top five

In the tradition of ScreenCrush series like You Think You Know Movies and You Think You Know TV comes a brand new YouTube series: Top Five! Each week (or so; we’ve got a lot of other stuff going on), ScreenCrush editor and critic Matt Singer will count down a particular topic from the world of movies (and probably write these introductory posts in the third person).

Sometimes, a film can effortlessly open at number one at the box office while still being a pretty huge disaster. This is the case with ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings,’ which rode a wave of terrible reviews and an even more terrible marketing campaign to a hugely disappointing start. With a lot of big movies opening the next two weeks, the new Biblical epic won’t even find time to grow some legs. Chances are strong that it is dead on arrival.

There are a lot of things that "everybody" does. Everybody watches the Super Bowl (actually, I didn't for over a decade, but recently started watching again). Everybody drives (I've known two people, elderly people, who never drove). Everybody eats out from time to time (nope... I knew a person in their 50's who never had been in a restaurant). Fact is, there is nothing that "everyb