Smith’s feature film debut in a lead role and Melina Matsoukas’ feature film directorial debut.

EW gave the Lena Waithe-penned feature a B calling it, “a lush lovers-on-the-run odyssey.” Adding, “And yet this haphazard film is a ride, a romantic provocation torn between cultural strife and individual striving.”

Cinemascore gave the film an A- and it’s certified 84% fresh by critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Overall, box office is down -5.7% percent year-to-date, according to Comscore. Check out the Nov. 27-Dec. 1 numbers below:

Frozen 2— $124 million
Knives Out—$42 million
Ford v Ferrari—$19 million
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood—$17.3 million
Queen & Slim—$15.8 million
21 Bridges— $8 million
Playing With Fire — $6 million
Midway — $5.8 million
Joker — $3 million
Last Christmas — $2.9 million