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With three days left in the decade, Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers looks back at the 2000s’ worst films. We already know that There Will Be Blood was Travers’ Number One Film of the 2000s, but in a decade that featured swill like Glitter, Battleship Earth and the Transformers series — Transformers 2 was named Travers’ worst movie of 2009 — which film above all else wins the coveted award for Worst of the Decade? Will it be the suspense-less DaVinci Code? The abhorrent Gigli? Watch to find out.

Plus, Travers also hands out awards to the Worst Actors and Actresses of the decade. No spoilers, but here’s a hint: A pair of musicians take home the Worst Actress trophy, while former SNLers share the title of Worst Actor of the 2000s.

With three days left in the decade, Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers looks back at the 2000s’ worst films. We already know that There Will Be Blood was Travers’ Number One Film of the 2000s, but in a decade that featured swill like Glitter, Battleship Earth and the Transformers series — Transformers 2 was named Travers’ worst movie of 2009 — which film above all else wins the coveted award for Worst of the Decade? Will it be the suspense-less DaVinci Code? The abhorrent Gigli? Watch to find out.

Plus, Travers also hands out awards to the Worst Actors and Actresses of the decade. No spoilers, but here’s a hint: A pair of musicians take home the Worst Actress trophy, while former SNLers share the title of Worst Actor of the 2000s.

Whoo-hoo! The last weekend of the box-office year was a record breaker ($278 million). OK, megabucks were taken in by the shoddy likes of *Sherlock Holmes* ($65 million) and *Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel* ($50 million).

But the big news is the humongous $75 million jackpot for *Avatar* in its second week, a scant drop of 2.5 percent from its debut. Most blockbusters drop 40-to-50 percent when it comes to second helpings. Translation: *Avatar 3D* is officially a word-of-mouth phenom. People talk to me of little else. The reviews have been glowing with most critics (me included) willing to overlook the film’s clunky dialogue in the face of the film’s visual astonishments.

Whoo-hoo! The last weekend of the box-office year was a record breaker ($278 million). OK, megabucks were taken in by the shoddy likes of *Sherlock Holmes* ($65 million) and *Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel* ($50 million).

But the big news is the humongous $75 million jackpot for *Avatar* in its second week, a scant drop of 2.5 percent from its debut. Most blockbusters drop 40-to-50 percent when it comes to second helpings. Translation: *Avatar 3D* is officially a word-of-mouth phenom. People talk to me of little else. The reviews have been glowing with most critics (me included) willing to overlook the film’s clunky dialogue in the face of the film’s visual astonishments.

*Rolling Stone* movie critic Peter Travers reaches into his Scum Bucket, filled to the brim with a year’s worth of terrible movies, to count down the five worst films of 2009. Anyone who’s been an avid viewer of this year’s *At the Movies* can likely predict which blockbuster Travers abhorred more than any other, but tune in to hear him rail against five of 2009’s most despicable cinematic travesties: 2012, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and Will Ferrell’s unfunny comedy Land of the Lost. Plus, Travers hands out his award for Worst Actresses and Actors in 2009.

But wait, there’s goodies, too: Read Travers’ list of the 10 Best Movies of 2009 here.

Christmas always brings a whole slate of new films, so let Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers be your guide this week *At the Movies*. There are three big films hitting multiplexes this Christmas weekend, and while none of them are lumps of coal, they aren’t exactly Nintendo Wiis or Tickle Me Elmos or whatever it is that the kids hope to be unwrapping on December 25th, either.

First, there’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective and Jude Law as his sidekick Watson. As always, it’s a pleasure to see Downey Jr. on the big screen. Unfortunately, director Guy Ritchie is at the reins of this film, and he dumbs down the Sherlock wit into a period piece that’s more like an action caper a la Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels than The Hound of the Baskervilles. Ritchie’s Sherlock is chaotic and noisy, but worth the price of admission thanks to RDJ and Law’s bromance.

Peter Travers only reviews one film in this week’s *At the Movies*, but that one film might dictate how we see movies in the next decade and beyond: James Cameron’s 3-D blockbuster Avatar. By now, thanks to a
marketing campaign that probably cost almost as much as the $250 million film itself, you know Avatar’s premise: A wheelchair-bound soldier, played by Sam Worthington, takes on the avatar of the blue-skinned Na’vi (the creatures who live on the alien moon of Pandora) in an effort to help infiltrate Pandora and secure a mineral the Earth requires for survival. Soon, however, Worthington’s Jake Sully finds himself falling in love with Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana, and siding with the Na’vi in their fight against humans.

Read Peter Travers’ full Avatar review here.

It’s officially Oscar season, and Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers is here to tell you which hopefuls for Academy Award glory and some of that Blind Side money will be slugging it out this weekend *At the Movies*. First up, there’s Invictus, the new film by a director who is no stranger to Oscars, Clint Eastwood. The film stars Morgan Freeman as the then-newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela, who hopes to bridge the gap of apartheid by rallying behind the country’s rugby team and
its captain, played by Matt Damon. This is the role Freeman was born to play, Travers writes in his three-and-a-half star review of Invictus, and he has to be considered among the favorites for the Best Actor Oscar.

In this week’s At the Movies, we officially vault into Oscar season with a film that is sure to lock up nominations in every major category, Up in the Air, and Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers is here to tell you why this is a must-see and pretty much the only film worth seeing this weekend. Directed by Juno and Thank You for Smoking’s Jason Reitman, Up in the Air features the best performance of George Clooney’s career and star-making turns from Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.
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You heard right. Sandra Bullock’s *Blind Side*, in which she plays every liberal’s nightmare — a can-do Republican woman with more energy than a dozen Sarah Palins — racked up a gigantic $40.1 million for the Thanksgiving weekend. That’s only $2.4 million less than the juggernaut that is *The Twilight Saga: New Moon*, which declined nearly 70 percent in its second week while *Blind Side* went up 18 percent. Team Edward and Team Jacob are hereby put on notice: There’s a new sheriff in town and she’s not showing any signs of slowing down. Let’s hear it for Team Sandy.

You heard right. Sandra Bullock’s *Blind Side*, in which she plays every liberal’s nightmare — a can-do Republican woman with more energy than a dozen Sarah Palins — racked up a gigantic $40.1 million for the Thanksgiving weekend. That’s only $2.4 million less than the juggernaut that is *The Twilight Saga: New Moon*, which declined nearly 70 percent in its second week while *Blind Side* went up 18 percent. Team Edward and Team Jacob are hereby put on notice: There’s a new sheriff in town and she’s not showing any signs of slowing down. Let’s hear it for Team Sandy.