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Top 10 Best Movies in Theaters This Weekend (May 6th)
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Here are the ten best movies playing in the majority of theaters around the nation as of Friday, May 6, 2011.
| 1. | Source Code - See-it - Source Code is an exhilarating, mind-bending, sci-fi thriller where Jake Gyllenhaal enters a stranger's body on a Chicago train for 8 minutes at time in an attempt to find the bomber onboard - think Groundhog Day meets Minority Report - but better! |
| 2. | 13 Assassins - See-it if you can - Cult director Takeshi Miike (Audition) creates an epicly bloody samurai action film set in feudal Japan that is an impossibly unattainable, perfectly over-the-top, period masterpiece. |
| 3. | The Adjustment Bureau - See-it - Is Matt Damon married? Because if so, he might be having an affair with Emily Blunt. These two stars light the screen on fire and their burning chemistry is reason enough to see this film about politics, life and love and whether or not we control our own destiny. |
| 4. | Thor - See-it - New This Week - Something about an Australian swinging a hammer just didn't strike me as "cool" superhero material, but Thor, like Iron Man, is comic-book movie gold, with the perfect mix of action and laughs, and brilliantly ironic direction by Kenneth Branagh. But boy do I feel bad for younger brother Liam Hemsworth who lost out to big brother Chris for the title role of a lifetime. |
| 5. | Hanna - See-it - This Hunger Games look-a-like is a cool new take on an action revenge thriller, when a little girl enters the world for the first time only to find she is more soldier than little girl. |
| 6. | Win Win - See-it - Paul Giamatti is a struggling attorney who volunteers as high-school wrestling coach in a film that manages to turn familiar situations into a fresh and funny comedy. |
| 7. | The Lincoln Lawyer - See-it - Early reviews had the world buzzing about Matthew McConaughey's return to the courtroom (A Time to Kill), however, recently, the buzz has turned into a low hum as The Lincoln Lawyer fails to offer a single twist on the predictable formula. |
| 8. | Incendies - See-it if you can - Incendies is a tragically sobering tale about two adults who sit down to read the will of their recently passed mother only to find two envelopes they didn't expect - one for their father they thought was dead and one for a brother they never knew existed. |
| 9. | Scream 4 - See-it - Scre4m never takes itself too seriously, not only poking fun of the entire genre, but also cleverly mocking itself - and does so so well that it actually twists itself around into a refreshing, original serial killer drama that will thoroughly entertain you from start to finish. |
| 10. | Fast Five - See-it - Fast Five takes the best of all four Fast and Furious films and smashes it together with hilariously cheesy Arnold-esque one-liners from The Rock resulting in two hours of pure action entertainment that never takes itself too seriously. You shouldn't either. Just sit back and enjoy - until you give a standing O for the Rock and Vin Diesel's head-on collision. |
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