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June 20, 2013 at 6:15PM
Board of Directors' Tribute Award honoree Colleen Atwood, left, and actor Ethan Hawke pose in the press room at the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, June 3, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: MIN2013061715190769
Board of Directors' Tribute Award honoree Colleen Atwood, left, and actor Ethan Hawke pose in the press room at the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall on Monday, June 3, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: MIN2013061715190769 (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Who's up In theaters now, an Ethan Hawke twofer: in vigilante mode ("The Purge") and in angsty romantic mode ("Before Midnight").

Who's down "Man of Steel"? More like "Man of Lead," according to these reviews: "dour, overfamiliar and rote," "repetitive," "mundane," "joyless," "flat-footed," "boring," "rest easy, Christopher Reeve."

HENRY CAVILL as Superman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “MAN OF STEEL,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
HENRY CAVILL as Superman in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “MAN OF STEEL,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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