For the week of January 8 - 14, 2003

Pick O’ the Flicks 2002

By DANA DUGAN
Express Staff Writer

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It was a good year by many accounts. Of course, none of those reasons revolved around politics, international affairs or the economy, but let’s not get grousy.

In other news, the movies fared well and though we haven’t been exposed here-abouts to what will certainly become some of our favs of the year ("Talk to Her," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," "Narc," "The Hours," "Nicholas Nickelby," etc) we offer the following lists for what has already come.

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Laura Cordes, Sun Country Management
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Possession
The Two Towers
About a Boy
The Count of Monte Cristo
Catch Me if You Can
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
8 Mile
SpiderMan
Chicago

 

Jeff Cordes, Express sports editor
Chicago
Insomnia
The Two Towers
Gangs of New York
Minority Report
8 Mile
The Quiet American
Spirited Away
Nine Queens
Bowling for Columbine

 

John Pluntze, A real person
Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
Gangs of New York
Insomnia
The Others
The Two Towers
Hollywood Ending
About a Boy
The Mothman Prophecies
Minority Report
Enigma

 

Ben Benson, Magic Lantern employee
The Road to Perdition
Changing Lanes
The Quiet American
About a Boy
Unfaithful
Monsoon Wedding
Enigma
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Insomnia
Catch Me If You Can
Honorable Mention: Lantana*

 

Rick Kessler, Owner, Magic Lantern Theatre,
(in no particular order)
Road to Perdition
The Two Towers
Catch Me If You Can
Gangs of New York
Dogtown & Z Boys
We Were Soldiers
Antwone Fisher
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Bowling for Columbine
Kissing Jessica Stein
Honorable Mention: Lantana*

 

Steve Bynum, Magic Lantern manager
Bowling for Columbine
About a Boy
Changing Lanes
Gangs
Catch of Me If You Can
Spider-Man
Two Towers
Ice Age
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
The Road to Perdition
Honorable mention: My Big Fat Greek Wedding

 

Dana DuGan, Express staff writer
Italian for Beginners
Chicago
Monsoon Wedding
The Quiet American
Scotland, PA
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Spider-Man
About a Boy
Gangs of New York
Catch Me If You Can
The Two Towers
Honorable Mention: Lantana*

 

Alice Bynum, The Community School sophomore
Bowling for Columbine
About A Boy
Catch If Me If You Can
Dangerous Minds of Altar Boys
Gangs of New York
The Road to Perdition
Dog Town and Z Boys
The Two Towers
The Quiet American
Monsoon Wedding
Honorable Mention: The Power Puff Girls Movie

 

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*Despite the fact that the Australian film "Lantana" officially opened in the last weeks of 2001, it was not in releases—and therefore not here—until early 2002. We accept this under this premise and because so many of us love d it.

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