Doug Schneider's picks...

Steven Spielberg can make great films -- we all saw Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, E.T., and Jaws -- but then he can turn around and give us a stinker like The Terminal, the story of an Eastern European visitor to the United States (Tom Hanks) who finds himself stranded at New York's JFK airport when his country is embroiled in a civil war and he has no recognized citizenship. Funny? Not really. Touching? No. Boring? Oh yes, and with a running time of over two hours, this is the one film from 2004 that had me racing for the door.