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We've removed the grading features for movies not yet released, since some movies that haven't even been made yet were receiving grades (e.g., Spider-Man 3). The grading feature will be available for a picture a few days before a movie's release for those who attend sneak previews and other special advance screenings.

Q. I was looking at the Top Grossing Movies That Never Hit #1 chart and was wondering: What are the top grossing movie that were never in the top 10?

As the sensationalistic press proclaimed with top headlines in prominent placement, Macaulay Culkin was busted last week for illegal drug possession. The mug shot was everywhere. Ben AffleckJennifer LopezGeorge Clooney

The gulf between motion picture technology, such as computer-generated imagery (CGI), and Hollywood's ideas is widening and it is abundantly clear in Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

John Sayles, one of the most solid, provocative and intelligent filmmakers working today, has allowed his politics to override his storytelling. His fictional diatribe against George W. Bush and the Republican Party, Silver City, is a murky, facile, almost embarrassing attack on the current political scene.

There were several clues that Universal's tennis picture Wimbledon would be disappointing: dueling ad campaigns, one emphasizing the sport, the other pitching the romance, three writers and a misleading title, which suggests a sports epic. Director Richard Loncraine, who directed part two of HBO's miniseries Band of Brothers and Albert Finney's Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm, tries to pull it all together and achieve athletic victory and romantic love at once.

Mr. 3000 is a dreary tale of a loutish baseball player's egomaniacal quest to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame that is at once unfunny, uninspiring and cynical.

Anime fans may be salivating for the release of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, but they may be the only ones. The talky, incomprehensible movie—the first anime picture ever to compete at the Cannes Film Festival—is so boring most audience members will likely have their eyes riveted shut throughout the proceedings.

CITIZENS UNITED TO PREMIERE 'CELSIUS 41.11 – THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH THE BRAIN BEGINS TO DIE' Michael Moore

Evening will be hosted by Oscar® winner Warren Beatty James Foley

The gay-themed Testosterone needs more than an injection—this flick needs a whole transfusion. Strand Releasing's dark comedy is about as funny as a limp wrist and as profound as an episode of Will and Grace.

Director David R. Ellis proves that even a plain plot and a bunch of stock characters are more thrilling than an army of flashy X-Men, tormented Spider-Men and noisy Terminators in New Line Cinema's gripping Cellular starring Kim Basinger. The mobile telephone is merely the means to the movie's relatively low-tech purpose.

ATLANTA, September 9, 2004 -- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA) today announced two of its models, the Porsche 911 Cabriolet and Porsche Cayenne Turbo sport utility vehicle, are prominently featured in the upcoming release of Cellular, a New Line Cinema action thriller starring Kim Basinger. Premiering September 10, Cellular portrays Basinger as Jessica Martin, a kidnapping victim who desperately dials a random number, sending a young man into a high-stakes race against time to save her life. With no knowledge of Jessica other than her hushed, panicked voice on the other end of the tenuous cell phone connection, Ryan (Chris Evans) is quickly thrown into a world of deception and murder in his frantic search to find and save her.

For nearly 20 years, families around the world have made Chris Van Allsburg's enchanting story The Polar Express part of their own holiday traditions, like stockings by the fireplace, a brightly decorated Christmas tree and the sweet scent of candy canes served in steaming cups of hot chocolate.

Beverly Hills, CA -- Thousands of photographs, decades worth of correspondence, numerous scrapbooks, annotated screenplays and an array of memorabilia are among the extraordinary wealth of items in the Katharine Hepburn Collection, recently received by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Margaret Herrick Library. Donated to the Academy by Hepburn's estate, it is a treasure that ranks among the Library's holdings as the most comprehensive collection devoted to any performer's career.

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Yimou's Hero delivers the same visual punch, but fails at offering a human-scale drama.

August 31, 2004 Mel Gibson

HOLLYWOOD (Box Office Mojo)—The penultimate gasp of summer 2004 showed some unexpected kick courtesy of a two-year-old, subtitled, period piece—albeit one sold on dazzling visuals and action. Jet LiQuentin TarantinoYimou ZhangZiyi ZhangYimou ZhangChristopher DoyleJet LiZiyi Zhang