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New releases

A look at what's coming to the shelves

By Times Staff
Published September 8, 2005

Crash

DIRECTOR: Paul Haggis

CAST: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, Thandie Newton, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Pena

SYNOPSIS: The lives of several Los Angelenos collide, with a thread of racial intolerance connecting them.

WHAT WE SAID: St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall gave Crash a B+

. "This is one of those rare occasions when a film deserves a longer running time. The topic of racial conflict and suspicion sprawls with too much importance, too many possibilities to cover in only 100 minutes. But Crash deserves credit for realizing it doesn't have all the answers; Haggis prefers to raise moral and ethical questions to be considered after the show. That alone makes it an exciting movie experience," Persall wrote.

MPAA RATING: R; harsh profanity, violence, sexual situations, mature themes

RUNNING TIME: 100 min.

DIRECTOR: Ki-duk Kim

CAST: Hee Jae, Seung-yeon Lee

SYNOPSIS: A young transient lives in unoccupied homes, until he meets a battered housewife hiding from her husband.

WHAT WE SAID: Persall gave the film a B. "Korean filmmaker Ki-duk Kim takes a sublime risk by fashioning a love story in which the lovers never speak. Something odd and otherworldly results, a film to entrance some viewers and alienate others," he wrote. "Their expressions reveal more than paragraphs of dialogue would convey. It's more difficult for actors than it looks. What does it all mean? Kim purposely leaves that for viewers to decide, and the answer may be nothing more than a filmmaker proving he can work without many words. At the very least, 3-Iron is an alluring experiment in comparatively minimal cinema."

MPAA RATING: R; some sexual content

RUNNING TIME: 88 min.

Lost, the first season . . . 21 Jump Street, the third season . . . Charmed, the second season . . . DeGressi Junior High, the third season . . . Doogie Howser, M.D., the second season . . . MacGyver, the third season . . . Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends, the third season . . . Millennium, the third season.

Toy Story, the 10th anniversary edition . . . Power Rangers S.P.D.: Wired, Vol. 3 . . . Power Rangers S.P.D. Stakeout, Vol. 2 . . . Princess Stories: Vol. 3 . . . Magic School Bus Catches a Wave . . . Magic School Bus: Human Body . . . Goosebumps: Chillogy . . . Goosebumps: The Ghost Next Door . . . Goosebumps: Scary House . . . Fraggle Rock: The Complete First Season . . . Fat Albert's Halloween Special.

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