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Top 5 movies and Upcoming releases
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published February 28, 2002
Top 5
1. No Man's Land -- The follies of war are described in a language anyone understands these days. Winner of the Golden Globe for best foreign language film and an Oscar nominee.
2. Monster's Ball -- An excellent ensemble cast -- especially Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton -- breathes life into a suffocating tragedy of racism, capital punishment and family skeletons. The best new movie produced in 2001.
3. We Were Soldiers -- Mel Gibson leads U.S. troops into the first major battle of the Vietnam War while Madeleine Stowe keeps the home fires burning. No political rhetoric, just heroism overlooked too long.
4. Black Hawk Down -- Director Ridley Scott commands a gripping, fact-based story of a U.S. Special Forces operation in Somalia in 1993. A movie war more hellish than Saving Private Ryan. One of the best films of 2001.
5. Iris -- The life and mind of author Iris Murdoch are dramatized at two crucial stages by Kate Winslet (inquisitive, adventurous youth) and Judi Dench (aged dementia). Golden Globe-winning support by Jim Broadbent as Murdoch's devoted husband.
Upcoming releases
March 8: The Time Machine, All About the Benjamins, Lantana
March 15: Ice Age, Showtime, Resident Evil, Juwanna Mann, Harrison's Flowers, Ocean Men (IMAX)
March 22: E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Blade 2, Sorority Boys, Monsoon Wedding
March 29: The Panic Room, The Rookie, Death to Smoochy, National Lampoon's Van Wilder
April 5: Kissing Jessica Stein, Frailty
April 19: The Scorpion King
May 3: Hollywood Ending
May 10: The New Guy
May 24: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
June 7: The Tuxedo
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