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Which January at the Movies Was the Most January?
We examined the 130 films to open wide in January over the past 15 years to find out which year was the most January of them all.
Despite the low scores, this was actually a good year for older actors making one last run at the box office: As the success of Taken had not yet filtered down the development ladder, many of these projects were slightly more off-kilter than the wave of “give a baby-boomer a handgun” films that would follow. You’ve got Night Swim, a horror film that made okay money while being critically savaged; the Jason Statham action flick The Beekeeper; and two sizable flops: I.S.S., a no-stars space thriller that feels pretty January, and The Book of Clarence, a religious comedy that’s so un-January (why didn’t they hold it until Easter?) The month also saw Liam Neeson return for the third installment of the increasingly creaky Taken franchise, and our only two erotic thrillers, the Jennifer Lopez vehicle The Boy Next Door, a modest hit, and the Belgian remake The Loft, which flopped over Super Bowl weekend.
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