Monkey See . . . the Year Ahead

The Accidental Spy. Jackie Chan. Need we say more? (Dimension)

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Adventures of Felix. A man makes unexpected discoveries as he journeys through the French countryside in search of the father he’s never met. (Winstar Cinema)

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law are among the cast of Steven Spielberg’s return to science-fiction, which concerns conflict between humans and humanoids. (Warner Bros.)

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American Pie 2. Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan and Chris Klein re-team for this sequel to the teen-themed hit. (Universal)

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An American Rhapsody. A teenager struggles to reconcile her life in 1950s California with her childhood in the turmoil of Communist Hungary. Written and directed by Eva Gardos. (Paramount Classics)

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America’s Sweethearts. Joe Roth directs and co-writer Billy Crystal plays a film flack in the story of a star couple (Catherine Zeta-Jones and John Cusack) and their beleaguered assistant (Julia Roberts). (Columbia)

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Angel Eyes. Chicago cop Jennifer Lopez and lost soul Jim Caviezel fall in love, leading to confrontations with secrets from their pasts. (Warner Bros.)

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The Animal. Injured Rob Schneider is rebuilt using animal organs, enabling him to become a super-cop but also creating comedic complications. (Columbia)

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The Anniversary Party. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming wrote, directed and star in a comedy about a precarious relationship. (Fine Line).

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Baby Boy. Writer-director John Singleton returns to the old ‘hood for the story of a young man (Tyrese) on the brink of adulthood. With Omar Gooding, Snoop Dogg and Ving Rhames. (Columbia)

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Beckett on Film. Neil Jordan, Anthony Minghella and David Mamet are among the directors in a compendium of Samuel Beckett’s 19 plays. The actors include John Hurt and Jeremy Irons. (Winstar Cinema)

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Bread and Tulips. An Italian housewife discovers life beyond family during an impromptu sojourn in Venice. (First Look)

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Bride of the Wind. Bruce Beresford directs Sarah Wynter as Alma Mahler Werfel, with Jonathan Pryce as Gustav Mahler and Vincent Perez as Oskar Kokoschka, two of the men in her prolific romantic life. (Paramount Classics)

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Brother. A Japanese man brings the yakuza code to the L.A. drug trade, leading to a confrontation with the old power base. Directed by Takeshi Kitano. (Sony Pictures Classics)

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Bubble Boy. An immune-deficient lad (Jake Gyllenhaal) leaves his sterile sanctuary in pursuit of true love. (Touchstone)

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Collateral Damage. Arnold Schwarzenegger seeks vengeance on the terrorist whose bomb killed his wife and child. (Warner Bros.)

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Corky Romano. Nice-guy veterinarian Chris Kattan poses as an FBI agent to get the feds’ hooks out of his crime-lord father. (Touchstone)

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Daddy and Them. Writer-director Billy Bob Thornton joins Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Jim Varney, Andy Griffith and others in a madcap family reunion in Little Rock, Ark. (Miramax)

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Domani. The 1997 Umbrian earthquake forms the backdrop for a study of relationships among three families. (Fine Line)

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Evolution. Ivan Reitman directs a comedy about a meteor that brings alien life forms to Earth. With David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore and Seann William Scott. (DreamWorks)

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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Alec Baldwin and Steve Buscemi provide some of the voices in a futuristic adventure blending photo-realism and computer animation. (Columbia)

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40 Days and 40 Nights. A man vows to remain celibate for that period but finds it’s not as easy as he thought. With Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon. (Miramax)

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Happy Accidents. Writer-director Brad Anderson (“Next Stop Wonderland”) helms a romantic comedy about a recovering codependent (Marisa Tomei) and a man who claims to be a time traveler from the future. (IFC Films)

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Hardball. Director Brian Robbins (“Varsity Blues”) turns from high school football to Little League baseball in the story of a gambler (Keanu Reeves) who’s in for some surprises when he’s forced to coach a team. (Paramount)

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House of 1,000 Corpses. Shock-rocker Rob Zombie is the writer and director of this horror entry. (Universal)

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Innocence. A retired music teacher and a former lover test the feasibility of reviving a 50-year-old affair. (IDP Distribution)

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Invincible. Writer-director Werner Herzog tells the true story of a Polish blacksmith in 1930s Berlin who is billed as the world’s strongest man--which doesn’t sit well with the Nazis. (Fine Line)

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Jason X. The “Friday the 13th” franchise is resurrected with the futuristic story of humans who return to a post-environmental-apocalypse Earth to explore its ancient civilizations. (New Line)

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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Writer-director Kevin Smith also stars in the final installment of his series of Jersey films (“Clerks,” “Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy”). (Dimension)

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John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars. Natasha Henstridge and Ice Cube star in an interplanetary thriller about human colonists and ancient inhabitants on the Red Planet. (Screen Gems)

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Joy Ride. Director John Dahl follows “Red Rock West” and “The Last Seduction” with the story of two brothers pursued by a mysterious trucker. (Fox)

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Kiss of the Dragon. Action star Jet Li portrays a Chinese operative in Paris. (Fox)

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Made. Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn of “Swingers” reunite in the former’s directorial debut, about an aspiring boxer and an aspiring mobster. (Artisan)

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The Man Who Cried. An uprooted Russian Jewish woman and her friends in Paris face fateful decisions on the eve of World War II. Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett and John Turturro star for writer-director Sally Potter. (Universal Focus)

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Moulin Rouge. Poet Ewan McGregor pairs with the Paris nightclub’s star performer, Nicole Kidman, in director Baz Luhrmann’s homage to love and popular music. (Fox)

