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zen. The appropriateness of Tobey Maguire's creaky-voice sincerity, the very ordinariness of his offbeat charisma, turns him into the most convincing of Spider-Men. Love interest Kirsten Dunst and Maguire make a real connection on screen. With Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin. (2:01.

PG-13 for stylized violence and action.) Cher-rydale, Easley, Hollywood, tack of the Clones," is a bit better than its predecessor makes it clear how lacking in the things that matter these newcomers are. (2:20. PG for sustained sequences of sci-fi actionviolence.) Cherrydale, Easley, Greenwood, Hollywood. Unfaithful Slick, sleek and genteelly erotic, it's a high-gloss morality play from the Architectural Digest School of Infidelity, where the handsome furnishings arouse as much emotion as the protagonists' tangled lives. With the key exception of Diane Lane, who gives her most completely realized performance as the suburban goddess who betrays husband Richard Gere with paramour Olivier Martinez.

(2:03. for sexuality, language and a scene of violence.) Cherrydale, Easley, Greenwood, Hollywood, Starlight. Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones We'll never see another "Star Wars," no matter how much we want to. And we want to very much. But like the cherished passions of first love, the fervor called forth by the landmark film is never coming back, and no amount of prequels or sequels is going to change that.

Paradoxically, the fact that the latest prequel, "Star Wars: Episode II At- Spider-Man It may look like an action comic come to life, but its best feature is its romance comic heart. It's that rare cartoon movie where the villain is less involving than the love story. Directed by Sam Raimi with a distinctly sunny tone, and though the film marks time more than it needs to and is no more than sporadically exhilarating, it does enough things right to be a solid comic book citi- VIDEO ffi if TERESA ISASI Dimension Films via AP The Nicole Kidman stars in Alejandro Amenabar's film, "The Others." II No MPAA rating DVD available. (CC) No suggested retail price was set for this video or DVD. Outta Time (Artisan, '02) $44.87 94 mins.

Mario Lopez. A handsome young man eager to pay his way through college bites off more than he can chew when he accepts a job delivering sealed packages to Mexico from a mysterious professor. (profanity, violence) DVD available. Next week Vanilla Sky Ratings 4 stars: Excellent; 3 stars: Good; 2 stars: Fair; 1 star: Poor (Videos with no stars were not reviewed.) MPAA ratings: Motion Picture Association of America ratings are included for all titles that received them. If the title was reviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer, further parental warnings are included.

video edition the theme song. But the best reason to check out "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" is to see one of the most charming adaptations of one of the loveliest series of children's books, with the amazing voice talents of Sterling Hollo-way's befuddled Pooh and Paul Winchell's Tigger. Video, DVD Knight Ridder Following is a partial schedule of upcoming movies on video. Release dates are subject to change. (DVD) indicates a DVD-only release; (also DVD) indicates a simultaneous videoDVD release.

