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Persall's Top Five
By STEVE PERSALL
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 5, 2001
Recent releases recommended by Times film critic Steve Persall
1. Blow -- Johnny Depp scores in this fact-based story of a small town boy making good in the cocaine trade. Penelope Cruz co-stars.
2. Heartbreakers -- Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt play a mother-daughter con team with designs on a tobacco tycoon's fortune. Gene Hackman is hilarious as the grumpy old victim.
3. The Brothers -- Four lifelong friends cope with the women in their lives in Gary Hardwick's refreshing comedy of manners set among affluent African-Americans.
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- Ang Lee's martial arts fable, which picked up four Oscars, including Best Foreign Film, is a dreamy saga of flying warriors, feminist politics and the sheer joy of making fantasies become real on-screen.
5. Traffic -- Steven Soderbergh was named Best Director for his engrossing biopsy of the cultural cancer of narcotics. An excellent cast in this four-Oscar winner includes Michael Douglas, Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro and Don Cheadle.
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