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The Door in the Floor

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

The Manchurian Candidate

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

My Mother Likes Women [A mi madre le gustan las mujeres]

(Spanish and Czech dialogue, English subtitles.)

Thunderbirds

The Village

(R, 120 min.) Sinister, unseen creatures lurk in the woods surrounding an isolated, 19th-century Pennsylvania village. Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and (Ron Howard's daughter) Bryce Dallas Howard star in a thriller by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs). Mercury Turkey Alert: Disney did not screen this film for reviewers before deadline and, apparently, couldn't even field the usual contingent of quote whores: In newspaper ads, two of five quotes from rave "reviews" are attributed to the same "critic". Readers, draw your own conclusions.--AA