Starring Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz, this drama is a story about love and war on a small Greek island. A beautiful young Greek woman named Pelagia (Cruz) lives with her father (John Hurt), the island’s physician. As World War II is beginning, she falls in love with a local fisherman named Mandras (Christian Bale), who leaves to fight the Italians. Soon a small Italian force, headed by Captain Corelli (Cage), arrives to occupy the island. The Italians like to sing opera and hang out at the beach with local prostitutes. Corelli is a skilled mandolin player, and he and Pelagia gradually fall in love. But things change drastically when the Italians surrender to the Allies and Germans take over the occupation of the island. Then Mandras returns to the island, and Pelagia and Corelli must make some important decisions.

"Ghost World" is an offbeat comedy/drama about an unusual friendship between an alienated teenage girl and an eccentric middle-aged man. After Enid (Thora Birch) finishes her last year of high school, she has no plans for the future. She doesn’t get along well with her father at home, and she has to take a remedial art class from a depressing teacher (Illeana Douglas) in order to graduate. At first Enid spends most of her time hanging out with her friend Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), but then Enid befriends a strange loner named Seymour (Steve Buscemi), a middle-aged man who collects 78 rpm records. As her friendship with Seymour grows, Enid and Rebecca start to drift apart. But somehow her knowing Seymour has brought Enid to a place in her life where she no longer feels hopeless. Ninety-four percent of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes liked "Ghost World."

Starring Anthony Hopkins, this moody drama is about the brief friendship between a young boy and a mysterious aging man. In the summer of 1960, Bobby Garfield (Anton Yelchin) has turned 11. His father has been dead for five years, and Bobby lives with his busy mother, who has not remarried. Then a man named Ted Brautigan (Hopkins) rents the upstairs rooms in the house where Bobby and his mother live. Brautigan’s eyesight is failing, and he hires Bobby to read to him. Also, Brautigan advises Bobby on how to handle his physical attraction to a young girl (Mika Boorem) and which library books are worth reading. But soon Bobby realizes that Brautigan has the gift of reading minds, a gift which Bobby shares to some extent. Eventually, Brautigan asks Bobby to look out for some people he calls "low men" who are pursuing him because of his gift.

In this thriller, Michael Douglas stars as a psychiatrist who gets caught up in a race against the clock to save his daughter’s life. After serving 10-year terms, thieves are released from prison and set out to recover a valuable jewel from a safe deposit box. Somewhere in the memory of a mentally ill woman named Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy) resides the six-digit number needed to retrieve the jewel. The thieves kidnap the eight-year-old daughter of Dr. Nathan Conrad (Douglas) and tell him he must get the six-digit number from Elisabeth by 5 p.m. Meanwhile, a female police detective (Jennifer Esposito) is investigating another case when she stumbles onto the track of the kidnappers. As the film reaches its climax, Dr. Conrad tries to get the number from Elisabeth, his wife must defend herself while her leg is in a cast, his daughter tries to fool the kidnappers, and the police close in.

Starring Keanu Reeves, "Hardball" is a drama about a compulsive gambler who coaches an inner city kids baseball team for a season. Desperate for money to pay off his gambling debts, Conor O’Neill (Reeves) agrees to coach a baseball team of kids from Chicago’s projects in return for $500 a week. At first O’Neill doesn’t care much about coaching and the kids aren’t very good and don’t care much about playing, and there are many problems to overcome. Along the way O’Neill becomes romantically interested in Elizabeth Wilkes (Diane Lane), one of the kids’ teachers. But gradually O’Neill bonds with the kids, and the kids become a winning team, in spite of the efforts of rival coach Matt Hyland (D.B. Sweeney).

Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, and Julia Stiles star in the drama "O," which is based on Shakespeare’s "Othello." Odin James (Phifer), called O, is the star basketball player and the only black student at an otherwise all-white private high school. O and the dean’s daughter, a white girl named Desi (Stiles), are in love, but O is the jealous type. Hugo (Hartnett) is the son of the basketball coach (Martin Sheen), and being envious of O, tells him that Desi might be cheating on him with Michael Casio (Andrew Keegan). Hugo manages to work O into a jealous rage, leading to tragedy. "O," which contains gun violence in a high school setting, was completed and originally scheduled to be released in 1999, but its appearance in theaters was delayed until 2001 because of the shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.

"Bones" is a horror movie starring Snoop Dogg, Pam Grier, and Khalil Khan. Patrick (Khan) and some other young adults buy an old building in a run-down urban neighborhood and turn it into a nightclub. Unbeknownst to Patrick and his partners, a man named Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) was murdered and buried in the building more than two decades earlier, and Patrick’s father was involved in the murder. Living next door to the building is a psychic named Pearl (Grier), who was Jimmy Bones’ lover, and her daughter (Bianca Lawson), who becomes romantically involved with Patrick. But when the new nightclub is opened, Jimmy Bones comes back from the dead and wreaks havoc. "Bones" has some hellish visual effects and shows lots of maggots.

In this comedy written and directed by Kevin Smith, Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Smith) are characters that appeared in Smith’s earlier films "Clerks," "Mall Rats," "Chasing Amy," and "Dogma." Jay and Silent Bob would mostly just hang out near a New Jersey convenience store in the earlier movies, and a pair of comic-book characters named Bluntman and Chronic were created based on them. Now in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," Miramax is making a movie featuring Bluntman and Chronic. But when Jay and Silent Bob find out about the film, they fear that it will ruin their lives and set out for Hollywood to try to stop it. The two slackers have quite a few funny adventures both on the road and after they reach Tinsel Town. "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" is filled with crude and sexual humor.

This adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" combines the costuming and swordplay of traditional Hollywood with Hong Kong-style martial-arts sequences and the look and feel of contemporary action/adventure movies. In 17th century France, young D’Artagnan (Justin Chambers) seeks to avenge the murder of his parents by the evil Febre (Tim Roth) during the time when the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu (Stephen Rhea) is moving against the King and Queen (Catherine Deneuve). While D’Artagnan becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the Queen’s maid (Mena Suvari), he rallies the King’s musketeers, including Aramis, Porthos, and Athos, to the support of the crown. But in "The Musketeer," plot, character, and history are subordinated to extravagant sets and exciting action sequences.

This teen horror film centers around four college-age young people: Cassie (Melissa Sagemiller), her boyfriend Sean (Casey Affleck), her best friend Annabel (Eliza Dushku), and Cassie’s ex-boyfriend Matt (Wes Bentley), who has become Annabel’s boyfriend. The four friends go to a party where they encounter creepy people and later get into a car accident that kills Sean. Soon Matt is trying to again become Cassie’s boyfriend while Annabel takes up with a strange woman who appears to be a lesbian. Meanwhile, Cassie has visions of visits from Sean as if he were still alive and believes that a man she met at the party is trying to harm her. A whopping 97 percent of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes found "Soul Survivors" to be rotten.

"The Taste of Others" is a witty French-language romantic comedy directed by Agnes Jaoui and written by Jaoui and her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri. Both husband and wife star in the movie as well. Castella (Bacri), an affluent businessman who is unhappily married to the unlikable Angelique (Christiane Millet), falls in love with an actress named Clara (Anne Alvaro). Clara finds Castella too crass at first, but she gradually discovers that he has many good qualities. As Clara sorts through her feelings about Castella, a romantic relationship develops between Castella’s bodyguard Moreno (Gerard Lanvin) and Manie (Jaoui), a barmaid who sells a little hashish on the side. The charm of the film lies in its astute observation of how matters of taste enter into relationships. Of the 48 reviews of "The Taste of Others" on Rotten Tomatoes, all 48 were positive.