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Film

Top five movies and upcoming releases

By STEVE PERSALL
Published October 6, 2005

Current movies recommended by the Times:

1. Grizzly Man - Timothy Treadwell's life was fascinating, his death by bear mauling was poetic injustice, and Werner Herzog's exploration of each makes this one of the year's best films.

2. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Nick Park already won two Academy Awards for short films starring these wonderful characters. Now he's a candidate for a third in the feature length animation category.

3. In Her Shoes - Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette are combative sisters in a smartly written, well acted example of the "chick flick" genre.

4. A History of Violence - A small-town nice guy (Viggo Mortensen) may also be a cold-blooded mob killer. David Cronenberg's film is more about identity than mayhem.

5. Proof - The Tony- and Pulitzer-winning story doesn't always make a smooth transition to the screen, but Gwyneth Paltrow and Hope Davis shine in this story of math and madness.

Check out Times film critic Steve Persall's blog at www.sptimes.com/blogs/film

All dates are subject to change

OCT. 14: Elizabethtown; Domino

OCT. 21: Good Night, and Good Luck; Everything is Illuminated; Doom; Dreamer: Based on a True Story; Stay; Derailed; Memory of a Killer

OCT. 28: The Weatherman; The Legend of Zorro; Prime; Separate Lies; Saw II; Ushpizin

NOV. 4: Jarhead; Chicken Little; The Matador

NOV. 9: Get Rich or Die Tryin'

NOV. 11: The Family Stone; The New World; Zathura; Bee Season

NOV. 18: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Shopgirl; Walk the Line; Pride & Prejudice; Wolf Creek; HellBent

NOV. 23: Yours, Mine & Ours; Just Friends; In the Mix

NOV. 25: The Ice Harvest

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