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My First Mister. Christine Lahti’s feature directing debut is the story of the unlikely friendship between a rebellious teen (Leelee Sobieski) and a middle-aged man (Albert Brooks). (Paramount Classics)

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On the Edge. A depression-prone young Irishman checks into a psychiatric hospital, where he forms bonds and finds a potential love. (Universal Focus)

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One. Police officer Jet Li battles an evil alter ego from a parallel universe. Directed and co-written by James Wong. (Columbia)

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One Hour Photo. Lonely photo technician Robin Williams constructs an imaginary connection with a family that’s become a regular customer. (Fox Searchlight)

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Our Lady of the Assassins. A writer returns to his birthplace of Medellin, Colombia, and copes with its decline into drug warfare. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. (Paramount Classics)

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Pearl Harbor. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director-producer Michael Bay and writer Randall Wallace depict the Day of Infamy. (Touchstone)

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Rat. Things change for a Dublin family when the man of the house comes home one night and turns into a white rat. (Universal Focus)

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Rat Race. Six people pursue a cache of $2 million while a Vegas tycoon and his friends place bets on the outcome. Director Jerry Zucker’s cast includes Whoopi Goldberg, Dean Cain, John Cleese and Cuba Gooding Jr. (Paramount)

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Rollerball. Chris Klein, Jean Reno, LL Cool J and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in a remake of the 1975 futuristic actioner. (MGM)

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Rush Hour 2. Detectives Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan track a gangster from Hong Kong to L.A. to Vegas in the sequel to their hit pairing. Directed by Brett Ratner. (New Line)

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Scary Movie 2. The Wayans brothers devise a sequel to their frightfully successful spoof. (Dimension)

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The Sleeping Dictionary. A romantic drama about a British colonial officer’s love for a native of the equatorial outpost he has come to civilize. (Fine Line)

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Songcatcher. Musicologist Janet McTeer discovers a treasure trove of folk music on a visit to Appalachia at the turn of the 20th century. With musical contributions from David Mansfield and Emmylou Harris. (Lions Gate)

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Speedway Junky. Teen runaway and would-be race driver Jesse Bradford finds himself playing for high stakes with some hustlers in Las Vegas. (Regent Entertainment)

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Strictly Sinatra. A wanna-be Ol’ Blue Eyes in Glasgow encounters a mobster who’s willing to help him fulfill his dream--for a price. (Universal Focus)

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Summer Catch. Aspiring baseball player Freddie Prinze Jr. and rich girl Jessica Biel fall in love in Cape Cod. (Warner Bros.)

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Thomas in Love. An agoraphobic is confronted with real life, after a fashion, when his therapist enrolls him in a computer dating club. (IFC Films)

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Together. Swedish director Lukas Moodysson (“Show Me Love”) looks at idealism and hypocrisy in a hippie commune. (IFC Films)

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Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie brings video-game phenomenon Lara Croft to life in this globe-spanning adventure. (Paramount)

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Training Day. Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke on narcotics duty in Los Angeles. (Warner Bros.)

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The Vertical Ray of the Sun. A drama focusing on three sisters in modern-day Hanoi. (Sony Pictures Classics)

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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? In 1977 northern England, a disco-obsessed boy falls for a punk-rock girl and discovers that his father has unusual powers. (USA Films)

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A Knight’s Tale. Heath Ledger takes up jousting in this medieval swashbuckler. (Columbia)

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City by the Sea. Robert De Niro and Frances McDormand star in a drama about a detective whose father was a convicted killer and whose son is now a murder suspect. (Warner Bros.)

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Bandits. Prison escapees Billy Bob Thornton, left, and Bruce Willis work their way toward Mexico, robbing banks and piquing the interest of Cate Blanchett. Barry Levinson directs the comedy. (MGM)

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Woody Allen’s comedy features Helen Hunt, above, Charlize Theron, Dan Aykroyd, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers and Elizabeth Berkley. (DreamWorks)

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The “Beauty and the Beast”/ “Hunchback of Notre Dame” team follows a young cartographer into the deep in this animated epic. (Walt Disney)

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Heaven. Cate Blanchett takes justice into her own hands in a drama directed by Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”) and written by Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz (of “Blue,” “White” and “Red”). (Miramax)

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Legally Blonde. Sorority princess Reese Witherspoon gives up her California comforts and enrolls at Harvard in pursuit of the man of her dreams. (MGM)

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Planet of the Apes. Director Tim Burton updates the simian franchise with his distinctive touch. With Mark Wahlberg, above, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter. (Fox)

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Jurassic Park III. Steven Spielberg has turned over the director’s reins to Joe Johnston. Sam Neill, top, Tea Leoni, center, and William H. Macy, right, star. (Universal)

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The Princess Diaries. What’s an American teenager to do when she discovers she’s the princess of Genovia? Garry Marshall directs Larry Miller, left, Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews in a comedy about the conflict. (Walt Disney)

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What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Billionaire Danny DeVito and suave thief Martin Lawrence engage in an escalating tussle over a disputed ring. (MGM)

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Serendipity. Kate Beckinsale and John Cusack discover whether their love endures after 10 years apart. (Miramax)

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Dr. Dolittle 2. Eddie Murphy returns as the animal-language-empowered veterinarian, this time dealing with a critters’ labor strike. (Fox)

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Osmosis Jones. White blood cell (Chris Rock) versus virus (Laurence Fishburne) inside Bill Murray’s body. In this mix of media, the Farrelly brothers direct the live action; Piet Kroon and Tom Sito handle the animation. (Warner Bros.)

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Editor: Kinsey Lowe

Capsules: Richard Cromelin

Research: Kevin Crust