Top Five Movies from 4/4/2014

With only one new movie releasing this week, you’d think it was a quiet week for films here in Central Illinois. This week is anything but quiet! The biggest film of the spring, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is hitting theaters everywhere. The sequel to 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger has Chris Evans reprising the titular character and introduces directors Anthony and Joe Russo to series. Critics have been very positive on the film thus far, earning The Winter Soldier an 88% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Word has it that this is a comic book sequel with more originality than the average follow-up comic book film.

Coming in at second this week is last week’s number one movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes Anderson’s comedy caper has been a hit with critics and fans alike. See it as soon as possible as it likely won’t be in Central Illinois theaters much longer.

Turning in its second week at number three is Noah. Noah had a big week at the box office last weekend and should bring in a decent second place haul again this weekend. The film is a solid action flick to check out if Captain America is sold out at your local cinema-plex.

Divergent, now in its third week in theaters, comes in at fourth place again this week. Divergent has been turning in great yield at the box office and will continue its run of success this week. This film series has performed strong enough to deserve a second movie.

Jason Bateman’s Bad Words drops to number five this week. Bad Words didn’t quite have the wide success I thought it would as it expanded to the area last week but is still a good film that deserves to be seen.

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Noah
4. Divergent
5. Bad Words

Published on 4/3/2014 10:29:34 PM