Contributor: Tom Neven

Hide and Seek

A thriller with enough red herrings to stink up an entire fish market and a plot twist that’ll turn your stomach.

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Lords of Dogtown

This thinly fictionalized account of the rise of skateboarding is built around the sport’s first ‘rock star’ heroes: Jay Adams, Tony Alva and Stacy Peralta.

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Curious George

H.A. Rey’s classic children’s tale of the Man in the Yellow Hat and his mischievous monkey comes to the big screen in this animated romp starring Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore and Dick Van Dyke.

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Hart’s War

It’s late 1944. World War II is dragging on and Lt. Hart, a staff officer who never expected to go near the front lines, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of war.

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Three Kings

It’s the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, and a group of American Army reservists discovers a map hidden on an Iraqi prisoner.

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Snatch

A comic romp from New York City to London peopled by characters so thickheaded you wonder how they got so far. The movie might better be called ‘Dumb and Dumber,’ but that was already taken.

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Flight of the Phoenix

This remake of Jimmy Stewart and Richard Attenborough’s 1965 film of the same name moves the action from the Sahara to the Gobi.

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Shaft

This film is not a remake of the original 1971 “Shaft,” and it’s not quite a sequel either. The John Shaft of this movie is a nephew of the original Shaft.

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Flags of Our Fathers

Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg write another chapter in cinema’s examination of the Second Great War. The result is emotional, visceral and devastating.

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An American Haunting

‘An American Haunting’ purports to be based on a true story, but don’t believe the Hollywood hype. It is, however, a ghost story with a wicked twist.

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Johnson Family Vacation

Nate Johnson wants nothing more than to peacefully drive the 1,800 miles to his family reunion … Like that’s going to happen!

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The Chronicles of Riddick

The antihero Riddick is back, this time as the only man who can save the universe from a race of fascist space conquerors.

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Rules of Engagement

U.S. Marine Col. Terry Childers, a much-decorated combat veteran, is sent with a team of Marines to assist the U.S. Embassy in San’a, Yemen, which is being besieged.

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The Da Vinci Code

Murder in the Louvre! Code in classic art! A conspiracy big enough to rewrite history! Or not. Ron Howard and Tom Hanks bring Dan Brown’s overwrought, contentious novel to the big screen.

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I, Robot

Will Smith stars in a stylish sci-fi thriller that explores questions such as what it means to be human and the nature of free will.

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