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Top five movies and upcoming releases

By STEVE PERSALL
Published June 3, 2004

Top five movies

1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - The young wizard's saga isn't kid stuff any more, not since adolescence and a murderer started troubling Harry (Daniel Radcliffe).

2. Shrek 2 - DreamWorks succeeded in making a rare sequel that exceeds the original. Don't worry: At least two more Shrek adventures are in the works.

3. The Day After Tomorrow - Director Roland Emmerich creates a thinking person's disaster flick - at least as much as the genre allows - with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal outracing a new Ice Age.

4. I'm Not Scared - An Italian boy stumbles onto a kidnapping and befriends the hostage. An unusual blend of coming-of-age and caper conventions.

5. Troy - Brad Pitt cuts an imposing figure as Achilles the warrior in Wolfgang Petersen's brawny epic. Forget Van Helsing; this movie kicked off the real summer action season.

Upcoming releases

June 11: The Stepford Wives; The Chronicles of Riddick; Garfield: The Movie; Young Adam; Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself; Divan

June 16: Around the World in 80 Days

June 18: The Terminal; Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story; Darkness; Love Me If You Dare; The Saddest Music in the World

June 25: The Notebook; Two Brothers; White Chicks; Carandiru

June 30: Spider-Man 2

July 2: Before Sunset; The Clearing; America's Heart and Soul

July 7: King Arthur

July 9: Anchorman; Sleepover; De-Lovely; The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi

July 16: I, Robot; A Cinderella Story; The Door in the Floor; Maria Full of Grace; Napoleon Dynamite

July 23: The Bourne Supremacy; A Home at the End of the World

July 30: The Manchurian Candidate; Catwoman; The Village; Thunderbirds; Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

[Last modified June 2, 2004, 10:11:45]


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