Either Tyler Perry is officially good enough to name-drop or Janet Jackson has finally recovered from her nip-slip scandal. Even though barely any critics bothered to watch Why did I get Married?, it came out swinging at #1 with $21.5 mil. We Own the Night, the expected commercial big winner, not only bombed in the reviews for its uninspired story, but came in at #4 with $11 mil. And Cate Blanchett is kicking herself right now for tainting a perfectly good legacy, by doing the sequel Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which came in at #6 with $6.2 mil. The Village Voice dethroned her by calling it a: "Highbrow camp masquerading as a history lesson soapier than any bottle of detergent." At least George Clooney's thriller Michael Clayton made it to #3 with $11 mil accompanied by a standing ovation from critics. Entertainment Weekly summed it up best: "When critics complain about the dumbing down of movies into franchise popcorn, what we're really doing is yearning for a terrifically engrossing, tethered-to-the-real-world drama like Michael Clayton." As for the indies, Ryan Gosling didn't fail to impress the critics with Lars and the Real Girl, but with a 7-theater release only made $85,000. Sleuth, however, got robbed of its dignity with a mere $50,000 in a 9-theater release. The Heartbreak Kid is surprisingly still scrounging up a couple dollars dropping to the #5 spot with $26 mil. Good Luck Chuck, on the other hand, seems to be clocking out, already out of the top 10 with $32 mil.
Next week the race for the best Halloween-inspired film is started with Josh Hartnett's comeback 30 Days of Night. If you're more interested in something that'll tear at your heartstrings emotionally, instead of literally, then you have two choices: the dramatic thriller or the tragic drama. In one corner lies Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal's film Rendition, and Morgan Freeman and the Affleck brothers' film Gone Baby Gone. And in another corner we have Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro's film Things we lost in the Fire, and Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo's film Reservation Road. Then there's the slew of indies that are all over the place. You've either got a lot to watch this weekend or absolutely nothing.
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