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The Wire's Movie Trailer Power Rankings: We're Checking In at The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

<em>The Hobbit&nbsp;</em>also climbs, while&nbsp;<em>Birdman</em>,&nbsp;<em>Interstellar</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Wild&nbsp;</em>fall.

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(Every week here at The Wire, we're bringing you an up-to-date ranking of the trailers that are already making us laugh, cry, and wonder if we'll ever be able to deliver the side-eye as well as Maggie Smith does. Our methodology involves staff-wide rankings and YouTube views, and we may or may not take into account how much mouthwatering food we spot in each trailer.)

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