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1. 'Thor'
$66M
2. 'Fast Five'
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3. 'Jumping the Broom'
$13.7M
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2011 Oscars

"The King's Speech" ruled the 83d Academy Awards. Check out our complete coverage.
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'The Natural'

Baseball on film

Catch some off-season baseball fever with these films that center on our national pastime.
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See which famous faced turned up at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
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Scenes from the People's Choice Awards

Check out show highlights and stars on the special blue carpet.
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Hollywood in Boston

As more movie studios use Boston as their set, the Hub increases its star power.
'The Ring'

Boston.com's top 50 scariest movies

Watch "The Ring" (above) and these other flicks if you're in the mood for a scare. If you dare.
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'Good Will Hunting'

10 great Boston films

Critics Ty Burr and Mark Feeney offer up contenders for the best Boston flick ever.
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'Bridesmaids' and 'Cowboys & Aliens'

Summer movies preview

Amid a rash of sequels, we pin our hopes on movies like the female-centric Judd Apatow raunchfest, “Bridesmaids,’’ or “Cowboys & Aliens.’’
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Featured reviews
'Thor'

'Thor'

2.5 Stars  This pre-summer 3-D action entry devoted to Marvel’s hammer-wielding Dude of Thunder is a mere pit stop on the road to the “Avengers’’ film.
'The Beaver'

'The Beaver'

2.0 Stars  Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster star in this story of a CEO who falls apart and starts living life through a mangy beaver puppet. It strangely mirrors Gibson’s personal travails.
'13 Assassins'

'13 Assassins'

3.5 Stars  Epic in scope, ambition, and execution, this is a classic swords-and-samurai film with postmodern blood and guts, and it’s completely satisfying.
'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'

'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'

3.0 Stars  What we come to love about Werner Herzog’s documentary is Herzog’s love itself. This is a man who has risked his life and the lives of others to get movies made.
'Meek's Cutoff'

'Meek's Cutoff'

3.5 Stars  This is a spare period piece about a band of pioneers lost in the wastelands of the Oregon High Desert, desperate to find water and slowly realizing their leader might be delusional.
'Beautiful Darling'

'Beautiful Darling'

3.0 Stars  Like Edie Sedgwick and Jackie Curtis, fellow "superstars" of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Candy Darling now gets her own documentary, and proves a more than worthy subject.
'Jumping the Broom'

'Jumping the Broom'

2.5 Stars  This is a self-conscious, inherently absurd tale of a rich black family invaded by secrets, lies, working-class loudmouths, and one or two pairs of pants found down around the ankles.
'Fast Five'

'Fast Five'

3.0 Stars  In this fun, frantic follow-up, the high-speed merging of crass and crash equals cash.
'Water for Elephants'

'Water for Elephants'

2.0 Stars  This beautiful and boring movie liberates Robert Pattinson from "Twilight" and puts him beside Reese Witherspoon and an elephant.
'Rio'

'Rio'

3.0 Stars  Traveling from the jungles of Rio de Janeiro to Minnesota’s tundra then back to Brazil is a happy mark of the ambition guiding this animated movie.
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