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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes led the box office for the second consecutive weekend.Twentieth Century Fox by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Jul 21, 2014 9:39 AM UTC “Art,” Roger Ebert said in a speech on human empathy on a Colorado Public Television feature in 1994, “is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.” If that’s the case, then maybe it’s grimly logical that with Gaza on fire, and hundreds of families in Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur mourning a wreck that still smoulders, [the most popular films in American theaters this past weekend](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/) are stories of apocalyptic or near-apocalyptic crisis. Also, sequels. The first is _Dawn of the Planet of the Apes_, the story of humankind felled by a manufactured virus and an army of chimps rendered sentient by the same virus seeking to fill the power void. For the [second consecutive weekend](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/20/us-boxoffice-idUSKBN0FP0MG20140720), _Dawn_ has seized the top position at the U.S. box office, having grossed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in international ticket sales since opening ten days ago. It’s a follow-up to the 2011 20th Century Fox film that revived the decades-old franchise; [both](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rise%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fplanet%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fapes/) [movies](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dawn%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fplanet%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fapes/) have enjoyed a surprisingly warm embrace from critics. Not drastically far behind in the numbers was _The Purge: Anarchy,_ whose title is perhaps more fitting, or at least to the point, than that of the first film in the franchise. The plots of both deal with a utilitarian sort of lawlessness sometime in the nearish future, in which anyone can pretty much do anything — murder is popular — over a twelve hour period once a year in order to keep crime rates otherwise low. [Tepid reviews of the sequel ](http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-purge-anarchy-2014)apparently notwithstanding, the film made just under $30 million in ticket sales after opening in U.S. theaters on Friday. After that, things are more incongruous with the Ebert-empathy thesis: a Pixar movie — another sequel — and a tongue-in-cheek romantic comedy about a leaked sex tape came in at third and fourth, respectively. Both have received mixed-to-plainly-negative feedback (_Planes: Fire and Rescue_ holds a [44% approval rating ](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/planes%5Ffire%5Fand%5Frescue/)on Rotten Tomatoes; _Sex Tape_’s is [twenty points lower](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sex%5Ftape%5F2014/)). It was, on the whole, a shoddy weekend for Hollywood, [the New York Times reports](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/a-slow-weekend-at-movie-theaters/), though of course the summer blockbuster season is still relatively young. We’ll get the fifth — _fifth_ — installment in the predictably stalwart _Step Up_ franchise in a few weeks. There’s a redux of _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ coming out; given that (a) it’s a Michael Bay number and (b) Megan Fox is in it, we can rely on every adolescent male in the U.S. to help it at least break even. 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