April: Your Movie Month In Review
It's already obvious that this is the month of "Fast Five," with its massive opening and nationwide inception of sexual fantasies involving The Rock, Vin Diesel and an old T-shirt of Paul Walker's. But if we're gonna do this monthly movie wrap-up, we have to declare a deadline for the top-10 grossing films somewhere, just as an organizing principle. So: End of the month. Cutoff. Sorry, "Fast Five:" You'll have to take solace in passing "Hop," oh, tomorrow. Anyway, it's time to do
our monthly look back -- check the bottom of this post for the archive -- at the films of the past month, the ones we saw, the ones we loved, the ones we missed. Welcome to the wonkishness.
Top Ten Highest Grossing Movies Released This April, As Of April 30
1. "Hop," $105.3 million
2. "Rio," $103.6 million
3. "Fast Five," $83.6 million
4. "Source Code," $48.9 million
5. "Insidious," $48.3 million
6. "Madea's Big Happy Family," $41.1 million
7. "Hanna," $35.9 million
8. "Scream 4," $35.5 million
9. "Soul Surfer," $38.8 million
10. "Water For Elephants," $32.3 million
March 2011 Movies We Saw
Leitch
"American: The Bill Hicks Story"
"Arthur"
"Fast Five"
"The Greatest Movie Ever Sold"
"Hanna"
"Hop"
"Insidious"
"Prom"
"Rio"
"Rubber"
"Scream 4"
"Soul Surfer"
"Source Code"
"Super"
"13 Assassins"
"Water For Elephants"
"Your Highness"
Grierson
"Ceremony"
"Circo"
"Hanna"
"Hop"
"In a Better World"
"Incendies"
"Meek's Cutoff"
"Meeting Spencer"
"Meet Monica Velour"
"The Princess of Montpensier"
"Prom"
"Rubber"
"Scream 4"
"A Screaming Man"
"Source Code"
"Super"
"Sympathy for Delicious"
"Trust"
"Two Gates of Sleep"
"Your Highness"
Best April 2011 Movie We Saw
Leitch: "13 Assassins"
Grierson: "Meek's Cutoff"
Worst April 2011 Movie We Saw
Leitch: "Rubber"
Grierson: "Hop"
Movie We Missed But Plan On Getting To
Leitch: "Meek's Cutoff"
Grierson: "13 Assassins"
What We Learned This Month
Leitch: When you start following a film critic you admire on Twitter, you will ultimately find out something about them that will make you wish you didn't. Namely: That they're a bit of a cranky, self-important boor. Sometimes we hate Twitter.
Grierson:
No matter how long I've been doing this, I still get excited by the beginning of summer movie season. It always reminds me of a school year being over and going with your friends to all the big, loud, exciting blockbusters in an air-conditioned theater. Other critics sorta dread this season: I remain weirdly optimistic I'm gonna see some great stuff.
We have such hope for May! See you then.
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