May 14: Corky Romano Buena Vista (also DVD) 14: Don't Bother to Knock Fox (also DVD) 14: From Hell 20th Century Fox (also DVD) 14: Let's Make Love Fox (also DVD) 14: Monkey Business Fox (also DVD) 14: River of No Return Fox (also DVD) 14: Sometimes They Come Back Lion's Gate (also DVD) 14: Stephen King's Rose Red Lion's Gate (also DVD) 14: Storm of the Century Lion's Gate (also DVD) 14: The X-Files Season Five 20th Century Fox (DVD) 21: A Shadow You Soon Will Be "-Vanguard (also DVD) 21: Being Mick Lion's Gate (DVD) 21: Born Romantic MGM Home (also DVD) 21: Eye of the Storm Vanguard (also DVD) 21: Hard Luck Vanguard (also DVD) 21: How High Universal (also DVD) 21: In the Time of Butterflies MGM (also DVD) 21: La Buche Wellspring Media (also DVD) 21: Lantana Lion's Gate (also DVD) 21: L.I.E. New Yorker (also DVD) 21: Lolo Vanguard (also DVD) 21: Out Cold Buena Vista (also DVD) 21: Sidewalks of New York Paramount (also DVD) 21: Vanilla Sky Paramount (also DVD) 28: An American Rhapsody release dates Paramount (also DVD) 28: Bride of the Wind Paramount (also DVD) 28: Dark Blue World TriS-tar (also DVD) 28: Slackers TriStar (also DVD) 28: State Property Studio Home Entertainment (also DVD) June 4: Dirty Pictures MGM (also DVD) 4: The Dress Code MGM (also DVD) 4: The Mothman Prophecies TriStar (also DVD) 11: Black Hawk Down TriStar (also DVD) 11: Dirt Merchant Image (also DVD) 18: American Psycho 2 Lion's Gate (also DVD) 18: Happy Campers New Line (also DVD) 18: I Am Sam New Line (also DVD) 18: Happy Campers New Line (also DVD) 18: Orange County Paramount (also DVD) 18: Rollerball MGM (also DVD) 25: The Devil's Backbone TriStar (also DVD) July 2: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Paramount (also DVD) 2: Shallow Hal 20th Century Fox (also DVD) 9: Imposter Buena Vista (also DVD) 9: The Royal Tenenbaums Buena Vista (also DVD) 16: Amelie Buena Vista (also DVD) August 6: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring New Line (also DVD) September 17: Monsters Inc. Disney Pixar (also DVD) October 8: Beauty the Beast: Special Edition Disney (also DVD) By Barry Zukerman Knight Ridder A horror story about a mother and her two young children living in a haunted house tops this week's list of new movies on video. The Others Vi (Dimension, '01) 104 mins. Nicole Kidman, Alakina Mann, James Bentley.

Kidman, playing a woman named Grace (and looking a whole lot like Grace Kelly), stars in this Gothic ghost story set in a remote house on a remote island at the end of World War II. The film is handsome and fog-shrouded. PG-13 (spooky occurrences). DVD available. (CC) No suggested retail price was set for this video or DVD, Snow Dogs (Buena Vista, '01) 99 mins.

Cuba Gooding James Coburn, Sisqo, Nichelle Nichols. Snow Job is more like it. Gooding is cast as a Miami sunbird who inherits sled dogs in Alaska and struggles to learn how to be a snowbird. The huskies so prominently featured in the ads talk only for one brief se- quence. PG DVD available.

(CC) No suggested retail price was set for this video or DVD. From Hell 12 (Fox, '01)121 mins. Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane. An opiated psychic police inspector (Depp) on the trail of Jack the Ripper, chasing around the slummier sites of 1880s London. The Hughes Brothers II direct clunkily and Graham co-stars as a good-hearted harlot in danger of disem-bowelment.

(violence, gore, Pooh charms in By Nancy Churnin Knight Ridder He's still a silly old bear. Thank goodness. Time hasn't dimmed the charms of the 25th Anniversary Edition of "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." Forget recent spin-offs that used Pooh characters in predictable drugs, sexual situations, Victorian era effrontery) DVD available. (CC) No suggested retail price was set for this video or DVD. Corky Romano (Buena Vista, '01)86 mins.

Chris Kattan, Chris Penn, Peter Berg, Peter Falk. Kattan infiltrates the FBI to obtain information to help his Mafia-boss father (Falk) beat racketeering charges in this spectacularly unfunny film. PG-13 (bathroom and offensive humor) DVD available (CC) No suggested retail price was set.for this video or DVD. Recent releases Keep Your Right Up! (Facets, '87) 82 mins. Jean-Luc Godard, Jane Birkin.

Godard also wrote and directed this zany comedy about the obstacles that get in the way of a director who has 24 hours to make a film in order to get it financed. In French with subtitles. 25th anniversary direct-to-video formats. The animation here reflects the faithfulness to A.A. Milne's original tales, with Pooh and the other Hundred Acre Wood characters climbing in and out of pages of the books.

Both the VHS and the DVD offer extras, including "A Day for Eeyore" and Carly Simon singing UPSTATE WEEKEND May 17, 2002 5.