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There’s no better way to escape from uncertain times than by spending time at the movies. Takeaway film correspondent Rafer Guzman tells us about five movies that have the potential to become classics: Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane,” Humphrey Bogart’s breakout film, “The Maltese Falcon,” Gary Cooper in a prescient war movie, “Sergeant York,” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion.”

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