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Film

Top five movies and upcoming releases

By STEVE PERSALL
Published August 4, 2005


Current movies recommended by the Times:

1. Murderball - Quadriplegics play a rough-and-tumble game in this fierce, funny documentary featuring Tampa resident Joe Soares. The best film of 2005 so far.

2. Hustle & Flow - Terrence Dashon Howard is superb as a Memphis pimp with musical aspirations. Winner of two Sundance Film Festival prizes.

3. March of the Penguins - Morgan Freeman narrates an amusing documentary about the mating habits of emperor penguins at the South Pole.

4. Wedding Crashers - The funniest comedy of the summer, with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson matched perfectly as cads faking their way into weddings for booze, food and sex.

5. Kontroll - Subway workers find Hitchcock-like twists beneath Budapest in a darkly comical debut from Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal.

UPCOMING RELEASES

AUG. 12: The Skeleton Key; Happy Endings; Four Brothers; Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo; The Great Raid; Yes

AUG. 19: Broken Flowers; The 40-Year-Old Virgin; Red Eye; Valiant; Mysterious Skin; Supercross

AUG. 26: The Brothers Grimm; The Aristocrats; The Cave; Beautiful Country

SEPT. 2: A Sound of Thunder; The Transporter 2; The Underclassman

SEPT. 9: End Game; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; The Man

[Last modified August 3, 2005, 10:07:07]


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