The Bone Collector

(Universal)

Phillip Noyce's slick, intermittently effective genre thriller squeaks by on the charisma of the two leads: Denzell Washington as a quadriplegic New York forensics detective and Angelina Jolie as street-smart (and incredibly good-looking) policewoman who team up to locate a Silence of the Lambs-style serial killer. Ed O'Neill co-stars as a cop, and Queen Latifah is a bedside nurse named Thelma, in obvious homage to the performance of Thelma Ritter in The Bone Collector's many-times-better source, Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.