A bit late, I know, but the outcome of the Box Office Battle is still the same. Let’s get to analyzing I Love You, Phillip Morris, The Warrior’s Way, and Black Swan.
The last place movie out of the three is The Warrior’s Way, garnering 50% on Rotten Tomatoes and making it to number 9 on the b.o. charts, which is something interesting, seeing as how it’s a mainstream-released movie, unlike the other two movies on this list. The movie also grossed $3,051,000. Critics seem to either hate this movie or love it for its ridiculous campiness:
“My three-word synopsis is my three-word review…cowboys and ninjas.”–NeedCoffee.com
“Lee revels in the poetry of carnage — movie carnage — and despite 360 splatter shots and bouquets of severed heads somehow makes it all seem more kiss-kiss, bang-bang than damaged, or damaging.”–Movieline
“South Korean filmmaker Sngmoo Lee’s debut feature is less a genre-spanning romp than a tiresome lab experiment in computer-generated tropes and green-screen oppressiveness.”–Los Angeles Times
I Love You, Phillip Morris is middling movie this week, garnering 77% at Rotten Tomatoes. Due to its limited release, it’s not really expected to make it to the top five; but it made it to number 23 on the b.o. list, grossing $113,000, which might be lower than expected. The critics felt that despite its flaws, this film is possibly Jim Carrey’s best performance yet:
“Phillip Morris isn’t a perfect movie by any means, but it’s irresistibly self-assured in its weirdness.”–Slate
“[Both] stars prove to be enormous fun in a gay love story played straight in a thoroughly crooked context -a comic crooked context, mind you…”–NPR
“At a time when audacity seems to be slowly draining out of mainstream filmmaking, it’s refreshing to see a movie thats this bold and unpredictable and naughty. I Love You, Phillip Morris ranks as one of 2010′s tastiest surprises.”–HitFix
Black Swan is the clear winner of the three new movies this week, garnering 86% and making it to number 13 on the b.o. charts (also a limited release). It grossed $1,394,000. The critics felt that this Darren Aronofsky’s latest offering is possibly his best one yet:
“An audacious, terrifying and compulsive watchable piece of pure cinema”–eFilmCritic.com
“Only the very best directors can incite such passion, and only films this amazing can fully justify it.”–Mania.com
“..beguiling and seductive…”–PopMatters
The top five movies of the week are:
