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Nicole Kidman and The Golden Compass was the top grossing movie this weekend at the box office. (Photo courtesy New Line Cinema)

The Golden Compass, the children's film criticized as anti-religious, topped the weekend box offices with $26.1 million.

The fantasy film which stars Nicole Kidman and is based on the award-winning novel by British author Philip Pullman, dethroned last week's top film Enchanted, which fell to second spot with $10.7 million.

In third place was holiday film This Christmas, a comedy about an African-American family's first get-together in years, which earned $5 million.

Another Christmas movie, Fred Claus, starring funnyman Vince Vaughn, was fourth with $4.66 million.

Beowulf, based on the thousand-year-old English legend, slipped to fifth this weekend, grossing $4.4 million.

The latest offering from film-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men, came in sixth place with $4.2 million.

Rounding out the top ten were August Rush in seventh with $3.5 million, video inspired Hitman in eighth with $3.4 million, Awake in ninth with $3.3 million and Bee Movie finished tenth with $2.6 million.

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