Monday morning is a press release

Every Monday the same ritual: a number, a percentage over last week, a quote from someone whose job is to call the number a victory. Sometimes the picture actually sold tickets. Sometimes the studio is grading on a curve it invented on Sunday night.

MINUTECRITIC will keep running the real reviews, not the gross. When a number matters — a movie that needed a room and got one, a movie that was dumped — we will say so. The rest is weather.