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Film
Top five movies and upcoming releases
By STEVE PERSALL and Times wires
© St. Petersburg Times
published February 27, 2003
Top five movies
1 Chicago -- The celebrated Broadway hit becomes a movie that really moves, full of sexy struts, a dynamic score and action ingeniously transferred from stage to screen. The best film of 2002, nominated for 13 Academy Awards.
2 The Pianist -- Roman Polanski's tragic story of a Jewish musician (Oscar nominee Adrien Brody) escaping Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto concentrates on psychological terror. One of the best films of 2002, with seven Oscar nominations.
3 The Quiet American -- Oscar-nominated Michael Caine is superb as a weary journalist covering 1952 Vietnam politics, competing with an American visitor (Brendan Fraser) for the affections of a woman (Do Thi Hai Yen). One of the best films of 2002.
4 Talk to Her -- Oscar-nominated director Pedro Almodovar spins a soapy yarn of obsessive love by two men for comatose women. Not as outrageous as some of the filmmaker's works, but just as concerned with making audiences cry as they cringe.
5 Love Liza -- Philip Seymour Hoffman is powerfully pathetic as a gasoline-huffing man coping with his wife's suicide. Oscar nominee Kathy Bates (About Schmidt) co-stars.
Upcoming releases
Feb. 28: Love Liza, Cradle 2 the Grave, The Guests
March 7: Tears of the Sun, Bringing Down the House
March 14: Agent Cody Banks, Willard, City of God
March 28: Basic, The Core, A Man Apart, Dreamcatcher
April 4: Dys-funk-tional Family, Phone Booth
April 11: Anger Management
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