1) "Black Panther"
Not since "Avatar" has a box-office hit had the kind of staying power of "Black Panther." Ryan Coogler's comic-book sensation became Sunday the first film since James Cameron's 2009 smash to top the weekend box office five straight weekends.
Chadwick Boseman stars as T'Challa/Black Panther in the first stand-alone film for the superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966. The cast also features Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya and Letitia Wright.
Rating: PG-13
Tomatometer: 97%
2) "Tomb Raider"
Lara Croft is the daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father's global empire just as she rejects the idea he's truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can't understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his death. Going against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad's last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one.
Rating: PG-13
Tomatometer: 50%
3) "I Can Only Imagine"
The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.
Rating: PG
Tomatometer: 63%
4) "A Wrinkle in Time"
Meg Murry (Storm Reid) is a typical middle school student struggling with issues of self-worth, desperate to fit in. As the daughter of two world-renowned physicists, she is intelligent and uniquely gifted, as is Meg's younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), but she has yet to realize it for herself. Making matters even worse is the disappearance of Mr. Murry (Chris Pine), which torments Meg and has left her mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) heartbroken. Charles Wallace introduces Meg and her fellow classmate Calvin (Levi Miller) to three celestial guides -- Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) and Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling) -- who have journeyed to Earth to help search for their father, and together they set off on their quest.
Rating: PG
Tomatometer: 40%
5) "Love, Simon"
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life changing.
Rating: PG-13
Tomatometer: 92%
--Compiled by Joshua Hartwig from wire reports and rottentomatoes.com.
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